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Love them!

They look great! Thx for sharing!

Thank you for all the info and how too!

Do you monitor the humidity in the fridge or is that unnecessary with the cling wrap?

Thanks for the tips😃

This is the best video I have seen on dividing dahlias. I ordered the pruners but not sure about them, why does the handle rotate like that?

this is a great resource, thank you so much!!

How did they turn out?

Fantastic! So great to see the process up close! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Love the numbering system! Great video for a newbie like myself 😊

Very educational. I don’t see the link for the dividing tool you used though. Can you add it?

This is rrally helpful! Thanks!

Looking great. Daily watering here in Chicagoland due to the drought here as well.

Great video. Can you share how you overwinter them? I've never had luck with that! 😞

I wanted to do this too but I read somewhere that it attracts termites

I planted some beautiful dahlias last year and I tried harvesting the tubers but they didn’t germinate. They were yellow orange and red. They looked like a sunset and I couldn’t find them anywhere. They took off last year. The plant tripled in size. I planted a few different ones this year and they didn’t take off like I’d hoped. Ive only been gardening for the last 4 years. I’ve had some serious issues with my those Japanese beetles on my roses and the dahlias were pretty close to them. I’m so glad I found your account. I need all of the advice I can get with the ranunculus and dahlias. 😭

This is my second failed attempt at growing ranunculus. They never get past the germination phase. This year I planted them early but it got hot so fast. I was bringing them in when it got over 70* but I forgot to bring them in and the temp spiked to 90*. I tried sticking them in the refrigerator to see if that would keep them alive but no dice😭

Also Wisconsin. New sub now 😊

You are doing a fabulous job growing and arranging! Have you tried winter sowing?

How did this work for you in 2024?

Oh, I seen a vid that if we leave one scape and once it straightens out the garlic is ready and I see you have a straight one. Don’t know, but some say to not pull because the paper skin could be damaged. ? Nice harvest! Mine I pulled last week before big storms and covered greenhouse and opened windows and it’s drying nicely. Yep, thinking of bush beans as follow crop. Have brassicas started and plan on putting them in as soon as weather turns cool in a couple days. I like to wait as close as possible to Halloween to plant garlic so there is no huge growth. I also loaded leaves on top to keep the bed cool because our winters have been too warm and growth could happen. Once it warms up I scrape some leaves away so they don’t trot in spring. Not sure if it makes a difference of washing dirt off. I never do on garlic, onions and potatoes. If you haven’t dehydrated garlic and ground to a powder, you must try it. Z5a WI.

When did you start the cucamelons? I waited and started mine outside and they are small still. Your squash looks great. I hope the BT works for you. The wheat will look so great in arrangements.

Lovely. I'm a stock failure most years. I got them to bloom once this year LOL. Those flamingo feathers are so cool.

Looks great!!

They look delicious 🍓🍓🍓

Not sure why some start dahlias in pots. I just threw them in and are as tall as yours. 😅I just figure I do enough for them already by digging them up. After hearing they can get gall and it can transfer to roses I may not.

Does that awesome hat come in a Vikings version? 😈lol! I really enjoy your videos! What are the alfalfa pellets for? I know you said in a previous video, but I can’t remember. I just got my pre-sprouted dahlias in the ground yesterday!❤

Thank you for the great info! I love my hori hori too.

love that begonia🥰

Shallots will be fine planted like you did. I like to plant y leeks deep to get plenty of nice white blanched stem. Your asparagus looks marvelous.

The sweet Williams are very cold tolerant and will reseed, but the landscape fabric will probably block that.

I also had some scrawny Sweet William and poor germination, but about 10 of them in the tray grew like gangbusters and looked fantastic. All were gown under the same conditions, so go figure.

Nice job there , I planted 2 peach trees November last year that were in pots for a couple of years doing absolutely no good so I planted them in the ground and then they took off and grew wow really long branches , now in Autumn here in Australia I pruned them back like you did and they are doing fine , the weather is getting very cool now heading towards winter officially in June so it will be exciting to see how the shape takes come spring time and summer , I hope you do follow ups on your trees it would be nice to see how yours turned out after the cut.👍

Lamium makes an excellent "spiller" in pots....and free.

Thanks for the reminder, Taylor! I started larkspur, bupleurum, nigella, and orlaya inside and will plant them out tomorrow. They've been hardening off the past 10 days or so, but I think I'll also direct seed them since the germination was spotty on the bupleurum and orlaya, and both larkspur and nigella don't appreciate root disturbance.

Uh oh. Where are your eclipse glasses? Also not good for your cell phone.

Go Pack ! May 24 here 😊

I just rescued one of these from Walmart !

So cute!!!

Wow……! I pruned my corkscrew willow and put them in the water a week ago and root started right away and leaves also emerged. I was wondering should I put them in the pot with soil or directly in the ground. I think I will put them in the ground! I was little worried about the cold weather coming back, but your video encouraged me to try. I live in zone 5/6 Chicago suburb.

I love seeing what other gardeners are sowing; you've got a lot of great varieties going! Those crocus are so cheery :) I have 10 winter-sown milk jugs, but only two (Mystery Rose Cynoglossum and Sutton's Apricot foxgoves) have sprouts. This winter has been so dry and warm that, for the first time ever, I've needed to continually check the milk jugs for watering and have moved them into shade a few times when temps got to about 70. A very weird winter for Minnesota.

Thanks for the update! Your perennials look great! Lots of other good-looking plants! I am in southern Wisconsin and did plant out about 250 anemones and ranunculus starting Monday of this week. I started them at the end of January and the first week of February because the sooner they are planted, the more blooms and they like cool soil. I am using the superhoops and row cover until they get acclimated and whenever it is too cold. Last March, we had 12 inches of heavy, wet snow coming, so I had put on a tarp, and they were fine. I have a patch of 25 anemones planted in 2023 that overwintered beautifully. I had put a little bark mulch down and did cover after our January snow melted with evergreen boughs when it was really cold. The anemones are pretty hardy to 20 degrees, and I have 3 buds already. I have also found a couple 2023 ranunculus that were not dug out and are green and growing. My lisianthus that I started on January 1st wasn't coming well, so on January 12th, I seeded into the 3 by 3 squares (flat of 18 cells from Jung. They grew well, and I separated them into the 72 cell flat and then 2 weeks ago into a 36 cell flat. I ended up with over 300 lisianthus that I am sharing with my sister. I have First Love dianthus, blue wheat, and monarda sprouting in my winter sowing jugs. Mine are wet because we received an inch of rain yesterday. I will be starting Red Flint ageratum, Forever Happy statice, strawflower, gomphrena, salvia, rudbeckia, and annual scabiosa later today. I wanted to mention that I saw a spider plant in an annual basket on a nusery tour today on TH-cam. It's a fun family nursery video that Janey posted today on her TH-cam, DigPlantWaterRepeat. I also enjoy your videos. Happy gardening, and enjoy your weekend!

Looking forward to your SVB secret to success!

Fun to see what other northern gardeners are starting! I'm in the same zone, and have started quite a few of the same varieties as you. I love the Fama pin cushion flowers, but so do the bunnies, so they don't seem to be able to establish themselves as a perennial in my garden. I treat them as annuals every year hoping to see at least a dozen of them bloom. Another great China aster to try is Tower Chamois, which produced 8 good sized stems for cutting per plant and are an absolutely gorgeous focal flower. Looking forward to seeing how your seedlings come along!

I am in zone 4b. I have had a lot of success growing geraniums year round by bringing the plant inside for the winter. It stays lush and green inside the house, with no flowers. However as soon as it is safe to begin placing plants outsde they flower beautifully without loosing a plant or starting from scratch. If that is any help for anyone else in zone 4b.

I enjoyed seeing what seeds you are starting. I also just started my 5 Baker Creek black cosmos seeds. It will be interesting to see when they germinate. I enjoyed seeing your kitty and have mine on my lap now. I hope all your seeds germinate!

Swiss Chard i suggest starting it in a pot and then just move the pot outside.

Very nice, needed a video on pruning today!

Thx! I think our dwarves are going on 3 years. They haven’t grown much. Concerned about too warm of temps and early bud break then freezing. I just trimmed suckers hiding under trunk protectors. Fruit trees struggle here in desert microclimate in Z5a, WI. I’m pretty clueless on fruit trees. Will spray some dormant oil this weekend. Not big on insecticide so we will see. I planted them about 4’ apart because I wanted to train in columnar fashion because they were not available for sale. I’m on the fence on whether to take every other one out now. They only live about 15 years and afraid I will set them back if I move them. I found a couple questionable spots on bark under guards. Lol, not putting too much trust in seeing any fruit. Two miles away we had a Madison peach from Jungs and it fruited in first year-here I tried 3 times and they all sprout from root. I have a maple that has the whirl of limbs in one area. All I could find about pruning them is in summer because the sap is running now. I think I will only do a couple this year and the rest next. Like you say it’s a lot of damage to one area. This is a tree that I trained back from a sucker off the original tree that developed a frost crack and died. It was such a big tree and I didn’t have trunk protector on it. Couldn’t believe it cracked, but the bark was still thin. It’s such a vigorous tree that it out grew another larger tree that we planted at same time of starting sucker. I suppose from all the original root system.

I love baker creek seeds. I bought the ground cherries and did not know they are invasive. I guess we will see how it goes this year. Thanks for that info!