$100 of Vegetables a Week. Minimal Effort. Here's How...

It's no secret that this year has been a tricky one for gardeners all over the world; whatever your weather. So what is Ben's secret to a productive garden? Why do my cauliflowers look like an old tissue I found in my pocket and Ben's look like the Crown Jewels?
Fear not. In this week's episode, Ben spills the beans and reveals all his secrets to how to achieve success in the garden and takes us for a sneaky peek behind the scenes.
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[@cathyc7069]

Isla is a breath of fresh air! Love passing gardening on to the next generation.

[@aalejardin]

Good for Isla, her bed looks beautiful.

[@divin-inarizona7125]

Dear Ben: Please keep naming your vids whatever you want. Just keep making them. A loyal fan. ❤❤❤

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks so much! :-)

[@OldManBOMBIN]

I thought this said "kids" 😂😂😂

[@Kattywagon29]

@@OldManBOMBIN So did I! LOL

[@OldManBOMBIN]

@@Kattywagon29 omg we have so much in common! What're you doing for lunch on Wednesday, Fanjuary Plenty-chird?

[@trapped7534]

Another great video Ben!! Loved seeing Isla and her interest in the garden!! I remember…whew,about 65 years ago now (where did that time go?) I was a Daddy’s girl and he loved his vegetable garden,so I spent every spare moment with him 💞. Daddies are special to little girls ❣️ God Bless you and yours Ben. Hopefully it warms up a bit for you. We (Southern Indiana)have been in mid to upper 90’s F for more days than I care to count . Happy Gardening everyone!!!

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks so much for your kind words. Hope it cools off a bit for you soon - those sound like exhausting temperatures to be contending with.

[@karenrose8865]

I love your enthusiasm and the knowledge you share in your videos. Thank you!

[@notforwantoftrying1]

haha your daughter is the cutest thing ever

[@eb1684]

Precious!

[@PODCASTKELUARGATAMCIL]

Indeed, i am astonished

[@minivandreamin1789]

Your daughter is precious! Glad to meet her. Thanks for the tour, Ben!

[@suepowlesland8541]

I wish gardeners could occasionally swap weather! You need some warm sun Ben and we need a break from our heatwave. Nineteen days of 35 to 40 here in southern BC🌞

[@myrustygarden]

Yes please send rain Ben 😂 🌞🥵🇨🇦

[@Freedom2025-x2b]

Here in the US - Florida - it’s 90 degrees plus Fahrenheit. Probably until November

[@myrustygarden]

@@Freedom2025-x2b 😥😥😥 we’ve had no rain for what feels like months

[@adelineparinduri]

Same here in Southern Alberta 🥵 I put shades over some parts of the garden for a couple weeks now. More than once of watering in a day. The rest of July will remain in that temp range.

[@myrustygarden]

@@adelineparinduri 😢

[@stevenjohns7017]

2024 is the year of the Slug!

[@GrowVeg]

So true!

[@twelvesmylimit]

Aww, lovely to meet Isla. She's adorable. 😊

[@lifestapestry2968]

So glad I started everything in Feb this year, either indoors or in the greenhouse, then planted outside...The weather this year has put most of us back by at least a month.

[@Gardeningchristine]

Which is strange because everyone’s garlic seemed to be earlier this year by about a month.

[@GrowVeg]

I'm wondering if the early garlic is down to the incredibly warm winter we had - especially January, which was more like March?

[@christymartin9404]

Love seeing children getting involved in gardening

[@racheltree7533]

Your video cheered me up when I realised my tomatoes & cucumbers are same stage as yours. Phew. Well done Isla, future gardening career in offing!

[@erikacarter]

New subbie here, I’ve been watching your videos for awhile now and I love and enjoy your garden.🤗Been growing for 10 months now and absolutely love it.

[@GrowVeg]

So pleased you're enjoying growing - it's a fantastic thing to do! And thanks for subscribing, it's really lovely to have your support. Happy gardening! :-)

[@jencros1]

Lovely to see how Isla's growing over the years.

[@Jane-ky9fj]

Thanks for the tour! Always enjoy your videos and enthusiasm. Your daughter is adorable.

[@lorainemcguire5795]

Lovely video as always full of good tips, your daughters growing patch looks wonderful ❤

[@marksallotmentplot]

Loved the tour Ben 👍 Great looking harvest as well 🎉

[@GrowVeg]

Cheers Mark! :-)

[@CoastalGardensNW]

Great video Ben always enjoy seeing other gardens and hod people do things a little diffrent look forward to the garden on a shead roof

[@priscillajoseph765]

I don't have my own garden but I do enjoy watching your videos Ben. Thank you, I'm learning a lot from you and will share this too.

[@christinebrooks6364]

Hi Ben, Isla definitely takes after you with the growing, well done Isla, your bed is looking lovely ❤ Ben, another great video. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks so much for watching Christine. Happy gardening! :-)

[@ConcreteGarden910]

Great video ! And useful im sure I can speak for us all and say we appreciate the tips and knowledge you drop on us🖤‼️

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks so much! :-)

[@patstephenso7206]

Thank you its wonderful to see the garden looking so good

[@lornapenn-chester6867]

Great again, thanks Ben ❤

[@MyFocusVaries]

Thanks for the tour. Summer finally started here on Canada's West coast on July 1. Record breaking temps.

[@themrmanguy7912]

So happy to see the progress!

[@DuluMorgova]

I love your videos your voice is so soothing to an American 😂

[@LavendaPanda]

Isla your vegetable bed is amazing 🤩 such healthy plants 🌱

[@daveyoung9567]

I love your enthusiasm,hope it's contagious.Thanks.

[@Detour4it]

Thanks for your show, I enjoy it..👊

[@jm3517]

Let’s go there’s a mini grow veg! The world’s a better place with more of this guy’s genes around ❤

[@GrowVeg]

Cheers so much! :-)

[@bigtomatoplantslover6205]

Wow Wonderful Garden ~ Thank you for good sharing LIKE it My friend, have a good relationship 😊

[@AgnesAtelier-hn7pb]

Thank you so much! Now I know I'll have to harvest the potatoes (1 plant) and cut the damaged leaves on the pumpkins. I tried the '3 sisters' on 2 containers. One two pumpkin plants made it with 5 Mini mix pumpkins growing. The other container 1 bean, 1 corn stalk with 2 cobs Zlota Karlowa 😊 1 pumpkin plant Chiogga with 1 pumpkin growing. The chayotes are just putting leaves, no fruit. But I'm happy to report I have the 1st tomato Noire de Crimée of the season almost ripe. The Gardeners delight tomatoes are blooming. I covet 🤗 your kales!! It could look great in a pot, kind of palmetto mixed banana tree look.

[@GrowVeg]

Sounds like you're on to a strong start to summer there - great job on the tomatoes! :-)

[@valoriegriego5212]

Howdy, Ben! 👋 What a great time in your garden with you!😃 Your daughter is certainly your mini me. She has a beautiful garden bed!👍She's a cutie!🦋 Lovely harvest and a super garden!👍 I'm looking forward to the gardens we will be viewing with you.👩🏾‍🌾

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks so much for your kind words Valorie. I hope your garden is coming along nicely too. :-)

[@markvincent5241]

Fantastic stuff as always Ben. You really should have your own TV show.

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks so much Mark. :-)

[@priscillajoseph765]

Ben, I love your garden. The harvesting is so amazing and truly give loads of pleasure and cooking what you grow is ace! Although I do not have a garden, I did have great experiences in the Caribbean with my family. My Late father grew all his own vegetables in our garden here in London many years ago. He continued this in the Caribbean. Thank you for all of your amazing videos. May you continue this in the future as the climate has changed and will no doubt affect plants of all varieties.🏆👌

[@GrowVeg]

Good to hear the happy memories! :-)

[@chinoyhealingfoodstravels8888]

Greetings from Redondo Beach 🇺🇸🇺🇸Bountiful harvest and nice video🌷🌷

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks so much. Greetings to you too! :-)

[@Beaguins]

Your garden is vibrant as well! I'm always impressed by the productivity of it considering its small size. I just harvested my first shallots ever, and I'm pleased with them. I found them easier to grow than onions and will probably switch over to them from now on. Hopefully they store as well as you say.

[@GrowVeg]

Glad you've had a good shallot crop. They really are a fantastic plant and (almost!) forget crop, and they store for so, so long. :-)

[@MDJ-7]

Great idea wearing a long glove to harvest zucchini. I am going to borrow that idea. Beautiful garden, thank you for sharing

[@GrowVeg]

The number of times I've got prickled without them!

[@MANNY100123]

Thank your for the lovely tour! :D

[@papabearweber1507]

I always enjoy watching your channel. Your honesty about the good and bad in the garden, is a breath of fresh air. I believe we learn more from our setbacks than from our successes. Have a great day!

[@GrowVeg]

Absolutely - setbacks are a great teacher! :-)

[@najwaseiya]

great, interesting💛💛💛💛

[@L4Nigav]

did you ever notice or care for the moon cycles with planting, repotting etc.? i can notice a real difference, especially when sowing and planting with the new and waxing moon

[@GrowVeg]

I don't follow moon cycles - just don't have the time or organisation!

[@dustyflats3832]

I looked up recipe for Aloo Gobi and there are numerous recipes. Many spices I’ve never heard of and it looks tasty. Had the Best cauliflower Ever this year 🎉. I hadn’t realized it was a 45 day to harvest variety until I was later reading the seed packet😂😂we rushed out to harvest and sure enough there were heads. So excited to find a variety that works here. I had soil delivered few years ago and was discouraged it was clay, but now I’m loving it since I read brassicas love heavy soil. Our season is about 135 days and I find it difficult to find room for fall sowing/planting as harvest lags a bit here. One never knows now days if the frosts will be delayed as it gets warmer and the lack of sun later delays harvest. I wish I hadn’t started Brussels so soon as they are maturing already and normally want them hit by a frost-oh well. We sowed seeds and plants yesterday and I’m sure the rows will be a bit messy, but with all those mosquitoes it was a throw and Go! Lol, every year I battle volunteer potatoes in an area I haven’t grown them in years. I have to find a way to get them all out because I always let them grow and they crowd out others. If I pull them they grow right back. You have the worst time with slugs and because of a lot of rain we have mosquitoes. We can’t even be in the garden without a hazmat suit-it’s awful! A long time ago I remember using flour and baking soda I think for cabbage worms. I wonder if it would get rid of slugs? With all the rain there was no chance of using anything here-liquid or powder. I could only watch as some plants turned lime green as the nutrients washed through our native sandy soil. It finally let up and dried a bit and gave them a shot of liquid fertilizer that perked them up and laid down granular. The tomatoes I think have been stunted a bit and the blight arrived 3 weeks early and hope they make the finish line. It’s been quite a year and not so enjoyable experience when you can’t be outside because of mosquitoes. Lol, I can’t even get the compost because it was taken over by some healthy vines and tomatoes and I let them go 😅. Then I leave the cilantro, parsley, dill and borage reseed every year so I never have to plant them, but they can be space hogs. And I just learned fennel and dill don’t get along with nightshades and others very well. And it wasn’t all that long ago I learned corn is affected by same year cross pollination-How did I never realize that after all these years? Thanks for sharing your progress.

[@GrowVeg]

Sounds like it's all go in your garden. Though I sympathise with you having to endure all those mosquitoes!

[@Gardeningchristine]

If you have tomato horn worm, basil is good at deterring them, but it can get very large, so a different pot might be needed if you’re having trouble keeping up with watering.

[@lew381]

Im finding that this year I want to freeze the onions instead of dry because you can chop the whole onion and the greens to make almost 50% more onionage. Actially eating a full plant has a health benefits if you check it out online. The flavour with the greens and the bulb creates a rounded flavour and you lose the greens when drying them out. Especially with curry. I Believe many cultures would have originally used it all and we adopted the industry version that sells the bulb.

[@GrowVeg]

That's a great idea for storing them. :-)

[@juliehartley3652]

Great harvest, I also managed to successfully grow cauliflowers this year too, I was amazed to see the heads forming - it was my first time growing them - on your recommendation - thank you. Also thanks for the recipe tip too. Happy harvesting to you and your daughter. 😊

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks so much. I was so pleased with the cauliflowers, and am delighted you have been too. :-)

[@juliehartley3652]

@@GrowVeg Gardening is such a great hobby - anyone can do it.

[@dominicthomas1455]

I am a grown man but am not ashamed to admit that I am jealous of your garden space haha. Well done sir, good to see your using it well 😊

[@GrowVeg]

Thank you kindly!

[@DownButNotOutYet]

Morning Ben, that was a most lovely garden tour, harvesting was great for you enjoy the fruits of your labour. Lovely daughter, it's great to get the kids interested in veggie growing as well. Do you know about leaving a wooden plank in the veggie garden especially the plants they love and they apparently crawl underneath during the day and you can collect them off the board and get rid of them, much easier. Have a super relaxing day.

[@GrowVeg]

Yes, I do know about that and should really be more disciplined in going out and picking them off more frequently. It's my own fault really! :-)

[@jvh6436]

Hola from Spain Ben. Many thanks for your videos and your good spirits. They really improve my mood.

[@GrowVeg]

Ahh, that's lovely to hear. Happy gardening to you! :-)

[@cookingvlogswithrb]

beautiful garden 🪴

[@pattirodriguez2249]

Love your videos ❤!

[@GrowVeg]

Thank you!!

[@markw5779]

Great tour and tips Ben,looks like your daughter might be creating her own channel before long! 😂👍

[@GrowVeg]

I think you may be right!

[@sosgardening]

Love the garden and the humour you bring to each video! I'm not sure about the "sweet smelling" compost however haha, mine usually isn't too sweet! As for your late starting butternut squash, have you tried covering plants like this with a clear cloche? I bought some a few years back from the dollar store and they are a lift saver to give the greenhouse effect to plants you can't cover with other methods or grow in the greenhouse.

[@GrowVeg]

Yes, I think that may be a way to go (covering them with a cloche). Great suggestion. :-)

[@myrustygarden]

I had much better harvest with my shallots than my onions 🧅. My lettuce is direct sown in vegepod so hopefully they survive the 35c temps under shade cloth. Oh my Isla is getting so big and such a joy to have her gardening with you. Thank you as always for the wonderful tour, Ali 🥵🌞🇨🇦

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks for joining me in the garden Ali. Keep cool over there!

[@garethjones6082]

I'm having a very nice big crop of gherkin's have pickled 4 jars so far and am looking at starting a 5th tomorrow. This cooler weather has been brilliant for growing gherkins (UK Manchester)

[@hkschubert9938]

Your lucky greenhouse is the secret to your success. Lucky guy.

[@JuanAppleseed-ge6tb]

I had a beautiful tomato and pepper garden going this spring. I like to make my own hot sauces and salsas. A month-long heat wave and a random infestation of horn worms absolutely wrecked it. I'm starting some seeds inside to hopeful begin a small garden for the remainder of the summer, after the heatwave ends.

[@Gardeningchristine]

I’d plant some basil around. It can get as big as the tomatoes, but it has really helped to keep them away from my garden. I’ve only seen two the last 4 years and one had the parasitic wasp larva hanging off of it. Very cool.

[@GrowVeg]

Hope you get better luck this time round. :-)

[@L4Nigav]

in this video i can actually see that your english sun is a bit lacking this year ^^ we also dont have that much in germany here, but the pumpkins and tomatoes are much further :P but your kale and alikes looks soo much better! you probably dont have that many white cabbage butterflies when its so cool

[@GrowVeg]

Yes, that may be the case. Loads of caterpillars have appeared now though!

[@lyndaturner6686]

Hi Ben I love seeing your garden as it’s similar to mine, except I have fewer beds but a bit bigger, I’m also surrounded by trees and get shaded at various times of day, the same happened to my French climbing beans but like you I resowed some in the Greenhouse and also direct and it’s turned out well I harvested some lovely beans yesterday from the oldest survivor’s and the newer ones are taking off now, and here in Cornwall we have a few days of hot sun yeah!not sure how long it will last but so good to be outside in the warm . It was nice seeing your lovely daughter following in your footsteps maybe a future gardener in the making , ❤️❤️

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks so much. Lovely to be out in the sunshine. I hope you enjoy a fab harvest. :-)

[@claradavis5504]

Lovely 🎉😊

[@NailahRoberts]

I think you have serious competition with Isla's gardening talent 😁

[@JessEllinVlogs]

loved seeing your daughter, she looks so similar to you! and could you possibly do a video on artichokes please? I've tried growing two varieties the artichoke globe type and the ornamental type, ornamental is still growing a year later but didn't have much luck with the globe one, thanks so much x

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks so much Jess. Will certainly consider a video on artichokes. In the meantime, they're briefly featured in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWGmnYhujNd7jpIsi=zBgqTAM6c4sNGKVw

[@bobbilynnmiller742]

Ben , I love your videos ! You teach in such a fun , easy to follow style. I live in a short growing season climate , with our last frost date end of June , and first somewhere in September. Currently we’re experiencing high temps in the 90’s F . Whew ! When should I start my salad green seeds for a cooler fall harvest ? And how long of a time frame do I have to sow those types of seeds before it’s too late ?

[@GrowVeg]

I would get on and sow them as soon as possible, if necessary indoors where it's cooler, or under shade netting.

[@patmartin9727]

I store my dried onions in the legs of ladies tights I knit after adding each one so I can cut below the knot and just take what I want and leave the rest hanging.

[@GrowVeg]

What a great idea! :-)

[@vicmazzaro9403]

Love the video and finally we get to see Isla. What a gardener she is. Would love to see both of you planting together in a bed of compost. I just bought a hoe like you use and have found it is better than the old stile I have been using. Also I used quite a bit of compost that I have been making and What a difference it has made in the production and growth of my plants. My tomatoes and onions are so much bigger than last years crop. I have tried a pumpkin patch and I now have one pumpkin the size of a large large watermelon. Hope I can get a couple of more before October. Love the videos and your daughter in them, keep sending them

[@GrowVeg]

Thanks for your kind words. And I'm so pleased your tomatoes, pumpkins and onions are doing so well! :-)

[@vicmazzaro9403]

I Got one really large large pumpkin and none other. I had some pumpkins starting but the flower never open up so they could get pollinated. We had a lot of rain and very hot weather, could that be the reason that I only got one pumpkin. The vines are about dead now so I don't think I will get anymore this year but I want to try agaiwn next year, any suggestions?

[@jaytoney3007]

This year's tomato harvest was a bumper crop. I have more tomatoes than I know whay to do with. The first crop is coming to an end, and the second crop have fruit ripening. July 5th, I planted Russet potato chits, and the first plants are breaking the ground. I've been harvesting out the first crop of tomato plants, and in their place I sowed seeds for cabbage and carrots. It is perfect time for the carrots, as rain is in the forecast for at least the next week. In the next few days, I'll harvbest out the last of the tomatoes, and sow seeds for golden beets. The last of my zucchini plants has given up and laid flat. This opens up four raised beds for planting broccoli and cauliflower. It is still too warm for Asian greens, but they are coming soon, Komatsuna, Pak Choi, and Yellow Heart Winter Choy. Come October it is garlic time. If I have the space, I'll grow radish too. November and December, I pretty much coast and let the garden do its thing. Snow, or no snow, even in the cold of winter, I keep a portion of my garden producing.

[@GrowVeg]

So much going on - this is a joy to read. Happy gardening! :-)

[@iwonakaczmarczyk7839]

I love when you say 'these guys' 😊😅

[@rebeccawatson9284]

Isla is such a cutie!

[@JRsGAM]

I started pumpkins for the first time this year. I am up to 6 plants!

[@creativefilmsmusic]

Tip…I actually grow the Jerusalem Artichoke thinned out to use them into living bean poles. It works very well.

[@GrowVeg]

That is a great tip. :-)

[@magnuskjellsson3524]

Tack.

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

Hello ben! Looks epic. How as your season been it's been so so difficult for us the weather and the slugs have been the worst. Do you have any tips for rabbits?

[@GrowVeg]

Lots of slugs here - pretty relentless to be honest! No tips for rabbits other than physically excluding them, which I appreciate would be a bit of a mission. Perhaps you could protect your most vulnerable plants?

[@jmordant444]

I had lemongrass growing outside last year (the netherlands). They can withstand more cold than you think One flowered last year and reseeded itself. So I have dozen growing and some are growing fast.

[@GrowVeg]

Oh wow, that's really great to hear. I'd love to have them self-seeding.

[@janieerichardson]

Thank you for all the great tips, as usual! Definitely doing my own compost pile next year with bedding from my chicken coop. The soil I purchased for my raised beds was not good quality, my plants haven't done well at all this year. Plus it's about time those free loading spoiled chickens contributed more to the treats they end up getting from my tomato plants 😅

[@GrowVeg]

That chicken bedding will make amazing compost!

[@prunechat8401]

Fantastic Tour! Our garden is so small that we are very limited in what we can grow, lovely nonetheless to have salads, potatoes, spring onions etc straight from the garden. Trying lemon grass once again, last of my seeds bought 3 years ago. Plants up, to date I have always forgotten to deal with them at the end of the year. Will make proper effort this time, do you separate off some stems to grow when you take your plant inside for winter? Thinking that this might be the best approach?

[@GrowVeg]

You could certainly split plants up and replant. I don't think they will have grown on dramatically, so will probably lift them up as they are - in four separate clumps - then plant into fresh potting mix into larger pots.

[@eileenhead9444]

Roma tomatoes are almost ready to turn into sauce!

[@BumblebeeAdventure]

🐝thanks for the great video🌻

[@WilsonsWanderings]

Any shallot growing tips for next season? I sowed mine, this year, into seed trays and then transplanted them out later on, but I got a really meagre harvest of them.

[@Beaguins]

Normally shallots are planted in the fall and harvested the following summer. Give that a try and see what happens. Mine did well this year even in poor soil.

[@GrowVeg]

Make sure to space them correctly, and maybe try sowing a little earlier if you can, to give bigger seedlings at transplanting time. And regular watering as they develop.

[@priscillajoseph765]

Sorry Ben but Isla's small bed has shown you up a little 🤩 She is so relaxed about it, great! She has learnt well from her daddy!

[@GrowVeg]

It definitely has! Happy Gardening!

[@hannat4656]

Hi Ben! What kind of garden knife do you use and where can I get it? The shape is so unique.

[@GrowVeg]

It's a pruning knife. They are widely available and very handy! :-)

[@davidsolomon6275]

OMG! You have a garden?😱🤣

[@belindastuart-william421]

Wrap a little bit of pot scourer around bottom stalk it will stop slugs / snails

[@GrowVeg]

Great suggestion - will have to give that a try next time.

[@bryonytownend7137]

Dear Ben, second year gardening and after an extremely tough year, my potatoes seem to have cross pollinated and I have some tomato like ‘fruit’ on the leaves. I did a bit of reading but would love to know how to utilise them to grow next year if that is possible?!? As a gardening guru, do you think you could do a teaching video??

[@GrowVeg]

Potatoes do flower and set seed like other plants, so it sounds like you may have (if you let the seedpods mature) some potato seeds. Assuming the potatoes aren't F1 hybrids, you should be able to grow new plants from them. I've never tried this, so could be a fun project for a future video! :-)

[@jackieo8693]

My grandkids love to dig up our potatoes! At least the slugs leave the potatoes alone.

[@barryroberts6470]

Great tour of your garden Ben, but you had better keep an eye on your daughter Isla as she looks like one day getting her own gardening channel, the way she is going or should that be growing ha ha ha. By the way who is behind the Camera when you are filming? my guess is your wife. Take Care. Barry (the Wirral)

[@GrowVeg]

Cheers Barry - yes, I'd best watch my back! I work with a couple of very talented videographers on the channel. They both edit the videos too - some great work they do. :-)

[@anncopley8462]

Hi Ben I planted some potatoes but they was potatoes I had in the cupboard but most of the foliage has drooped do I dig them up or leave them

[@GrowVeg]

I think if the foliage has drooped and gone yellow-ish it may be time to dig them up.

[@thewitch69]

youre daughter will be starting her on gardening youtube channel soon lol and how come in all the massive space you seem to have do you not extend it to grow even more veg ?

[@GrowVeg]

Yes, I think you may be right!

[@thewitch69]

@@GrowVeg lol cute

[@SusanMBux]

I have attempted to plant a number of butternut squash this year but the slugs have destroyed every single one of them! Last year I had so much I didnt know what to do with it!

[@GrowVeg]

I'm sorry to read this. They have been particularly malevolent this year!

[@benny_vanlife]

Those artichokes are big lads aren't they

[@GrowVeg]

They don't hang about that's for sure!

[@don5125]

Wish I had your daughters luck 😂😂👍

[@JimMorrow-p2c]

Ben what can I follow on with after onions

[@GrowVeg]

I would say any autumn/winter salads would be great, or perhaps a last sowing of carrots or beets/beetroots. You could also try winter-growing brassicas like kale.

[@revvend]

6:10 Anyone knows if we are having a La Nina this year? It seems like summer is cancelled for some reason. :-/

[@GrowVeg]

Apparently La Nina is likely by late summer, according to Climate.gov www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/enso/june-2024-update-la-nina-likely-late-summer

[@jackpritchard9202]

Even if you have a table with a parasol you can dry onions just lower it on rainy days

[@GrowVeg]

Great suggestion Jack.

[@Gravmonkey]

All of my squash plants said no this year. I have put in serious effort to get my pumpkin plants to grow. Only 2 of the 7 are doing good. After 2 months of them just saying no. The slugs have been a massive problem this year. My sweetcorn is doing things I have never seen before. It's a crazy year for veg. I wish I could say I have learnt a lot but it's just made me realise I know nothing.

[@GrowVeg]

I'm sure you know a lot more than you give yourself credit for! :-)

[@Gravmonkey]

@@GrowVeg thank you. I really enjoy and always feel more motivated thanks to your videos. My little half allotment plot thanks you. Keep up the great work

[@brianmurphy5]

I planted shallots mid April when will they be ready to harvest? They are red sun variety.

[@Beaguins]

Normally shallots are planted in the fall and harvested the following summer.

[@GrowVeg]

They are usually ready in the summer - so around about here in the Northern Hemisphere.

[@brianmurphy5]

@@GrowVeg I'm in Ireland so should be around August I think. I'll go by the yellowing of half the leaves

[@livingladolcevita7318]

wondering where you get your Jerusalem Artichokes? Can't seem to find them

[@GrowVeg]

They are widely available. You may not be able to find them until winter, as they're usually planted in late winter/early spring.

[@lynmoore8355]

how do you know when to pick your potatoes?. I have 2 pots full and they have just reached the top and green leaves are coming thru?.

[@GrowVeg]

Wait till the foliage is really full. Then when it starts to yellow or flowers start to appear, you can delve a hand down into the soil/potting mix to have a feel for the tubers and gauge their size and readiness. You can always dig up one plant to check and then leave the others to grow on if necessary.

[@Jonoskillz]

I put out 10 corn planys, went through a week of eah day going out to a new one snapped at the base....no idea what would have been doing this. Have the one lonesome plant left :(

[@GrowVeg]

I'm so sorry to read this. How disappointing to have this happen. I'm not sure what would do this either,.

[@AgnesAtelier-hn7pb]

It was not a win, it rained a lot in July. And even now, for those watching the parade on the Seine river for the Olympic Games, it is raining in Paris area.