It may be cold and dreary, but there’s still sowing to be done! What on Earth can you sow now, you might ask. Well, quite a lot as it turns out!
In this week’s episode, Ben reveals his autumn favorites that you can sow now!
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Brilliant news paper pots. But we don’t get it anymore 😢
The bird is a rook. Another good vid.
Just found your channel. Love, love, love your vivaciousness! Subscribed and definitely tuning in again.
Please always put in your title what region you are talking about, because there are many places where that is impossible.
Bad sound and not links
I plan to have another go at garlic and will use your advice. Thanks 🙂
Here in USA zone 9B I plant different varieties of sweet pea. Happy Fall Day
Thanks but I’m in South Africa ?
Just a quick question: When you speak of climate zone 8, you are referring to the global plant hardiness scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardiness_zone#/media/File:World_Hardiness_Zones.png right?
I still have things producing in middle ga… peas eggplant tomatoes not a lot but a few at a time…. Cold snap this wk… sweet potato vine got frost bit hoping spuds r ok… never grown them before…. And my garlic implanted out 3 wks ago…. Has popped up… lol 3-4 inches high in retaining bed…. I just covered with leaves and straw and prayed lol …. We shall see in a month what potatoes I get …. But it’s so hard to cut back veg even if it’s producing slowly… to me it’s still alive …. If it’s green let it go… but I have planted cold crops… lettuces onions etc in boxes… 😊
For a second I forgot Sean Locke passed away and thought he was doing gardening shows now.
That's a rook. 🙂 All corvids love monkey nuts if you wana treat them. 🙂
Wonderful information as usual :} We have those loud crows here in Colorado USA as well…they always show up in groups of five or more in our neighborhood looking for small rodents to feed on or small other animals…pesky birds I say! Have a good day!
Thank you for mentioning your zone fairly early. Being zone 5 your good info, mostly won't help my garden.
Hi Ben, I’m in UK and am trying lettuce overwinter in my greenhouse. I’ve grown Merveilleuse de quatre saisons (i think that’s how it’s spelt) in the past and this time I’m going for Lobjoits, love a bit of salad in winter! Seedlings are just showing and hope they survive winter.
Could I sow my meteor peas straight outside in the ground, or do I have to start them indoors then transplant in spring? (I live in the middle of England!!)
Also can I sow all-rounder cauliflower straight in the ground now? This is my first autumn growing vegetables and I’m unsure what to do!
I'm zone 7 so I've put this video in my calendar for next October. We've already had a decent freeze here so I'm only going to scatter cover crop seeds now. Great video! I love your channel.
I wish we were in zone 8 in Colorado, 6F degrees was our low last week, killed off everything that had hung on, except the Kale! I'm planting my garlic cloves tomorrow, they'll be under a 10" deep straw mulch until April. I love your videos!
Do you have snow there? Would this work in ontario Canada
Good stuff! BTW, your voice is only coming out of the left channel. Some devices might only play the quiet music beneath. In the editing timeline, you can convert a stereo voice channel like this to mono or use a 'duplicate left channel to right' filter if in Premiere to fix. Cheers.
I sowed some peas at the end of August using dried peas from the spring crop. Didn’t expect anything but all come up. Love sweet peas and love sowing next years crop. Sown shallots from sets this year looking forward to trying them. Autumn a very busy time- I prioritise getting my dahlias and non hardy bulbs dug up, plant my bulbs. Thank you for the tip of what to do with the small rubbish cloves from garlic
Ben: And just discard that *throws the bean*
The Bean: I'll show you…
Ben next year: And just look at this, growing right here randomly are some beans, I must have been doing something near this spot!
The Bean: *GLARE*
Ben: I can't wait to tuck into these!
The Bean: *GLARE*
Fascinating. I usually don't start peas or sweet peas til February, then pop them into ground in March. When you start in trays in November, don't the seedlings get a little tired/leggy/malnourished by the time the ground is ready in mid-Spring? It seems like a long time for them to be in their little toilet paper tubes. Any thoughts to share on why you wouldn't just wait to start them in plugs til early Spring and then plant right in the ground after that?
which episode was it that you recently demonstrated digging up pepper plants and over wintering them on the window sill indoors…. been searching back and cant find it? thanks
They’re Raven.
Just to say, it would be good to do a secton for disabled gardiners ; who limited movement like myself. I grow veg the best I can. I have a polytunnel, as I must not get cold or my condition gets worst. So I tend to start in polytunnel or in the conservatory and then transfre out.
I’ve always got garlic from the garlic farm, they are great.
Zone 8 and using green house should be added to title. Most years the ground has started freezing here in zone 5. I'm sure they plant a lot in November south of equator.
Very helpful. I started last year as a project with my two boys. Failed miserably with most of it.
Now using you grow plan to help us out.
Why peat free potting mix ? 🤓
Thanks for saying both Fahrenheit & Celsius, cm & inches etc 🤓🌾👍
Think it's a raven perhaps
The mice get hungry tho 😞
Plant a few extra 😏
3:20 sound issues
I have a laurel tree in my garden which presents cluster's of berries every year and has blossoms before that but it's grown to about thirteen foot high so I have to cut it down. My question is… can I use the leaves for compost and mulch do you know?
Could garden compost be spread over the garlic instead of dry leaves?
What zone does this correspond to?
First time seeing your channel.
Loved all of your suggestions and tips, some of which I already employ after 63yrs of gardening, but there were several new ones that I thought were brilliant. Especially if you garden in a similar climate, or have a greenhouse or cold frame.
I don't have either, but as I was watching, I realized that I may have what need to start building a cold frame. That's inspiration!
Thank you for sharing. Your new subscriber.
The mouse is actually a bank vole in the video.
It was a Rook. Great winter sowing advice. Thanks.
Done basically the same as you have: Broadbeans, garlic and winteronions
You video starts with two long adds that I must watch even before hearing anything you have to say. No Thanks/ There are plenty of informative channels- not waiting to meet you!
Oh my gosh, I'd been missing and looking for your channel and, voila! here you are! Yea!!!!!