The Best FLOWERS To BOOST Vegetable Gardens 🌺🐝🌸🦋🌼
The Best FLOWERS To BOOST Vegetable Gardens 🌺🐝🌸🦋🌼
Bring on the POWER of FLOWERS!!! 🌸 🐝 🦋
Beautiful, 🌺 Bountiful, 🌸 yield-boosting Blooms! 🌼 Harness the power of flowers to boost and protect your crops as well as wildlife. We all know that flowers are good for wildlife, but which are the best ones to grow? Ben reveals his top tips on what to grow, when to grow it and ways to get started in this week’s episode. Get ready to see your blossoms BLOOMING!!!
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I have several marigolds, one nasturtium, and a couple lavenders that haven’t flowered yet- and just planted some zinnia last week and calendula yesterday! ❤️ I also have more nasturtiums (know as nastyboys in my house 😂) soaking in some water as we speak! 🙂
I absolutely love your videos I’m growing a bunch of herbs you showed but I would add Oregano all types of Bees go crazy for my Mother plant when in flower literally full of them so transplanting new plants of her and bought a new 1 also thymes I love the lemon ones so fragrant Thank you 😊 🪴 🌼 🌸
Marigolds, dill, chives, oregano, lavender, nasturtium, dahlia, and parsley are in my gardens all the time. I almost forgot – I’m adding Borage this year as I am also undertaking becoming a bee keeper and I’ve been told that they love that plant. I want to keep them happy!
Twice I’ve tried to germinate zinnias this spring but looks like I might be planting them too deep. I’ll try some vermiculite this time! 🤞🏻
Your info on marigolds is lacking and sad. It’s not French (modern) marigolds that offer the benefit, it’s the outrageously fragrant-leaved heirloom types that deter the pests.
well done
Great video ❤️
CALENDULA ; our neighborhood Rabbits+ Woodchucks (others too) LOVE them 🤨☺️
We like the flowers, not enthusiastic about eating the greens.
Great video thank you !
I’ll be growing geraniums! Good to chase away ants and mosquitoes, both are issues here where I’m at!
This is Sabrina from Campbell’s Freedom farm And we use African blue basil to really bring in the pollinators. Love for you to check out the video. Love your videos Sabrina
Borage and chamomilla.
Hello, I am going crazy trying to figure out what a plant that has gone into all my pots is….might be radish, might not be…many plants I think it might be but not sure…you seem like you really know your plants so if I sent you a picture do you think you might be able to guess what it is?
What a delightful video! Flowers amongst the veggies – a lovely idea, I’ll definitely be doing this.
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Native flowers near the veg garden are wonderful! We have purple coneflower, butterfly milkweed, and jewelweed at our home here in Ohio, and I want to look for more natives. We also planted sunflowers (which get a lot of bees here) in a new spot near our peppers and tomatoes, along with marigolds and nasturtiums.
I’m growing zina’s, peony, azalea, nasturtium, calendula, cosmos, Delilahs, and Merigold. I have limited space, but plan to keep adding as they’re beautiful and beneficial, plus medicinal in some cases. Win win in my book. Cheers to gardening life.
That poached egg plant, how unique.
I wonder where I could get some seed in Canada
Thanks from.canada
Wonderful coverage of beneficial annuals. I had great luck with finally getting nasturtium to grow last year. Do yours reseed? I’m hoping they will here in zone 5a WI, US. I think I spotted some marigolds reseeding and alyssium. Last year I let the parsley and cilantro re-grow from previous year and inter planted onions with brassicas. I had picture perfect broc and cabbages. There is a small section in the garden that has Mexican hat, coneflower,brown eyed Susan’s, lavender as perennials growing about. A biannual Sweet William that happily reseeds and for annuals: cosmos, marigolds, nasturtium, sunflowers. If the gladiolas survived those as well. I’m running out of room for veggies as I started another group of bulbs, day lilies, bee balm, phlox, speedwell, narrow, peonies, shrub rose, mock orange, flowering crab, spring bulbs. I don’t know, just about anything🤣caught a sale last fall and I thought if those perennials survived in this lot all summer they have to be a sure hit in my drought sand zone. I struggle with a love for both dry and hot flowers and those for semi shade moist conditions.
Wish me luck on growing peonies. I have tried for 10 years with some that were here b4 me and just purchased new ones to see if that is the problem. I have the buds just under soil line and grow the green, but no flowers. I had my eye online for a certain variety, but bought these cheaper new ones locally to see if they will grow. If not I guess I have no answer except they just don’t like it here. Any pointers are appreciated.
Love the herbs and last year was first successful year for dill–hope it reseeds.
Do you think it’s ok to leave garlic chives run amuck in the asparagus bed?
Thank you, great vid!
I just found your videos and they have a lot of information and make me very happy. Thank you!
I would love to better understand caterpillars! I grew nasturtiums away from veg beds last year, I hoped to relocate caterpillars from veg plants to these separate plants thinking that the caterpillars would then fatten up as necessary, ready to transform into butterflies. Sadly the caterpillars that I moved just didn’t take to their new host plants. Most refused to move from the leaf that I had taken from their first home as transport. It seems that the caterpillars know which plant they are to eat and only that will do, even when seeds came from the same packet. Has anyone else tried relocating caterpillars? I appreciate that this is only possible in a small garden but I just can’t squash them 😐. I don’t have any problems bringing the lives of aphids to an end, perhaps it is because caterpillars have a recognisable face …..
Can you sow marigolds and zennia straight into the garden beds?
I so enjoy these videos! I learn much. I will start adding these hardy flowers!
Being a new gardener I made my veggie garden paths too wide wasting valuable planting space. Didn’t think about planting flowers in them along the bed!
Climbing nasturtiums grown up a teepee with sweet peas!
I don’t have a big garden and this year I am trying container gardening – can these seeds go into pots in and around the vegetables? many thanks
Hello what garden plan program do I use?💗
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I’m obsessed with zinnias! I started with just a simple cut and come again and have branched out to many varieties. I love that they are easy to grow & seed collect at the end of the season.
Borage is a must but quite deceptive as far as size, when looking at the seedlings. They can grow to me mammoth. I love that it self seeds and I never have to worry about having them available. Sometimes they pop up where I don’t want them, but they are so simple to transplant in just the right place. If you love bees, this is a MUST. Borage is covered from the time the sun comes up until its dark. I have never seen a plant perform for bees so well. It’s incredible.
Nasturtium are my next favorite, again their non-aggressive self seeding almost makes them feel like a perennial.
My # 1 has to be BASILS!
Why wasn’t I taught about these beauties before? They are just as our more pleasurable than flowers!
I plant about 6-10 varieties just because I love them so much. Traditional is grown with my harvest crops for ease of harvest and to keep ahead of flowers setting, as well as ones I find especially tasty for pesto etc. But some I just love the looks, benifits of, or to use in flower arrangements. Blue Spice does top knotch over any other basil variety here where I live, so it is everywhere! The fast, full growth makes it great for weed control and the fragrance makes hot sweaty garden work seem like a treat. Walking through the garden brushing my hands or legs against the plant is like spraying a favorite perfume all around me. I love it!
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I have a small garden (about 35-40 M²) so i dont bother with flowers at all as bottom line it lowers yield per space i have. Then again most veggies dont require insects at all as they dont have flowers or are self polinating. ones that do i have no issues with. However if you have exces space it can surely be a benefit and smart thing to do just for natures sake.
Calendula now on my list…
You are so entertaining to watch! Your enthusiasm for plants shows and it makes me excited to start growing my garden here in zone 5 😊
Hardy Annuals – calendula, nasturtium, poached egg plant
Frost-Tender Annuals – alyssum, marigold, zinnia
Flowering Herbs – basil, parsley, dill
I am trying edible bachelor buttons and borage in the vegetable patch this year! My herb garden has chives and lovage, and my son impulse gifted me gladiolus, so I need to decide what to do with them, Haha.
Really mice love nasturtium seeds? Around here they hate them…. as well as okra and bean seeds. And any kind of morning glory
please spell the flowering plant name for Poached Egg plant. That one is adorable. I’d like to plant in my garden. Tks for your videos; very informing. I watch all the time for my garden care.
Indiana 5b. We really started to get in to companion planting last year, and not only did it help the veg, but it made everything look so fantastic. French marigolds in every bed, calendulas dotted about, and basil with the tomatoes. We had alyssum and zinnias (which hummingbirds LOVE btw) in planters close by. We had dill in a bed with onions, but far away from the carrots. Apparently they’re part of the same family and shouldn’t be allowed to cross-pollinate, but part of me is wondering if I can grow dill flavoured carrots… hmm.
We’re also growing some bergamot this year, kindly donated by Indiana DNR from a local park when I asked if I could grab some seeds – it’s also known as bee-balm so we’re looking forward to loads of friendly visitors, both bees and hummingbirds !
Realest gardening quote ever “ It’s a little to early. But Im desperately impatient. “
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I am growing zinnia, pot marigold, dill, parsley and chives for the flowers mostly. Also 4 o’clock, different native milkweeds, cosmos, marigolds. Thanks for all the info!
hello,im new to gardening. where can i get these flowers already started because i dont have a greenhouse sandy
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I planted nasturtiums too. They were beautiful. And they looked good in salads. Alas, after two years they were established and set out to take over my entire garden. We’re engaged in a continual war. I would not recommend them to anyone! Keep them as roadside flowers!
Nasturtium also has antibiotic and antiviral properties!
4 o’clocks
Flower power indeed! Love the videos. Thanks for making our day and brining all the enthusiasm.
Ps. I just told my mum she should start watching your videos and your name.. she goes "bend the knees?! What a great name for a gardener… or a skier… must bend your knees in skiis!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Have a great day 🙂
This is not only great for veggie gardens
Thank you for sharing this video. I’m a YouTube gardener too trying to learn as much as I can about companion planting. That’s how I found your channel. Im so happy I did because you have so much to offer. I hope we can learn from each other as we grow our gardens and our channels! Happy Planting!