3 Courses, Easy vegetables & herbs plus vegetable planter

Name: 3 Courses, Easy vegetables & herbs plus vegetable planter
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Easy-to-grow vegetables and herbs + bonus course showing you how to make your own stackable vegetable planter

Created byMark Shorter

Last updated 1/2022

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What you'll learn

You will learn how to grow some easy to grow vegetables you can grow in your own garden.
You will also learn how to grow some easy to grow herbs.
Plus a bonus course on how to make your own stackable vegetable planter.
The 3 courses will get you on your way to becoming a great vegetable gardener.

Course content

4 sections • 24 lectures • 1h 39m total length

Lettuces9:11
Learn how to grow lettuces, radishes, peas, tomatoes, and carrots at home with simple soil prep, sowing, thinning, and harvest tips, plus pest and bolting prevention.
Raddishes3:35
Grow radishes easily in any garden or container; sow little and often (March–August, indoors from February) in sun with moist soil, spacing 2.5 cm apart.
Peas5:21
Grow peas, including English, snow, and sugar snap, in sunny, well-drained beds with compost-rich soil. Harvest regularly when tender, water weekly, mulch, and freeze or refrigerate for storage.
Tomatoes5:47
Grow tomatoes successfully by selecting varieties, using fertile soil or compost in bags or ground, supporting cordon or bush types, and practicing proper watering, feeding, pruning, and harvesting.
Carrots4:14
Discover that carrots come in orange as well as red, yellow, and purple varieties. Prepare smooth, stone-free soil with compost, sow thinly in trenches, and harvest in 12–16 weeks.
Potatoes - part 16:08
Discover how to grow potatoes from seed potatoes to harvest, covering soil prep, early and main crop varieties, and modern methods like container growing and second sowings.
Potatoes - part 25:58
Learn how to grow potatoes with proper moisture and base watering, master harvesting timelines for early and main crops, and store them to prevent blight.
Potatoes - part 34:07
Explore potato varieties such as SA Permira, Swift, and Nicola, and learn a month-by-month planting, harvest, and storage guide for greenhouse and outdoor crops.
Beetroot4:39
Learn to grow beetroot from sowing to harvest with 10 cm spacing and 1–2.5 cm depth. Prepare soil with compost, thin seedlings, and consider succession planting and container growing.
Hints and tips for growing vegetables at home6:50
Boost yields and soil health by using raised beds filled with compost and organic matter, then grow climbers on trellises and practice rotation and succession planting.

Introduction0:42
Discover five easy to grow herbs you can cultivate at home from seeds, care for as they mature, and harvest fresh to enhance meals with vibrant flavors and textures.
Parsley5:01
Grow parsley from seed as a biannual herb, harvest outer leaves year round, and cultivate in ground or pots with well-drained soil, thinning, and regular watering.
Coriander (AKA Cilantro)5:59
Learn to grow coriander (cilantro) and use all parts—leaves, seeds, and roots—covering sowing indoors or outdoors, soil prep, harvesting, drying, and freezing.
Basil6:04
Grow basil varieties: sweet, purple, lemon, Thai from indoors; transplant and prune for bushy growth, harvest at 15 cm in the morning, and store or freeze for later use.
Chives3:48
Discover how to grow chives, including common and garlic varieties, from sowing seeds to harvesting, with tips on soil, sun, moisture, compost, flowering control, division, and freezing leaves for storage.
Thyme5:22
Discover thyme, a versatile herb and ornamental plant with fragrant leaves and about 200 varieties. Explore propagation by cuttings or layering, pruning for compact growth, and year-round harvesting and drying.

Introduction1:15
Build a stackable vegetable planter from decking boards, step by step for beginners, with multiple layers and screws, using cheap timber posts.
Equipment list2:12
Wear protective gloves and goggles; choose a handsaw or circular saw. Use a tape measure and pencil to mark, and assemble 60 cm planter with decking boards and outdoor screws.
Measuring and cutting2:53
Measure, mark, and cut decking boards to 60 cm and 55 cm to form a square, stackable layer. Account for board thickness and smooth edges with light sanding.
Support posts1:29
Cut four 12 cm internal support posts for the planter corners to create stackable frames, using 60 cm and 55 cm decking boards.
First corner3:34
Assemble the first corner of the vegetable planter by aligning 60 cm and 55 cm decking boards with the 60 cm overlapping the 55 cm, and secure with screws.
Completing the other corners1:49
Complete the remaining corners by attaching the final sides and screwing through the grooves into the support post, then flip and sink the feet for stackable vegetable planters.
Recap3:12
Build a 60 by 60 cm stackable vegetable planter using gloves, goggles, protectors, decking boards, timber posts, and 4 mm by 40 mm screws, following steps and angled screw placement.

Requirements

You will need some basic gardening tools and DIY equipment

Description

Growing your own vegetables is both fun and rewarding, and it’s not a difficult thing to do. No matter how much space, time or money you have, you can easily put a few seeds in some soil, sprinkle them with water and away you go. In this course, I’m going to go through five vegetables (well, technically some vegetables and one fruit), and show you how simple it is to grow your own lettuces, radishes, peas, tomatoes, carrots potatoes and beetroot.

I’ll also include some hints and tips to help you on your way.

Herbs are a great way to add vibrant flavours and texture to any meal, and growing them is really simple. There’s nothing quite as nice as harvesting your own herbs and using them fresh from the garden.

In this course, I’m going to go through five herbs that you can grow at home hassle free. I’ll be explaining how to grow the herbs from seeds, how to care for the adult plants and most importantly how to harvest them.

With this bonus course, you will learn to build your very own stackable vegetable planter.

This project is perfect for you if you would like to grow your own vegetables and herbs.

The basic design is a single-layered square planter with no base, and you can build as may of these as you like to so that you create taller planter for vegetables that have a deeper root system. You can also place them side by side for an allotment-style arrangement.

Who this course is for:

Beginner gardener or DIYer

3 Courses, Easy vegetables & herbs plus vegetable planter

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Course content

Easy-to-grow vegetables.10 lectures • 56min

5 Easy-to-Grow Herbs6 lectures • 27min

Easy-to-make stackable vegetable planter7 lectures • 16min

My other courses1 lecture • 1min

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