Lessons for Beginner Gardeners (9 Tips)
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- Good gardening practices work well for seasoned gardeners and new gardeners alike. These effective methods in the garden serve as good lessons for beginner gardeners. Gardener Scott discusses nine good gardening practices to help develop gardening success. (video #162)
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Thank you for these great videos!
I am planning to try some container gardening.
Also considering installing a few raised beds.
What is the best wood to use for them?
I have a slightly side topic question as well.
There is a tree I have never seen anywhere else that grows in my side yard.
It is maybe 20' or so tall and gets a white feather like bloom on it in the spring.
The bloom is not like a mimosa but more stringy.
After some research the best I can tell is it may be a Franklin Tree.
How would you go about identifying such a mystery tree?
P.S. Edit
Forgot to mention I live in a somewhat swampy area in Southern New Jersey
below the Pa borderline.
@@charleswidmore5458 I use basic fir as the top level and pressure-treated wood for the base. Any wood will work, but cedar, redwood, and pressure-treated will last longer. Leaves are the best way to identify a mystery plant. Here's one guide that may help: www.arborday.org/trees/whattree/fullonline.cfm
@@GardenerScott Hey Mr. Scott was wondering what Zone are you in and what Would You reccomend for North Tucson Az zone 9a?
Thank You, Have a Good Day
What kind of wood do you use to make your beds
@@shirleytruett7319 Gardener Scott posted that info a year ago. I have copied and pasted it here for you so you won't have to hunt for it. He wrote: "I use basic fir as the top level and pressure-treated wood for the base. Any wood will work, but cedar, redwood, and pressure-treated will last longer."
I plant in threes, 1/3 for me, 1/3 for the birds and 1/3 for the bugs. 😂
Hard to beat that strategy.
Yes! I like being able to eat right in the garden. Can’t do that with pesticides
yes if the birds and insects are working for us , they need their salary XD, sounds legit ...
Lmao
That is what the native Americans taught the pilgrims when the colony was near starvation.
I speak Spanish and I love how he speaks. Súper clear it's easy for me understand what he says. 💚💚💚
He’s speaking English thou 😝😘
@@savedfaves 🤦🏻♀️ I did not say that he spoke Spanish.🤦🏻♀️
I said that he speaks very clearly that it's easier for me to understand what he says.
This is excellent for those who don't understand English perfectly and look for information on TH-cam.
@@ivethgo2876 I too am a Spanish speaker and I totally agree. His English is so nice and clear.
@@Neldidellavittoria as an native english speaker, i totally agree. He's not too fast, where as I grew up in Michigan, we rapid fire words out.
As a native English speaker, I also enjoy the way he speaks. 👌
This man is so professional. It makes me feel I'm watching a show on 📺.
In deed
Better than anything on tv
Thank you sir for excellent information!
Yes, Bob Ross vibes
Tv is the worst.
Seriously, Bob Ross of gardening. He needs to say, "Happy little trees" and "No, mistakes only happy accidents" at least once.
You *nailed* it! 👍🏻
Took the words right out of my mouth lol
Meatloaf said the same thing.
A little bit of bob ross, and part the dude from the big lebowski. Gardener Scott abides...
I was thinking the same thing!!
1. Planting in the same place.
2. Not mulching
3. Getting Fertilization right
4. Encourage WildLife
5. Avoid Tilling your garden
6. Forgetting to weed often
7. Water Needs of different plants
8. Label your plants
9. Don't forget to harvest!
"Dont forget to harvest". Funny to even say that, but it is true. You get into the daily rhythm of water-weed-repeat for so many months. Harvesting interrupts your routine!
The best tip I can give is to enjoy in the garden. If you don't it will became just work and nothing else.
Completely agree. If you don't enjoy it then you would be better of skipping the work and buying fruit and veg from the store, there's something special about growing your own and seeing it grow day by day
Totally agree with this. I feel so happy and really get excited to wake up early in the morning looking forward to see what else I can do in my garden ❤ and the feeling of looking into that plants that growing so healthy❤❤
Many of my neighbors see me in the gardens every day and comment on "how much work that is." Truth is, I feel like working in the garden is my guilty pleasure. If it's a sunny day, and I have to work at my "day job," I get a little depressed! LOL
@@gcgarden4007 Feels like Christmas morning when I know the next day is going to be a good gardening day, doesn't it?? LOL
Small Garden Quest, So true. The garden is where I go to get mellow and decompress. The physical aspect of gardening, is a way to stay in shape naturally, in a healthy way. Like a famous quote, "Do what you love, and you'll never have to go to work" .
I make sure to visit my garden every morning while I'm sipping my coffee. It gives me a great feeling seeing what I planted are growing. And at harvest time, great tasting food. Thank you Scott for your advice!
Loved the little bunny running across the frame at 9:11. A sure sign of a healthy ecosystem if the local wildlife hang around. This guy does great work and teaches simply. Unlike so many other would-be pundits he actually stays on task. A wonderful learning resource - thank you for your work!
Great eyes!
Hi I plant water bottles into the ground next to thirsty plants like tomatoes, which I have drilled small holes into which allows water to slowly seep out of. It also protects their leaves.
The only key tip I think missing in this is to keep a good compost heap going, recycling all your green waste into nutrients while breeding microbiology. Is perhaps the core of any good garden
I've found my plant name tags fade in the sun, doesn't seem to matter what materials or marker I use. I started drawing a rough sketch of my beds and using numbers with a plant index. My beds are numbered 1-7, I have a sketch of each bed. I date the sketches. It has helped me to know exactly when/what I planted, even months later, and I use those sketches to help plan for the next year. Even if I did find a name tag system that worked, I wouldn't have a permanent record year after year. I highly recommend this sort of garden "journal".
Good idea. I do that with my seed trays.
i had a sketch, and changed it up. lost all my tags this year. just last night for the big garden patch.. i know what most are...i am going to do this right now! lol, sorry, but i was so hurt this am over all my tags, i cant remember which is lettuce, and which is spinach...
I use brass markers that I push the name of it making an impression of the name...lasts for ever
Great idea! This would make planning and working out rotations much easier.
Great idea! I take pictures of my garden. 👩🏻🌾🤗🇺🇸
I also have a problem with harvesting. This year I am making it a habit to walk the garden before I start cooking dinner to see what's ready. Tonight fresh strawberry with ice cream. Tomorrow I will be making strawberry jam with the left over berries from today's harvest.
That's a great idea. Thanks!
That's a great idea. I do that too.
Begin making compost (different types if possible), learn the pests / rodents / deer in your area. Fortify your garden with fences, flowers, aromatic herbs to detour pests. And understand what amendments can do, especially organic and free ones. I.e. bone char or bio char. Don’t ever plant mono, poly is the way to go. Learn about guilds and plant classifications. You know one already, the 3 sisters Indian crop. Corn beans and squash. One is a trellis, one needs a trellis, one is a ground cover (living mulch). Learn crop rotation and why, let your garden/beds rest a season. Try out hugelkultre (wood in beds) and start adding your grass clippings,branches,Leeds logs under your bed. And mulch mulch mulch. That should be enough to learn to have a great start for beginner gardeners.
Crop Rotation and Mulching is Key to Good Gardening..
This is the first video I’ve seen of this guy and my brain instantly went to Bob Ross but With gardening
I don't use labels anymore. I use colored straws. I keep the name or the seed pack with marked with the same color in a container inside. This has helped me a lot especially when I find a new type of veggie I like I can purchase the same seeds the next year.
Collect seeds from what you grow. They should genetically be hardy enough to handle your soils specifically and you get to save .50¢-$2 per seed pack. Don’t forget to compost to refresh your soil!
Who else is guilty of not labeling plants?.. :) I now have pots with some terrific crops growing in them. I just wish I knew what these crops were :))))))
Sound exactly like me.... the beginner gardener! I’m still learning tho.
Anna Gray, even if you have a rigorous labeling regimen things often happen to labels that disrupt your best efforts.
You can use apps like PlantNet to take pictures and recognize the plants with, they work quite nice
Ditto! 😳😂😂😂😝😝😝
i've started gardening in a place with very poor, sandy and rocky soil, basically no life inside. I dug it out, sifted out the rocks, mixed 1/3rd of that sandy dirt, 1/3rd commercial soil and 1/3rd horse litter/manure in a slightly raised bed. now it's full of worms, bugs, lizards and even some bees because i left some chinese cabbages to bloom.
i'm pretty happy about it 😀
Thanks for the great advice, as always! My best tip for gardening success is watch TH-cam gardening videos!! I bumbled along for many years as a mediocre gardener until (thanks to people like Gardener Scott) I discovered TH-cam and became a master/expert in a couple of seasons...and became a mentor for others!
We have a family of rock wrens living in a birdhouse on the backside of our house. I see the parent birds bringing 30+ bugs an hour into that birdhouse.
Gardener Scott you have a way of breaking down the details beautifully in words everyone understands while showcasing your knowledge without coming off as pretentious like some I've seen.. so much knowledge I've gained, then gained again something more later rewatching vids. God bless you brother and thanks for all you do! 🙏🏻🖤🖤🖤
Brand new gardener here and your videos are brilliant. 31 years old now and I'm turning into my father
First off I wanted to say how much I thoroughly enjoy your videos. Second off the more I listen to you the more I am going to refer to you as the Bob Ross of gardening. And trust me when I tell you that is a very high compliment!
Harvest when it is time to harvest is tricky sometimes for me too. I either harvest way too early or I grow multiple types of a vegetable and get my days to maturity mixed up. A garden is definitely a lesson in organization and patience.
Awesome video, I'll definitely be using a few of your tips this year. One tip I can share is that I use rhubarb leaves in between my rows of plants to control (KILL) weeds. It has never hurt any of my other plants 😊
To help with water conservation, place a very thin cardboard sheet 7-9 inches deep. Cover with 4-5 inches of soil, another cardboard sheet, then cover with 3 inches of soil. Depending on what you grow...you won't have to water the garden for days on end! Hope this tip helps!
Arcmage.
I added a couple inches of shredded leaves last fall to my 5 raised beds. Covered them with weighed down cardboard.
This spring... WOW. Never seen so many worms in all my life!
I have access to an enormous pile of leaf compost in my town..It is black gold.
Worms are REALLY good for plants. They’re just Yukie to touch them. Lol
Worms means let's go fishing!! 🎣🎣 😉😉
@@vickiehadd4324 , worms used to give me the heebie jeebies, but ever since I learned that they’re the best thing that you want in your garden (except the jumping worms) I’ve reformed 😀
Happy organisms makes for happy plants, which makes for a happy gardener!
I appreciate that you show your mistakes in the garden. I'm trying to learn from others mistakes so I don't make them in my garden! Thanks Scott!
Wow, you're the BEST on youtube. I watched hundreds of "experts" but none as down to earth and completely likeable as you. I am definitely going to watch more and learn from you. This is my first year gardening and I am so excited.
I just watched a chipmunk steal a cherry tomato, I question his usefulness in the garden haha. Love your videos. I've been gardening all my life and there is oh so much more to learn. Thank you.
One suggestion regarding your labels: The plastic ones that you've written with Sharpie, Bury them! get in the habit of burying them (just under the surface) in the same spot so you know where they are, this way they'll be perfectly readable later on when you come back and don't know what you've planted, leaving them out in the sunlight as you have done they will be unreadable in several months, especially in Summer. Plus as the plastic hasn't been exposed to the sun you can reuse them as they won't degrade underground.
Good tip. Thanks.
Yes! I've planted 3 kinds of honeyberry and do not want to forget which variety is which (in case I want to plant more). So each label is buried in the same place in each planter.
@@citybarbs5563 I'm going to plant some honey berry next year. Looking forward to some early berries
New gardener here. These videos help me so much - very encouraging!!! I am about to harvest my first tomatoes. Yesterday, I picked my first three cucumbers, two were too big! Reminders about harvesting were needed. Thank you, Gardener Scott!
Thanks for all the help! You're the Bob Ross of gardening.
I haven't used any fertilizer in years in the gardens. I did, finally, learn about soil biology, what different organisms can do for any plants, including fruit trees, bushes, and vegetables. It's not that minerals are not in various soils, it's about knowing which bacteria, fungi, etc can chelate the minerals.
I was worried about the seeds in straw/hay, a lot of folks have that problem, so I put out some extra cash and bought the travel straw/hay for horses that is seed free. It has to be seedless to keep unwanted grasses from growing and pushing out native grasses here in Idaho. It's certified weedless too. It works great and you can buy it online in compressed bales.
Lieka404 Where do you get it?
In Australia we have access to Sugar Cane Mulch - like straw but tougher and organic and weed free.
Cheaper to just use layers of newspaper
I don’t like all the chemicals they use for “weed free” straw/hay, I would rather have weeds. But I just get the straw and let it sit a year or two, buy some each year to set aside, use the old stuff and just keep rotating :)
Yeah, we forget to harvest as well. Such a silly issue. We put so much work into the garden, why wouldn't we be eager to harvest...and yet we wind up with zucchini as long as your arm and split tomatoes. Maybe this year will be different.
My problem is that the zucchini hide themselves or grow all the sudden. However big zucchini make lots of my chocolate zucchini bread 😁
@@milissaleatherwood6837 this happens to me with cucumbers 😅
@@etsprout me too
@@etsprout my kids are good at finding the cucumbers though because they want pickles 😂
this is wonderful. I found a sensible easy to understand gardener who is a fan of Mel Bartholomew (square foot) and he is in the exact same grow zone 5b, pest concerns-deer, rabbit, beetle, grasshopper etc, climate- Colorado High altitude dry and windy..as myself. he is only about 2 hours away it seems.
Imagine being a fan of cooking show and having to work out the measurements, substitutions and amounts even equipment needed for every. single. dish. because that chef cooks with metric, unavailable foods and unusable quantities from your everyday reality.
That' is what I DON'T run into here. Its a deep breath of fresh crisp breezy high altitude air (smiley face) I will be sharing this resource with every friend with dirt under her nails.
thankyouthankyouthankyou!!!!
The Big Lebowski Found!!!⚠️
Amazing videos!💯👍
Such a pleasant guy. Nice to watch - and I'm not even sure I want to garden!
I try to take a morning walk around my garden to see how the plants are doing
I've started taking my morning coffee and a notepad out whenever the weather isn't being uncooperative. I walk through the garden and around the yard, sipping coffee and taking notes on what needs to be done. I find it a lot more relaxing than turning on the TV news, especially these days.
Walking around the garden in the cool of the morning is the high point of the day. I feel accomplished when I've pulled a few weeds along the way.
@@livenotonevil8279 Garry not Linda. I was cautioned years ago about being in the garden when there is a heavy dew or after a rain which can increase the chance of transferring a disease or spore from one plant to the next. Late season I tend to not walk in the garden rather around the outside or in wide rows.
I use straw mulch for containers and it really helps a lot to keep moisture and less water needed.
I used to pull all the weeds, thought I was doing my crops a favor. But in reality I was taking food away from the microbes. Now i cut the tops off and leave the root to rot in the soil, creating humus. I remember when I was a kid my dad always had an acre garden and he mulched the entire garden with leaves in the fall and then around plants in the spring. He would go through the garden and cut the weeds off just below soil surface and leave the biomass on the surface. After many years of weeding I now understand the importance of leaving the root to decay. The same holds for end of season crops. Why pull up the tomato plant when it has established a community of microbes? Pull it up and they don't have anything to eat all winter. I'd like to hear your take on cover crops.
You have a great video here. I'm just adding the mistakes I've made over time. Don't we all?
Then thing that helped me the most was to automate the watering.
I love this because I am a new gardener and I always think I'm doing something wrong even though I'm getting fruits and vegetables. Thank you
Yay for ladybugs! 🐞 🐞 🐞
It is so funny to me to see other gardeners present look a bed with horse radish no weeds, while in my garden the horse radish is the weed !
I try to take a morning walk around my garden to see how the plants are doing and I can spot potential problems or things that need harvesting.. At the moment I'm snacking on the last of my Strawberries and the start of boysenberries and tomatoes. At the beginning of the season I draw my raised beds in my gardening journal and write in where I put plants or seeds and what varieties. I haven't found any label system that can survive the intense sun in AZ.
have you tried painting rocks
I love that you mentioned not forgetting to harvest, it made me feel less silly that I've done that in the past. All your advice fits with what I learned in an organic gardening course I took, great video!
You have instructed thoroughly. I love your demeanor.
I'm a little late to the party, but what helps me a lot is planting things whose sprouts look different from surrounding weeds. Thin-leaved plants (carrot, dill, caraway), bright red things (eg. red orach), beans and squashes look remarkably different from surrounding weeds as they're all simultaneously sprouting. Unlike most wildflowers, where I have no clue what I'm supposed to pull out vs. what I'm supposed to leave in. It limits my inventory a bit, but I become a more efficient gardener.
I am a new gardener and I have found that using a drip method of watering even doing a drip method overnight in my raised beds really adds a lot of Vitality to the plants they grow really fast
I just had 2 blue Jay's come and eat all my red Boston lettuce! Buggars 😆
I have a small ornamental garden which is no-dig and wildlife-friendly, I do not grow any vegetables any more because I live very close to a really busy road, in a big city. I grow plants that are insect-friendly, I have over 130 different roses. I live in central Europe. My garden is visited by dozens of bird species all year round, the list of the species is under my latest video.
Not a beginner but learned a lot thanks
The garden is one of our greatest and most interesting teachers!
He should get a pbs show he has the right demeanor for sure
Wow there is so much to learn about gardening. Thanks 👍🇨🇦
I love planting I have been planting for 1 year for 1 year it was so amazing finding all the good stuff that I didn’t know and if I didn’t know some thing oh look in your videos so I can learn more things to help my plants ❤
Thnx for the Great tips, I like leaving tubs and buckets out to catch the rain water and recycle to water with, and I also recycle my horses manure to use as composte/soil to fill the beds/ pots with....great fertilizer 😻
You've got me so excited to start gardening! Also your show should be on PBS... maybe get in contact.
Love the way you are calm and you are talking so clearly .its very important to know that we all arent native english speakers .Thanks a lot for your valuble information and you do this the way that we all can understand . Thanks 😊
If I can be half a gardener as you, I’ll be happy
Was weeding on thursday, took me five minutes. It took so long ^cause I had really to search the three weeds. XD
It looks like he lives in the Mojave Desert. He was talking about weeds without mulch? DUDE THAT IS MY LIFE. Weeds don't give a crap what you do in central Kansas. They just grow. They grow on your mulch, your driveway, the side of the house and your arm
therealpaincake 🤣🤣🤣
Learn about your weeds many are edible.
You should title this lesson “ Young gardeners, Grow Up!” Thanks for the information.
Pro tip: play at 1.75 speed if you are fluent english and wanna save time. Great vid
when the strawberries start to turn red I put them among the colored stones on red the birds find out that they are not strawberries and then they no longer fly there
Works with chickens too!
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Just want to say it’s one of the most enjoyable videos I’ve seen about gardening.
Pruning! I spent time nearly every day last year pinching suckers off of my tomato plants, and they still got overgrown with too many branches. My harvest was still excellent, though, with loads of beautiful fruit.
Stay awesome Scott
Label ! lol, my seed house tipped over in a storm in late feb...everything fell onto the floor of my deck. labels came out also. i have no idea what is what. So, i dumped the lot into the grass pile out back...the pumpkins and acorns are coming up, and i see about 8 tomato's of various families...the smaller seeds/seedlings, are just gone. i went out this morning and the gardenpatch has lost all of its labels...high winds, hard rain wiped them out...i need a better system... I planted watermellon radish for the first time this year ! oh, and its also my first year in my new raised bed! great tips! And from years past, i paint rocks bright ripe colors and place them in the beds. birds peck them, and move on to bugs!
Great tips! As a first time gardener, I wish I had this advice before I planted my garden. I have things coming up that I have no idea what I planted. 😳
There are applications on the 'Google play store' that allow you to take a picture and it will identify the plant.
@@TheHellogoo Yep. I wasn't happy with it; too many poor identifications. Good luck.
You have a very soothing presence and voice!
11:26 "Because Happy Organisms make for Happy plants which makes for a Happy Gardener!" 🥰🍓💐🥑😍🌷🍅🌸🤩🌽🏵🌻🌱🍋😃🌿🥬😊🌾🥕☘🍊🥦🧄🌺🍉☺🍇☘😄🌶🍎🧡🎨🖼🖌😉🤪
I didn't know that Jeff Bridges was into gardening.
R. Thomas Lee, Hell or High Water is some of his best work.
Hehehehheheeeeee nice.
The Dude of the Dirt 😎🤙🌱
That's who it is..when I clicked on this I was like I know this actor giving garden advice lol. When he spoke it threw it all off.
'Don't forget to harvest', I love this one. Did not expect you to forget about it. I feel sorry for the plant to harvest, because it looks beautifull. But that's a bit pointless, as I am growing them to eat.
Me as a beginner right now. I have some lettuce that is ready to be eaten! But I just haven’t had the heart to eat it haha
Great video as Always Gardener Scott... YES I'm binge watching AGAIN 😂😂
I've been using large tractor
Tires as a raised garden medium.
Works ok, but will use 2x10 wood
Added this year. As for birds, I have
30 large fruit trees, apples, cherries,
Peach and nectarine. As soon as
I see birds in the trees, I go out
And start picking the fruit. Last
Year I got 130 lbs. Of cherries
From 1 tree!
Tyres leach carcinogens and heavy metals. Be careful of what your wood has been treated with and realise that wood breaks down after a few years. Try correlated iron.
I encourage wildlife except deer and groundhogs ;)
Gardener Scott, you are like the Bob Ross of gardening. Thank you for these awesome videos! They help me so much!
oh what a learning curve their is with gardening . if all of a sudden the country needed to survive on each a personal garden ..... well it would be a rough go.
I make a garden map when I plant as well as marking individual plants or rows.
Great video!!! This is my 1st year adding mulch to the top of my garden and already I can tell a difference! It’s saving me time from watering! 😉
Wonderful!
I'm loving your videos. I'm definitely not a new gardener but I firmly believe we can never know everything about gardening. You explain things in such a way that no matter who you are you can understand. I'm about to start assigning your videos to my kids to watch 😁
The Mr. ROGERS of gardening
Same sort of soothing voice, without the annoying condescension.💞
Its beautiful day in this neighborhood.
It would be very helpful if these gardener videos would tell you what location they garden in because pests and plants vary quite a bit throughout the country not to mention the world.
Awesome videos keep up the good work , learning something new every time !
I wish I had that spinach. It would be great in my green smoothies.
DeadeyeJoe37 I like that! I think it would also work to roll them, slice them so they’re shaped like noodles, then add them to stir-fry pasta.
I planted a cherry tree. Fortunately not a good taste, it is now pruned for blossom and a present for the birds. They probably got the best tasting ones so we let them and settle for the look. Thanks for another great video
We made the mistake of planting all like plants together this year... unfortunately that led to an easy spread of powdery mildew once one squash plant got it... it spread to the rest of the squash plants, then the zucchini, then the cucumbers, because they were all in the same bed :( lesson learned!
Yes, i made the same mistake. Have to throw out all of my collards. Too infested. Learned a lot thru out the years!
You need to do audio books or something. There is something soothing about your voice
That was so interesting and helpful. Thanks very much Scott.
Gardener Scott keeps his information plain and simple, nothing complicated. I like his style, good guy.
If you're new to gardening I think it's important to find local gardening information first. You're particular climate or micro climate makes a big difference as well as your soil types, pests and common disease.
Great point about harvesting when ready. last year I had four beautiful tomatoes and told myself I would pick them in the morning. In the morning went to pick and they were gone. Live in south Texas and we have lots of possums. I believe that is what ate them. Never again. When it is ready, it is ready. Thanks for all the great advice. Have a great day.
Eat the possum and you can have both.
Great post Scott! Very timely and I will bookmark so I can come back to this information this first season of gardening in my and my wife's life.
❤️ Thank you!