Hey! For those of you who watch this channel regularly you may have seen these videos before. It's a combination of all my gardening videos this year, like my beekeeping videos I wanted to upload it all in one video for those people who haven't seen them before. Enjoy binge watching garden videos! :)

My son was killed when he was 22..... but your spirit is so reminiscent of his and I was crying trying to envision him doing this kind of thing.. thanks for being a kind soul and I absolutely LOVE your sense of humor!! God Bless you !! I hope you have a lifetime of gardening fun!! Im getting back into it as a form of healing since I grew up on a farm and found I actually love gardening (but hated it as a kid).... life .. always comes full circle.

I can’t believe your dad let you take over his 15 year old ornamental garden . A father’s love. Good luck on your journey!

Alex, your garden is beautiful! Here is a handy tip... If you cut off the Spring Onions at about an inch above ground level, they'll keep growing! You will be able to harvest the same plants multiple times, about once a month! Also, when winter comes, you can cut all your Spring Onions one last time, then cover them with about 6 inches of straw. In the Spring, they will begin to grow on their own. They will flower, but the bulbils and seeds will go into the soil and make the most AMAZING Spring Onion patch you've ever seen, with no work whatsoever, from you!

Been following your journey Alex - fascinating stuff. Amazing vid - KEvin

Your parents impress me with patience and support.

The fact that I sat and watched this for nearly two hours means it must be very interesting. I'm autistic and, therefore, have issues with how long I can pay attention. Only when something is very interesting can I do two hours with no breaks. So you're not only good at gardening, you're also good at producing interesting videos! This was a good one. All of that food looks very tasty!

You should always let a few plants go to seed so you can collect seed which means you don’t have to buy more. Plus it acclimates to your weather

Hi Alex, you probably wont see this but i wanted to say that im 16 and you’re videos have really inspired me to get along with gardening as i enjoy it very much and do it without feeling insecure about it. You’re videos are so relaxing and watching you do this makes me soooo motivated to continue working in the garden too. Thank you soo much ❤

Greetings from Texas Alex! I love the way you just seemed ‘all in’ from the beginning. I watched the whole thing. Love this! Thank you for sharing!

Good parents. Never too old to teach and encourage your children to expand their knowledge. People need purpose in life. This is wonderful.

Your buddy being so happy to eat your produce at work was the coolest man. The support and appreciation is what makes it worth it all.

Just how YOUNG are you? Amazing to see people your generation so invested. I am baffled by your knowledge and amount of work you put out at this stage of your life. Bless your parents. I wish you the best!

Alex, when you start to harvest your carrots, pull every other plant. This way the others will have room to grow larger. For your greenhouse Mellons you can place them into knee-high lady's hose and tie them up to your greenhouse frame, that way they can still expand and won't break the stem.

This is the exact "ramble" I needed tonight while cleaning the house. Just Loved listening and looking over at your video!

One of the most informative & entertaining gardening videos I've ever seen. So well done. Its just December 30,2023 here in New England and because of you, I cannot wait to spend the next 2-3 months planning and preparing my garden for the next season's harvest. To see a young person so interested in gardening & how it all works has just warmed my heart. You have given us so much inspiration and hope for the future. Keep going!

Next season, I'd like to see you process the excess harvest, like canning, drying, preserves, Chutneys, jams, etc. Should increase the yield time and would make for some interesting videos too. 😊

Loved watching the entire growing season in just one video instead of a lot of short vids. Very enjoyable

Potatoes come in determinate and indeterminate like tomatoes do. Determinate you should not have to cover more, the indeterminate would require layering of soil as they peek up through the soil. I also keep an eye on potatoes trying to grow at the surface, and keep them covered so I don't have the greening happening. This was a great compilation video of your growing year. It's so nice to be able to see your new gardener perspective. So glad the bees are going so well.

Loved this video and thank you for sharing! I am from Mississippi, USA and just wanted to share a couple of thoughts from a Southern cook. -using any type of mustard on fish will help to mask the fishy flavor. I use dijon mustard mixed with honey to glaze salmon. I use dry/mustard powder in my batter when frying catfish. I use a dry mustard in my tuna salad, etc. -Here in the Southern USA, we like to grow LARGE sweet tomatoes for tomato sandwiches or bacon/lettuce/tomato sandwiches. These tomatoes are so big, that one slice will cover a piece of bread. One of my favorite summertime lunches is a sourdough bread sandwich with tomato and LOTS of mayonnaise. -An easy way to cook fresh corn is to leave the shucks on and soak it for a couple of hours in water. You will need to place something over the corn to weight it down to keep it submerged in the water. Then grill it or bake it in the oven with the shucks on...the corn will steam cook inside the shucks. -Also, I was curious that you did not grow any squash, zucchini, or eggplant in your garden???

Alex, you are so lucky to have your parents who are providing so much support to whatever you do. Hope you know the value of it. 😉All the best. From another parent from Scotland.

This video was visually appealing. This year I grew potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes. apple trees, pears, peaches, plums, nectarines, Okra, eggplant. Unfortunately, I don't have a good water source for all of those plants. The apple trees seemed to grow OK, but everything else was poor due to lack of water. This was on land I have. At home, I have 3 raised beds (two 4X8 ft and one 4X12ft) . I planted cucumbers, basil, tomatoes, peppers, and more potatoes. I watered them nearly every day. The harvest was the best I have ever had. simply beautiful. The gold tomatoes are wonderful. We also grew nasturtium and many other perennial and annual plants. Water makes an enormous difference. I need to get water for the unimproved land so every day I can water instead of once or twice a week. I have 30 chickens that make compost for me. I made biochar from tree limbs and mixed that in with lawn clippings and chicken compost. I got chips from a tree service and table and vegetable scraps for the chickens in addition to the normal chicken feed. In the height of summer we get about two dozen eggs per day and in winter we get half a dozen per day. We get around 5 cubic meters of compost a year from the efforts of the chickens. Its really quite spectacular at growing stuff. I let the compost mature a year before adding it to the beds in the fall to overwinter.

You’re doing GREAT! I’m glad your father gave you permission to plant a garden in part of the yard. I’m sure your parents are very proud of you for having an interest in growing your own food organically. The soil looks really healthy. I love roasted sweet corn, too! Be sure to plant some marigolds to help reduce the pest pressure in your garden. There are many ways to get rid of slugs, but you have to stay on top of them. Be sure to watch lots of UKposts gardeners videos and ask fellow gardeners how they manage pests. Some people put netting over their plants to keep the bugs from eating the plants. Some people spray the plants with water to knock the bugs and their eggs off. You can also use diatomaceous earth on your plants every few days. Also, you might want to use 100% cold pressed Neem oil, alternating with MONTEREY BT to keep the soft bodied pests from eating away at your tomatoes and other plants. Congratulations on the soil test results! 🥕🥕🥕

I think this is the longest UKposts video I’ve ever watched through from beginning to end! Learned so much! Thanks for sharing your gardening journey!

One of the wierd, honest and genuine people i really could talk with for hours in a pub. Loved this movie.

Your passion for life is so refreshing and rewarding to watch. Happy harvest!

You:re really a great role model for the youth! I hope more youngsters can get i to this awesome hobby. Cheers and congratulations,

Never thought I could sit through a 2 hour video but here I am.... 🤣 Very cool video!

Tip for keeping your knives sharp Alex, when you scrape your chopping board flip your knife over and use the back edge instead.

Of course I've already watched all the separate videos, but this is a comment for the algorithm and a thumbs up for my boy Alex.

What a sweet spirited lad you seem to be! Thank you for these joyous videos about your very cool projects.

Thank You for your videos and teaching us about growing our own food. Appreciate it. Your meals are amazing. Your parents are so fortunate to have a son like you.

How kind of your dad to let you do this in his yard and also what a fun project for you both and hopefully with great and yummy rewards! Blessings!

Seeing this journey has been so heartwarming 😊 im so glad youre enjoying this new chapter!

It's sad that I can only like this video once because I really like it so much. The garden, the vegetables, the food, the bees....it's all so wonderful

I'm so happy for you for having a substantial vegetable garden. I also find gardening and preserving what I grow so very rewarding. I'm 65 years old and live in Wisconsin in the United States. I have pretty much always had a garden and have canned most of my life, thanks to my parents. My father gave me the gardening bug, and my mother canned and froze what he brought her. So I have had the best of all of this. My parents grew up during the depression. Also if you have dandelions in your garden, they are edible. Every bit of them. Leaves have more nutrients than spinach and kale. I have made jelly from the yellow flowers. The roots are edible too, but I have never ventured into that because I want to have them next year. My grandmother, who I lived kitty corner from my whole life, could be seen in her yard every spring getting her greens! They are less tough before mowing. Don't eat them if the area has been sprayed with a herbicide.

I live in Eastern Europe, Romania, the Transylvanian Plain. Here the cultivation of vegetables and animal husbandry has been taking place for at least 2000 years.

Good afternoon Alex it's 4:30pm in Arizona. I wanted to say even though I watched all of these videos when you posted them. I got a lot of enjoyment watching them all together you are so welcoming and I love the way you talk it's very relaxing I watched your goat 🐐 video yesterday please don't ever change you remind me of my oldest grandson who is 24 keep up with the great videos.❣️ The easiest way to hang your onion's is to cut the top two 2 inches and then get a long wire it doesn't cost much and you start with your first onion and then string the rest and whatever you need one just cut from the bottom it will work better for you.

Wow, one of the best permaculture videos I've ever seen. So honest and homey. Thank you so much for sharing. Big thumbs up here from the Philippines!

alright, first of all i rarely comment on videos, but i just sat through the entirety of this almost 2 hour journey because it is so interesting to watch. i grew up over here in germany on a rather small farm so my mother used to always plant vegetables and stuff but as a kid it never really struck me what dedication and time goes into this and its so fun to see other people finding a pleasure in growing plants. As for ptutting a price on the stuff you planted on relation what it would cost in the market is kinda really vague to me because you know what you get in your garden and when i buy stuff in the supermakret there is always this uneasy feeling of not knowing where it came from etc. really nice video thanks for the dedication!

Alex you are the most me kind of person on youtube, when I saw your videos no matter how they long, I just click and watch it because I see you close to me, with your lets experience and lets try everything that we wonder style. Regards from Turkey, I hope we can see this channel grow fast

Nicely done Alex, typically you want to remove the first few flowers of cucumbers, allows the plant to focus more energy on growing strong vines. Cheers from AZ

Honestly surprised I've not found you sooner. I love the idea of growing your own food and just simply doing things yourself but especially bee keeping, it reminds me of doing gardening with my parents when I was younger. I like the longer videos to just have on while I am doing other things.

Забавно видеть что кто то в середине января копает землю под посадку. Средняя полоса России ниже Москвы, мы начинаем заниматься вспахиванием земли в середине-конце апреля, посадкой в мае месяце. Сезон длится до середины-конца сентября. Так что Алекс, если у тебя январь такой как на видео ты можешь в принципе сажать любой инжир, зимостойкость у них примерно одинаковая, главное знать что инжир переносит мороз -15.

Trying to grow my own as well (And documenting it in my channel 🎥) Such an exciting journey! 💚 Thanks for sharing how much you have grown!

I just love your drive to learn about well, anything and everything. I first watched your fishing vids with Carl on Nash and the Park session blew me away. When you both lost the big slab I actually felt a physical reaction. This too is giving me the fizz. Looking forward to many more...cheers

with that fig tree, Take some cuttings when it starts to really grow about halfway through summer, and put them into a pot with soil, and keep them moist. (Assume they are going to grow, as they root easily, just try to go through the normal steps to make a cutting and clone it. hormone powder, scaring etc.) And you will have your own forest of figs. I have about 20 fig trees, all started from a couple from a few years back, they are beautiful plants. Plus, you don't have to wait for fruit, as they generally produce the first year as the cutting thinks its still from the original plant.

I live in BC CANADA and im in zone 5b. I winter sow. I use milk jugs. Look it up, milk jug planting or winter sowing. No growing inside with lights. Mother nature is awesome.

This was so educational for me. You put your heart and soul into it and got a very good investment or yield in return. I will try growing things from a seed tray this time. I have a lot of bulbs growing this year. Again thank you! Great presentation. Tell your Dad his garden is beautiful.

Ive watched your garden grow this year. the most beautiful I've ever seen!

12:24 This is absolutely genius! I draw something using grid paper or Excel, however I have yet to do it over a picture of the garden bed! This is some of that great insight that I love finding and watching growing videos! And the extent that you do in your documentary is absolutely amazing. Finally, something to show to others that want to understand or maybe don't understand the extensive planning and then methodical execution that must be carried out for success. Moreover over the continual activities to have a bountiful and full harvest!

I am delighted just what I like. Big greetings from mom countryside vlogger from Bosnia and Herzegovina. 💟

I really do appreciate how you take care of the plants in your gardden but also be careful with some poisonous insects around on the ground because I care for you too ❤😂

I live in an apartment and my dream is to have a house where i can plant things to eat as you do. In the mean time, I enjoy your videos

You can also use the coriander seeds in currys.. I started first with veg garden, then flower garden, compost making and this year we have got our first hive.. once you start is inevitable progression.. Borage will self seed like crazy and you can use the flowers for fancy salads😊

Hey Alex! I have no idea how I ended up in your first video, but it's great to see another video of yours and know that you're continuing with the project. It's really cool to see your progress. Farming is an incredible activity! Do not give up.

This was so relaxing ! This video came up next , somehow I just kept watching it. I’m happy you’re happy with your plants ! This is my dream 😊 when I get my own place I want to grow my fruits and my own vegetables. I want to grow flowers and trees too. I want to grow many other plants that I believe to be “lucky” haha … and maybe even herbs / medicines plants 🌱 Growing up I’ve always been around gardening because of my parents and grandmas. Plants are so amazing 🥹 Thankyou for sharing your journey ! I will be subscribing 🎉 happy to come across you!

Thank you for all the pointers. Planning next year's garden this winter, and planting what you really eat is cost effective. Seeing the whole process is great.

It is called DTM. days to maturity. From planting to harvest. It is listed on the back of the seed packet. It also helps to plan what to plant next!

Just wanted you to know that I enjoyed every minute of this video 😊

One more thing! I love your meal presentations! You really think things out. Also, maybe try fermenting things-like pickles! Start small & work your way up

Alex, there is nothing more to say the thank you to be able to follow you over 1 year of hard work and learning together. AMEN!!! lot's of love and Respect from the North East of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤙

Planting, caring for and harvesting by yourself is great 😍😍😍

I so enjoyed your show. As you said, gardening gives so much more than just food. I hope to see a show like this for your garden this year, 2024.

I'm on the same journey as you! I just built a (for me) massive garden and have planted my first cool weather crops in California and I am sitting here with the no dig book as my evening read! I am so hooked on this journey of growing more of what I eat. It is such a fun and rewarding new part of my life. I am loving watching your journey, I just watched your 2020 garden video for the second time before I realized you made a new video, yay!!. I can't wait to follow your journey over the next few years! high five to you and thank you for sharing :)

I'm obsessed with all your gardening videos but I also have to say you're really good at filming and editing too!

This video will be mentioned on my theses, i promise! I started as u 1 year ago, and i am taking every bit of knowledge u have and more! Love from Portugal and in 3 years you're expected to sign my thesis!

Hi Kevin. You should do more tours. Pretty cool installation

Yay! Now I can listen to this while gardening! Thank you so much Alex!

Thank you so much for everything you do and make, it inspires me heavily

Hang in there I've always wanted to be a homesteader and planted veggies and stuff in pots on my porch in a spare room. I love watching baby things grow into food sources. I adore you for giving it a try.

Very nicely done Alex. Keep up the good work.

This was brilliant! I was hooked for every moment. Your parents' home and garden are just gorgeous! I would love a place like that, but I live in Utah in America and Utah is...well, it's a desert, haha.

Look out buddy, you might get a bunch of marriage proposals! 😍Love this video, and how you're so passionate about what you're doing. It seems to me this is one of the things we've been losing, skills to benefit ourselves and our families. And not just for an employer. New subscriber.

“pleasing people with cucumbers” 😂😂

Have you ever heard of weed fertilizer? I recently watched a video where they were experimenting and they shared the benefits of a bucketful of weeds and some water made a wonderful compost tea. It helped with pests, as well. Wonderful for a nitrogen fertilizer.

😀I feel absolutely spoiled for Alex videos, Thanks!

Your family is very lucky to have you because you learn how to plant and have fresh food.. that's the hobby that I admire.. keep it and have sustainability and most importantly you enjoy it and that will make u energize mentally.. you will be recharge positively everyday because you are close to nature.. be stress free and have a good and healthy living.. new subscriber from Philippines.. I enjoy your video until end..

Hey my dear Alex.. I live in Canada, am in my 60s now, and have gardened over many years. I have tried strawberries several times, in ground & containers.. even in containers on the top rail of our deck ~ I have Yet to get more than a COUPLE of ripe strawberries from my plants .. Not even when I purposely built a bigger strawberry bed did it help me get strawberries from my own garden ~ something Always ate it before me.. Even flying insects eat strawberries !!.. 😮

I became so invested in the success of your garden, I could not click away. Such a wholesome video! Thank you for sharing your journey. I’m looking forward to starting a garden myself this spring and your experience has been inspiring to watch.

Your first garden video hooked me to your contents, it’s very entertaining and relaxing. It makes me want to try to plant some easy to grow vegetables and explore new things!

Awesome, man!! Keep up the GREAT work!!! Also, I just harvested my first try bean growing!!! I grew 4 different types of beans!! Blackeye peas, Red Beans, Pinto Beans, and Black Beans!!! And all grew very well!!!!

Yes, lets appreciate a good bucket more often! Really enjoyed watching your videos. Love the inner dialogue, very funny and also informative. Best of luck in your new place! Am trying out rooftop gardening this year...love your enthusiasm. keep it up

Alex, I thoroughly enjoy watching this video because your warm voice, clear narrative, abundance of information, and genuine nature captivate me. May you always be blessed and continue making more videos 👍💖

I love how you arrange different crops across the bee and time, it’s just so beautiful and efficient. I have always been trying to do the same, to maximize the efficiency and make it look like an English garden, but I always end up just throwing seads randomly coz I just don’t have the patience and I’m so lazy😂

I love the gardening Can you please do more of them please?

I am 68. It took me 4 hours. I used much of the soil to fill old sinking spots. My spot is two- shovel lengths wide., three -shovel handles long, 3 feet deep.. I dug a trench around the inside. I piled chunks of hard clay to heighten soil in an old rotted tree root location. Ordering all- purpose sand from home depot

Daisy probably ate your strawberries. Lol! Well done Alex's dad for looking after the food crops while he was away. Enjoy the learning journey not just the destination of the harvest. Good luck with your project, self-sufficient, Alex. Thanks for sharing your data.

Need to save some of them😊 seeds for next year

I love your strawberry containers… but hopefully you have more for all the runners they’re going to make 😅 You’ll have 100 by the end of the 2024 season! 😂 We started with 4 plants 2 years ago. We have 76 strawberry plants now 😳😆

I was watching your strawberries waiting for them to be pinched! That is exactly what happened to mine all year, this year! I think one of my fave veggies to eat from the garden immediately is cucumber. So much better than shop bought. Also peas! So sweet out of the pod. That's an amazing bumper lot of veg. Wonderful garden and project. I really enjoyed watching this. Thanks

Your green onions or shallots if you harvest the greenery often they'll keep producing for you and the bulb will grow larger! The bulb onions , harvest them before they bolt (producing flowers as the onion stops growing in size and turn a bit bitter to redirect it's energy producing flowers that will turn into seeds!) I always leave a couple of the onion plants to bolt so I can have seeds for next season!

Hey Alex since you been reading a lot about crops and vegetables, im genuely curious about the books you chose to read. And which of those are worth to buy? Greetings from Spain, amazing job.

I grow a city garden here in Ontario Canada and we have to protect a lot of our fruit and veg from squirrels, raccoons and skunks who love our garden as much as we do. Sequence planting carrots, radishes, peas, cucumber and lettuce let's you utilize your whole garden bed all season. Also you can plant fall harvest vegetables such as squash and pumpkin by starting seedlings and planting out when your onions or potatoes are done. Squash and cucumbers don't do well here due to insects and wilt but your cucumber looks amazing so I bet squash would do well also. Great project, loved watching.

Tip for the slug and snail issue. They hate copper. They wont even go over it, so if you get some copper wire or mesh and put it around your plants it should help. I've never tried deep fried sweetcorn before. Must try it!

Great video. I laughed when you were happy it rained, that is always how I feel. You have done an amazing job.

Fantastic

This comment section is how you know you have a good subscription base Alex. No hate whatsoever just all nice comments. Well done Alex you crated something respectful we all like to follow. ✌️

Watching this while planning out my 2024 season of growing healthy food. Thanks Alex for your time sharing your garden with us all.

Hi, problems with slug's? Get a clean container ( empty veggie can ). Put into the soil next to the plant and fill 3/4 full of beer. They love the stuff and will go in and drown. It was nice to see your growing, good job. Grow and go. Peace to your life.