I work for a nursery that grows for HD. I’ve been doing it for 10 years, this year the price jump was OUT OF HAND. All of us vendors were so mad knowing that lack of sales would be blamed on us. I’m down 15-18% in my district as of now. No one is buying ANYTHING
I didn’t even venture to HD or the like this year. I did everything from seed, veggies and my pretty annuals. I just couldn’t justify those prices. I only know of one nursery close, but havent been able to get there.
Yes they did in the election of oh7. They knew all about it and went along, you know the thing !!! Then the people voted for it. The Transformation occurred.The rest is history. We are no longer the United States of America. It's Gone Forever.
Hello everyone. I desperately need prayer to reconcile me and my ex wife. I believe our Father can heal broken relationships. Children are involved and the pain is unbearable. Thank you. Please pray for Tyler and Tiffany, and our children Wyatt, Hallie, and Leah.
Growing your garden is a huge investment. It is not cheap in the beginning but the valuable skill set that you cultivate and the knowledge that your food is clean and safe is priceless
I'm older, too. I wonder if teaming up with younger/fitter people could be mutually beneficial? Or would that be opening myself up to potential trouble?
I've had so much friends and acquaintances tell me it's cheaper to go buy their vegetables than put all that cost AND work into growing something that might not produce very well. They don't have the time for all that. Oh well, they're gonna have to find out the hard way.
I normally buy 4 hhanging baskets of flowers every year to hang on my deck. We decided not to get any this year because the prices are so high this year! I'm looking at about $100 just for flowers and I'm not paying that! Next year I'll be planting seeds for my baskets for i can have some pretty flowers on my deck that brings me so much joy and peace. I have to forgo my little garden this year. My husband is fighting stage 4 cancer and i just don't have the time or energy this year. I doubt if I'll even get to can up anything this year that i get from the farm markets. I'll be using up all my canned goods this year. Canning also brings me joy but my husband comes first!
Sending prayers for you both....I made one basket with a small asparagus fern and we really enjoy watching the breeze in the fern...it's really growing and very forgiving when we miss watering for a day or two....and it is relaxing...
I have given so many tomatoes starts away to friends and neighbors this year! I was going to sell them on Offer but decided to gift them to those I love!
YES!!! I SAID THE SAME THING YESTERDAY!! I was in Lowe’s ( usually I use the local greenhouse / nursery) but I was with my neighbor and she wanted to go to Lowe’s for the colored tomatoes cadges. ;) The place was DEAD. The inventory was FULL! I said “ no one can afford to plant and garden anymore “ she said usually everything is picked over by now. I told her people can’t pay rent, electric, water, etc I told her that’s why I’ve started to learn how seed save. We garden together, she is my landlord and has a big garden we share plus I have potted area’s . She doesn’t charge me a lot for the house but I do work for her that she used to pay people alot to come do. Cut grass Weed Plant Store runs I do it cause I want to help, she in turn has been generous back. It works well. But ya, we had a massive conversation about the stock, the people NOT planting ….
You hit the nail on the head with displacement. I know several people who normally garden, but they rent the house they live in. Their landlords are selling the house and they are now looking for new place to live.
I usually buy the sick looking cheep plants at the end of the planting season and grow them inside during the winter to plant in trhe Spring. Its too expensive to buy brand new in the early months. Sad that Home Depot raised prices so high.
I get carried away starting seed in the spring. I cannot give away tomatoes, peppers and yellow squash to anyone. They just can't be bothered. These are potted up to 1 gallon size. People be weird.
Same here. I tried to give away tomatoes and peppers in gallon milk jugs, they looked fabulous and no one was interested. My boys prepared me a little spot in my front side yard to accommodate the extra plants.
My favorite independent garden center announced a week ago Thursday that they were retiring and going out of business. They've been trying to get someone to purchase the business with no luck. I went to purchase fertilizers, etc. at 30% and 40% off the following Tuesday and the place was almost empty. I went one last time this past Saturday and pretty much only fixtures were left. I'm very sad that they're gone, they were the only local place I could purchase Espoma products. But it's very indicative of what's happening out there.
I've been to the Home Depot about 5 times over the past 2 weeks, and there were only some customers in the garden section... and it was not packed like previous years. Very few people in the actual store, and the people who looked like professional contractors and tradesmen. And let me tell you, my local Home Depot has the most BEAUTIFUL, STUNNING flowers I've seen in years! All the herbs and vegetable plants look wonderful, but they had racks and racks of still wrapped plants off to the side. I'm guessing people arent buying them
Q I headed to the bankrupt 99 Cent Only Stores to pick up very last day bargains. I got lucky: 50 items for $5 I got 2 rounds of that so I got 100 items for $10. All kinds of left overs mostly they'll make great 👍 presents 🎁 for various occasions! If they weren't on huge sale, I would have left them 😂 at the store. But very last day and last couple of hours, I splurged. Q❤
Just thought of something else that saves on your plants. Shop the clearance racks! A saved plant and bush might not be pretty this year, but next it wil be amazing. Lowes and Walmart both have clearance racks where you can get great savings if you hit it right.
I didn't have a garden last year, or I'm not going to have one this year either. We are getting ready to end up selling our house to move into a cheaper place. We are planning on having everything paid off including the cheaper house 🏠
I’ve noticed the same thing at Lowe’s, erie quiet. A person I know that normally has a garden said he did everything he could to keep deer out, ate his garden up last year, said he could buy at the market cheaper than to have a garden again
I work at a The Home Depot in PA. The mulch on sale is Scots EarthGro. It’s always been 1.5 cubic feet. The brand “Vigoro” is the one that’s 2cubic feet. The Scots is on sale this week - 5 bags for $10.00.
I work in the garden center at Fred meyers and we have exceeded last years sales. We cannot keep flowers etc in stock and the manager said she has been calling suppliers and they are out too. May be area specific.
Being a millennial I know nothing about growing food. I grew up laser focused on academics and no one around me knew how to grow food so no one taught me. I got a degree in elementary education and still don't even know how to grow a flower. I'm a hands on learner and have a very hard time learning any skill without a teacher. I wanted to start a food garden this year and I'm just way to scared to waste too much money and fail. I feel stupid, stuck and alone. I hate being so ignorant. I'm at a low point but this video helps me have some motivation to maybe take some baby steps.
So hard to keep deer at bay. Even with an electric fence. I went out yesterday and discovered they had eaten the tops out of all of my green beans and tomato plants. I will replant, but don't know if it is worth while. I have a stock of seeds because I was concerned about the rising prices. Thank you Patera for trying to encourage us to keep going.
I start 95% of my garden from seed, but now am thinking of the future. As I age, I want to put in more perrenial plants and direct sow. We are now preparing our home with updates before we get too old.
I found out today that the small business that my daughter goes for martial arts, has folded. They are letting us out of our contract,so bless them for that. Also, day 4 in Katy without power. I'm hoping it will be back today. They warned it could be weeks.
I live on ohio and my home depot was packed in the morning lots of flowers and dirt being sold . And the same for walmart . Lots of people up here getting ready for the holiday weekend .
Our Home Depot and Walmart has many plants and lots buying from them. I planted seeds this year. Expanded our garden this year. I work FT and spend my nights and weekends gardening and taking care of my chickens. Summer is all about preserving, preserving, preserving!!!
I went to Home Depot Sunday for the first time in ages. The reason being its an hour away. Lots and lots of fruit trees, veggies, flowers. They were busy. I noticed that most folks were buying flowers, very little were buying veggie plants, saw no one buying fruit trees.
Thank you so much for these videos. Sometimes I feel burned out from trying to get out of debt and just be ready for whatever is coming our way. You give me that extra boost to keep focus and keep going.
I haven't noticed a lot of people planting gardens either. Most people seem to be overwhelmed. We are trying to get a garden going and planning to expand our efforts. We both work full-time, and it's tough.
Wow, got your video as soon as I turned my phone on. I’ve never commented but I do love your content. We’re transplants from NC to Montana or at least reverse snowbirds and it’s still too cold to leave plants out at night. Keep trying to wake people up!
We don't have a HD close. We only have lowes. They are just as high. I was getting a few squash plants the other day and this lady was picking up the hybrid plant, I had to explain to her that if she wanted to save the seeds for next year they 99% won't produce. She looked at me and was like "save the seeds".? Yes, because that way your plants are free next year......look of dawn on the face. I wasn't going to do a garden this year, so I hadn't started any seeds then decided I would put one in and had to go get some plants. So depressing. I am going to go back this weekend and see what is now 50% + off and maybe pick up some goodies.
We stopped at our Lowes in Cookeville, TN today. It was so busy it was hard to find a parking place. There were probably 25 shoppers in the outdoor garden department, with maybe 10 more browsing the garden area outside the fence. My possible explanation is that due to our higher altitude here on the plateau and days a d days of rain, we have to start planting a little later than the Knoxville area. After your video, we were really surprised. Of course, we have no idea if they were buying or just "looking".
I work at Lowe's in Southern Ohio. We're having the same mulch sale. I buy my plants at a local nursery. I'm actually shocked at how busy our outdoor lawn & garden is. Not just flowers, but I myself have rang out a ton of veggie plants.
Our local high school ag class always sells plants. I got my tomatoes and peppers there for $2.00 apiece. They were a bit smaller than what I would buy at Rural King, but they grow just fine.
I am seeing the same thing in Northern Missouri. I went to buy a gallon of paint at Menards and the store was empty. I will say that Menards has much better prices for four packs of tomatoes and peppers than Home Depot. But many people, including me, around Northern Missouri shop at our local Mennonite nurseries because prices are great and the plants are always so healthy. We also have a local Bucheits store and I stopped to buy a plastic owl (to keep barn swallows out of my garage!) and they had all of their onion sets and seed potatoes on clearance for 50 cents or a dollar. Their four packs of veggies and annual flowers were on sale for $1.34 each and were pretty picked over. I bought some more onion sets and planted them in whatever empty space I could find in my garden. Blessings!
Went to rural king a couple weeks ago. I had to drive behind the store to pick up something. The dumpster area was full of dead plants. Trays and trays of dead vegetables and herbs. They are Bonnie bell and we’re not sold.
Displaced is the key. Just spent $15,000 on pods helping my mother with movers get all her stuff out of my house because i cant live there anymore like i orignally planned. Seeing people growing things was like a eye opening. But i am keeping my seeds and will take them with me werever i end up.
I went to Menards today, which is like a Midwestern Lowe's/Home Depot. Garden section was packed with plants - very expensive. It made me sad to think that so many plants were probably going to be thrown away because no one will be buying them. This is peak planting time in central Wisconsin, so i was surprised to see such huge inventory.
Same thing here in WI. Hardly any people at the garden centers. FFA prices have gone up as well. We seed save so never have much to buy but try to support our young ag students.
Central Virginiastan here. Every store I've been in I checked and prices are outrageous. Glad we've been building capability here for years and are finally producing at a high volume. We are helping every family that we can to get started and learn. We literally toss bean seeds all over along with herbs, etc, thus making our landscaping edible.
Seed saving is the way to go and easy , I always save the easier plant seeds ,tomatoes, carrot , snowpea , broad bean, kale , and buy seed that I don't have success with , I always start seeds indoors in a small tunnel house protcted from mice , I always sow more than required so I can pick the healthiest most robust seedlings for planting out and have backups for replacement planting should any disappear from slugs or snails .If you store your seed correctly you need only do it once every few year's. I'm with you Patara basic gardening, and homesteading should be taught in the school curriculum . Blessings for a great harvest to you all this season , winding down over here now , heading into winter . 🤗💕
We get a majority of our plants from a local nursery and what we can't there we get from Menards. My husband also found out where we can get free mulch from a town nearby.
From one farming gal to another, GOD BLESS YOU, YOUR FAMILY, YOUR ANIMAL FAMILY AND EVERY PIECE OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL FARM!! ...From your neighbor in Western N.C ! 💙
Some people I know who never planted from seed before started their own seeds this year. I had at least 3 couples ask me how to set up simple seed starting stations. The city has doubled the number of plots this year at the community garden, which I think is wonderful.
Im poor and i got a 50$ green house and started my seeds for the 2nd time. Last year killed me putting in the garden with those prices. I planned ahead.
I could not find a parking spot at Home Depot yesterday, and it was packed! Insane. It was more busy than Mother's Day. I went to Wal-Mart 2 weeks ago and their nursery was empty. Not much to purchase only annuals and a few perrenials.
I did some gardening & chickens when we bought our house 2 years ago. Still have my chickens(added many more since lol) but stopped the garden. My plants got big & even had jalapeños come in. My tomatoes & cucumbers kept getting eaten by bugs. I read all the things to do & was even in FB groups. It became too expensive to keep up with. Yes it's about self sustainability, not the $, but at the time I couldn't keep up with the cost & still get no food in the end. I am doing potted plants indoors this year just to have something & help me keep learning.
Live in south Texas and our garden is harvested and we’re in a pool that’s 90 degrees. 97 degrees today with humidity at 77. Heat index 106. Picked potatoes and onions.
I had several perennials come back on their own, and the rest of my garden was started from seeds. I couldn't afford to buy starters this year. I got several seed packets from the local seed library/exchange.
Here in Northern Illinois, it is hard to find a lot of plants. They have already bought up everything. We went to a local nursery and Lowes this weekend, and you couldn't even walk around. There were so many people shopping, it was unreal. So here we are, planting gardens. Also, prices have been pretty much the same, as it has been for the last few years. Even our neighbors are planting more than they ever have. We got everything in our garden, planters and pots. Can't wait for harvesting and canning time.
Seeds...I took a picture of 2 packets if watermelon seeds side by side today. One is from 2018 and 2.5g and cost me $2.49. The other is from 2023 and 1.5g cost me $2.79....same brand, same type of watermelon. It doesn't seem like much, but when just about everything we buy has increased in cost and shrunk in quantity, it all adds up.
I went to a Mennonite garden center yesterday and picked up 4-packs of tomatoes that were 12” tall for $2.19. I start my own seeds but I bought tomato and pepper plants to fill in the gaps of what didn’t do well as starts under the grow lights this spring. One tip for those dealing with rain and flooding in the garden. Don’t till. I quit 4 years ago because it just made the soil pack after the next rain. These last two years I can walk anywhere in the garden after a deluge of rain without stepping in mud or puddles. I added woodchips to every walkway and compost (my own, not purchased) to the beds. The woodchips soak up the excess rain and then release it when the drought comes. And it breaks down and adds nutrients to the soil. Yes, I have to add more every few years but it is worth it. It helps cut down on weeds too.
Definitely seed save! I've been doing it for years and unless I want to grow something weird and new. I don't buy seeds. I have a large container of seed packages dating back to 2016. I keep them in my basement. And even though the germination percentages have gone down, I'm still growing things from those seeds. I start a lot of stuff indoors, and then the rest I direct sow. I as well just went to a home depot last week and the shelfs were full of vegetable plants and not a lot of people there. It blows my mind that a lot of these plants are going to be thrown away and not even grown. 😞
We were at Home Depot, TSC , & Walmart Sunday and our was the same way as yours. Very, very few people in the garden dept. Im not going to spend $7.00 for a small pot when we can go to the 😊Amish. We were at the Amish Friday and got 4 basil plants to plant with the tomato plants and we spent $4.00 for 4 and they were large plants. We try and support our Amish friends.
I just moved into my first house. Starting a garden was my #1 priority. The amount I spent on ground prep, supplies, seeds) just to have some rabbit pull up my sprouts that I babied for weeks… the Home Depot’s were dead here in AVL too. I will start again once I do a setup like yours!
I am I in Indiana, and I've noticed more people starting from seed. Also, several individuals are selling plants they've started. The stores are just too expensive.
50% of my tomato crop is from seeds I saved last season or from volunteers! I bought seeds for the other plants. I love saving seeds-so economical. Love you, Patera
We live in a small village and we are the only ones on our block that gardens. Also on the block across the street from us no one gardens either. I have expanded my garden the last couple of years. It is a ton of work for sure!
I've actually expanded my garden this year from seed's saved from last year and everything is doing great. I actually have 40 bush green bean plants coming up, I would normally only plant maybe a dozen of those. I've also increased my maters, taters and onions.🙏🏼❤️
I went to HOBBY LOBBY in Brooksville, FL today and 40-50% of their aisles were filled with Fall decor! It was like they didn't have any new inventory and just filled up all the space with Fall decorations - all over the store and in the middle of walkways where you would see spring and summer decor! I wonder if they are going out of business.
I listened to you and got my stuff. People are offering to pay me for stuff this year that wanted it for free last year. I expanded my garden this year. Our Home Depot was a little busy, Bonnie lowered their prices to get people to buy. Missouri here God Bless
I went to Walmart Saturday, I bought several plants for my pots on my front porch. Things I bought 3-4 years that were 5-6$ were 15.88 for geraniums and begonias. The begonias were horrible the ferns were horrible. At 71 I can only do so much.
garden stores, the prices are out of sight! And so.. many are cutting back.. They are over stuffed with plants and bagged goods and NOBODYS BUYING!!!!!
I work for a nursery that grows for HD. I’ve been doing it for 10 years, this year the price jump was OUT OF HAND. All of us vendors were so mad knowing that lack of sales would be blamed on us. I’m down 15-18% in my district as of now. No one is buying ANYTHING
Im trying to sell on the marketplace, and people don't know how tall something is 😂.
I didn’t even venture to HD or the like this year. I did everything from seed, veggies and my pretty annuals. I just couldn’t justify those prices. I only know of one nursery close, but havent been able to get there.
I've lived in my home for 31 years and this year I could not buy flowers
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@@janetconnors3113 I only bought two different flower seeds this year, I only plant seeds anymore both veggies and flowers.
BOTH SIDES OF OUR GOVERNMENT SOLD US OUT!!!!!
Yes they did in the election of oh7. They knew all about it and went along, you know the thing !!! Then the people voted for it. The Transformation occurred.The rest is history.
We are no longer the United States of America. It's Gone Forever.
Thats for sure. They are all in on it.
One snake with two heads.
Agree
Truth
All my plants I start from seeds I saved from last years crop . My Peppers are 23 year generation seeds ! 🌎✌️💖☺️
That is awesome!
Impressive
Hello everyone. I desperately need prayer to reconcile me and my ex wife. I believe our Father can heal broken relationships. Children are involved and the pain is unbearable. Thank you. Please pray for Tyler and Tiffany, and our children Wyatt, Hallie, and Leah.
Prayers.❤
I will add you to my prayer list. Hugs to you all.
@@paulaloos8762 thank you Paula. Means more than you know
Prayers
Praying now !!
I’d rather call it a hobby than farming. We don’t want anymore attention from the government.
RIGHT ON, HOBBY
Lol yep
GREAT ADVISE ! THANK YOU ❤
"I'm engaging in vegetable husbandry."
@waynehendrix4806 😂haaaaaa! Like that, gonna use it , with permission of course , Lol
Growing your garden is a huge investment. It is not cheap in the beginning but the valuable skill set that you cultivate and the knowledge that your food is clean and safe is priceless
Exactly and I have learned lots over the years, such a blessing!
And it tastes so much better!
if only we could move!?!?!!!!!!!!
Someof us are ageing out, too.
Those who have a garden set up may be cutting way back for physical health reasons
That's my brother and myself. The body just can't do it anymore.
Yes, exactly. Can only do it so much in a day
I am 69 and can only do so much. I work at it everyday.
I have rods in my back. I have to be careful .
I'm older, too. I wonder if teaming up with younger/fitter people could be mutually beneficial? Or would that be opening myself up to potential trouble?
We aren't planting flowers in our flower beds this year we are using them for planting more food.
I am planting food between the flowers. Flowers attract pollinators.
We did wildflowers and herbs
@@amymorales4622 we have a lot of wild flowers in our yard that attract lots of pollinators . Definitely important
I had strawberry runners so I planted them in my flower pots instead of buying flowers, at least I’ll get strawberries to eat.
I have flowers and herbs interspersed for companion planting to prevent bugs and attract pollinators
I've had so much friends and acquaintances tell me it's cheaper to go buy their vegetables than put all that cost AND work into growing something that might not produce very well. They don't have the time for all that. Oh well, they're gonna have to find out the hard way.
Boy, will they ever.
I wouldn’t be able to keep up with my garden if I didn’t work from home. Being too busy is legitimate but, unfortunate.
I have some friends and neighbors who say this all the time. I start from seeds which is so much cheaper as well.
I'm pretty sure they don't want to slave a way in the heat we are spolied with air-conditioning.
@@tiffanyisaacson1407 That's part of it. People are LAZY!
I just planted sweet potato slips yesterday. I planted 5 sweet potatoes a few weeks ago and had all the slips I needed for free.
I normally buy 4 hhanging baskets of flowers every year to hang on my deck. We decided not to get any this year because the prices are so high this year! I'm looking at about $100 just for flowers and I'm not paying that! Next year I'll be planting seeds for my baskets for i can have some pretty flowers on my deck that brings me so much joy and peace. I have to forgo my little garden this year. My husband is fighting stage 4 cancer and i just don't have the time or energy this year. I doubt if I'll even get to can up anything this year that i get from the farm markets. I'll be using up all my canned goods this year. Canning also brings me joy but my husband comes first!
🦋🇺🇸🙏🙏🙏🙏Sending Prayers and Blessings to you and your husband 🙏🙏🙏🙏
🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🙏🙏🙏
Sending prayers for you both....I made one basket with a small asparagus fern and we really enjoy watching the breeze in the fern...it's really growing and very forgiving when we miss watering for a day or two....and it is relaxing...
@judyopp7485 Thank you everyone for the prayers and words of encouragement! It means alot!
We are just growing food this year
All of my tomatoe plants come from seeds from the tomatoes I grew last year.
I am going to try to save seeds to plant next year.
Blessings to all watching and taking on the valuable lessons from Patara! Love and God Bless you all!
Blessings from Australia 🇦🇺
Ditto!🌹❤️🌹
To you too dear @fayekeller7411!!
My tomato plants are from seeds I also collected last year ! Seed saving is so rewarding !
I have given so many tomatoes starts away to friends and neighbors this year! I was going to sell them on Offer but decided to gift them to those I love!
YES!!! I SAID THE SAME THING YESTERDAY!! I was in Lowe’s ( usually I use the local greenhouse / nursery) but I was with my neighbor and she wanted to go to Lowe’s for the colored tomatoes cadges. ;)
The place was DEAD. The inventory was FULL! I said “ no one can afford to plant and garden anymore “ she said usually everything is picked over by now. I told her people can’t pay rent, electric, water, etc
I told her that’s why I’ve started to learn how seed save.
We garden together, she is my landlord and has a big garden we share plus I have potted area’s . She doesn’t charge me a lot for the house but I do work for her that she used to pay people alot to come do.
Cut grass
Weed
Plant
Store runs
I do it cause I want to help, she in turn has been generous back. It works well.
But ya, we had a massive conversation about the stock, the people NOT planting ….
95% of my garden is from home started seeds.
You hit the nail on the head with displacement. I know several people who normally garden, but they rent the house they live in. Their landlords are selling the house and they are now looking for new place to live.
I agree.. I know 2 ppl that their landlord is selling
Plant in buckets
Yes it's a lot of work but they can be moved
I am doing greenstalks so that I can move my garden when the time comes that I need to move.
@@brendabaker3960 love mine
I usually buy the sick looking cheep plants at the end of the planting season and grow them inside during the winter to plant in trhe Spring. Its too expensive to buy brand new in the early months. Sad that Home Depot raised prices so high.
I get carried away starting seed in the spring. I cannot give away tomatoes, peppers and yellow squash to anyone. They just can't be bothered. These are potted up to 1 gallon size. People be weird.
Same here. I tried to give away tomatoes and peppers in gallon milk jugs, they looked fabulous and no one was interested. My boys prepared me a little spot in my front side yard to accommodate the extra plants.
I wish someone wanted to give me plants where I live
I’d love some potted up plants like that. The majority of my garden is fallow this year.
My favorite independent garden center announced a week ago Thursday that they were retiring and going out of business. They've been trying to get someone to purchase the business with no luck. I went to purchase fertilizers, etc. at 30% and 40% off the following Tuesday and the place was almost empty. I went one last time this past Saturday and pretty much only fixtures were left. I'm very sad that they're gone, they were the only local place I could purchase Espoma products. But it's very indicative of what's happening out there.
That happened to my favorite family-owned nursery, too, a few years ago. I drive past it all the time, and it sits there, empty and rotting!😢
home depot has Espoma products
I've been to the Home Depot about 5 times over the past 2 weeks, and there were only some customers in the garden section... and it was not packed like previous years. Very few people in the actual store, and the people who looked like professional contractors and tradesmen.
And let me tell you, my local Home Depot has the most BEAUTIFUL, STUNNING flowers I've seen in years! All the herbs and vegetable plants look wonderful, but they had racks and racks of still wrapped plants off to the side. I'm guessing people arent buying them
People are watching their Pennies & are now focusing on needs vs. wants. People are shopping at places where the price & value are the best.
Q
I headed to the bankrupt
99 Cent Only Stores to pick up very last day bargains.
I got lucky: 50 items for $5
I got 2 rounds of that so I got 100 items for $10. All kinds of left overs mostly they'll make great 👍 presents 🎁 for various occasions!
If they weren't on huge sale, I would have left them 😂 at the store.
But very last day and last couple of hours, I splurged.
Q❤
100% Truth !! 💗💗💗💗
Just thought of something else that saves on your plants. Shop the clearance racks! A saved plant and bush might not be pretty this year, but next it wil be amazing. Lowes and Walmart both have clearance racks where you can get great savings if you hit it right.
Tip for the day - plant catnip with your tomatoes to repel hornworms!
Thank you for the tip!
I have purchased 0 plants this year. The prices are outrageous.
I didn't have a garden last year, or I'm not going to have one this year either. We are getting ready to end up selling our house to move into a cheaper place. We are planning on having everything paid off including the cheaper house 🏠
Awesome, congrats!
I have grown a garden fulll of tomatoes plants using the seeds in a sliced tomato.
I save seeds from tomatoes when traveling. They are my “souvenirs “.
We have bought less for planting this year, but trying to have enough for our needs.
I’ve noticed the same thing at Lowe’s, erie quiet. A person I know that normally has a garden said he did everything he could to keep deer out, ate his garden up last year, said he could buy at the market cheaper than to have a garden again
I work at a The Home Depot in PA. The mulch on sale is Scots EarthGro. It’s always been 1.5 cubic feet. The brand “Vigoro” is the one that’s 2cubic feet. The Scots is on sale this week - 5 bags for $10.00.
Good to know. I was the only one buying any and it’s stacked to the rafters so hopefully sales will pick up for those that can buy it. 💜
I was just there a couple of weeks ago, the mulch was $2 a large bag. San Jose Ca area.
Thank you!!
I work in the garden center at Fred meyers and we have exceeded last years sales. We cannot keep flowers etc in stock and the manager said she has been calling suppliers and they are out too. May be area specific.
I wonder how many that are still spending are maxing out their credit cards?
@@fionaworrell4535LOTS
I work at Costco and our live goods are flying off the shelves also. Not just flowers but trees and bushes as well.
Our savings fund has steadily dwindled.
Being a millennial I know nothing about growing food. I grew up laser focused on academics and no one around me knew how to grow food so no one taught me. I got a degree in elementary education and still don't even know how to grow a flower. I'm a hands on learner and have a very hard time learning any skill without a teacher. I wanted to start a food garden this year and I'm just way to scared to waste too much money and fail. I feel stupid, stuck and alone. I hate being so ignorant. I'm at a low point but this video helps me have some motivation to maybe take some baby steps.
I gave everyone on my road/block tomatoes and have a lot more. This week,5-20-24, plants are going in the ground, along with seeds. ❤😊
So hard to keep deer at bay. Even with an electric fence. I went out yesterday and discovered they had eaten the tops out of all of my green beans and tomato plants. I will replant, but don't know if it is worth while. I have a stock of seeds because I was concerned about the rising prices. Thank you Patera for trying to encourage us to keep going.
Yes, I’ve observed also high inventory of plants at local shops. Not as many shopping 🛒
Gas going back up again. Paid off one loan. But now, doctor appointment, no insurance. Here come another bill.
💕 the pics of the fantastic goats. .You treat them like Kings and Queens..Your doggies are beautiful 🥰.. Have a great week!!
I start 95% of my garden from seed, but now am thinking of the future. As I age, I want to put in more perrenial plants and direct sow. We are now preparing our home with updates before we get too old.
I found out today that the small business that my daughter goes for martial arts, has folded. They are letting us out of our contract,so bless them for that. Also, day 4 in Katy without power. I'm hoping it will be back today. They warned it could be weeks.
We were in Katy on Saturday. Thankfully our power was only out for 23 hours.
Prayers your power comes back quickly Mohammed
I live on ohio and my home depot was packed in the morning lots of flowers and dirt being sold . And the same for walmart . Lots of people up here getting ready for the holiday weekend .
We went to Home Depot yesterday. Same thing there. It was dead.
Our Home Depot and Walmart has many plants and lots buying from them. I planted seeds this year. Expanded our garden this year. I work FT and spend my nights and weekends gardening and taking care of my chickens. Summer is all about preserving, preserving, preserving!!!
I went to Home Depot Sunday for the first time in ages. The reason being its an hour away. Lots and lots of fruit trees, veggies, flowers. They were busy. I noticed that most folks were buying flowers, very little were buying veggie plants, saw no one buying fruit trees.
Thank you so much for these videos. Sometimes I feel burned out from trying to get out of debt and just be ready for whatever is coming our way. You give me that extra boost to keep focus and keep going.
My local nursery had great prices on vegetable plants. Skipped the big box stores as much as I could.
I haven't noticed a lot of people planting gardens either. Most people seem to be overwhelmed. We are trying to get a garden going and planning to expand our efforts. We both work full-time, and it's tough.
I spent over $100 on potting soil etc for planting seeds and I didn't have any pots. I'm living in an rv at a park long term and I am 76.
Where r u located? Maybe we can get u some pots.
Walmart bakery sells 5 gallon frosting buckets with lids for $1 here in mid-Kentucky.
@@leopardappygirl Great option.
Card board box lined with trash bag .. poke holes in bottom of bag . Then fill with dirt and plant
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Wow, got your video as soon as I turned my phone on. I’ve never commented but I do love your content. We’re transplants from NC to Montana or at least reverse snowbirds and it’s still too cold to leave plants out at night. Keep trying to wake people up!
I just found out we're called sun birds (when you leave the heat for cold).
Guess I'm a "sunbird" too! We left AZ for WA state 20 years ago! So much easier to garden here in the Puget Sound area! 🇺🇸😎
We don't have a HD close. We only have lowes. They are just as high. I was getting a few squash plants the other day and this lady was picking up the hybrid plant, I had to explain to her that if she wanted to save the seeds for next year they 99% won't produce. She looked at me and was like "save the seeds".? Yes, because that way your plants are free next year......look of dawn on the face. I wasn't going to do a garden this year, so I hadn't started any seeds then decided I would put one in and had to go get some plants. So depressing. I am going to go back this weekend and see what is now 50% + off and maybe pick up some goodies.
We stopped at our Lowes in Cookeville, TN today. It was so busy it was hard to find a parking place. There were probably 25 shoppers in the outdoor garden department, with maybe 10 more browsing the garden area outside the fence. My possible explanation is that due to our higher altitude here on the plateau and days a d days of rain, we have to start planting a little later than the Knoxville area. After your video, we were really surprised. Of course, we have no idea if they were buying or just "looking".
My wife works at our Walmart (in the garden center) here and they have been selling a lot of plants and garden stuff
I work at Lowe's in Southern Ohio. We're having the same mulch sale. I buy my plants at a local nursery. I'm actually shocked at how busy our outdoor lawn & garden is. Not just flowers, but I myself have rang out a ton of veggie plants.
Our local high school ag class always sells plants. I got my tomatoes and peppers there for $2.00 apiece. They were a bit smaller than what I would buy at Rural King, but they grow just fine.
I am seeing the same thing in Northern Missouri. I went to buy a gallon of paint at Menards and the store was empty. I will say that Menards has much better prices for four packs of tomatoes and peppers than Home Depot. But many people, including me, around Northern Missouri shop at our local Mennonite nurseries because prices are great and the plants are always so healthy. We also have a local Bucheits store and I stopped to buy a plastic owl (to keep barn swallows out of my garage!) and they had all of their onion sets and seed potatoes on clearance for 50 cents or a dollar. Their four packs of veggies and annual flowers were on sale for $1.34 each and were pretty picked over. I bought some more onion sets and planted them in whatever empty space I could find in my garden. Blessings!
Went to rural king a couple weeks ago. I had to drive behind the store to pick up something. The dumpster area was full of dead plants. Trays and trays of dead vegetables and herbs. They are Bonnie bell and we’re not sold.
That is So sad; they should have slashed prices 😞
You’re such a common person. I love that. You speak the truth!
Thank you, ma’am! ♥️
I've noticed a lot of home growers selling plants on marketplace, and I've been buying them! Way cheaper!
Everywhere I’ve been the prices are sky high for plants. Lots of stock still there. I noticed it last year too.
Displaced is the key. Just spent $15,000 on pods helping my mother with movers get all her stuff out of my house because i cant live there anymore like i orignally planned. Seeing people growing things was like a eye opening. But i am keeping my seeds and will take them with me werever i end up.
I truly believe we are at a cliff’s edge and teetering on it.
My mother in-law always said there's one foot over the cliff & the other on a banana peel. That's our economy.😢
I went to Menards today, which is like a Midwestern Lowe's/Home Depot. Garden section was packed with plants - very expensive. It made me sad to think that so many plants were probably going to be thrown away because no one will be buying them. This is peak planting time in central Wisconsin, so i was surprised to see such huge inventory.
Same thing here in WI. Hardly any people at the garden centers. FFA prices have gone up as well. We seed save so never have much to buy but try to support our young ag students.
Central Virginiastan here. Every store I've been in I checked and prices are outrageous. Glad we've been building capability here for years and are finally producing at a high volume. We are helping every family that we can to get started and learn. We literally toss bean seeds all over along with herbs, etc, thus making our landscaping edible.
Seed saving is the way to go and easy , I always save the easier plant seeds ,tomatoes, carrot , snowpea , broad bean, kale , and buy seed that I don't have success with , I always start seeds indoors in a small tunnel house protcted from mice , I always sow more than required so I can pick the healthiest most robust seedlings for planting out and have backups for replacement planting should any disappear from slugs or snails .If you store your seed correctly you need only do it once every few year's. I'm with you Patara basic gardening, and homesteading should be taught in the school curriculum . Blessings for a great harvest to you all this season , winding down over here now , heading into winter . 🤗💕
We get a majority of our plants from a local nursery and what we can't there we get from Menards. My husband also found out where we can get free mulch from a town nearby.
From one farming gal to another, GOD BLESS YOU, YOUR FAMILY, YOUR ANIMAL FAMILY AND EVERY PIECE OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL FARM!! ...From your neighbor in Western N.C ! 💙
Some people I know who never planted from seed before started their own seeds this year. I had at least 3 couples ask me how to set up simple seed starting stations. The city has doubled the number of plots this year at the community garden, which I think is wonderful.
Im poor and i got a 50$ green house and started my seeds for the 2nd time. Last year killed me putting in the garden with those prices. I planned ahead.
I could not find a parking spot at Home Depot yesterday, and it was packed! Insane. It was more busy than Mother's Day. I went to Wal-Mart 2 weeks ago and their nursery was empty. Not much to purchase only annuals and a few perrenials.
I did some gardening & chickens when we bought our house 2 years ago. Still have my chickens(added many more since lol) but stopped the garden.
My plants got big & even had jalapeños come in. My tomatoes & cucumbers kept getting eaten by bugs. I read all the things to do & was even in FB groups. It became too expensive to keep up with. Yes it's about self sustainability, not the $, but at the time I couldn't keep up with the cost & still get no food in the end.
I am doing potted plants indoors this year just to have something & help me keep learning.
Live in south Texas and our garden is harvested and we’re in a pool that’s 90 degrees. 97 degrees today with humidity at 77. Heat index 106. Picked potatoes and onions.
Our office had a seed share/swap in Feb and a plant swap/adoption last weekend. People said they wanted the plants, then didnt show.
How disappointing 😞
🦋🇺🇸👋Good Morning Patera& chat family. Thks for sharing. Have a Blessed Day Everyone ❤
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You too
Patara You are SUCH a beautiful lady SUCH A BEAUTIFUL Talented & Gifted SOUL. God bless you sister.
I had several perennials come back on their own, and the rest of my garden was started from seeds. I couldn't afford to buy starters this year. I got several seed packets from the local seed library/exchange.
Went to the grocery store Saturday evening! There wasnt hardly no one in it. The gas station, dollar store, and the food places was very quiet.
Seed saving is SO important! I have a huge collection of things we will grow most often, etc.
Here in Northern Illinois, it is hard to find a lot of plants. They have already bought up everything. We went to a local nursery and Lowes this weekend, and you couldn't even walk around. There were so many people shopping, it was unreal. So here we are, planting gardens. Also, prices have been pretty much the same, as it has been for the last few years. Even our neighbors are planting more than they ever have. We got everything in our garden, planters and pots. Can't wait for harvesting and canning time.
They also have saved seeds and started plants from the seeds. And not buying plants.
Seeds...I took a picture of 2 packets if watermelon seeds side by side today. One is from 2018 and 2.5g and cost me $2.49. The other is from 2023 and 1.5g cost me $2.79....same brand, same type of watermelon. It doesn't seem like much, but when just about everything we buy has increased in cost and shrunk in quantity, it all adds up.
I went to a Mennonite garden center yesterday and picked up 4-packs of tomatoes that were 12” tall for $2.19. I start my own seeds but I bought tomato and pepper plants to fill in the gaps of what didn’t do well as starts under the grow lights this spring.
One tip for those dealing with rain and flooding in the garden. Don’t till. I quit 4 years ago because it just made the soil pack after the next rain. These last two years I can walk anywhere in the garden after a deluge of rain without stepping in mud or puddles. I added woodchips to every walkway and compost (my own, not purchased) to the beds. The woodchips soak up the excess rain and then release it when the drought comes. And it breaks down and adds nutrients to the soil. Yes, I have to add more every few years but it is worth it. It helps cut down on weeds too.
Definitely seed save! I've been doing it for years and unless I want to grow something weird and new. I don't buy seeds. I have a large container of seed packages dating back to 2016. I keep them in my basement. And even though the germination percentages have gone down, I'm still growing things from those seeds. I start a lot of stuff indoors, and then the rest I direct sow. I as well just went to a home depot last week and the shelfs were full of vegetable plants and not a lot of people there. It blows my mind that a lot of these plants are going to be thrown away and not even grown. 😞
We were at Home Depot, TSC , & Walmart Sunday and our was the same way as yours. Very, very few people in the garden dept. Im not going to spend $7.00 for a small pot when we can go to the 😊Amish. We were at the Amish Friday and got 4 basil plants to plant with the tomato plants and we spent $4.00 for 4 and they were large plants. We try and support our Amish friends.
Lowe’s in east central MS is still busy. I don’t know how. Things have gone up so much, and I was shocked at how few seeds were in a pack this year! ❤
I just moved into my first house. Starting a garden was my #1 priority. The amount I spent on ground prep, supplies, seeds) just to have some rabbit pull up my sprouts that I babied for weeks… the Home Depot’s were dead here in AVL too. I will start again once I do a setup like yours!
Regarding sun strength, we finished putting up our shade cloth today. It worked on it beautifully last year so keeping the faith.
I am I in Indiana, and I've noticed more people starting from seed. Also, several individuals are selling plants they've started. The stores are just too expensive.
50% of my tomato crop is from seeds I saved last season or from volunteers! I bought seeds for the other plants. I love saving seeds-so economical.
Love you, Patera
I really love to see you with your animals. They are some loved and lucky critters.😃
We live in a small village and we are the only ones on our block that gardens. Also on the block across the street from us no one gardens either. I have expanded my garden the last couple of years. It is a ton of work for sure!
We do a lot of buying from the Amish. See the same thing here in Richmond Indiana
Went to my local Home Depot Saturday and just like you mentioned the garden center was dead. Absolutely beautiful weather.
Your are a Blessing to so MANY. Thank you!
I've actually expanded my garden this year from seed's saved from last year and everything is doing great. I actually have 40 bush green bean plants coming up, I would normally only plant maybe a dozen of those. I've also increased my maters, taters and onions.🙏🏼❤️
I went to HOBBY LOBBY in Brooksville, FL today and 40-50% of their aisles were filled with Fall decor! It was like they didn't have any new inventory and just filled up all the space with Fall decorations - all over the store and in the middle of walkways where you would see spring and summer decor! I wonder if they are going out of business.
I listened to you and got my stuff. People are offering to pay me for stuff this year that wanted it for free last year. I expanded my garden this year. Our Home Depot was a little busy, Bonnie lowered their prices to get people to buy. Missouri here God Bless
PATARA - you are truly beautiful - inside and out
I went to Walmart Saturday, I bought several plants for my pots on my front porch. Things I bought 3-4 years that were 5-6$ were 15.88 for geraniums and begonias. The begonias were horrible the ferns were horrible. At 71 I can only do so much.
garden stores, the prices are out of sight!
And so.. many are cutting back..
They are over stuffed with plants and bagged goods and
NOBODYS BUYING!!!!!
I grew more plants to share and nobody wants them. I think they are too stressed. They make a face when I ask.
Same here.
So sad!
They should get in the dirt…makes me feel less stressed. There is no outside world when I’m poking around in my gardens.
That’s sad! Hopefully you can find a place to plant them. ❤❤
They’ll make a face when they are hungry too!