My Ultra Low-Maintenance Garden: The Full Tour
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- čas přidán 12. 05. 2024
- Gardening can take up valuable time and effort... but it doesn't have to! Join Ben on a tour of his early summer garden as he shows you a few tips and tricks that will help you save precious effort in your own garden. A low-maintenance garden can be both incredibly productive and outrageously beautiful.
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I’m a gardener and I have planted carrots tomatoes Spinach lettuce and peppers and onions and I’m 7 years old 🎉🎉🎉🎉Emmanuel
Well done Emmanuel, that's brilliant. You are a great gardener I am sure. I hope you enjoy lots of tasty harvests. Keep up the fantastic work. :-)
This channel gives me nerdy dad vibes, and it is so wholesome.
That's what we're going for - great stuff! :-)
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! 🌿✨
Yes indeed - I like the analogy there!
love how you actually SHOW us how to do everything!
Your enthusiasm and joy is such a great way to learn and be encouraged in our garden journeys
You are my favorite garden youtuber, you provide so much practical knowledge! Thank you!
That's so kind of you to say. Thanks for watching. :-)
I've never seen such a vibrant and lively garden. Pure joy for the eyes! 🌈🌸
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!
Thanks so much, I really appreciate that. Happy gardening! :-)
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
Thanks so much - and hug right back at 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.
Thanks so much! Happy gardening to you. :-)
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. ❤😊
Thanks so much! :-)
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.
Oh! Thank you for sharing this! I live in a hot, often drought area .
I'm definitely going to try this - thanks for the recommendation.
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.
Wow, sounds like you're growing loads already - that's super! :-)
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!
Thanks for watching. Hoping for a touch more rain over the next week. :-)
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.
Really great tips there, thank so much for taking the time to share this. :-)
this channel is massively usefull, and incredibly professionally recorded and such! Keep up the great work
Thanks so much, really appreciate it! :-)
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?
It certainly is - they become like family after a few weeks of watching them. :-)
What im doing is learning from people like yourself.thank you.
Your videos are a joy to watch Ben. Thankyou! 🌼
Gorgeous!
Beautiful
I absolutely love watching your videos! Thank you for doing what you do 😊
Wowzera is right Ben, Cheers, fantastic garden !
Very beautiful
You have such wonderful ideas. I cant wait for springtime!
So halpful! Thank You!
Great vid as always love x
Beautiful garden
You have me convinced me that my dream cottage needs at least two rescue cows.
More gardens for sure !! Me too
Amazing 👍👍👍
Very extensive and fertile plantation, thank you for sharing
Your garden is amazing. That rose is spectacular.
Excellent gardening tips. Thank you for sharing👍👍🇺🇸
You are a relaxed teacher. Loved watching your video.❤
This is very helpful
Beautiful farm❤
I just found your channel and am addicted to your passion for gardening. Thank you for all the wonderful information.
Good job
Great video, very informative!
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 ~
I am so thrilled to hear this. Thank you so much for watching. :-)
Thanks for sharing great tips how to make use of your own compost and any kinds of mulch.
great video!
Excelent
Good 👍
Thanks for the great tips! I am a rather lazy gardener, so I like low maintenance.
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.
Wow, you have so much growing there. Great work! :-)
@GrowVeg Thanks to your video instruction (and a few other on-line master gardeners).
I began growing because the world shut down during covid, now I'll never stop! Amazing that something really good comes out of something bad. Life is wonderful!!!!! ❤️ HSTL Zone6!
Thanks.
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.
Nice work - great to hear you're all in! :-)
Wow 👌
I absolutely love your garden and thank you for all of your wonderful tips and tricks!
Thanks for watching. :-)
I absolutely love you and your videos! Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much. :-)
It's looking great! So much inspiration. Thank you!
Thank you. :-)
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.
Needed a pick-me-up video in these hot, dry summer days to find the motivation to get out there and keep going.
Hope it cools off soon for you. :-)
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
That is really wonderful to hear - so pleased! You clearly have a natural ability there. :-)
good job
What a beautiful garden ❤❤ thanks for all the advice.
You are very welcome. Thanks so much for watching. Happy gardening! :-)
Very good
Thank you :-)
Love it my chadwich cherry tomatoes are doing great
Dig deeper and bury fish way deeper. Many blessings everyone.
Yes, good advice! :-)
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 😊
Thanks for watching, really appreciate it. I hope you get the space you're after to grow. :-)
Love your garden
Thank you so much. :-)
Thank you so much for the step by step info and enthusiasm from a brand new beginner! Such a pleasure to watch your videos
Thanks so much. :-)
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!
That's really great to hear David! :-)
Looks so good, Ben! Those bean flowers are so pretty!!!!! ❤
They really are. :-)
beautiful
Thank you Ibrahim. :-)
Looking good for the start of summer! That rose is wild!!! Great tips as usual.
Cheers Steve!
Ben, nice look at your Garden. Thanks for the tour.
Thanks Charles - lovely to have you along for the tour. :-)
I love you! thank you so much for your joyful presentations. You encourage me.
So delighted to hear this. Happy gardening! :-)
As always,you have shared some great ideas. Your garden looks brilliant!! God Bless you and yours and here’s to lots of harvest!!
Thanks so much. :-)
Great video and high yielding garden. 😊
Thanks so much! :-)
Your dad jokes are so funny - I like also how you keep things simple
Thanks so much! :-)
wow you have very beautiful garden !
Thank you so much. :-)
Beautiful work.
Thanks so much! :-)
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 🙂
So pleased I've offered some motivation! Happy gardening! :-)
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.
So delighted to hear this. I hope you grow a fantastic garden, I am sure you will! 😀
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!😃👍
It certainly is Valorie. Hope you're summer's going well. :-)
Amazing
😘😘😘
4:58 "We had a dry spell, we went almost a month without rain."
Lol, almost a month! :)
Great channel, love from Australia.
I know you guys have it a touch warmer/dryer on occasions! ;-)
Hi Ben, I enjoy watching your video for my daily gardening inspiration. Best, Albert from SF, USA
Thanks so much Albert. Hope your gardening year is going well. Appreciate you watching. :-)
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!!
Appreciate the kind words. I'm always learning from other gardeners also - it's the best way to improve. :-)
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.
Thanks so much for watching. Vine-ripened tomatoes are definitely the best! :-)
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!
Thanks so much - glad to have motivated! :-)
Good
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 :)
Well done for holding off on the chemicals! Local wildlife will appreciate it. :-)
Wish you well. We experience the same thing! Year before last bugs just about decimated our garden. Last year I let a low to ground fountain become a frog haven. It produced so many of several varieties that neighbors half way down the street were commenting about never seeing so many before. This year the fountain is going but it is still breeding them. We now have three different types of lizards and a couple of black snakes. The black aphids almost took out my garlic chives and perennial leeks, this year they showed up and were absolutely gone in two weeks. I now have vigorous new growth. Another success is using perforated compost bags inside my grow bags for potatoes. We scarified our lawns (pulled up the early weeds and dead material that did not compost), let the material dry out on one of the long terraced beds, then mixed it with compost inside those bags. Our ground is too hard to dig out potatoes and the grow bags didn’t hold enough moisture for the potatoes to do well. Lastly, the rabbits and voles have not figured out how to get to the potatoes. I absolutely LOVE HEARING OTHER EXPLAINED SUCCESS STORIES as encouragement and creating better growing environments!
HOPEFULLY SOON ILL START MY OWN GARDENING JOURNEY! THANK YOU FOR TEACHING US!
Definitely get started soon! :-)
Nice
Wow happy farming sir
And to you. :-)
I have just watched your channel ,and ,,,,appreciate ,,
Thanks so much for watching. :-)
Thank you very much for info... I like your video...wish you all the best..
Thank you - appreciate that. Happy gardening!
@@GrowVeg you're welcome
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
And to you Joy. :-)
Been waiting for a tour!!
Hoping to do a repeat tour later in the summer, all being well. :-)
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 🙏👋
Sounds like you're growing plenty where you are - great job! :-)
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.
Thank you so much. Really appreciate that. The garden is looking very good at the moment, I am so pleased. Not too much effort! :-)
Your cabbage look exceptional!!!
Thanks! 😀
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...
Thanks you so much for your kind words. Gardening and nature are great therapy and so uplifting! :-)
My container garden has kept me healthy this year. The garden gets smaller, but the rewards are still peace, health and sanity!! ❤️
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.
It's great to be able to hold some seedlings back like that - really helps to stagger the harvests. :-)
thank you
I love your channel. So much useful info and great ideas. I notice you have pallet collars around your beds. I have tried to get some without success. Have you any tips on where to find them. Many thanks. Keep gardening!!
I got mine by doing a search of Facebook Marketplace. You could also try Gumtree, Craigslist and even Ebay.
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? 😂
Wonderful to hear Frances! Thanks for your support. Hope you've had a good time pottering about in the garden. :-)