I’m about to turn 30. Started gardening on the front porch of my apartment in containers a couple years ago. Just bought our first house and I can’t stop spending money on this garden for spring. I’m so excited to have my own land and can’t wait for spring to roll around. Hopefully the garden will be ready by then. Thanks for all the great videos!!!
The basics are NEVER over repeated 👍Seasoned gardeners should always remind themselves of the essential steps...Loving all you share from North Idaho zone 6a 💚🌻🌿
Rule 7 has to be at the top of the list. If you do not enjoy what you are doing you will not have the best out come possible. Gardening is one of my best stress reduction programs. Next to chasing my grandchildren around.
Since radishes make a lot of seed, they can be used as cover plantings, and for sprouting, even if some of the hybrid seeds fail to make good roots, so they are always useful, and also very fast and can quickly green up the windows for winter~
I found myself nodding along to your words. I so appreciate your philosophy about gardening! And I am definitely making a succession plan for my small terrace garden. I am so excited for spring!
Thank you for this video. My vegetable garden is only 14 feet by 21 feet, on a NE by SW axis. Yet, plants will grow differently in this space depending on the location due to the shade the garden receives. It took me a few years to find which plants grow best in which location in my garden. If you have problems with disease, take the time to figure out what the disease is, how to prevent the disease naturally but mulching, spacing, trimming, watering etc. and consider buying disease resistant seeds or plants.
Thank you!! My mantra the last days while weeding and preparing my garden is,”work smart, not hard”. You have really helped me so much in my garden planning this year!! Thank you for all the informative videos! Have a beautiful day!!!
Great video again. I just had my first spring small harvest (southern hemisphere) of beans, peas and French carrots, so satisfying. The garlic and onions are doing well and the 25 potatoe plants are out of control, on their way to a Guiness record 🙂. First year growing veggies and absolutely loving it! Thanks for the advice gardener Scott.
Thank you! This year was my first year. Not so successful, because the shops closed. I quickly started with anything I had on hand. A couple of weeks ago, I put together my large raised bed. Then filled it with free wood (hughelkultur) and got good quality soil. Now I am composting in the soil, so by spring it will be extra good. Seeds I have already, but no plan yet. Thanks to your video's I learned that soil is everything and planning is good (I am not a planner normally). I enjoy the good preparing and having enough time to plan it as I like. Thank you Scott!
Thanks Scott! I actually spent a lot of time late summer and fall this year rearranging beds and putting some new ones in or just fixing some beds that had problems. One of the problems I had this year is related to your first point of location. Not the location of the garden but not placing beds in the right spots and not putting the tallest things in the right spots. For example: my Roma tomatoes got 5' tall and shaded my late beets; my early girl tomatoes which get extremely tall were not located in the far northern or northwest section of my garden; my strawberries were in a low wet spot which encouraged rot, slugs, and pill bug infestation. I have a good plan for next year and will be adding a cattle panel arch in the northern section also. Is it spring yet?
This is a good Gardening 101 video. I’ve been gardening all of my life, so almost 6 decades. This is a good garden video for people who are just starting to garden . I found your tips were a refresher for me. I kind of already knew all of them, not that I know everything.
Great video! It's good to know all the things to consider for the next seasons garden. I also have been planning my garden for next year. It's fun to do. I enjoy it.
As one that started out as a container gardener for years, then this spring added a 4X8 raised bed, then added another 4X8 raised bed this summer, I sometimes have to tell myself to stop treating gardening as a job and just "Enjoy Gardening".
I come here for tips about vegetable gardening, but I really appreciate that you touch on other things (like non-edible perennial shade plants, perhaps).
Fabulous video packed with information for the beginner! Oh how I wish your video was available at the beginning of lockdown, you would have saved me so much wasted time, resources and stopped my confidence taking a major hit! I did get a harvest but small and quite late so nothing really had time to get going, only now am I realising it was actually in the main due to soil structure and a lack of correct soil nutrition. 😊
Scott, I just came across your channel, and after watching this video I had to say Thank You!! You're an EXCELLENT TEACHER, and very informative!! I am definitely subscribing!!
just found your channel and i love it! i just bought a house (4b) and am planning my front yard garden and you’re helping me out so much! thanks for your time, i really appreciate it! :-)
I was a first time gardener last year and I ended up starting big. I had more food than I knew what to do with. pounds and pounds of cucumbers, corn, pumpkins, and tomatoes. Though I had some failures too. I think if I had started just a bit smaller I would not have been stretched so thin for my experience level and I would have done better.
God sound piratical advice. To go along with "The right time to plant" if your starting seeds indoors think about the right time to start seeds. I made the mistake this season of starting seedlings to early. A warm spell had me thinking I could have most of them out by mid April. In reality I couldnt get them out till after Mothers day because it turned cold again. The plants got big, I needed to up pot them a couple of times and some were root bound. Next year I am not going to start them until the last week of March or early April.
When I was a sergeant in the army, and a safety officer as well, I had the idea that rules should be easy to follow so that they're more likely to be followed. I think that's what tip #7 is for me. Why would I want to be miserable? Why would I force myself to be miserable? If I truly enjoy gardening, I will keep doing it. I am building my garden based on that at it's founding principle. For example, I recently took a page out of your ranking of plants to grow. My ranking and scores were a little different from yours, but onions still didn't score well. I'm still going to grow some, though, because I enjoy it. I'll make more space for tomatoes and peppers, but I also want and enjoy onions.
I agree. I think much of my approach to gardening is founded on principles from my military background too. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying gardening and venturing beyond a set list to continue the enjoyment.
As a retired sergeant and safety officer for my unit. I was drawn to your comment..loved that gardening is a joy and that learning the basics (rules) makes sense to more than just me.🙂🙃😉😊
Can you overwinter any of the hardy brassicas like kale in that area, and can you create berms or low spots to focus the water where the plants are in the garden? Like channeling the roof runoff along a swale that runs in a circle around the garden. Saving seed is also vital to gardening, as packets commonly have one gram of seeds in them, which can still be a lot, but a new gardener won't know how to use that one gram of seeds effectively, to both save seeds and harvest food sustainably~
I had kale growing through last winter. I've left turnips in the ground too. My new garden is pretty flat but I've used berms to direct water in previous gardens. I've also used perforated tubes to direct roof runoff into and through beds.
Its funny now I think back,You are right about having fun with gardening. When we were first married, my wife and I followed our parents, we gardened to feed our young family. But, now that we are retired, we do it for fun and give the excess to family and neighbors. It is also easier now too. We don't cut corners, but we got a lot smarter on how to garden with less work involved. It is a JOY to garden and share it with our granddaughter who is six.
Great video! How do I know when is the right time to sow seeds indoors in my area? I’ve tried google and a lot of results aren’t even really related and the few that are all say different times so I’m confused.
It depends on the seed. Check the seed packet for guidance. Peppers are often 12 weeks prior to last frost date, tomatoes are six weeks, and other plants vary.
Please mention to people to be careful where they get their straw , due to the wide spread use of aminopyralids being used on some. I know the person I get mine from and I know his mother uses on her gardens so I know it is safe.
@@GardenerScott That is great to know. I will definitely watch that. I first heard about it from a local gardener and then on Scot Head's channel Black Gumbo Southern Gardening. I did a little research and I am glad I have a local young man who refuses to use those things on his crops.
My neighbor is a good size cattle farmer who also does some row crop farming. He is going to give me some bean stalk mulch that he wants me to try next year. This is a good reminder to me to ask him about chemical use on his stuff. Thanks.
You have your own "Play list" on My phone 😁😁😁. I have a question... I want to grow corn BUT my soil is VERY rocky and I have physical issues, basically a Destroyed back, can I grow it in raised beds? Mine are 4*8 and 3' deep, if so, how close do you think I can plant them? okay so I had 2 questions 😁. Thank You Gardener Scott 💯
Yes, you can grow corn in raised beds. It can have very deep roots so a deep bed is good. Because you won't need paths between the corn rows, each plant can be about 12-15 inches apart.
Thanks guys! Trying to think of a cocktail to mix in with my forked dirt that might last for a little longer to help in opening it up down in there and maybe not seal up as fast. Harder clay like dirt obviously a few inches down. Just thinking!
@@milkweed7678 I made a 4x8 ft compost pile of leaves, coffee and tea grinds, and kitchen scraps over last winter on top of a silty clay loam, heavy on the clay, and mixed it all in for my spring cabbage and summer squash, cucumbers and sunflowers. I turned it over again after my first frost and noticed that though there are still large chunks of clay, the roots have been able to get deep into them. I've started calling all these plants my clay busters. I don't have a tiller, so short of that, I find these plant roots to be best at busting clay, with a little help from compost.
Hi, Scott. May I ask that what does “right after the bed “mean? I am following up all of your videos to learn English and gardening. But I’m puzzled with this sentence appears in many videos. Look forward your reply. And thank you so much for your sharing, I’ve learned a lot from your videos.
@@JustAlive21 Explain myself? Lol. Well we went from only eating veggies from the garden to buying them from the grocery store again. Because I didn't succession plant. Thanks for asking!!! 😃
Can seashells be used in soil as an alternative to perlite? I know shells can make a great mulch just trying to figure out if I mixed in crushed shells if it would help with aeration in the soil like perlite. Obviously it wouldn't help with water retention tho.
William, it could be an abundance of nitrogen. Whether as an added fertilizer or excess in soil, too much nitrogen will result in beautiful plants with little fruit set.
@@GardenerScott A problem I contend with on this old cattle farm. Fortunately, I seem to have a abundance of nutrients for balance, but definitely lots of nitrogen. I get plenty of fruit set and most things grow crazy ridiculous, but seems to take some extra time. My heavy feeders like it. That said, it does cause some issues or conundrums I need to work out. Will be doing some soil testing just to see where I'm at and what adjustments may be needed. For me it's generally a good problem to have. Don't seem to have any lockout conditions and the stalks on most of my plants are extra thick, many very woody with great root growth. Any tips would be appreciated. Learning, learning, learning.... Thanks Scott.
I’m about to turn 30. Started gardening on the front porch of my apartment in containers a couple years ago. Just bought our first house and I can’t stop spending money on this garden for spring. I’m so excited to have my own land and can’t wait for spring to roll around. Hopefully the garden will be ready by then. Thanks for all the great videos!!!
The basics are NEVER over repeated 👍Seasoned gardeners should always remind themselves of the essential steps...Loving all you share from North Idaho zone 6a 💚🌻🌿
Rule 7 has to be at the top of the list. If you do not enjoy what you are doing you will not have the best out come possible. Gardening is one of my best stress reduction programs. Next to chasing my grandchildren around.
Watching this while I make chili with tomatoes I canned from our garden this year. 😁😁😁
I'm eating string cheese that I bought from the store. 🤣
Canning tomatoes it one thing that I never thought to do. Does anyone have a link to a good guide on how to do this? Thanks and happy gardening!
I grew plants for the first time this year. Your videos make me so excited for next spring!
Enjoy all your videos. I've been gardening 25 years. I learn something new every time I watch a new video from you. Thanks. Cheers from ont Canada.
Since radishes make a lot of seed, they can be used as cover plantings, and for sprouting, even if some of the hybrid seeds fail to make good roots, so they are always useful, and also very fast and can quickly green up the windows for winter~
I found myself nodding along to your words. I so appreciate your philosophy about gardening! And I am definitely making a succession plan for my small terrace garden. I am so excited for spring!
Love the videos!! Can’t wait for feb as that’s when I begin peppers inside and it begins the excitement!!!
Enjoy gardening! YES!!!
Dropping jewels as always Scott! Plan for success and have fun gardening and learning!
Thank you for this video. My vegetable garden is only 14 feet by 21 feet, on a NE by SW axis. Yet, plants will grow differently in this space depending on the location due to the shade the garden receives. It took me a few years to find which plants grow best in which location in my garden. If you have problems with disease, take the time to figure out what the disease is, how to prevent the disease naturally but mulching, spacing, trimming, watering etc. and consider buying disease resistant seeds or plants.
I always learn something valuable from your channel. Very educational!
Thank you!! My mantra the last days while weeding and preparing my garden is,”work smart, not hard”. You have really helped me so much in my garden planning this year!! Thank you for all the informative videos! Have a beautiful day!!!
Thanks for the help this is a necessary watch for all beginners in my opinion and anyone who just loves gardening
Really helpful to know to plan for my first ever garden next year. Thanks, Scott!
Congratulations! Next year will be my first as well. Long time since I’ve been so excited about something. Haha :)
"The [7th] rule is: 'Enjoy Gardening.'" * Roll credits * 😁
Great video again. I just had my first spring small harvest (southern hemisphere) of beans, peas and French carrots, so satisfying. The garlic and onions are doing well and the 25 potatoe plants are out of control, on their way to a Guiness record 🙂. First year growing veggies and absolutely loving it! Thanks for the advice gardener Scott.
Thank you for great video
Thank you! This year was my first year. Not so successful, because the shops closed. I quickly started with anything I had on hand. A couple of weeks ago, I put together my large raised bed. Then filled it with free wood (hughelkultur) and got good quality soil. Now I am composting in the soil, so by spring it will be extra good. Seeds I have already, but no plan yet. Thanks to your video's I learned that soil is everything and planning is good (I am not a planner normally). I enjoy the good preparing and having enough time to plan it as I like. Thank you Scott!
Thanks Scott! I actually spent a lot of time late summer and fall this year rearranging beds and putting some new ones in or just fixing some beds that had problems. One of the problems I had this year is related to your first point of location. Not the location of the garden but not placing beds in the right spots and not putting the tallest things in the right spots. For example: my Roma tomatoes got 5' tall and shaded my late beets; my early girl tomatoes which get extremely tall were not located in the far northern or northwest section of my garden; my strawberries were in a low wet spot which encouraged rot, slugs, and pill bug infestation. I have a good plan for next year and will be adding a cattle panel arch in the northern section also. Is it spring yet?
Loved this video Scott! Thank you for all of your hard work and sharing your passion with us!!
This is a good Gardening 101 video. I’ve been gardening all of my life, so almost 6 decades. This is a good garden video for people who are just starting to garden . I found your tips were a refresher for me. I kind of already knew all of them, not that I know everything.
Great video! It's good to know all the things to consider for the next seasons garden. I also have been planning my garden for next year. It's fun to do. I enjoy it.
As one that started out as a container gardener for years, then this spring added a 4X8 raised bed, then added another 4X8 raised bed this summer, I sometimes have to tell myself to stop treating gardening as a job and just "Enjoy Gardening".
I come here for tips about vegetable gardening, but I really appreciate that you touch on other things (like non-edible perennial shade plants, perhaps).
Grow what you enjoy eating. Taste/hunger, motivates.
So make a few of your Gladolia Garden tomatoe seed available to some lucky winner , contest of your choice.
Thanks for teaching Sir
Very good. Oh yes on number 7.
Fabulous video packed with information for the beginner! Oh how I wish your video was available at the beginning of lockdown, you would have saved me so much wasted time, resources and stopped my confidence taking a major hit! I did get a harvest but small and quite late so nothing really had time to get going, only now am I realising it was actually in the main due to soil structure and a lack of correct soil nutrition. 😊
Great advice. I am with Zachary, #7 should be #1.
Another really great episode mr Scott! 👍👍👍 Enjoy Gardening!
Thumbs up! Encouraging while in the middle of February zone 5b Michigan! Thank you
Scott, I just came across your channel, and after watching this video I had to say Thank You!! You're an EXCELLENT TEACHER, and very informative!! I am definitely subscribing!!
Thanks, Shari! Welcome to the channel.
just found your channel and i love it! i just bought a house (4b) and am planning my front yard garden and you’re helping me out so much! thanks for your time, i really appreciate it! :-)
More sage advice. Thanks so much!
As always, great advice! Thank you for sharing your wisdom. ♥️👍🙏🤓🇺🇸
I was a first time gardener last year and I ended up starting big. I had more food than I knew what to do with. pounds and pounds of cucumbers, corn, pumpkins, and tomatoes. Though I had some failures too. I think if I had started just a bit smaller I would not have been stretched so thin for my experience level and I would have done better.
God sound piratical advice. To go along with "The right time to plant" if your starting seeds indoors think about the right time to start seeds. I made the mistake this season of starting seedlings to early. A warm spell had me thinking I could have most of them out by mid April. In reality I couldnt get them out till after Mothers day because it turned cold again. The plants got big, I needed to up pot them a couple of times and some were root bound. Next year I am not going to start them until the last week of March or early April.
When I was a sergeant in the army, and a safety officer as well, I had the idea that rules should be easy to follow so that they're more likely to be followed. I think that's what tip #7 is for me. Why would I want to be miserable? Why would I force myself to be miserable? If I truly enjoy gardening, I will keep doing it. I am building my garden based on that at it's founding principle.
For example, I recently took a page out of your ranking of plants to grow. My ranking and scores were a little different from yours, but onions still didn't score well. I'm still going to grow some, though, because I enjoy it. I'll make more space for tomatoes and peppers, but I also want and enjoy onions.
I agree. I think much of my approach to gardening is founded on principles from my military background too. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying gardening and venturing beyond a set list to continue the enjoyment.
As a retired sergeant and safety officer for my unit. I was drawn to your comment..loved that gardening is a joy and that learning the basics (rules) makes sense to more than just me.🙂🙃😉😊
Can you overwinter any of the hardy brassicas like kale in that area, and can you create berms or low spots to focus the water where the plants are in the garden? Like channeling the roof runoff along a swale that runs in a circle around the garden. Saving seed is also vital to gardening, as packets commonly have one gram of seeds in them, which can still be a lot, but a new gardener won't know how to use that one gram of seeds effectively, to both save seeds and harvest food sustainably~
I had kale growing through last winter. I've left turnips in the ground too. My new garden is pretty flat but I've used berms to direct water in previous gardens. I've also used perforated tubes to direct roof runoff into and through beds.
Its funny now I think back,You are right about having fun with gardening. When we were first married, my wife and I followed our parents, we gardened to feed our young family. But, now that we are retired, we do it for fun and give the excess to family and neighbors. It is also easier now too. We don't cut corners, but we got a lot smarter on how to garden with less work involved. It is a JOY to garden and share it with our granddaughter who is six.
Perfect 3 family members 4 beds and 1 picky eater that hates all veggies 🤣🤣❣️
Great video! How do I know when is the right time to sow seeds indoors in my area? I’ve tried google and a lot of results aren’t even really related and the few that are all say different times so I’m confused.
It depends on the seed. Check the seed packet for guidance. Peppers are often 12 weeks prior to last frost date, tomatoes are six weeks, and other plants vary.
@@GardenerScott thanks!
Please mention to people to be careful where they get their straw , due to the wide spread use of aminopyralids being used on some. I know the person I get mine from and I know his mother uses on her gardens so I know it is safe.
Dee, I'm planning a video devoted to that topic early next year. It is an important concern.
@@GardenerScott That is great to know. I will definitely watch that. I first heard about it from a local gardener and then on Scot Head's channel Black Gumbo Southern Gardening. I did a little research and I am glad I have a local young man who refuses to use those things on his crops.
My neighbor is a good size cattle farmer who also does some row crop farming. He is going to give me some bean stalk mulch that he wants me to try next year. This is a good reminder to me to ask him about chemical use on his stuff. Thanks.
You have your own "Play list" on My phone 😁😁😁. I have a question... I want to grow corn BUT my soil is VERY rocky and I have physical issues, basically a Destroyed back, can I grow it in raised beds? Mine are 4*8 and 3' deep, if so, how close do you think I can plant them? okay so I had 2 questions 😁. Thank You Gardener Scott 💯
Yes, you can grow corn in raised beds. It can have very deep roots so a deep bed is good. Because you won't need paths between the corn rows, each plant can be about 12-15 inches apart.
@@GardenerScott Thank You
Great vid!! What organic matter takes the longest to breakdown other than wood chips or branches?
Thanks!!!
Thanks! Tree leaves and veggie roots can also take a long time.
Pine needles. If not broken up take a long time to break down. That is my experience
Thanks guys! Trying to think of a cocktail to mix in with my forked dirt that might last for a little longer to help in opening it up down in there and maybe not seal up as fast. Harder clay like dirt obviously a few inches down. Just thinking!
Bones?
@@milkweed7678 I made a 4x8 ft compost pile of leaves, coffee and tea grinds, and kitchen scraps over last winter on top of a silty clay loam, heavy on the clay, and mixed it all in for my spring cabbage and summer squash, cucumbers and sunflowers. I turned it over again after my first frost and noticed that though there are still large chunks of clay, the roots have been able to get deep into them. I've started calling all these plants my clay busters.
I don't have a tiller, so short of that, I find these plant roots to be best at busting clay, with a little help from compost.
Love your videos...what zone do you live in....I live in the Chicago area...zone 5
Hi, Scott. May I ask that what does “right after the bed “mean? I am following up all of your videos to learn English and gardening. But I’m puzzled with this sentence appears in many videos. Look forward your reply. And thank you so much for your sharing, I’ve learned a lot from your videos.
Hi, Ashley. When I refer to the bed I am talking about the garden bed. That's the area of ground or raised area for planting.
@@GardenerScott Thank you for your reply. Happy holidays!
If Greens are nitrogen and browns are carbon, where does the nitrogen go when greens turn brown????
Much of it is released into the air as the material dries.
I learned about succession planting the hard way. Smh
Explain yourself
@@JustAlive21 Explain myself? Lol. Well we went from only eating veggies from the garden to buying them from the grocery store again. Because I didn't succession plant. Thanks for asking!!! 😃
@@SpiceyKy ooh i m sorry🙁😕
Can seashells be used in soil as an alternative to perlite? I know shells can make a great mulch just trying to figure out if I mixed in crushed shells if it would help with aeration in the soil like perlite. Obviously it wouldn't help with water retention tho.
I haven't done that, but it could work.
I can grow picture perfect plants I just don’t get much fruit 😢😢
William, it could be an abundance of nitrogen. Whether as an added fertilizer or excess in soil, too much nitrogen will result in beautiful plants with little fruit set.
@@GardenerScott A problem I contend with on this old cattle farm. Fortunately, I seem to have a abundance of nutrients for balance, but definitely lots of nitrogen. I get plenty of fruit set and most things grow crazy ridiculous, but seems to take some extra time. My heavy feeders like it. That said, it does cause some issues or conundrums I need to work out. Will be doing some soil testing just to see where I'm at and what adjustments may be needed. For me it's generally a good problem to have. Don't seem to have any lockout conditions and the stalks on most of my plants are extra thick, many very woody with great root growth. Any tips would be appreciated. Learning, learning, learning.... Thanks Scott.
Am I the only person who is looking at the mailbox in the garden...???
He did a video on that! :-)
@@hollysharvest must have missed that one :/