When The Veg Garden Fails: How To Ensure Abundance Next Year

This year has been tough for growing food. But what can we do to prevent problems in the veg garden and ensure an abundant harvest next year?

In this video I go through what low-effort and hardy plants worked well for me despite this year's difficulties and I'll explain how I'm going to re-think my veg patch to ensure that my garden will be more resilient to heat, cold and pests next year.

And we should talk about why it's important to create a garden that doesn't require a gargantuan effort in the spring and, instead, provides us with lots of home-grown food reliably each year.

And, as always, Happy Gardening!

0:00 - Can We Still Save Our Gardens?
1:32 - Start Sowing Seeds For Next Year
2:22 - The Hardiest Winter Crops
3:27 - Grow Perennial Plants To Ensure Abundance
5:11 - Growing Salads and Companion Plants That Self-Seed
6:37 - Seeds To Sow Now For The Autumn Garden
7:30 - Reduce Pest Pressure By Changing How We Grow
8:25 - Stop Slugs From Eating Your Plants By...

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[alexgrowsfood]

Today's video was filmed early in August but I got really really ill from that trip to the supermarket to buy that bag of rocket so this one is a little late... Some of the seed recommendations might be less useful but my cough is too bad to re-film it. Sorry!

[jhwstanacct]

Why haven't you come up on my algorithm before now? Great videos, excited to watch more.

[mrslovely]

Found your channel by pure chance looking for UK Polytunnel gardeners. How have you only got 2.7k subscribers! A travesty. You are lively, engaging and informative ( even for someone who has been gardening for a hundred years!).

[AlexBraunton]

Excellent video Alex. You've inspired me to try and grown my own fruit and vegetables, so thank you. I'm sorry for your loss and the awful dog attack. I hope you're doing better now. Take care mate

[TheGeek]

Good to see you back Alex. Sorry to hear about the dog attack, hopefully you are feeling much better now.

[cybermarxstudio]

Great video Alex! Really sad about the dog attack and the loss of a beautiful chicken 🐔 😢

Across the pond, we enjoy ever lasting chard and arugula. Tomatoes doing okay but the yield is down due to poor pollination. Bees are scarce; we are far from any beehives. Bees have been suffering from climate change and pesticides 😢

The fig tree though, is a monster and dumping bags and bags of super sweet huge black Turkish figs!