The Lazy Gardener's Guide to Starting a Container Garden

[@jodibraun6383]

This video got me off my duff & to the charity shop where I bought 4 baskets, a galvanized bucket, 2 tin containers (one very large, another smaller), and a pretty painted tin waste basket with feet. I was feeling a little "meh" today, but this video and my new containers have put a little pep in my gardening step. Thank you! Brilliant video! 😊

[@julieh4288]

So true - Ben has that infectious 'pick-us-all-up' mannerisms when he does a video. A great distraction for getting any of us interested and up & moving with growing. 👍

[@jodibraun6383]

@@julieh4288 He really does. 😊

[@GrowVeg]

Well done for getting cracking on your new containers - that's brilliant! Brighter (and tastier!) days ahead! :-)

[@lilaclilly198]

Wow! Well done you👍🏻👏🏻

[@chrisdaviesguitar]

My father used to say to me about frost and tender plants, 'Never cast a doubt until May is out'.

[@GrowVeg]

Wise words! :-)

[@The_GlassCannon]

Rosie, the absolute star of the channel!

[@twpsy634]

Oh! How I wish that you were my neighbour.😊

[@lilaclilly198]

Me too! Brilliant!

[@lilaclilly198]

Wow! Your neighbour has a beautiful garden. Will we get a follow up video, to see how her veg are doing in containers? I love the fact your mixing old compost with new compost, to make it go that bit further. This year I have decided not spend any money on compost. Instead will be using my own sieved compost, and old compost from last year. Ben this video was a real treat🤗. I would Like to thank you and your neighbour for inviting us into her fabulous garden🙏🏻🙌

[@powaqqatsi8]

I have a couple of compost piles. I also mulch leaves and then place those directly on the garden beds. There are lots of trees on my property that I leave some leaves on the ground in the wooded areas and collect the leaves off of the grassy areas. Of those I mulch, some are designated for use in the compost piles and some go directly on the garden beds. One season, I gathered up the leaves and dumped them in a ditch or shallow ravine, and they have mostly turned into some lovely dark soil with worms 👍for adding into garden beds.

[@RealBradMiller]

I've never dumped soil and not reused it! Always gets revived and used again.

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks for the lovely comment. It's great to use your own compost if you can - it's really rich stuff and plants love it of course. I may well revisit later in the season at some point. :-)

[@lilaclilly198]

@@GrowVeg 🙏🏼 I am on a big learn curve. On my day of work I binge watch your videos. Especially liked the one on making compost that was excellent! In two years I have come a long way and grown in confidence on growing my own fruit and veg. 😆 I no longer watch gardeners world, so boring🥱

[@lollyhamilton1710]

I absolutely love this episode. It shows beautifully that anyone can grow edibles no matter what sort of space you have, provided you have a container.

[@SweenyMarc]

This is going to be so helpful. Currently, my small city garden is just a lawn, but some building work is going to mess it up pretty badly this year so it's a good opportunity to convert to a produce garden. Starting with a container garden is a nice first step.

[@brendablack1554]

That yard just says peace, tranquility, beauty, and lots of vegetables!❤

[@minivandreamin1789]

I just love Rosie! She’s precious.

[@barbiec4312]

What fun this was. Your neighbor is lovely. Please give us an update later of the garden results. Thank you. ❤

[@michelleh4588]

I was always wondering why the UK struggled with tomato blight so much... until I finally traveled there last year🤣 your climate is so rainy and mild compared to the midwest where I live!

[@GrowVeg]

Yes, those wet, mild periods spell disaster when it comes to blight!

[@TM.BECK14]

I'm in the PNW and follow a lot of UK growers because our climate and seasons are so similar! Definitely a lot different than the Midwest where I'm originally from so I had to re-learn pretty much everything.

[@ignis8154]

Very inspirational... but now I need to find more containers.

[@MIchelle-cairn_mom]

How fun and exciting for her! She exudes joy to start her veg garden. And such a great location surrounded by her beautiful garden.

[@DebRoo11]

That yard is a stunning piece of freedom and serenity. Very blessed to be out of the subdivision and concrete 😉

[@markvincent5241]

Awesome Ben, I'm sure the neighbours love having you for help and advice.

[@eddy8828]

Such lovely and beautiful neighbour Sharon is. Wonderful video.

[@GrowVeg]

She's pretty amazing! I'm very lucky to have great neighbours - always willing victims for my bean and courgette gluts! :-)

[@Munchkinzi]

Taking over tv gardening now, Ben 😜 watch out Titchmarsh!!! Loving this video, and in such a lovely garden, Sharon. I've grown my veggies in containers, too. I built four 3'x1', double level planters (so 3'x2' in one container) out of offcuts and pallets, and added heavy-duty casters to each one. They're 18" deep on both levels with the hügelkultur in mind (logs/wood/leaf litter and bigger things down at the bottom) and plenty of depth for the root veggies. They're easy to manoeuvre, even when full, which means I can put them anywhere in the yard. Adding some old flexi piping to the corners and some old green wire fencing has meant the beans and peas have somewhere to climb on the top levels, with beetroots, onions and other shade loving veggies growing below them. I've got fruit trees and canes growing in pots too; with a good mulch and compost top ups, they do well every year, and I'm looking forward to the Apricots, plums, cherries and peaches this year! 🤞 Good luck to your veggie potting garden too, Sharon!! x

[@GrowVeg]

They sound like amazing planters you've made - top work! :-)

[@brightantwerp]

You are a great neigbour Ben.

[@famousgrouse1966]

What a beautiful setting to work in.

[@TheGardenHour]

Enjoy your new gardening journey! Greetings from California. You have one of my favorite KZbin pros leading you! I'm sure you'll experience tremendous success. I'm 4 years in with my veggie growing experience and my only regret is not having started sooner! Cheers!! 💚

[@jorgelooney4279]

This looks like fun way to add to my in ground garden!

[@nilmaribeiropereira2392]

This is an very good idea , this summer I will plant one flower plant on my tomato container 😍

[@TerrapinStation]

So cool, I’d love to see a later video to see how these plants are doing 😊

[@twelvesmylimit]

Ben, I rarely comment on your thoroughly enjoyable and immensely helpful videos but may I say, what an utterly lovely human you are and of course, your dog is a sweetheart, too.

[@GrowVeg]

Thank you so much, that's such a kind thing to say. So pleased you enjoy the videos. :-)

[@lilaclilly198]

I totally agree with you. His enthusiasm is infectious 🙌

[@DavincisGirl66]

I appreciate the uk/north anerican translations. Thanks from Canada!😊

[@nicolebourcierphotographer]

A fabulous 'how to' video. Sadly, I only have two places nearby to get plants. One, only has very forlorn looking shrubs, The other doesn't have many fruits, vegetables or herbs .

[@jackieo8693]

What a gorgeous garden!

[@outsidestuff4867]

Woohoo !!! New video !!! I’m so glad spring is here! Warmer weather and time to plant!

[@kimberleychapman8416]

Thank you for this helpful video! We have used a good portion of our garden, so we are now restricted to containers. Therefore, this information is perfect 👍🏻 ❤

[@valoriegriego5212]

Ben, Rosie, and Sharon, what an exciting episode.😃 Beautiful garden...lovely garden lady.🦋 Happy gardening, Sharon!🍅

[@Toffnm]

The herb baskets are just amazinggg

[@carlaburger1424]

I enjoy watching your videos so much - very encouraging and inspiring! Ben, please come and help me create a vegetable garden in pots - you are very welcome! I will make you coffee while you work....🪴☕...just make your way to South Africa 🤣🤣🤣

[@GrowVeg]

Haha, thanks so much Carla! :-)

[@powaqqatsi8]

Loved this video on container planting.❤ I learn something new on each of your videos.👍

[@megaman2016]

Great pot ideas! Going to keep an eye out for wicker baskets now and get some hessian

[@marychristmas4911]

I love your enthusiasm, it's so infectious!

[@lorainemcguire5795]

Your neighbour has a glorious garden luv all the fritillaria plants too, a great video with such good tips ❤

[@GrowVeg]

The snake's head fritillaries are gorgeous aren't they?!

[@lorainemcguire5795]

@@GrowVeg I've 2 of the snakeshead but my soil isn't right for them so I have them in pot's but your neighbour obviously has the perfect soil ❤️❤️

[@carolineholding]

I hope there's going to be a follow up episode, so we can see how all the plants look later in the year when they've grown a bit.

[@DownButNotOutYet]

Good morning Ben, you are so kind to help your lovely neighbour and sharing garden knowledge and show how to do things right. It was a great variety and most popular stuff to grow, so the leaves will put on a grand show, i.e. the oak leaf lettuce and the scalloped edges of the cilantro, it will put on a smart show when matured. It is just fabulous when neighbours can share and plant together. It was most enjoyable to watch. Great ideas. Many blessings, kind regards.

[@annagriffiths717]

What a lovely neighbour, great you are inspiring them & us to grow our own and to show a great use of unused space, it really transformed her garden and she will have some tasty treats I’m sure 😋🤗👩‍🌾. Invaluable tips and hints as usual, thanks 🙏🏻

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks so much Anna. :-)

[@Beth-pu6nc]

Your enthusiasm is contagious Ben, and you are a joy to watch!😘

[@lorrainelangley5354]

Fabulous Greetings from Oklahoma!!🌳🌷🌳

[@GrowVeg]

Hello! Great to have you watching! :-)

[@Wendy-i1i]

Another Great Video your enthusiasm for gardening inspires us to get out there and Garden I’m Creating a New Vegetable Garden with some Fruit trees to be planted in amongst it too,thanking You for Your work and Video Cheers Wendy 😊 from 🇦🇺

[@GrowVeg]

Hope your new vegetable garden goes to plan - enjoy the whole process of starting it off. :-)

[@foodnwords]

That was really sweet! Great job Ben!

[@ljgerken]

Great ideas you have given me about lining baskets and growing things in those.. I've got some deck rail planters that I can grow spices and lettuces in, not just flowers, and they are shallow and will be up off the ground and away from the rabbits.

[@jeanetteschulthe1andOnly]

It is nice to have lettuce greens...you go out and pick how much you need and when you need it. And in the sunlight at lunchtime, if you pick at this time (and try it) you can almost feel it nutrinating you. You can grow varieties they do not have in stores too. No guilt or $ loss when it just goes to nomansland in the fridge. Also no plastic packaging or those luscious trips to the compost...lol. I really enjoy growing my own lettuce...picking it in my yard was ceremonious event. There is nothing like red oak leaf lettuce.

[@donnag7095]

I love the use of baskets, I am now planning to do something for myself in a basket.

[@BumblebeeAdventure]

🐝Thanks for the great video🌻 What a pritty garden!!! love the pots

[@Renvaar1989]

I just bought my first house, and we only have a small courtyard, so this video was perfect for me! I've planted from seed and I can already see them coming through!

[@sc405]

I just love how you expand on your explanations and are so clear. I've just subscribed.

[@GrowVeg]

Welcome to the channel! :-)

[@ontariogardening]

You know which 'container' I actually love best (and have had great success in?) Those felt bags! The material lets air flow to the root system, as well as hold moisture in when needed. I have grown full indeterminate tomatoes in them! So great.

[@mikeboyd1961]

Wow, their interaction was so fast, furious, natural, so easy and so relaxing to watch that I hope they do more!

[@hypnodream]

I spent time yesterday doing all my container planting. Thanks. Also, I love your videos where you go on the road to other gardeners. I'd love to see more of those.

[@GrowVeg]

Hoping to go on the road again this summer - watch this space! :-)

[@loveveganUK]

Thanks for this, we are growing a container garden this year and this was really helpful

[@wrcustomjoinery1833]

One of the best videos I've watched on tube, brilliant, I'm heading out to the garden right now.........

[@lindab34]

Great video Ben. Always new ideas and interesting to see others peoples gardens and how to use containers in them.

[@Keenan-w5v]

Wonderful episode ❤❤❤

[@Miss_Lexisaurus]

This was super helpful for me. I'm gardening for the first time this year and, as we're moving soon, I'm having to start in pots (including old wellies, thick cardboard boxes and plastic tubs!).

[@Sky-Child]

Wow! Lovely new direction, you should do more of these

[@TheButterflySoulfire]

I love the pots with the handles.

[@carols8090]

Wonderful, as always. And she asks the BEST questions. Thank you for posting.

[@SRMthy]

Wow! You are a great neighbor to have ❤️

[@jessegee179]

Looks lovely, great ideas. Congratulations on your new vegetable journey Sharon! 🎉

[@Tommy-xy1eh]

WoW ! What a lucky neighbour she is ! ❤

[@artistlovepeace]

People like the producers and host of GrowVeg make dreams come true.

[@sooya_jixsoo]

Your videos are extremely informative & helpful. You earned a new subscriber :) 💫

[@bonedigger666]

It’s good to see people starting to realize they are going to need a steady food supply. People that always figured flowers were more important now understand differently. We all feel something has changed. We do not know what’s coming but we feel it anyway. We all here understand just what it means to have a backup when It comes to food or many Other things we will need soon. But you need to tell your neighbors and family to start a garden. The sooner the better. Good video

[@lindachambers9752]

What a brilliant video, I'm going to plants some pots today. We are moving this year so pots are a great idea. 👍🌼🌸

[@alandeacon1988]

I never thought of Rosemary being a king!

[@GrowVeg]

Regal rosemary!

[@iwonakaczmarczyk7839]

Beautiful inspiration! ⚘️⚘️

[@Gardeningphu]

so beautiful so elegant🎉🎉

[@rasserfrasser]

Ah! Apple boxes...square containers. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant for space if you're a container gardener. Thank you!

[@rasserfrasser]

Hi Ben, thanks for thanks for the kudos. Could you possibly tell me what material you line them with? I just found a couple and am really eager to use them. Best!

[@Zoeybeau_1]

Great video, I was same going to flowers, confidence. Got tons of flowers this year they go hand in hand. .

[@HongJosephine]

Sifu Thanks Your farmer friend s got same type like mine from pots etc small scale for small family Thanks Will treasure this tuition like gems🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@tenners3258]

Nice to see you recommend Lizzano, 2years back 6 plants gave me 15 kilos of cherry tomatoes....it was a lot more,but I got fed up of weighing them! This year though,not so good,I strongly suspect the weird cold early summer in the UK was responsible.

[@nicholasryan5401]

Greeting's from Ireland, Great video and lot's of veg. I grow eight plastic laundry container's of carrots sitting on two lots of four pallet's stacked on top of each other to keep the carrot fly away. I grow tomato's and pepper's in the glasshouse and all other veg in a no dig bed at the back of the house. I find your video's very useful and I only started growing veg two years ago. I have a flower garden in the small front garden with four flower bed's and fifty eight pot's. My wife has no interest in gardening but has told me the front garden look's like a mini garden centre.

[@GrowVeg]

Sounds like you're packing a lot in Nicholas - nice work! :-)

[@nicholasryan5401]

@@GrowVeg I plan to put no dig beds in the rest of the back garden for flowers in autumn. I can split and divide loads of perennial flowers from the pots and the flower beds. I make my own compost in a three bay system so I wont have to buy compost.

[@deliachitts1964]

Wow that looks great 😊I am going to try this again weed mat great idea

[@mariahsmom9457]

I did this potato method but staggered and stratified. It works a real treat!

[@muniondalenewyurk6777]

Thank you Ben ! I love the idea of using the lining in the pots & using different types of containers too. Someone on the comment thread mentioned the thrift shop! Such a great inexpensive way to get unique containers & pots for the garden. I learned alot from this video & enjoyed watching your neighbor get excited too! An update before she harvests would be wonderful! God bless ! 😊👌🏽

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks so much. Yes, thrifting is a great way to stock up on great (and often unusual) containers. :-)

[@chipperkeithmgb]

Wish I had a neighbour like that

[@itsmaryz]

I always wish I had a garden of my own. But life being unfair I have non. How I always dream to have a garden. If I had one. I would edge all the vegetables beds with beautiful flowers and ensure that I would not depend on supermarket vegetables. Thank you Ben for showing the video.

[@GrowVeg]

I hope you get to enjoy the essence of gardening through these videos at least. And I hope you get to enjoy a garden soon. :-)

[@itsmaryz]

@ Absolutely, I enjoy watching your videos. They are really inspirational.

[@Angie29449]

This is a wonderful video. Great job and beautiful garden.

[@JanieOlmsted]

We love Rosie! She is so much fun to watch! 😊

[@rogink]

Ah. So now we know what 'cilantro' (sp?) is. I've seen it on other food videos and assumed it was parsley, but coriander makes more sense :)

[@alegomanYTPs]

I had lilies in a plastic pot, They were getting decimated by slugs, I found an air pocket where a slug was chewing on the stem, I was furious. They really can't leave anything alone can they? I feel like all my pots have to be full of grit, as they stay too wet. I really hope it survives, I dusted root hormone on the stem in hopes it would heal it, i know that's probably not how it works but I do know it has anti fungal properties. Last year the same thing happened to my sunflower, a slug climbed 5 feet up the stem and chewed the neck then left, they know how to wind up humans I think!

[@GrowVeg]

Those slugs have a lot to answer for!

[@VcassCsoto]

Fantastic ideas! Use caution with certain woods and metals tho. I’ve had wood containers rot through super fast and metal ones rust on the inside killing my roots.

[@LittleKikuyu]

What a wonderful video and wonderful neighbour! 🥰 You need to change the title to „Rosie and I helped our neighbour“ though 😉😂

[@GrowVeg]

Haha - yes indeed - we probably should! :-)

[@chichi9851]

I love this channel so much. Great ideas, beautiful plants and scenery, clear explanations.... 😊

[@GrowVeg]

Glad you like them! Happy Gardening!

[@letsdothiswithcj]

Love this. I’m patiently waiting to get my garden started. Still cold here! Thanks for the video.

[@Brick-Morpork]

Hi! I took your advice from a previous video comment and put my tomatoes our into the unheated polytunnel. Just wanted to thank you for your help. My sungolds already have flowers!

[@GrowVeg]

That's fantastic to hear - they're well ahead, nice work! :-)

[@colbymarsh2074]

I am trying out a roughly 50/50 mix of succulent and cactus mix with regular potting soil for rosemary, thyme, and sage this year

[@GrowVeg]

Definitely worth a try. Let us know how you get on with it. :-)

[@stalker-anoniem3515]

Great channel.❤

[@gracesim1806]

How many potatoes did you put in the pot? Looked like only 2 from the video...just trying to gauge how many should be grown in that size of pot. Great video, very inspirational. Looking forward to more. Thank you

[@GrowVeg]

I put two in, but I could have planted up to four by staggering them over two depths. As explained in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2fdmamji9qDkMUsi=yNUIAeCSJ-rqAxMr

[@davidcollier185]

Absolutely great video, thank you

[@vanessaeden8174]

Love this video, absolutely potty about it. Great excuse to sit down and watch it with a cup of tea. In fact all your videos are blooming marvellous. Excuse the puns. I cant seem to stop digging them up.❤

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks so much. A good cuppa is just the thing to accompany this video I reckon. :-)

[@annagoodwin7557]

Hi there really enjoyed video going to grow more in pots ,I might stand more chance of what ever eating my seedlings great advice thank you

[@DannyHodge95]

Loved the hessian idea for the less pretty containers!

[@olenarogova24]

Thank you!

[@17Mccants]

Great vid. Can you tell us what the soil mixture was that you used for the carrots, chard, and beans? It looked like compost (potting soi) with the coconut shavings. Am I right? My garden will include bush beans and carrots, both in containers, so I want to ensure I have the proper mixture. Thank you!

[@GrowVeg]

It was just an all-purpose potting soil (compost). It's a peat-free one though, so may have some coir/cocounut fiber already added. But it's just the basic bagged potting soil.

[@haafizmssx]

Great stuff Ben, a treat indeed! I'm also just beginning my gardening this month in a garden that now mostly has dead areas since it was abandoned for a deca. I wish you could make a lovely visit (based in Purley) and we could make an episode for those who would be in the same position and add further variety to your channel 😊

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks so much for your kind words. I hope your garden gets off to a great start. :-)

[@donaldthomson9411]

Great tip about covering the utilitarian black containers with hessian , I’m definitely going to do that with mine ASAP. In an ideal world all my containers would be glazed terracotta but unfortunately , like most gardeners, I’m not a billionaire!