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Passionate about food? This week’s episode takes Ben across the Atlantic to New York to visit expert grower Nick Ranieri, a first generation Italian American gardener with a lifetime of experience of growing for food security dating back to World War II.
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Nothing better than Italian gardeners 😄
Full of energy and enthusiasm, exactly what we need in the world right now.
His energy matches Ben's it's great!
What a sweet man! Loved this tour of his beautiful garden.
Loved this!
All we need is given up freely from our earth
Thx Ben that was an amazing tour! I like this series of you visiting gardens worldwide because there's just so much to learn from each others. Each garden is so unique its fascinating.
Buen deo con amore!
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Awesome video Ben, I'm so glad that we have such gracious gardeners who are willing to share their knowledge. Thanks for making these videos for us.
Bravissimo! I love that he has kept his enthusiasm for growing food and bought his food heritage elsewhere in the world! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Lovely episode, with two absolutely lovely men equally enthusiastically chit chatting away over the great subject of growing tasty foodstuffs. What's not to like 🙂
Cheers from Italy! 👋👋👋
What a beautiful story!
I liiiiike the waaaaaay the guy speaaaaaaks ❤😊❤
If I'm guessing correctly, this man is close to 80 years old. However, he's moving like a man much younger. Another benefit (IMO) to gardening. God Bless Him. 🙏🏿
Italian "transplant" 🌱
very good, vid……it shows that a plant wants to complete its life cycle and can adapt if!!! taking propper care of…love your vids and channel, no nonsens as always, keep up the good work please….
Awesome guest, but you should have let the clip roll on longer!
Some of my favourite vegetables: Italian heirloom paste tomatoes, black seeded Italian pole beans, thin-skinned Italian Ausilio peppers, Jimmy Nardello peppers, and in my first years growing backyard gardens, I learned much of what I know from Italian friends in the Toronto area. Grazie! Che possiate avere un raccolto abbondante!
Where can one buy those fava bean seeds please? I'm in Canada.
What a wonderful video❤❤
How to claim a holiday on expenses…
Zucchini. That is the first thing I thought.
I put those Precoce mora favas on my list. Next house. Bigger, sunnier garden!
Nice garden!, he is doing fantastic for his age. In isreal there is a guy called Alik Pelman , he grows all his food on abou 750m2 of land not only veg but also grain and broadbeans for protine. He is doing that next to his full time job!
I think would be amazing if you can show his garden, many people can learn fom him.
What a lovely vegetable garden. So much produce! Nick is a lovely guy but I was distracted by the fact that he sounds so much like Christopher Walken at times. ❤
2:57 Never Skip Leg Day Gang
A modest proposal. I have been watching various garden video hosts here on Youtube for some years now. One Garden Revolution (now dormant), Charles Dowding and yourself primarily. And we see video after video of everything going great and vegetable plants sometimes shoulder high. All fine and large. However, that has not been my experience over the last six or seven years. Some years we get mediocre results, some years we get little or nothing. One year, someone left the back gate open and a deer got in. What he didn't eat he trampled when he was discovered. This year was catastrophic. I had (11) Charentais Melon plants all doing well and I had (13) melons coming along nicely. Then, over about two weeks, something came around in the night and took them all away. Probably racoons. The shallots likewise vanished completely one or two per night. (Both of these were far from ready to harvest so it wasn't humans.) Some little bug got into the potato bed and I harvest fewer potatoes by weight then I planted in the first place and the small ones I did get had little marks on them like the had been poked with a pencil. (Two years ago gophers got into the potato bed and that was the end of that. Videos about building raised beds should include adding wire clothe to the bottom during building as it is so much easier than taking all the soil out again and adding it later.) I saw a squirrel having a nice salad lunch eating the leaves from my bean vines so we only had about three handfuls of beans for ourselves. I went on a business trip for two days and it was roasting hot while I was gone and when I returned all the lettuce plants were two feet tall and went into the mulch pile. We did get some cherry tomatoes and the strawberries were better than usual but the rest was a write-off. Again. So. What would really help a lot of us out here are videos where things went wrong and ways to do better next time. I have tried improving our miserable clay soil with homemade compost but although the compost is great (that part I have mastered) the soil looks about the same after six years of amending as it did at the start. Just a thought.