GreenFun: Beginner Vegetable Gardener in Ottawa Canada and his Garden Part I

This is my video diary of my first year of gardening. It's a bit long, but it's a big garden! Hopefully I'll get some feedback on how to make it better, this year and in the future.

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• garden
• gardener
• beginner
• ottawa
• asparagus
• peas
• beans
• grapes
• vegetable
• GreenFun

[Radwoem]

I've been gardening a little over six years now (I'm 26 years old). One of the BEST lessons to learn in gardening is that no matter how many precautions you take, and how much you amend the soil, you WILL lose some plants. You can't let that defeat you, just keep planting. Succession, succession, succession! Very proud to see gardening boom as economic times get worse. The raised-bed approach is an excellent one. Happy gardening, friend! Looks good.

[lindak990]

You should have more walk space between the beds, so one can better fiddle with the plants.

[enochseyes3]

When I worked on my uncle's farm, all his blackberries, blueberries, boysenberries, raspberries and such grew in 90 percent sand. The berries like that a lot. It's more loose when you first plant, and the water seems to be more evenly distributed. They need that looser soil combo for the beginning roots to spread. He had THE largest berries in the northern county, where they lived. So, I would suggest for the berries listed, to plant them separately with about 60 percent sand, 40 percent peat.

[terrificindy]

I'm curious to find out how your asparagus went. You weren't sure you had enough space and I thought you had plenty. :)

Did you get enough for a meal?

[bm5447]

very nice garden and nice layout! Keep on gardening!

[cjdavidson09]

Also, I had the same experience with the peppers. It took nearly 3 months before anything resembling a pepper grew on mine. First, a small white flower appeared and the pepper developed from that fairly quickly. I was growing jalapenos and banana peppers.

[cjdavidson09]

You planted your veggies at the right time. I live in Kentucky and we say plant your garden Derby weekend which is the first Saturday of May. But generally you should wait until after the last frost of the year which there's no way to know when that will be. Great garden.

[bradgray51]

New to your channel.... sq. ft. gardening is the only way to go... everything looks great.

[LilFrugalGardener]

Hello from the frugal gardener!

[Metal8Lover]

see starting tomatoes from seed is good but you have to "harden them off" by bringing them out into the shade outside during the day (and bring them inside at night) and slowly showing them to the sun over a period of about 3 weeks

[JustForYouinTempe]

It takes three years to get any good asparagus, don't ever cut it till then. Your peppers are too close as they will get really big nt takes a good three years for your soil to get really good, your garden looks great, you r doing a good job,

[bryncomeaux]

1 3 to bugs 1 3 to animals 13 to you hey its all free anyway just plant more