Plan Your 2024 Garden in 10 Easy Steps

Want to start a new veg garden in 2024? Or perhaps you've already got a few growing seasons under your belt but you want a few tips on how to improve your layout. In this week's episode Ben walks us through his garden and shows us everything we need to think of to plan the perfect vegetable garden in ten simple steps.
Follow the steps shown in this video and make your garden the most productive ever!

For more planning tips, see this video:

Want to grow in shade? Watch this one next:

...or binge watch the whole playlist!

If you love growing your own food, why not take a look at our online Garden Planner which is available from several major websites and seed suppliers:
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[GrowVeg]

What are you planning in your garden this year? Comment below...

[Theultrazombiekiller]

My wife and I bought our first house in Texas this time last year and we have a large backyard and 1/2 an acre, or about 23k square feet. We installed a pond and 4 raised beds last year and had a decent little garden. Now, in 2024, we are literally going to turn the entire backyard into a micro homestead. We have designed everything and now have to build and place the following before spring (we have not done anything yet), so 4 months to do all this: 4 more raised beds, 5x 20ft in-ground garden rows for significantly more garden room, a 1, 000 square foot wildflower garden with a 20 frame bee hive facing it, 5 peach trees, 5 blueberry bushes, grapes on our gazebo, a chicken coop and run for 6 chickens, a 100 gallon rain collector, an irrigation system for it all, and an 8'x10' greenhouse. 4 months is gonna go by fast.

[nninsuw]

Such amazingly useful information! I also appreciate how you speak and enunciate. Not too fast tempo and it's clear enough for even my damaged hearing to follow. I really appreciate it.

[itomama]

I’m an Aussie living in rural Japan. I’m very happy to have found your channel and to start implementing your tips. I’ve had more failures than successes growing fruit and vegetables here. Love your friendly manner and motivating videos already! 👍🏻🌱

[bocpsgm]

A reminder (as I have learned) is to have a backup plan in your mind just in case. Where I am in Canada (and much of the Northern US), had a Gypsy moth invasion and suddenly my cooler garden spots were gone as the moths stripped every leaf off every tree. I had to race to put together shade cloths and ways to hold them up (I used old sheets which presented some issues). Now this month heavy wet snow took down a large shade branch over another spot so I will have to plant things differently to accommodate that come spring. Nature is always switching things up on us in one way or another so your garden plan will have to also, some times last minute. Great video as always and I'm going to try your garden planner, looks fun, thanks.

[hhmrlkq]

I recently got into gardening, as my grandad has been doing it for years, I dont have much space in my garden and my dog will destroy anything I plant in 2 seconds.😅 I have aquiered a bit of space in my grandads garden and I am planning on growing potatos. Your videos have helped me a lot, best wishes,
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[jena]

This is by far my favorite ad for anything. I am rewatching this video because I am completing an assignment for my marketing class about my "favorite promotion"
Just adding another comment to help boost your YouTube stats. I'm loving the garden planner! Thanks!!

[andibenson]

Hi Ben. Your garden videos are hands down my go-to for garden planning and advice. I was trying to figure out what it is about your videos that make them so appealing. Very well edited and produced, but I think the thing for me particularly is; No annoying unrelated back ground music. Just a clear explanation of what to do. Big fan. Cheers.

[Legend]

Your description of the different vegetables growing personalities makes me chuckle 😂

[weekend_art]

Thank you for thinking about us, sad shade gardeners, as well ❤

[WorryFreeGardening]

Hey Ben! This video is a breath of fresh air! Your enthusiasm for gardening is contagious

[Rumade]

My plan for this year in the garden is to set my mum up for success with a more low maintenance space. Making some proper raised beds, and getting a good amount of woodchip in for pathways. I'm getting married and finally moving out for good, so she won't have her personal vegetable grower around any more.

[innovate-at-home]

This is exactly what I was looking for! simple steps to plan my first vegetable garden? Thanks for the clear explanations and the handy garden layout tip, Ben.I feel much more confident about getting started now.

[MrsBullfinch]

Thank you for all your help throughout the year. I am still very much a beginner but am getting there with your help. Every blessing to you and your family for 2023.

[hlane]

Your app made my garden planning a breeze this year! Thank you 😊

[ThatBritishHomestead]

oh my goodness its all about planning! your completely correct! and preparation

[donnaebeling]

I didn’t care for the garden planner. I found it better and more flexible to draw my garden plans by hand on paper.

[lesliescully]

As always, you are a wealth of information and inspiration. Thank you.

[msmoha]

Read my mind today! Thanks for showing us your process!

[OKC]

You've gotta be my favorite gardener now 👌💯 thanks for the time you take to help inform us.