Maximize Your Space: Stunning Designs for Small Gardens

[@303HammerHead]

Can't wait to have an actual backyard and garden!

[@smile30981]

I love starting my Sunday morning with a good cup of coffee and a few of your gardening videos!

[@GrowVeg]

Ah, that's great to hear!

[@kimmicannon5629]

New veggie Gardner here. Thank you again for the great info. I’m like a student in school. Notepad, glass of water and a pen. Your videos are invaluable.

[@tarabonee8855]

You have the cheeriest "Hullo!" I've ever heard, lol. It suits the content of the videos, but more than that it makes me crack a grin everytime! Lol

[@RobBackyardGardenerr]

Great video with loads of ideas and tips for small space gardening! Really enjoyed this one! Thanks for sharing it with us.

[@HaphazardHomestead]

I like the wattle back on the stone bench! I'll have to try something like that. And that's a nice collection of ideas. One pot with plants is a garden, so any size is possible. Thanks.

[@JC-xv6dd]

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[@CupcakeBaker1982]

I'm planning lots of vertical growing areas this year. There's so much to do but I'm getting there 😊

[@ckt108yt]

Kat's Edible Garde

[@elainelerner3337]

I really enjoy your videos, and your garden planner is the best I've seen. I've had a very large organic garden for years and rate your website as one of the best. Thank you.

[@GrowVeg]

That's very kind of you, thank you!

[@manwithaporpoiseYTsucksD]

Me and many other friends and family have just begun to experience the joys of gardening. So glad people are waking up from vapid consumer culture and the mental rot of television and are learning the joys of nature, self-sufficiency and the simple things in life. Now if we could just get these rabid social media weirdos to appreciate the simple things in life instead of wallowing in useless drama and obsessive attention seeking through transparently fake virtue signaling we might have a chance.

[@GrowVeg]

Let's hope this trend continues - we all need to be growing more, for sure.

[@mikebewick7013]

Great video much enjoyed thanks

[@jantawinters5705]

I love to grow Thai herbs

[@jennifertaylor6026]

I use the square foot method, and I do not use the fancy soil mixes like most do use with it. Instead I use compost, I use trifecta plus, and I just now got the drip irrigation, although I bought everything from scratch and have to put together, so we will see if this helps. If the plants look like they need a boost later in the summer, around august or September, I just scratch some compost and maybe some more trifecta plus in around the roots and water. I also use morblooms, and fish fertilizer, and occasionally Epsom salt if needed. I have found that I could simply use a large tomato cage for about 2 or so cucumber plants to grow in, and it works really well. This year, I think I might look for more ways to grow vertical and save on space in the garden! Would love to see some more ideas for climbing plants such as spaghetti squash, watermelon, acorn squash and some more. Your garden looks really lovely and beautiful. I love just going out in my garden, listening to the birds, seeing all the life in there. Its a calming effect, which is why most refer to this as garden therapy. Looking forward to my chickens coming in later in June! Happy Gardening!

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks for the feedback. We have a video on making a squash arch planned for the next month, so keep checking back. It will talk about other climbing vegetables too.

[@patriciahilliard4283]

Great ideas!

[@nickygreenfingers]

I really like your ideas , I’m a landscape gardener & I’m always thinking of new ideas, my best wishes & thanks for the inspiration 💚

[@vladimiragasparhardenerade5103]

Like it beautiful garden

[@prisillaspace]

How beautiful!

[@keithjoshua7946]

Great stuff .Keith South africa

[@GrowVeg]

Cheers Keith. :-)

[@mangoyacho]

Beautiful garden!

[@Wadj1]

Fantastic! Thanks Ben :)

[@shahena45]

Very good idea

[@CMConnolly]

cheers and great video.

[@nadakodsia2635]

I already subscribed, love your channel...

[@jantawinters5705]

Love your idea thank so much I love near by sea at Blackpool I have small garden u gift me Idea

[@jenn997]

Thanks! You gave me quite a few ideas. I found myself scribbling to remember them...

[@laurastout1827]

great video, love the ideas

[@akzidentz0]

I am using your garden planer and it real helps, since I am a noob at gardening, but I have a question concerning crop rotation - program shows you warnings in next year plan for rotation which is great, but if you plant in succession in the same year it doesn't! (for example if i have early potato bed (march till July), if for august I choose to plant other plants it doesn't show rotation warnings... This feature would really help though! Thanks for videos!

[@GrowVeg]

If you’re wanting to rotate crops for a two-season garden, or one where you are planting a lot of follow-on or succession plantings, you can do so in this way: After you created your Spring plan, click the New Plan button and then select to create a Follow-On Plan. The year will default to next year but you can simply change it to this year and give the plan a slightly different name. The crop rotation system will then work for your fall garden too.

[@cainedoesprintingnow3799]

I have the bad knot weed growing in my garden and the place I want to grow veg we are treating it but obviously it's going to take a long time can I still grow veg?

[@GrowVeg]

You could put lots of cardboard down then build raised beds on top. That would help to suppress re-growth while giving you an opportunity to grow.

[@yellothere5552]

Loving you demos n basic instructions..I've lots of raspberry red n yellow..but im unsure when to prune or if they are types that grow on 2nd year fruiters. Some have died n are sprouting from bottom...Any advise im gratefully before I kill them xx thankyou xx

[@GrowVeg]

My advice would be to cut out all old canes right back to the ground level, leaving only those new sprouts alone so they can grow on. If the raspberries are autumn-fruiting, i.e. they crop on the current season's canes, then they should fruit this season. But if the raspberries are summer fruiters - i.e. raspberries that grow on one-year-old canes then you will get no fruits this year, but you will know to leave the canes to grow on for fruits next year. Hope that helps. But cut them back now anyhow (assuming you ar in the Northern Hemisphere).

[@yellothere5552]

@@GrowVeg great thankyou ..I'll have to watch n tag different labels on depending what happens..can then put same sorts together..thankyou for help xxxx

[@yellothere5552]

We live in Cornwall...we're warmer than most of the uk!!

[@sylviaquinones1686]

Hi: Fantastic tutorials. Where i find a garden planer? Thanks

[@GrowVeg]

Hi there. You can find it at: www.growveg.com

[@sajadahmed1269]

Hi do you grow melons in your garden

[@GrowVeg]

I don't grow them in my garden as it's too cold. You can grow them in the greenhouse here. They need supports for the sprawling vines. And they must be fed regularly with a high-potassium feed to encourage flower and fruit formation. Make sure pollinators like bees can reach the flowers too.

[@jessicagreer8125]

I do not have a Green thumb like My Precious Mom, May God Rest her soul, but I try to plant flowers and vegetables because I love them all. But, The squirrels can't stick to just One Tomato, they have to take bites out of a bunch of my tomatoes and then just leave them alone, One squirrel sat on my fence bravely holding and eating my tomato while he kept staring at me, All I can do as Laugh and let him enjoy his Lunch ! But how do you keep squirrels and pests away ?, and some tomatoes either a rotten spot or the leaves have holes int hem or they have this white stuff on them, help please : )

[@GrowVeg]

To keep pests off tomatoes the only real option is to grow them in hoop houses (large ones or smaller ones) or in a greenhouse. Or under netting. Check out other possible tomato pests here: www.growveg.com/pests/us-and-canada/plant-problems/tomato-pests-identification/ And potential tomato diseases here: www.growveg.com/plant-diseases/us-and-canada/plant-problems/tomato-diseases-identification/

[@mmtruooao8377]

It always stresses me out buying seeds though because I want a lot of different plants instead of a monoculture but there's going to be so many seeds leftover :_

[@GrowVeg]

Most seeds will store for a couple of seasons if you store them in a cool, dry and dark place between use.

[@tungavidya]

I can not use the planer as it is in English measurements. do you have option to change it in cm and meters?

[@GrowVeg]

The Garden Planner can be set to either feet and inches, or cm and metres, depending on which measurements you prefer. It's suited to every gardener :-)

[@tungavidya]

I can't find where to set it to metres.

[@ayushdewangan5070]

Which gardening app can I use for design of layout?

[@GrowVeg]

It's called the Garden Planner and you can find out more about it here: www.growveg.com/garden-planner-intro.aspx

[@dustinstafford7096]

Does anyone know what the light purple flower is at about 1:42? I've seen it around our neighborhood but no one knows what it's called.

[@gardening626]

I think it's Centaurea cyanus, usually called Bachelor's Button or Cornflower.

[@GrowVeg]

Those are cornflowers - a very easy to grow annual flower you can just sow in situ and then leave to grow on. Bees love it!

[@thomashughes9224]

How do you spell the name of the plant you say scares off aphids - is it annisum? allysum - i am trying to find it online to buy some seeds.

[@GrowVeg]

It's spelt: alyssum

[@Wingedshadowwolf]

Hey, do you guys know when the Android version of the garden planner will be available? I don't have an iPod or desktop device

[@GrowVeg]

We don't have the resources to produce a version of the Garden Planner for Android at the moment, however we do have a planting calendar app available for Android which you can find here: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.growinginteractive.plantit&hl=en

[@Wingedshadowwolf]

GrowVeg Ok, thanks. I will check it out. I was just reading an article on porting apps this morning, one of the said that many times you have to rebuild your app from the ground up! I didn't realize that task would be such a hassle. Good luck on your work and happy gardening!

[@lockwoan01]

Useful information.

[@bcharabujawdeh9482]

Hi. Sorry but i gave up on your garden planner a long time ago since no matter how much i tried i could never get it to take the climate location of Lebanon

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks for the feedback, it is appreciated.

[@bcharabujawdeh9482]

GrowVeg are you willing to do anything about that?

[@GutierrezLokitos]

I'm curious as to whether you can caption these videos for those of us who are deaf?

[@GrowVeg]

All are videos have closed captions, so you can read what we're saying. Hover your mouse on the bottom-right corner of the video and it should display 'CC'. Just click on this to display the captions.

[@GutierrezLokitos]

GrowVeg I use the phone for the most part.In majority of videos there is a CC at bottom right side of screen. Thank you so much! Now I can enjoy all of these!

[@jantawinters5705]

Um so struggeringwhen in winter time

[@GrowVeg]

I think spring can't be far off now. Hang on in there and brighter/warmer days will be with us very soon! :-)

[@shaunmonthei334]

I want to start gardening again!!!! But I have ground hogs and other annoying animals that eat off the tops of my herbs. I'm afraid to start another garden(last garden was many years ago) I had two dogs then. Now they are gone and I would love to know what to do now?????

[@50pinkies67]

Shaun Monthei Hi Shaun. I have the same problem. But there are many wandering cats that harass the groundhog. I did read a couple of years ago, that moth balls around designated areas is a good deterrent. That was going to be my next attack on the pesty groundhog. My husband was planning to fence in the vulnerable plants or shoot the groundhog. lol. Hope this helps.

[@chazyfm]

This is a helpful video but isn't really about stunning design as the title indicates

[@mnormile2684]

No audio! And it's turned up all the way.

[@jdelgadosegovia]

mine works.....?

[@blokbrate5590]

Kudos for the Video! Apologies for chiming in, I am interested in your thoughts. Have you researched - Saankramer Breathtaking Design System (just google it)? It is a smashing one of a kind guide for learning how to design an amazing dream landscape without the headache. Ive heard some unbelievable things about it and my good mate called Gray after many years got amazing results with it.

[@davidlesage7561]

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[@mclovin8739]

I have galaxy s8+, no app for that so I'm out.

[@GrowVeg]

We do have a planting calendar app available for Android which you can find here: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.growinginteractive.plantit&hl=en

[@mclovin8739]

Thanks, that's a handy little reference app.

[@scrapwomblecreatives6944]

19 Quid a year for a garden planer that is over ten year old it's a joke , it used to be a free program years ago money grabber

[@GrowVeg]

The Garden Planner has undergone considerable time and investment from developers and gardening experts keen to produce a product that is genuinely useful to gardeners. We've added many new and powerful features since its launch, including companion planting, crop rotation and other features. Unfortunately all of this takes several employed full-time staff - we need to make a living, which is why we have to charge a fee for our Garden Planner. We think the Garden planner is a genuinely good-value tool for gardeners looking to make the most of the space they have. The thousands of Garden Planner subscribers seem to believe so too.

[@scrapwomblecreatives6944]

Looks same as 10 years ago I may be wrong, but even so it should be pay for once software £20 should be lifetime we grow food to save money not spend more gardeners almanac is free online tells you times to plant and what to plant and a there is 1000,s of square foot gardening sites out there for free so again this should be a one off payment, and trust me software as old as this thats had massive design input now goes for a few £ $ call in wh smiths get some graph paper you have to get your garden size work out in feet blocks its that easy you have to know your garden size anyway paper cost about £3 for a book full...you could design your garden for the next 30 years with that and some color pencils max cost £4