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Think it’s too early to start sowing and growing? Think again! In fact, starting now gives smart gardeners a super-early head start on the growing season. In this week’s episode, Ben suggests some of his favourite crops to start in winter and demonstrates some simple techniques to use to get started.
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For a lettuce that tastes good even when things heat up, try Egyptian stem lettuce. I harvested romaine like leaves several times from the same plants, then when they began to bolt, the whole plant is harvested for its stems.
I love spinach and I have tried for many years to grow it. But for some reason I am never successful. I tried different months, different soil but for some reason it just doesn’t happen.
was that an IKEA pencil? ☺😉 thank you for all the great idea´s
Not heating a greenhouse, now I know why I like you 😊
Ben’s charming enthusiasm always makes me feel even more excited for spring’s arrival
enjoyed the Fast Show style 'nice'
Omg you grabbing your phone with your hands covered in soil… hahaha but love this video!!
Thanks for the tips
You should have your own TV show
Come on BBC
Radishes easy to grow?? I have never had success 😢 more black fingers than green fingers
I know it's off topic, but I was wonder if you could share the make of your mandoline?
Thanks
My problem this early in the year is lack of sunlight. Which is especially a problem right now with the persistent rain
I will use information in your video as a sign of spring 😅
my car barely started this morning at a solid -41C this morning with snow up to my waist so i think ill wait just a tiny bit more 😅
I would love to see Ben join up with Charles downing with there own tv series. They have to be the best of the best at what they do and teach us
Hi Ben another great video, I’m away to sow some pea shoots! Thank you! ☘️☘️☘️from N Ireland! It would be great to know where everyone is that comments ?!
Congratulations on your app! ❤
Im on the southern end of the cold rock in the north sea, its too early!
If we dont use unfiltered rainwater this year we are poisoning our crops and ourselves with heavy metals from the chemtrails.
Im putting up more tunnels. Im not eating anything grown outdoors.
Do you buy your compost? I make good compost at home but it does have weed seeds in it.
I see you sieved out the wood chips. Could they be the reason my chives aren't doing well?
Great video Ben. Thanks very much 🎉
I just finished preparing my winter seeds using the winter sowing method. Very nice video. Thank you!
I will sow in April, it’s just not worth bothering earlier. I’ve tried in my unheated greenhouse.
You have an awful potting mix if it has so many twigs and of such a caliber.. Sadly, most potting mixes are of poor quality in France too, it's hell to find a good one…
Also I'm surprised you're not sowing the main thing I'm sowing now, which are cabbages. I can't grow cabbage in summer because it's hot and dry in my area, so I aim at harvesting my cabbage in late may/june. And so I need to sow now, and transplant late feb/early march. That goes for all types, cauliflower, broccoli, green cabbage, red cabbage…
Just starting to get myself set for the new gardening year. Question: Can I direct sow a line of mange tout every couple of weeks from late March through till June and get a continuous crop? Can I do this with other veg?
I thought you were not supposed to transplant root vegetables, like radishes?
I'm in Zone 6 B so I should skip this one.
But thanks for your usual tips.
Thanks for a great video Ben! Are you sowing 2 broad beans per module with the idea of taking one out after germination, or will you plant both together, as your other mulitsown seeds? It only shows one per module in the next shot, but this seems rather wasteful!
Imagine owning a property or a greenhouse, or having disposable income lol. I guess I'll just buy these from my local price-gouging supermarket instead. Cool channel though. Maybe I'll use AI to tell me about what nature is and how to connect with it.
@GrowVeg someone uploaded one of your videos as their own https://youtu.be/_IJa6370HhI?si=eO60kH15OUXUNsZf
Word of warning on lettuce: this crop can freeze super easily, and once it thaws, it'll be brown and droopy, rendering it inedible. Often, though, if the plant is grown under cover, even if said cover still gets around freezing, it seems to survive. My experience is that out in the open, even just -1°C can quickly kill lettuce, especially young lettuce, while broccoli seedlings, for example, do just fine unless it gets really cold. The same quality that makes lettuce leaves so tender and pleasing also makes them fragile. Lettuce also seems to have a penchant for stretching out as seedlings if grown indoors. You really have to use a fan and direct lighting to strengthen them from the very beginning.
I started gardening when I was eight and I grew a small pumpkin patch now Im eleven and I grow tomatoes radishes cucumbers chamomile lavender basil dill chives strawberries and peppers pumpkins because of you and epic gardening
Dorset here. Will go out this morning and try to cram as many of these into my tiny 6' x 4' greenhouse. Lettuce, radish, Peas and Beetroot (in fact I planted some of those beets a month ago and they are slowly gaining ground!) I think it was. Better go and check my seed stocks and get going before storm Chandra drops another load–even had the Loo gurgling during the night but the culvert is gushing like Niagra falls.
From Samuel Pepys diary…
Wednesday 2 May 1660
In the morning at a breakfast of radishes at the Purser’s cabin.
He mentions them often!
Love all of your videos. ❤