1 Year of Growing Food – A whole season of vegetable gardening

Hey! For those of you who watch this channel regularly you may have seen these videos before. It's a combination of all my gardening videos this year, like my beekeeping videos I wanted to upload it all in one video for those people who haven't seen them before. Enjoy binge watching garden videos! 🙂

What kind of tortoise is that at 35:24

Wow. I really enjoyed this video. So much so that I didn't even realize it was almost two hours long 😅 keep up the great work, and thank you for sharing your journey!

Great video! Yes, people can rave on with their stock markets and trade wars, corporate offices and IT, AI and tech, urbanization and traffic, but we gardeners know that life is lived best among those that never speak, but always give, and that not only we grow, but they grow us: plants. Sadly, i don't share your enthusiasm for sharing my home grown stuff, just whenever i offer somebody a garden carrot a vision flashes inside me, showing my sore back from weeding, cold wet feet from watering and wars with pests, bad soil etc, all going into a carrot which in the end i dont eat (i know, selfish). By the way, making some paths in your patch can help greatly to get at the center of the garden without trampling crops. You know, you can eat carrot leaves too, and they're great used like coriender, or in soups, or as pesto.

I am 22 but one day when I own my own house I’m going to ruin my backyard, remove all the grass and just plant a whole bunch of corriander seeds aka cilantro 🌿

When I first started growing, I let eveything live in my garden….UNTILL I realised just how much damage the little bastards will do.

Now EVERY slug I find goes into the chicken coop for dinner lol

Is that a dragons blood tree you have growing there? How do you keep it alive during the winter outdoors? Mines grown too large for pot and I was considering building an extra large greenhouse for it to survive winter (-20F), but if you have any tips, I’d be greatly appreciative as there’s not much information on growing these.

Gardening is good for your mental health!!

Kale has an incredible amount of nutrients and so good for you.

You can put grass cutting on top of potatoes too

I planted a fig tree too and they are supposed to,produce fruit quickly

Just put the seeds right in the ground.

We need an update on the fig!

You chop a potato into pieces containing 2-3 eyes and use fewer potatoes to make more potatoes

I live in the USA they collect our leaves and twigs and make compost and we get it back for free. We just have to go get it.

Thank you for the wholesome content! I've been binging.

well done for this journey, you looks so satisfied of eating meals only prep with your work, I don't know better reward !! Wish you well in the garden for 2025

Copper wire attached to a 9v battery around perimeter of pots will solve the slug problem.😊

It looks like you filmed this a Yr ago, so you'll have learnt more by now, but a couple of tips for you, don't throw your radish leaves away as if you like Chard, your likely to enjoy the radish leaves cooked too. If you can get your hands on some pure wood Ash, not painted/ treated or pine wood though. Put a handful into the hole you dig for your tomatoes, it will stop your tomatoes getting 'greenback' you can find out about that on Google. Regarding slugs & snails, dig some sort of open top jar or cut plastic bottle down to soil level and fill it with beer, close to any plants that the 'S'/'S' are eating… you'll have to empty it regularly and it really isn't nice, but it works REALLY well, you could ask a local pub for the tray drips, they might be kind 🙂. Marigolds planted around most veg will deter affids, but don't plant too many or you'll not get ladybirds or other gardeners 'friends' as the smell of marigolds is pungent, also check your plants daily for catapillars and other pests or youll get only half the crop you plant.
I would also say that if there is a local allotment close to you, go visit them, you'll find they're generally kind, generous people and will answer most of your questions and some you've not thought of probably, plus if there is one locally, you could put your name down for a plot at your local council too. Keep growing and have fun 😊

U left angling with your brother or what

Amazing video! Thank you very much for sharing your experience!

You can use steams and leaves from carrots to make pesto.

01:02 What it is the name of the book you mentioned in the start of the video?

Why not build a greenhouse in the same garden and grow it in pots of soil, instead of the soil itself? That way you won't have to wait for the season shift, which heats up the soil naturally, which is why and how most species of vegetablesplants get to survive the said seasons to begin with – the ambient temperature heats up the soil.
With pots and with a greenhouse, you can grow vegetables year round, and with a proper technique you can at the very least double your yield, and don't forget about pruning too.
With a greenhousepots you won't have to worry about bugs or pesticides either.
If you grow in pots, you won't have to worry about weeds either, which are very annoying and can reduce the yield

What book do you have for the plants?

1:34 those corn look delicious.

51:25 that's a huge cucumber, and I'm sure he has a great personality

The first time I didn’t have one of a radish… was the worst day of my life

Hi Alex… Idahoan here 👋 just wanted to tell you that you want to wait till the potato leaves die off before you harvest. But I'm sure after all this time, someone has probably mentioned that.

ok 1. you can never go wrong with onions or potatoes. carrots either really.
turnips and beats love the cold, make for great source of homegrown sugar.

also beans wouldv been a solid choice

"i dont want it to die", proceeds to throw it 100 ft away xD

I had three ad's for McDonalds during this video.

idk how produce is in the UK but in america, lettuce is just watery with no flavor at all and more to add texture but when I tasted my brother's home-grown lettuce, I was shocked it actually had a distinct taste. almost peppery if I remember correctly but it's insane. many foreigners say our produce tastes like nothing and I realize it myself with many fruits I eat. literally no flavor. but home grown versions have sooo much flavor. its like a whole new world lol. but I absolutely LOVED this video and inspires me to grow my own vegetables for the season c:

Hey Alex! What’s the name of the book you used in the start of the video?

I just came across your channel. I really enjoy it! It’s awesome that you get to experiment and learn through this process!

Thats true. You grow your own crops not because of money, but because its yours. You know what chemicals have been used and what have not been used. And the same goes for pesticides. And if wee look deep in youtube. You can find videos where people are talking about fruits that comes from warm countries. That they put some medicine in it or some other conspiracies…but here. You are 99% sure its heatly and safe for yourself to eat.

21:02 ride of your life😅

You should have marked it with bee paint to see how long it took it to return to the garden😮