With the arrival of spring, the Growing Season is now raring to go! But what can you sow in April? In this week’s video, Ben shows us exactly which seeds you can get started right now.
There’s something for everyone here, whether you have lots of space or just a few pots or a patio. This selection includes some old favourites and some cracking crops so grab a notepad and pen and get these on your ‘To Sow’ list!
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Love your channel
Thank´s Ben! Very good and inspiring. A question: When the seeds are sowed directly into the outdoor space, do you use sowing soil or do you put it directly into compost?
I'm sowing scorzonera, salsify. Fantastic roots!
Being an impatient person I tend to over water my seeds and have rotted many peas. This year I have tried chitting them and already have some in the ground under mini polycovers.
I have also got chitted tomatoes moved to modules.
I have also just planted out chitted carrots into a tub that I brought inside to warm up. I cut up toilet rolls to 1 cm rings and 34 of them covered the surface of the tub. I put 1 chitted seed in each ring and covered with seed compost and did a gentle water. This means I won't have to do any thinning. Last year I grew carrots in tubs after Mr Brock ate my crop at the allotment, they didn't suffer from splitting due to last year's drought as the water was retained better & hopefully they are too high for carrot fly.
I am also going to presoak my minipop sweetcorn – Mr Brock leaves them alone at the moment. I have heard that black pepper can deter the mice.
Ben, I really admire your knowledge about all the plants you have been describing in your channel and I always watch your videos. I have always loved gardening myself. BTW Have you ever tried to grow benincasa? I am going to try this season but I'm not sure if our climate is ok for it. I live in Poland.
Good information for my next spring
Hi I was wondering if it would be possible for you to do a video on which crops you should and shouldn’t grow near/next to each other?(. For example nightshades interplanted with onions…. thanks great channel and great content 😀
I love spring 👌👌💗💗
Here in Cape Town, South Africa our Autumn is similar to England's summer. So over the past 4-6 weeks I've planted so much variety.
Legumes: Broad beans, Black eyed beans, Fenugreek, Peas for pods, Peas for shoots, Chickpeas
Brassicas: Cauliflower, Arugula, Wild Rocket, Radishes, Turnips (Early Purple Top)
Alliums: Elephant Garlic, Garlic, Onions, Shallots, Leeks, Chives
Umbellifers: Carrot, Parsley, Fennel, Celery
Beets: Bulls Blood, Detroit
I've even rolled the dice last week by planting some short season potatoes in case climate change delivers us an unseasonably warm winter.
I think you've made that old lady's day…or night👹
Love the dog sitting on the vegetable bed😍
I always love Ben’s videos. What a lovely way to wake up in the morning. And now I finally understand why my broccoli hasn’t done well. I will get those little cups like Ben’s. So far, I have lots of pods of different kinds of tomatoes and different kinds of peppers and I am waiting for my eggplant seeds to arrive.
what am i sowing this year …. ow my … as amateur?
Potatoes (lol …160 seeds, 3 varieties), beans (2 types, bush and stock), onions, garlic, many many herbs (for drying), alot of mint (fresh tea for the wife 😉 as well as drying for winter tea) Cale, Brocolli, Beets, pumpin, melon(first try), tomatoes (first try), leeks, lettuce (alot, 5 different types), spring onions, rhubarb, courgettes, cauliflour, some bush berries (3 types), strawberries (only 110 plants), sweet peppers, carrots, radishes, ginger and sellery
I second the choice of Crown Prince squash they grow well fruit well and their flavour is second to none. They also keep for so long I still have some from last years harvest.
Grow your own seeds have nothing to compare with supermarket products at all! and also harvest your own seeds and save them for sowing next season, that seeds that are perfectly acclimated to your soil and climate conditions gives you better crops, better flavor, better quality and healthier ones, also stronger stems that can handle heavy winds like I get in my zone. I can tell aromatics and also medicinal herbs like matricaria chamomile has nothing to compare with thos that came in a tea bag. When you try it by yourself you will nothing going back! Is my 5th year saving and direct sowing my chamomile seeds when we have top high quality tea all year long, and also give some delight to all pollinators. Happy gardening!
You should experiment with a couple rows of corn starts and a couple rows of direct sown. I have a suspicion that direct sown will win out
Today in southern Louisiana I'm transplanting the lemon grass divisions saved from last year's harvest. I love Ben's enthusiasm. After watching his videos I have a head of steam motivating me to get cracking in the garden straight away.
I just spent a couple days sowing tomatoes and peppers in plugs in a heated tray. Then in trays I lined out several areas and put in a row of spinach, lettuce and romaine. Many flower varieties for the garden, delicata, zucchini, dill and sunflowers. I have found that it is better to direct sow my beans in the garden. I have raised beds. I have a 3.5 foot tall, by 3 foot wide, by 20 foot long bed, then I have lots of big tubs up on cement blocks for my garden. Very little bending and very easy to keep weed free! I live about 40 miles from the Pacific Ocean in Western Washington. We have a very similar growing season as Ben does, I think. That is why I love all his videos and share them on my farming and gardening group on FB. Thanks again for a great video Benn!!
Hi Ben – Where did you buy your sturdy plug trays from?
here in Iceland there is still snow and frost, I have started to put seeds in pots I have in the windows, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, broccoli, several types of cabbage, flowers both perennial and annual and then several types of beans, is not everything it's okay to later put several types of beans together on one climbing frame.
Thanks Benn for a great channel, always fun and informative to follow you
Greetings from Iceland🌺🥦🥬🥒🍅
I'm still 5-6 weeks away before I can even think about sowing zucchinis but I'm growing everything you shared plus another 100 varieties of stuff LOL I'll be trying potatoes and corn this season so off to watch your other videos. Thank you for the great information that helps my garden grow bigger & better every year, and great job supervising, Rosie!
Ben, thank you. I want to grow either climbing courgettes or squash on jute net attached to stakes. Full sun. What types do you suggest please?
Thank you verry much, now my garden is thriving
I truly feel as if I'm there and you are telling me what to do. No muss no fuss. Great info!
My clue its squash sprouting time is the v9lunteers appearing in the compost pile. So far the most productive veg in our struggling clay garden so far.
I have that same grow house plus a cold frame
Thanks for the great videos!
I’ve had some success starting carrots indoors in the toilet paper tubes. That way you can transplant them without disturbing the roots.
Pop parsnip seeds on a hydrated paper towel indoors. Keep them moist and once a tail appears, you visually know germination has occurred. At this point you can direct sow.
Greetings, thank you growveg for your ultracool videos, and for your gardening app.
I have one question – you have your germinated plants in your greenhouse.. is it ok for such small plants? I'm afraid to put them there because on sunny day there may be too hot, and nights might get cold.. i'm from central europe. Is your greenhouse in direct sunlight?
You pressed your left paw into your carrot bed. 😅
Love your videos, Ben.
Thanks Ben! I’m trying some Luffas this year for something new! If they work, everyone will be getting low mileage shower scrubs for Christmas!
Excellent channel! I always learn something new watching these videos. Love this channel
I plant my leeks in plastic crates (repurposed from when things were in storage) with drainage holes. Only a shallow amount of soil to start with then gradually fill up as the leeks grow. I sow them quite thickly then gradually eat the thinnings/ baby leeks as they grow. By winter the box will be full and the leeks will be at their final spacing.
Lay off the garlic.
Which ones are better heirloom seeds or F1?