For April’s sowing suggestions, check out this video.
For more on how to grow sweetcorn, watch this next:
Want to grow Perfect Beans Every Time?
Or if companion flowers for pollinators are more your thing, watch The Best Flowers To Boost Vegetable Gardens 🌺
This deep dive into germination will be useful at this time of year too:
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Thanks for sharing these tips on which best crop to grow around spring. The idea of adding flowers 🌷 around the garden is a great way of helping pollinators.Thanks so much for this presentation which is of great value.
This guy is wonderful and so easy to easy to follow. 😊
Been watching his videos and they are so quick to pick up things and how to do them. Just had two raised beds put in the bottom of the garden which i got cleared this year to start growing some veg. Each raised bed is 8×4 and 2ft high hoping this helps the carrots and others i hope to grow
Nasturtiums are entirely edible, leaf to seed. My grandma used to give me the seeds to treat a sore throat, bcs they have antibiotic properties like horseradish. They are spicy!
Thanks, great video!
Can you tell me where you get your wire mesh support frames from. They look really substantial and would be good for squashes
Turn hard times into Chard times, I'll definitely be using that one lol.
Can you please list the plants for easy recall.
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Why not plant your beans under your corn so it can use the corn to grow up. Native Americans have been doing this for millenia.
I also plant amaranth and calendula for my bees. They also have edible flowers, the amaranth is a good bait plant for unwanted insects; calendula also has a spicy, almost peppery taste. Planted them first time a couple years ago and now will always plant them, this year I've supplied my mom, sister and niece with seeds for edible flowers!
get your seeds from Seeds Trust: they choose seeds from plants that do well in short summer, cool climate gardens.
Hi what a great video of grow veg in your garden im sure i will try some of those veg plants when i can get into the garden again David ❤❤
I am stuck in bed or on the sofa at the moment and I find the show so inspiring and comforting that I'm watching you to get better 🙂 Your excitement is indeed infectious and the video style is beautiful. Love the show and the planner!
@12:21 !!!❤ Bumble-Bear Audio !!😮🔥🥰
You make gardening fun!!
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I would love a list in the description of the ones to do
Spring is definitely a "hit or miss" here in the west coast of Scotland.
Think it was either last year or year before we had a spell of frost!! It was like someone had dropped a nuke In my garden! 😂 Myself and kids were devastated!!
Thank god for good old hardy cabbage!
I've never tried corn, so this video has my spider senses tingling… hmmm..
Another great upload, brother!!! 🫡💙🙌
Edit; "'turn hard times into Chard times" 😂😂 Love it, mate!
It is true nasturtium is a great companion plant with most vegetables since its a pollinator? Because I have it all over. (I'd rather have a covered garden then one full of pests!)
Everything gets ravaged by leaf miners in our garden!
Slow growing in Sweden. Your channel gives me hope and pleasure.
I cant wait for the first peas straight put of the pod, my new varieties of tomatos to try and hopefully getting to experience my first ever homegrown sweetcorn 😱🥰
Thanks for the tip about sweetcorn. I added extra perlite to my home made compost when I sowed mine last week.
Hello, I was wondering if you have any tips about Sweet Potatoes. I searched your channel but I found nothing. Please can you release a video on sweet potatoes 🙂
I grew beans as a kid, in school. However, at home, we had the bean plants as well. Lovely to eat directly, with the encasing around the beans inside. Very healthy too.
My veg are not growing at all! They are being rampaged by aphids and gnats! No blue sky or direct sunlight and constant rain in here in Hampshire UK.
I can see the first few peapods develop. But I haven't had one yet. Snails and slugs seems to love these more than anything else in my whole garden. I tried planting decoy crops that I remember them absolutely loving last year and before that, only for them to completely ignore them in favor of my peaplants.
Weather picking up …. grow well friend
Its cold in the North East you must be down south, hence why its warm
I am honestly curious, what is the percentage of American subscribers? I have noticed you say the American plant names first (eg zucchini/corgette (yes I realise zucchini is Italian), eggplant/aubergine, then Fahrenheit first, then Celsius.
Courgettes are what I look forward to most. I refuse to buy the bland ones from the shops so only eat it seasonally, they are my favourite veg.
I am trying my hand at container gardening this year. I mostly have herbs, but I also have some containers of sorrel going and am planning on planting Swiss chard. Unfortunately, everything I planted from seed is taking forever to grow, despite being indoors by a large south facing window.
My highlights of the gardening year…. The smell of fresh raspberries on a warm summers evening. That , and harvesting and cutting open my first swede. The smell of a freshly cut swede is the smell of autumn
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My first sowing of climbing beans last month in the greenhouse were a 100% failure- and I noticed what looked like bean fly larvae in the seeds? Would this have come from the seed itself (Thompson & Morgan) or the soil? And would a warmer soil this month help the problem or will I still have the same issue this month? Thanks! 🙂
Still cold in Ireland…. Not even 15 degr
Top man, seems like I'm watching a very well produced professional tv programme.
He makes me laugh such a nice chap😊 love his sense of humour. Also so many good tips for novice gardeners
You and Charles Dowding are my David Attenborough of gardening.
My wife was laughing as I said I'd love to buy you a few pints of ale and talk gardening. I'm a novice, so you're Master Yoda status to me.