A Complete Guide to Digging & Planting Your First Vegetable Garden: Tomatoes, Peppers & Herbs
A Complete Guide to Digging & Planting Your First Vegetable Garden: Tomatoes, Peppers & Herbs
I thoroughly cover all the aspects of starting your first vegetable garden. From selecting the right location & tracking the sun through planting, fertilizing, staking, watering tomatoes and peppers. Plus I show you how to start cilantro, dill and basil from seed. This is great video for first time gardeners. It is a complete guide to help you join the world vegetable gardening.
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Table of Contents
0:00 Introduction
0:48 The Basic Size for Your First Garden
1:33 Basic Principles to Turning the Bed & Adding Bagged Soil
5:00 All the Basic Materials for Your First Garden
7:04 Picking the Right Location – Details on the Sun
8:28 Picking the Right Size for Your Garden
8:54 Cover Your Garden Space with Cardboard (4-6 Weeks)
9:38 Where to Plant Your Plants Based on Height & Shading
11:02 Creating a Weed Barrier with Cardboard
12:46 Using The Garden Soil Bags to Build Your Soil
14:04 Planting the Peppers: All the Steps
16:45 Tomato Spacing and What Indeterminate Means
17:30 Planting Tomatoes: All the Steps
21:38 Planting Chive and Oregano Transplants
23:44 Planting Basil from Seeds
25:24 Planting Dill from Seeds
26:10 Planting Cilantro from Seeds
27:26 Top Dressing with Fertilizer and Staking Your Plants
30:14 Conclusion and Watering Tips
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Do I have to mix my garden soil with native soil? I already planted with only garden soil
Very wise man good work!
This was excellent, thank you
Thank you for taking so much time with us–
Do you not use manure? I always use manure on my allotment.
Thanks! Great video 👏👏👏
such a good video thank you so much
I live in Apple Valley, CA. it’s 109 degrees today…. sun would hit them all from 7am to 7pm… .is that too much sun? would I need to make some shade for them? it also gets very windy… 30-40mph wind gusts.
Great information! Thanks so much.
Thank you! I was feeling a bit overwhelmed with what to do with a 4 x 8 in ground garden section I found on our property. I thought I had to buy good soils for the entire area. I appreciate the guidance. I can’t wait to get my plants in the ground.
Your blueberries are loaded, my don’t produce any 😔
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You make me laugh… what’s your zodiac.sign? How old are you?
Your videos are amazing. So comprehensive. Thank you so much for all of the knowledge you share. My girlfriend and I are starting our first garden. We’re planting today. Thank you very much for making this possible for us.
Great video
Digging & spading is way too much work – especially for older people. Try making post holes and back fill with a mix or garden soil & compost. It works for us old folks. (Actually, the post hole method works better). Once the post holes are established, they can be used over year to year and you don’t need to spend money on wood frames.
I dont think you have the first clue about gardening.
Hi, is cilantro a annual plant or perennial plant? If I use them on the ground so it will grow every year?
Do you not have to break up the roots before you plant it?
Thank you. I feel that with your instructions i am going to to grow a green thumb haha! 😜 Grateful for your knowledge.
I remember my father used to take the wood ashes out of his stove and put it into our garden and it was very helpful because of the minerals from the wood ashes I think the ground has been depleted because we’re not putting the right stuff back into the ground seaweed from the ocean is excellent if you chop it up and put it in your garden and I’m sure you know about that I remember a few years back my neighbour was having some problems with growing his plants so I told him to put some wood ashes from his camp pit that he had outside around in his backyard and he told me that most of his vegetables and everything grew twice as big by using the wood ashes.
Hardwoods, including oak, maple, ash, hickory, sycamore, walnut, apple and cherry, burn hotter and longer. They also produce several times more ash and contain more nutrients than softwoods like pine and fir.
My dad wouldn’t use wood that was treated with chemicals or were painted and throwing into the wood stove. So you have to be careful about what you’re burning in your back pit before you put the ashes in your garden that is for sure
I just Googled this….
Do not spread ashes around acid-loving plants like blueberries, strawberries, azaleas, rhododendrons, camellias, holly, potatoes or parsley. Plants that thrive with a dressing of wood ash include garlic, chives, leeks, lettuces, asparagus and stone-fruit trees.
Tomatoes love wood ashes
I have a green thumb
I was raised with couch grass that grass is terrible and so to have a garden my dad would use a screen first filter it through a large Screen.
We’d have a wheelbarrow and have the wood frame with the screen built into it and then we would take that wheelbarrow full of screen material and put it to a finer screen that rate we would get a lot of the weeds out and then we would hand pick a lot of the weeds it was a lot of work so there would be no way we would turn the sod over and then put other material in in it because in the long run you got so many weeds if you do it that way
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Awesome video!
why you go threw that, only that 99% of people know this already
It would be awesome if you post a follow up video, so we can see what it looks like at harvest!
Great videos, I have a question, I am in FL, does it make sense to have your tomato plants alive in december and try to get them through the winter to produce again? Or should you not plant at all, kill them off and wait until feb or march to put the plants in the ground, it seems my tomato plants that made it through the winter have become disease ridden. TY again Gary
Great video …just what i needed ….
😊 thank you
What an awesome Dad!
This was the perfect video for me right now! Thank you
Thank you for your time and wisdoms.
Every time your chopping that up what you’re doing is also chopping up the weeds and every time you do that there’s more weeds that come and then you’ll have so many weeds that you have to deal with
American government wants to create a good shortage so I’m starting my own garden
Very useful wanted to creat vegetable garden for long.
This guy sounds so much like android 17 lol! anyways nice guide thank you! gonna start gardening very soon
this video has been very helpful. im getting very confused about fertilizers and im not sure if im able to have good fruit growth with just one kind of fertilizer like you used in this video, or do i need a lot more things like compost, worm castings, worm tea, etc. im on a tight budget but want a successful veggie garden!
Long video but full of nutrients, good work my friend 👍👍
Such a lovely garden! Nice guide
Thoughts on using a three seasons room as a grow house?
I’m in Indiana, 4 seasons , but really would love to get some successful plants to share produce with those that need help
You do know hot peppers will cross pollinate & make your sweet peppers hot?
Sometimes what I like to do with a new Garden is put black plastic after you remove the sod and take out as much weeds as you can. and then what I would do is make holes in the plastic where you going to put the new plants that way you can water in the holes you don’t have to water the whole garden as well as it keeps the weeds down because the weeds don’t get the the light there in darkness and you’re not watering them so it really helps to have black tarp on your garden I don’t know if you’ve done it that way before
Very informative video !!
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I have ants where I want to grow my raised be,d what can I use organically to get rid of them, and I’ll they hurry my garden if I just let hem be?
Great video as always, very informative and educational. I am e new wanna be gardener this was very helpful. Thank you!!
Ps would you like to adopt me and help/ direct me to set up my garden? Lol
Thanks again for all the great videos.
Thanks for sharing the knowledge.
Thank you very much we are preparing to create a vegetable garden in France this summer.
I know this is an "old" video, but I started my vegetable garden today with my toddler because you explained everything so well!