The Lazy Gardener's Spring Checklist | Do These 10 Things NOW!
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- 10 tasks to get your NO weeding, NO watering, spring garden started right, the lazy way...This video is brought to you by Squarespace. For a 10% discount at launch go to www.squarespace.com/anneofall...
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0:00 Intro
0:50 Rake pathways
1:19 Lay cardboard
1:46 Lay mulch (and lots of it)
2:47 Composting correctly
3:48 Amend soil
5:43 Use mushrooms
10:33 Use what you got to get where you need to go
11:04 Plant diversity
14:22 Plant late
15:34 Plant correct depth
16:24 Most chaotic ad read ever
17:38 Grow forth and prosper (with an unplanned surprise)
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So I’m new to gardening and never used mulch before. You said never to use mulch that’s not broken down on garden bed so as one that’s starting out would you recommend I used bagged mulch on the garden bed and then in the pathways use the mulch I can get from tree servicing co? At least to start out that way for this first year?
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In case you didn’t catch the video above, the answer to your question is actually that you totally can use arborist chips the first year on top of your garden, but I recommend you screen them first so you can weed out the larger wood pieces, and mix your screened chips about 50/50 with compost.
What I mean by screening is to build a square wood frame just a little bit bigger than your wheelbarrow and secure a piece of galvanized hardware cloth with 1/4” or 1/2” square holes in the bottom of the frame using 1/2” staples. It’s best if the frame is at least a few inches deep. Lay the frame wire side down over your wheelbarrow and put a couple shovels worth of woodchips into the screen. Shuffle the screen back and forth over your wheelbarrow so that the woodchips smaller than the holes in the wire fall down into the wheelbarrow. Use the larger chips leftover for your pathways and the smaller chips that collect in the bottom of the wheelbarrow as your mulch on top of the garden beds.
I use mulched leaves on my beds around my plants. I mow the leaves and dump it in a location I can scoop from. The bottom is usually back to soil by the time I get to it.
@@AnneofAllTrades I am looking forward to the next video. I am working on a garden from scratch. I haven't planted one in 3 years, so I am starting over.😒
@@liebekatz1 we’ll get you started off right.
You are absolutely correct. These folks are checking their data with any number of university horticultural agricultural departments. There is tons of information, all people have to do is read and not listen to people who don’t know what they are doing. Please folks.
Now where wood ash can be used in small amounts to increase calcium etc and raise alkalinity levels - do it with advice of a proper soil sample sent through your local county extension service for like $8-$12. Every county in the US has one. You get the boxes, instructions etc to collect and send off.
Note to newbie gardeners: Lazy gardening only works if you do the hard work up front. Great video; great information.
Truth, but if you think about the compounding nature of weeding and watering over time, one afternoon of work instead of an entire season of daily chores doesn't really seem that "hard" to me.
It's a mind set -- think of how you can give your future self a gift ... do the preventive measures now so it's easier in the future
@@AnneofAllTrades I'm trying to apply this and see if "lazy gardening" methods work for "disabled gardening". I've got days where I have all the spoons (i.e. energy and manageable pain) in the world followed by weeks of barely making it to the office and back. I'm usually useless for the month of August due to the heat and humidity here in the Midwest. My hope is that if I put in the work now constructing my beds and mulching them before I can even put plants in the ground, it'll be able to tide me thru the rougher patches.
I love that part of it. I'm working hard right now growing soil that we didn't have from the beginning. Collecting every organic debris I can lay my hands on, building beds out of it dragging all this material around the yard that in the future I hope to call a garden without any hesitation. This year I have a large area that is ready to be planted. I'm dreading it a little bit not sure if some of the soil is really ready or it might be a big flop for this year. I know that in the following years it will get better for sure.
@@mercurybard9794As a fellow spoonie I'll say methods like what Anne uses have really helped me a lot 🖤 Some days I have more energy and focus than others and I try to really use those times to my advantage to set up systems and accomplish tasks that will help me in the future when I can physically or mentally spend little to no time/energy. I'm still (sometimes painfully slowly) setting up my garden/yard to be anything useful but I know that once it's fully established things will be way easier to deal with.
I'm lazy, now I just need a garden.
😂
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I use old shower curtains to drag things around the property -- compost mixes, tree trimmings, etc. -- like you use that kiddy pool. (Heck, if you look up my house on Google Maps, the current satellite picture was snapped while I must have been trimming the front bushes because you can see the shower curtain I was loading branches on clear as day. 😅)
Hahaha that’s so smart. Sometimes I use tarps in a similar way
Old, small tarps work great also !
I often use tarps to do that but honestly that's a great use for old shower curtains that usually just end up in the landfill! Plus then I wouldn't risk tearing up a good tarp by dragging it around.
You could make this video once a season every year and I would absolutely watch them all 👍
Same
Yeah lol
yuppp ~ 🌿🤍☘️🌱
I love that you promote the use of mushrooms in the garden.
I asked the old timer at the feed store what he thought about the projected last frost date and planting. He said, "End of April/early May. If you put them in before that, they'll be chibberin' in the soil and won't grow as well once it is warm. I've seen em. You can see em just chibberin'. 😂
Old timers are the best. They have wisdom and will spill it all over you any way they see fit. No cares given. 😂
I started using cardboard 3 years ago when I learned about no till gardening with Charles Dowding. Didn't realize how much tilling disturbs the microbes, worms, and critters in the soil. I'm learning more and more about fungi, mycelium. Didn't realize that the white on the mulch was actually beneficial. Thank you for all the excellent advice! Happy "lazy" gardening!😄
Same, years ago I literally used to get rid of mulch and soil that had that mysterious "white stuff" on it because I thought it was contaminated with something bad that would hurt my garden/yard ecosystem. I'm really glad I've learned better since.
... it had never occurred to me that I could rake the pathway woodchips that had been breaking down all winter onto my beds to add easy decomposed matter to my soil. I had just been dumping new wood chips on top of my paths over and over as the mulch slowing "disappeared". I'll be going out in to my garden right now, that you
That makes my heart sing
Poor Lucy no water in the pool. No wonder she's cranky😂
Me too! Need to get to my allotment right now to fix this. Thanks@AnneofAllTrades amazing video. I love you .. blueberries I stole from the forest 😂
I found this way of gardening a couple years ago. I now grow beautiful flowers and food not lawn. Glad I found you.
I just dug my walkways into my rows today - it was glorious. The soil is getting more and more beautiful every year from this very same practice. :) Agreed.
Glorious is one of my favorite words.
This style of gardening has been a life saver for me.
I reckon a green thumb is inherited. I’ve noticed that I don’t get well received when I give a thumb up. This lady is bonafide and true. She is an ordinate source of good produce.
I love how curious the animals get while you're filming. So much fun.
watching you from Az and even with or without rain we get weeds. Love your garden video. Trying to find my way through grief and love your videos. Huge thank you
Oh buddy. I’m so sorry you’re grieving. Howdy Donkey sends a big hug.
I compost everything meat eggs feathers I mean everything over the years this has served me well plus wood chips I’m good so far I’ve gardened since I was 11 I’m 67 now I’m just saying
Do you have any tips?
@@Brittanysplittanyshe gave one....compost everything
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I got a truck load of mushroom spawn and spred it all over the garden,yard, and surrounding forest!
Good on ya
Our wood chips seem to be naturally seeded with Inky Cap spawn. They're dainty and beautiful - and then they're NOT! (They turn into zombie mushrooms)
Yes mushrooms compost is a great product if you can get it:)
I love this idea of transferring the old chips to the beds and then putting new chips in the patches!
Planting late is something that we're just now learning :-) We always waited for the weekend after the "last frost", but then a couple weeks later things die off from the cold! We're waiting until June to plant tomatoes this year!
The farmers almanac site will tell you the perfect days to plant everything for your zip code! Last frost dates can be deceptive because that's just less than like a 50% probability. it can still get too cold for certain plants.
Farmes almanac for my zone said 4/7/24 is last frost date but I'm going to wait until at least 4/22/24 to start.
The method that I use is to look at ‘marker’ plants. Wild things like dandelion and clover. If they are flowering you know that it’s warm enough to plant. It doesn’t make sense to use calendar dates, they have nothing to do with how warm (or cold) it is. The plants ‘know’, the farmers almanac is just a light hearted suggestion based on previous history. Or you could be really scientific and use a soil thermometer that’s 6” long or a compost thermometer that’s 2’ long. Possibly even average the 2 temperatures. If soil is 10C you can plant everything except the ‘tropicals’ - tomatoes, peppers, squash etc.
I love watching watching your lazy gardening videos. I love the fact that you are not wearing gloves either.
You’ve gotta touch the soil with your skin to get the mental health benefits it has to offer ;)
@@AnneofAllTrades I love it.
@@AnneofAllTrades exactly! It like earthing with your hands instead of feet!!
In Europe they now want gardeners to wear masks to protect them from the soil. I thought it was well established that children who did not play in the soil were more sickly. Just one among many things they are getting wrong lately.
I try so hard but my hands need dirt😂
Thank you for confirming my practices of procrastination and Hügelkultur, which basically means I dump all the old sticks, branches, leaves, sawdust, food scraps, and flower garden trimmings into my food garden every year. Going on 3 years of yummy food~
....and your are not disturbing the planting bed either, not turning it upside down is good for the soil. Just top it up each year. People think the roots go really deep but most plants are very shallow
Yeah tillage is simply not the way for longevity of soil health or nutritional availability for plants
You ROCK!! Thank you so much!
“Your show is fantastic! During your discussion about mycelium aiding soil aeration, it jogged my memory. After I mulched my garden with wood chips, I observed a significant increase in earthworms-a multitude of them! This spring, when I planted trees, I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly my soil transformed. The earthworms turned the once compact lawn into a light, fluffy soil that I’m confident plants will thrive in.”
The holes they make and dead material they eat creates the perfect environment for plant roots to take hold. Their secretion is phenomenal for the plants too! You sir are winning.
Wait did you put bark on your lawn?
@Padraigp I'm assuming he mulched his garden beds and the worms have worked their way through the grass maybe between beds or even just multiplying.
I got the wood chips from arborists just like Anne does. I covered my lawn with them almost foot high. Warms converted it to most beautiful planting soil within months. I can now plant veggies anywhere I want. Also I found no difference between areas I used cardboard over the grass and where I put chips directly so I would skip cardboard if you have enough chips. BTW a year later the chips have settled and decomposed to only a few inches thick layer.
@@zlatanfazlagic ah perfect ok. Thats a lot of bark so i dunno if I can do that deep but i am putting down a fake lawn for my aunt so if i put bark underneath then in a few years it might be decent again. The soil went to shite when the planes above started dropping poison and my aunt isn't a gardener so she didn't know to put anything like compost. Its grey dust now. So hopefully this will work out will help the weeds as well so finger crossed. Thanks for the tip.
That is the system I use …..put free wood chips in pathways, then use it in your planting areas when the chips have broken all down. Works perfect!!!!
Love your gardens!
This is how we do it!! We hardly ever spend money on our garden. It’s the best.
Yes! Wow! She’s a great American example for everyone. Beautiful work. Labor of love.
I love the idea of mixing the seed. Going to have to try that one in at least half my garden to experiment. ;). I did plant my tomatoes early because I hate working in the heat. Oh well.
Laying down heavy mulch in the pathways, letting it break down over time, then raking it up on top of where you plant...that's a pretty good system .
14:31 I live in Tennessee, so this is pretty accurate.
16:02 Something I'm willing to live with versus hearing this in the inner city.
I love your advice, style and energy. Thanks.
Well this is my new favorite garden channel. I call myself "lazy" at work because I'll do extra effort to set me up to do less in the long run... So your method really speaks to me!
Adding mushroom spores is genius. Is there a certain time of year that's best to do that step? I am somewhere between "the pollening" and "actual spring" 😂
Thanks.
Fantastic guide indeed. Educational and straight to the point no BS. Thank You…✌🏽🙌
❤❤❤❤ ADDED TO MY LIST TO DO THANK YOU ALWAYS ❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks for sharing!
Love your energy!!!
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12 Seasons...! I feel you, coming from a peninsula swept by winds off the southern oceans !
Thanks for all your explanation! I absolutely appreciate your channel! Thank you!
I love the mushroom idea. Thats a great idea for all that dead space!!
Love this one too!! I can't wait until I have some land and can actually take advantage of all this wisdom you share. You rock!
Love your energy!
What a relief! I've been saving the cardboard over the winter!
We have three guinea pigs. The bedding is pine chips and when we clean them and change it all of it goes into the gardens--continuously. Once a year I do what you are showing here for my food garden beds--I rake off the mulch and top off the soil underneath and put the piggy mulch back. Then I cardboard the walkways and mulch with piggy mulch (we clean their cages 2-4 times a month--their cages are 4sq' and 6sq'--so LOTS of mulch.)
The mulch is full of their poop and hay so we get extra goodness. Keeping piggies for pets or food or both is all around a great thing to do.
I didn't know people eat guinea pigs. Have you? Does it taste like chicken? (Just kidding) Seriously though, I honestly didn't know you could eat the guinea pigs. I'm going to have to look into that.
@@mousepolice55 its big business in South America!
Thanks for existing! Also to the TH-cam community!
You are my new favorite!!! Thank you so incredibly much for this! 💚🤩💯
This idea I can learn to love .
Great stuff and easy to follow
Excellent video. I love lazy 🌞🌞
Excellent as always!
Thank you!!!
Ty for the info. weve had a garden but were never mindful about it. Now we live in the country and we want to plan it this time❤ this and ur channel are going to be soooo helpful
Loved this video. Thank you Anne❤
Never thought of roots as transports for microbes ❤that’s so cool
So happy I found you, I’m also a lazy gardener. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🌱🌱🌱
Awesome garden video. Thanks for sharing this video with us 👍.
Not to mention the additional uptake of carbon in the air, your type of gardening is great for decarbonization and healthier air quality.
My motto in life: work smarter, not harder! Great tips :)
Great video, thanks for sharing!
I really enjoy your videos. I am slowly changing to a permaculture type garden vs my raised beds. All your info is super handy. Thank you.
❤👋🙂🇦🇺 Thanks for sharing your experience with us ❤
This was so incredibly in depth, yet concise. You're going to be my new favorite gardening channel! Thanks for sharing your wisdom!
So much good information and encouragement!
Thank you.
I planted my cabages between my rows of garlic this year. Hoping for lots of cabbages to ferment.
You have a good personality. 😊
Yay perfect video i need!! Im starting to move away from container gardening and raised beds and do exactly what you are doing!
Excellent video, Anne! Thx for sharing!!
I have been watching gardening videos for ages, I have never witnessed one as well explained as this, I really enjoyed it so thank you so much. Now I will go and watch the rest of your videos 😊. Saluts from Tunisia 🇹🇳
So glad to hear it! Thank you!
I am so very happy that your channel appeared in my feed! Fantastic!
So glad you’re here!
❤ love this, the wood chips way of growing is not something that is widely known where I live, but it has made our berry garden soil health improve so much the past 8 months. Now the next project is our newly planned vegetable field. Our fruit trees are doing okay, properly better this year as they have been pruned for the first time in several years.
Thanks for sharing 💜
Here i am in florida watching all my brassicas bolting from heat, and youre just getting started. I'm almost in the "too hot for most plants" season
Absolutely excellent! Your experience is appreciated.
Glad it was helpful!
Dis this yesterday thanks for the video ❤
😊 The BEST !
thanks for this video, inspired and bought a bunch of seeds, going to make my whole back yard like this.
Anne I have watched you here and there over the years and recently found your content again. I have to say you are an amazing woman. I don't see much of your husband but I hope yall are growing well together. I watched last years live announcement recently and that is the most of seen of him. He seems like a good dude. Yall seem like great friends. Relationships are work and so is homesteading so I can imagine at times throughout it can be difficult but finding your way back to that innocent connection that was the start of it all is so important. I wish yall well.
Thanks so much for the kind words of encouragement! Though we are now working together, Adam isn't *in* many of the videos because more often than not, he is behind the camera, and he prefers it that way. Since leaving his corporate job he does have more flexibility to help with farm projects on occasion when asked, it still isn't his favorite way to spend his time or energy, so I try not to ask more often than I need to, which honestly, isn't often. While anyone who has been married would be the first to tell you marriage is hard, I think one of the secrets to a healthy relationship is learning one another's strengths and weaknesses and working together to use both in whatever ways possible to benefit the whole. It's healthy to have separate interests, up to the point that they don't create separate lives. That's probably the most difficult and valuable lesson we've learned throughout our marriage.
@@AnneofAllTrades I appreciate you taking the time out of all your chores... I kinda feel guilty for even commenting in a way that might cause you to respond. I like the viewpoint of being "equally yoked" with your core beliefs. If those are different then its a difficult road to travel. If aligned than you can get anywhere. I am looking to buy land in the next month... I can't wait to start a homestead... I have a big to do list but only way to get there is one step at a time. Again thanks for your time Anne.
First time seeing your videos and I've learned so much. This was very informative and I look forward to see how you started the garden to get it to this kind of easy maintenance level.
The ONLY issue with cardboard is if it has coatings on it or colored ink. Typical cardboard boxes with black ink or very little colored ink is great to use, as in it's beneficial to the garden, as in it's excellent for these walkways and it's also used for some no-dig techniques.
I think it's good to sort cardboard, discard the shiny coated layers, pull off tape and pull out staples. It may take a bit longer but it's worth it in the long run.
I wholeheartedly agree
My cardboard hack is to leave them outside for a while especially if it’s raining. All of the tape becomes loose or dry and is easily pulled off. It also is more pliable to place in your garden bed or path
We have been blessed with arborist chips beyond my imagination and now I need an end loader 😂.
I garden in ground because it’s so dry here and dug the paths down initially and filled them with bark. It’s helped tremendously and now we are finally seeing worms 💃👏🏼💃👏🏼.
If you haven’t already discovered this tip: use a 16 prong hay fork instead of a shovel moving mulch. You’ll realize pretty quickly you don’t actually need an end loader (though having one would be nice)
Top Notch Thank You
Well, crap, I've been doing it for a while. I even bought a good tiller. Thanks for your valuable tips.
LOVE everything you do!! Hope your hand is better and all healed!
It’s probably time for another update on that, eh? It’s probably as better as it’s going to get, yep. I’ve permanently lost feeling and partial function in my thumb but I’ve found plenty of ways to adapt and am so thankful to be back to woodwork, milking cows and playing music again. Bonus, now when I smash my thumb hammering nails, I won’t even feel it anymore 😅
This is great! Thank you! You are my hero 😂
Wow. So much accurate and well researched stuff. Had never watched a presenter making so much sense.
thanks for sharing!
You are vary engaging and full of great advice. Well done!
I appreciate that!
I'm just starting my own food garden this year. I'm happy to see that my very lazy sprinkling of seeds across carefully prepared garden beds is a perfectly valid technique.
They do need to be seeds that will get along. Some plants cancel out each other's growth. That isn't to say they won't grow but that they won't do as well, will be weaker and subsequently more susceptible to pests and disease. Check into companion or guild planting. Good luck 🎉
I’ve been trying to figure out how to make walkways this is great!😊
Well done video. Thank you.
This is one of my favorite videos of yours it has changed the way I garden and love the simplicity of it. Great job
So glad to hear it!
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Awesome thank you!
So good! I couldn’t help but dream of the day that school has an “In-Session”sign on it. Good to see your face my friend. ❤
Here for the first time. I really like your videos. Thanks (from Italy).
Please save yourself MORE work: drive your wheelbarrow on the bare cardboard to the end of the row, THEN dump it, so you don't have to drive in the uncompacted wood chips. Much easier!
Hahaha brilliant save there 😂😂 I often notice things like that when watching videos back and am like… what the heck was I doing??
@@AnneofAllTrades 😅
such great info! I will be doing woodchip paths from now on 😄
Great video. Thank you! James got me a wood chipper for Mother's Day a few years ago. I love it! ❤️
Yeeehaw!!
You are amazing! Thanks
Really fun and informative
Wood ash neutralizes soil pH by the way. It's alkaline.
You’re totally right. Misspoke in a big way on that one 😅
I love your videos! Please make more of food lazy gardening!
Great video thanks for the tips!
This is my style of gardening! I call myself the haphazard gardener. I will definitely try the mushrooms!
Such good information!! Gracias
Thanks!
Thank YOU!