You have said it all.Nobody has a green thumb...just patience and fortitude to help the plant along untill they get the produce off it. These could be its leaves or flowers or fruits or seeds.
Thank you for this beautiful, insightful video. Now I feel inspired to try again and practice more with gardening, even though I've never been successful before. Hope you're having a lovely week. ❤
whatever works for you, i guess… i’d just like to say, as a biologist, this is a great way for you to introduce mold to your plants! there’s 1000 other ways to provide nutrients that are way more practical and safe. but if you enjoy the hassle, have fun with it!
I love how I come to this and hear a bunch of things I was already doing. I'm grateful to know that it is going to help me to keep on the path, I know a lot but I always want to learn more, and I know for sure even with years of learning via videos, and books, and talking to people that grow all kinds of things... I will definitely kill plants. My hope, with all of the effort to learn as much as I can, that when I do start the process of refining, and making mistakes. I can quickly identify such mistakes. I appreciate having found your channel shortly after I moved out here to CO (it was quite lucky since I came from almost 10 years in Texas!). It's especially helpful to have someone who has the experience who documents it for others to learn from. I'm better prepared to handle the weather, and know of different types of plants that I could grow out here. I was especially fond of the garlic advice. Hard neck/soft neck wasn't something I even had a clue about until you broke it down. Rambling aside, I hope you have a great 2020.
Awesome awesome video! Planting is by experience and with experience comes knowledge and confidence! Thank you for setting my feet to continue my gardening. A lot of my plants did not survive the winter. We moved to a new home and wasn't settled in in time to get my plants out of the cold. Thus, a lot of them died and I got so down and disappointed, because I lost almost all the plants that I loved and put a lot of time in. I've had them for a while! Thank you for sharing this video! I'll be doing my journey on my own channel, filming my success and also my mistakes! Again, thank you!
That's so true about the "green thumb myth". People always say that about me, though I attribute my success to 50 years of trial and error. The thing that has brought the most success is getting through my thick head how to make compost and improve my soil.
I'm a new gardener in Pa. and I too am watching a lot of videos and learning as much as I can about soil health and permaculture gardening. I have a lot to learn yet but I'm love everything about gardening
As with many things, knowledge is power. My daughter is always saying her friends are better than her in this and in that. I keep telling her thats because they practice it more than she does and, the more you do something the better you're going to be at it. I love your videos, you are a wonderful teacher and have a knack with a camera and your dialogue.
Thanks again Gardner Scott! Hope you have a great and Happy New Year! My classes start Jan.7th . Looking forward to them and more generous information from your video sharing.
Merry Christmas Scott! Glad I've found you this year. Looking forward to whatever you may have for us in the future. I plant 60 apple seeds tomorrow in the quest for new "fun" varieties. As a "mid-skill-level" gardener I hope I can borrow a few of your tricks and work my way through it!
Merry Christmas to you. I've been offline for a few days, so pardon the delay. Planting apple seeds can be a fun adventure. You'll probably end up with 60 different types.
@@GardenerScott No apology required, Merry Christmas and happy New Year! I find the uncertainty of the open pollinated varieties to be pretty exciting. I will probably get 45 duds and 15 stars...but that's the fun! Then I can graft onto the 'duds' if the root stock is healthy...
With green thumbs it is as its with everything else - do, observe, do again, learn, repeart, learn and so on :) at some point you will get “gain” in there as well but the main formula stays the same. Happy and fruitful (pun intended) gardening to all and lets hope to graduate from whichever darker colour thumb to a greener one! Resilience is the key!
Im sorry to disagree but having a green thumb is truly a gift! Ive seen it too many times to not be true....i myself have no green thumb no matter how hard I try for years my plants do not like me....my husband on the other hand just naturally grows all the plants and they flourish and thrive with his touch....so you are blessed with a wonderful gift of the green thumb! Thank you for trying to help us less fortunate to be gifted. We are just lucky to have you green thumbers around!
I agree 100%. My mom gardened and I didn't really pay attention. Now at 67, I'm into it full time (even though I'm still working full time). I can everything God gives me and my neighbor gardens. We discuss our trials and tribulations and we learn from each other. I can't imagine trying to learn and come up to speed without the internet at my age. Learning nutritional needs, what time or year to plant for the best harvest, do they need water, or fertilizer, etc. It can be a daunting task, but a pleasurable one and I love the learning curve. We are now planting garlic to sell to local restaurants and local growers. If it takes off...great, if it doesn't...we'll have a lot of garlic to eat, :LOL Thank you for this video, it restores my faith that I can be successful!! I just need patience! BTW-I have a statue in my garden of St. Phocas, the patron St. of gardens so I don't forget to thank HIM for everything HE gives me, even the volunteers..haha
I love watching your videos because for year I thought I had a black thumb for planting until I saw your video and Believe me it was a relief for me. Thank you🍓💕
They call it green fingers in the UK and I have been told I have them, however, these lovely people don't understand I cannot grow parsnips no matter what I've tried and I always have black or brown fingers from digging in the dirt - mucky hands is the best description I ever heard for a gardener!
I'd like to add that sometimes it's not your fault that you kill something. Pests and disease can sneak up on you and you won't react in time. In my case, I thought I had the blackest thumb in all the land, but it turns out that the air and water quality in California was just so bad that it was impossible to keep anything alive. After I moved to Oregon I was gifted a cactus, but intentionally neglected it because I thought for sure it would die - that I would somehow manage to kill it. Three years later it's still alive and thriving among a plethora of plants that I've either rescued or grown from seed. Something that I like doing now is taking in neglected or sick plants, figuring out what's wrong, and making it better. I've got a foxglove plant that was so root-bound that it was dying of dehydration, a really overgrown fuchsia that I had to put a lot of effort into pruning, and a western columbine that had powdery mildew so bad that I had to kill it in order to save it. It rebounded from a single, tiny, uninfected leaf.
Nice one Scott over here in England we refer to people who are gardeners as having green fingers, a green thumb is a new one for me. It still amounts to the same meaning tho.
Green thumb = friable soil, correct fertility and watering mixed with staying on top of weeds and insects. This means being in the garden regularly and learning every season.
I've got to tell you, I've studied endlessly, listened to my parents and grandparents who loved to garden. I've struggled every year for the past 40 years and am just now getting decent yields. And I LOVE gardening! My husband, who has very little interest, rarely even talks garden, plows up an area every 3 or 4 years, drops seeds in all willy nilly and grows so much we end up selling the excess after I've canned for the year. He doesn't stress or second guess himself. (yes, we each have our own gardens when this happens) I honestly believe the man has a gift for growing things - the man has double green thumbs. Neither of his parents or grandparents were avid gardeners.
Someone once told there me is no such thing as a green thumb, just brown knees!
That's a good way to look at it. Thanks.
You have said it all.Nobody has a green thumb...just patience and fortitude to help the plant along untill they get the produce off it. These could be its leaves or flowers or fruits or seeds.
Thank you for this beautiful, insightful video. Now I feel inspired to try again and practice more with gardening, even though I've never been successful before. Hope you're having a lovely week. ❤
The best thing I found for my garden was milk water!
5 parts water to 1 part milk...
My plants love it!!
And great video!
whatever works for you, i guess… i’d just like to say, as a biologist, this is a great way for you to introduce mold to your plants! there’s 1000 other ways to provide nutrients that are way more practical and safe. but if you enjoy the hassle, have fun with it!
I love how I come to this and hear a bunch of things I was already doing. I'm grateful to know that it is going to help me to keep on the path, I know a lot but I always want to learn more, and I know for sure even with years of learning via videos, and books, and talking to people that grow all kinds of things... I will definitely kill plants. My hope, with all of the effort to learn as much as I can, that when I do start the process of refining, and making mistakes. I can quickly identify such mistakes. I appreciate having found your channel shortly after I moved out here to CO (it was quite lucky since I came from almost 10 years in Texas!). It's especially helpful to have someone who has the experience who documents it for others to learn from. I'm better prepared to handle the weather, and know of different types of plants that I could grow out here. I was especially fond of the garlic advice. Hard neck/soft neck wasn't something I even had a clue about until you broke it down. Rambling aside, I hope you have a great 2020.
Thank you. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying the journey.
Awesome awesome video! Planting is by experience and with experience comes knowledge and confidence! Thank you for setting my feet to continue my gardening. A lot of my plants did not survive the winter. We moved to a new home and wasn't settled in in time to get my plants out of the cold. Thus, a lot of them died and I got so down and disappointed, because I lost almost all the plants that I loved and put a lot of time in. I've had them for a while! Thank you for sharing this video! I'll be doing my journey on my own channel, filming my success and also my mistakes! Again, thank you!
Thanks so much. Glad you're finding the benefit in videos.
That's so true about the "green thumb myth". People always say that about me, though I attribute my success to 50 years of trial and error. The thing that has brought the most success is getting through my thick head how to make compost and improve my soil.
You've discovered the other big secret -- compost and improved soil make everything better.
I'm a new gardener in Pa. and I too am watching a lot of videos and learning as much as I can about soil health and permaculture gardening. I have a lot to learn yet but I'm love everything about gardening
Glad to hear that. Keep on learning.
2:34 "I've killed more plants than many gardeners will ever grow."
*plant police car sirens sound*
Scott: Why do I hear boss music?
Luckily I don't hear sirens. Can't explain the boss music.
Thank you Scott. I love your advice and will use it. I love plants, but I need learn more.
Thanks for the encouraging video. I'm determined, but this helps. 😊
As with many things, knowledge is power. My daughter is always saying her friends are better than her in this and in that. I keep telling her thats because they practice it more than she does and, the more you do something the better you're going to be at it.
I love your videos, you are a wonderful teacher and have a knack with a camera and your dialogue.
Thanks so much, Kurt.
i just started gardening this year and now i give lectures on organic gardening wherever i go
That's great!
Thanks again Gardner Scott! Hope you have a great and Happy New Year! My classes start Jan.7th . Looking forward to them and more generous information from your video sharing.
Thanks, Dale. Happy New Year to you. Enjoy the classes.
My thumb is purple and I can’t feel it
Merry Christmas Scott!
Glad I've found you this year. Looking forward to whatever you may have for us in the future.
I plant 60 apple seeds tomorrow in the quest for new "fun" varieties. As a "mid-skill-level" gardener I hope I can borrow a few of your tricks and work my way through it!
Merry Christmas to you. I've been offline for a few days, so pardon the delay. Planting apple seeds can be a fun adventure. You'll probably end up with 60 different types.
@@GardenerScott No apology required, Merry Christmas and happy New Year! I find the uncertainty of the open pollinated varieties to be pretty exciting. I will probably get 45 duds and 15 stars...but that's the fun! Then I can graft onto the 'duds' if the root stock is healthy...
With green thumbs it is as its with everything else - do, observe, do again, learn, repeart, learn and so on :) at some point you will get “gain” in there as well but the main formula stays the same. Happy and fruitful (pun intended) gardening to all and lets hope to graduate from whichever darker colour thumb to a greener one! Resilience is the key!
Absolutely. Thanks.
Thanks Scott
You're welcome, Evelyn.
I grew plants plenty of times. Also made paper before at school 102 or 105
Thank you for all of the information you share, it is very helpful. And inspiring. Have a blessed new year to you and your family!
Thank you. Happy New Year to you, Jennifer.
Im sorry to disagree but having a green thumb is truly a gift! Ive seen it too many times to not be true....i myself have no green thumb no matter how hard I try for years my plants do not like me....my husband on the other hand just naturally grows all the plants and they flourish and thrive with his touch....so you are blessed with a wonderful gift of the green thumb! Thank you for trying to help us less fortunate to be gifted. We are just lucky to have you green thumbers around!
I agree 100%. My mom gardened and I didn't really pay attention. Now at 67, I'm into it full time (even though I'm still working full time). I can everything God gives me and my neighbor gardens. We discuss our trials and tribulations and we learn from each other. I can't imagine trying to learn and come up to speed without the internet at my age. Learning nutritional needs, what time or year to plant for the best harvest, do they need water, or fertilizer, etc. It can be a daunting task, but a pleasurable one and I love the learning curve. We are now planting garlic to sell to local restaurants and local growers. If it takes off...great, if it doesn't...we'll have a lot of garlic to eat, :LOL Thank you for this video, it restores my faith that I can be successful!! I just need patience! BTW-I have a statue in my garden of St. Phocas, the patron St. of gardens so I don't forget to thank HIM for everything HE gives me, even the volunteers..haha
Yes, you can be successful. You sound like you're enjoying it a lot. Good luck with your garlic.
I love watching your videos because for year I thought I had a black thumb for planting until I saw your video and Believe me it was a relief for me. Thank you🍓💕
Glad to hear that, Maribel.
You've got about as much snow as us in Mkdmichigan rn, crazy. We usually are dumped on in December.
This has actually been a snowy month for us. It's usually pretty dry in December.
They call it green fingers in the UK and I have been told I have them, however, these lovely people don't understand I cannot grow parsnips no matter what I've tried and I always have black or brown fingers from digging in the dirt - mucky hands is the best description I ever heard for a gardener!
I like the idea of mucky hands. That's a funny bit about it; we all have something that just won't grow, no matter how hard we try.
Thank you!👏💕 Great video.
Love from philippines ❤❤❤
GREEN THUMB
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I'd like to add that sometimes it's not your fault that you kill something. Pests and disease can sneak up on you and you won't react in time. In my case, I thought I had the blackest thumb in all the land, but it turns out that the air and water quality in California was just so bad that it was impossible to keep anything alive. After I moved to Oregon I was gifted a cactus, but intentionally neglected it because I thought for sure it would die - that I would somehow manage to kill it. Three years later it's still alive and thriving among a plethora of plants that I've either rescued or grown from seed. Something that I like doing now is taking in neglected or sick plants, figuring out what's wrong, and making it better. I've got a foxglove plant that was so root-bound that it was dying of dehydration, a really overgrown fuchsia that I had to put a lot of effort into pruning, and a western columbine that had powdery mildew so bad that I had to kill it in order to save it. It rebounded from a single, tiny, uninfected leaf.
Nice one Scott over here in England we refer to people who are gardeners as having green fingers, a green thumb is a new one for me.
It still amounts to the same meaning tho.
Thanks for sharing the difference, Dave. I guess green thumb is an American thing.
I take a few pictures every year and date them. Just want to see a little progress every year.
I do the same. A little progress adds up to a lot of progress when you see all the years of effort.
Green thumb = friable soil, correct fertility and watering mixed with staying on top of weeds and insects. This means being in the garden regularly and learning every season.
Absolutely. Thanks.
can you insert subtitles? thank you
It takes a few days for me to do it, but they will be there soon.
@@GardenerScottthank you very much looking forward
Here in Ireland we don’t use the term green thumb. We say green fingers!
Thanks, Gail. I've had a few others educate me on that too.
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I've got to tell you, I've studied endlessly, listened to my parents and grandparents who loved to garden. I've struggled every year for the past 40 years and am just now getting decent yields. And I LOVE gardening! My husband, who has very little interest, rarely even talks garden, plows up an area every 3 or 4 years, drops seeds in all willy nilly and grows so much we end up selling the excess after I've canned for the year. He doesn't stress or second guess himself. (yes, we each have our own gardens when this happens) I honestly believe the man has a gift for growing things - the man has double green thumbs. Neither of his parents or grandparents were avid gardeners.
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What about a toe...
Das gross, best c a doctor
Well that was a whole lot of nothing wasn't it.. Where are your plants anyway?