Nursery Hack to Save a Ton of $
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Testing out shorts on this channel. Everyone! Let me know what you think 🤘
Love it!! And kinda feel silly I haven’t done this 😅
Nice. I like the short, to the point, single subject versions as well as the usual ones. I would think a lot of folks with limited time to watch, issues with patience, etc would also love this.
Please, Plant Daddy, may we have some more? :D
Pretty dang good shorts they are, straight to the point, need more gardening shorts like yours.
DO IT!! DO IT NOW!!
I'll keep that in mind for next time I take a leek. Thanks.
:P
@@epicgardening i have mustard greens but alot of roots broke will it survive ?
@@cassandracapobianco6867 He can't leek out that kind of info.
@@plantnewbie5188 not bad
I f you actually take a leak ,on your leak it will grow better from the natural urea fertilizer!!!
my 3 inch leek container from the nursey held nearly 100 leeks, and the damn near all made it once seperated
That's a big container wow
3" to be precise
The glory of seed casting. I am glad to hear they made it. Great growing 🙌
@@narrowgoat-scout 3" is big to some people
I put my containers with 2-300 seeds in the south-facing window in February. Next year I'll start in January.
They do that with other plants as well. My favorite is paying $2.50 for a Basil plant at the grocery store and ending up planting up to 10 basils!
I Literally just said I'm going to the grocery to start my herbs 😊
How do you multiply basil ? Here in India get basil for less than a dollar but it's just a single plant without baby plants, so do you propagate using the stem cutting or though seeds?
@@lifeisagarden3612 most U.S. plant companies that produce herbs like basil will over seed a pot, so when you buy a pot, it's likely to have 10 or more plants in it. Basil is pretty forgiving and you can gently tease the roots apart and plant them separately in the garden once temperatures are consistently above 50° Fahrenheit. (10° Celsius).
If you already have a mature plant, you can clip side shoots and root in water. Make sure the parts you cut off aren't woody yet, as it won't root if the stem is too old.
You should see little roots appear within a few days of taking the cuttings, and can put them in the ground once the roots are about an inch long. You can also propagate from seed. Basil is probably one of the easiest culinary herbs to grow. I hope that helps.
Mind blown 🤯
Funny that I just looked at basil at Wal Mart yesterday.
I wish I could come and see the garden in person. When I retire from the military I want to start a garden/homestead
Good for you to have goals! Kudos
You got this!!!
I did that one time. Ended up with a whole row of 80 leeks. They did great and got huge.
I bought some Spanish yellow onions in a six pack…45 minutes later I separated and planted 79 freaking onions 😂 poor things were packed
Let my onions go...
Butifill
That's the type grandpa Simpson had tied to his belt. Because it was a fashion at the time. I think my grandfather grew those commercially in the 60s. He was a big grower of onions and peas.
Thank you I just noticed that the strawberry plant that I bought close to 2 months ago is actually 5 separate plants
I had that happen as well when I bought a strawberry plant once
People who garden know what to do with the plants in the pot they purchased. It is non gardeners who don't get it.
It’s because they start from multiple seeds in one pot most of the time
@@trilfiger448strawberries normally come from runners, not seeds. At least if you‘re buying already existing varieties.
I used to do city park landscaping and I ended up keeping SO MANY plants. We had to tear out tons of bulb flowers, and whenever I got one by the bulb I took it home. I also took some other plants. Definitely worth looking into city park landscaping if you need a job.
Aren't they cutting down on those jobs? Why had you to tear out bulb flowers? Do flowers, that won't be allowed to stay in long enough to grow another season just end up as a trash pile? Some of those flowers could for sure be saved.
@@thistime3889
Often they want all new bulbs next season, so they look their best. They end up throwing away many beautiful plants. Sad.
Did this a few days ago buying strawberry plants. Choose the ones with the most runners. 👍🏼
Looking forward for your results on tape😊
Been doing that recently. Got a young mother plant which had 2 runners coming from it..... and after a few weeks i ended up having 5 free plants from the one mother plant. Shame many strawberries sold here seem to have no runners
Absolutely! Bought a "6-pack" of beets...after separation, 40!!! And the two cukes I bought became 4 & 5 plants respectively.
I tried separating a pack of beets and none of them survived. I didn’t think root veggies could handle the disturbance anyway. How were you successful??
@jhjln8712 Luck? None of them became very big, but the person I was growing them for preferred smaller ones anyways.
This works AMAZING for basil, $3-4 for like 20 plants
Would it work for other herbs as well or only basil?
Yes! This will work for any herb/vege at the garden center@@nohely3141
Basil is also so easy to propagate from cuttings too. So once you buy one basil plant you have it forever.
I always look for the containers with multiple plants! 😁
Same.
I might start selling herbs and small veggie plants now. You don't see it much in my area. Except rosemary. My little corner of Texas loves their rosemary.
So interesting. Subscribed! Love from Spain ❤
The best part is each one of those leeks will each spread into 15 more plants, and each of those will turn into 15 more and now oops you're a leek farmer
😂😂"oops youre a leek farmer "
Than you
Oh my leek
😂😂😂😂
Oops😂
My Nana taught me this as a kid 30 odd years ago!!
This is true for common house plants too, I always check to see if the pot is full because that usually means more plants
Yes! I also bought a pothos and immediately took cuttings and rooted them in water. I'll have multiple plants in a month!
I looove doing this, I have like 4 lavender plants from a nice big plant for 6 on clearance because it was starting to die.
Always check the back corner of stores, they tend to have “dying” plants that can still be salvage :)
I learned these about chive plants! I uprooted some once and was shocked 😂 they grow like crazy in my rocks after the flowers drop their seeds
There is nothing better than fresh chives 😋
Dried chives are a crime against your taste buds.
It's not more than you pay for...leeks and onions are cluster planted like this on purpose and the intention is that customers can split them up to plant. If you get double tomato seedlings or double peppers that's a mistake, but leeks aren't. Just 2 cents from a nursery worker 👍
Just be careful separating things like tomatoes if you get multiple because if they're already pretty mature in their 4" nursery pot separating without being super careful them could stunt their growth. Also something to consider with heavier feeders like tomatoes is that multiples have less nutrients available than the single tomatoes.
All that being said I always buy the pots with multiples.
@@mylamberfeeties875 I do have a channel 😊
Hello Laura😮😮
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Ok but what you’re missing and why he’s framing it this way is most people don’t know this. Helloooooo
Exactly they are super cheap. This short should have been labeled how to separate your nursery plants
@@christinemaney2294 then they must be super dumb.
This is how we sell most plants. People feel like they are getting more than they pay for, so they jump on them. :P
This is what to look for the more the better lmao! Picked out a snake plant with one extra baby! Than ALL the others! 😂
I just bought a little cherry tomato pot for two dollars, but it had three little plants in it which I carefully separated into three separate pots. Each one is doing well!
I want to go back and look for more double-plant pots like that. They did have six packs of onion starts with a dozen or more in each cell, that's a lot of onions if I could separate them...
I look at the strawberry plants, often I’ll find a few that actually have two crowns you can separate
I'm glad your showing this hack. I used to be scared I would rip the roots and the plants would die.
In my nursery we do that for most plants, we put two seeds or cuttings in each pot for higher success rate, but when we plant small seeds we put 8 to 15 seeds per pot, most of the pots have two plants where large seeds and cuttings are planted, and at least 10 plants per pot when we plant small seeds.
I bought a solidly packed bunch of green onions once. 2 years later I'm still growing what I split from it /came back in my garden.
I always look for the ones that have more than one plant in each cell. Even tomatoes or flowers sometimes have multiple plants.
I did this with tomatoes, peppers, and basil. I considered dividing the Bee Balm too but I was running out of room in my beds so I left it in a clump.😂
I always look for plants like this when I am grabbing stuff for my gardens
You get exactly what you pay for.
This is super cool, you should try uploading short informational videos like this more often
Why wouldn't this just be common sense? They can't even grow as packed as they are...
Always pick a cool overcast day todo this!
Any specific reason why?
Just bought a 6-pack of spinach. Each cell had like five to seven plants in it! Likely picking a first salad today.
One hack that I've got for separating seedlings like this is to put the punnet in a bucket of water and let it soak for roughly ten minutes. Usually much easier to separate them 😁
"Gentley separate them"
As if it's always that easy 😂
I used to do that with live basil from the grocery store. Works amazingly well
Good idea! I do this with grocery store herbs too. Walmart and Meijer both sell live potted herbs. There are too many in those pots and can be separated.
I learnt about this on this channel. I’ve separated my Walmart basil last week. So far they are looking a bit eh!! Hopefully, they’ll perk up soon.
You can do this with other plants too! I do it with tomatoes/peppers every time I introduce new ones to my garden.
I also planted the little sprouts I pinched off the "elbows" and now I've got over a dozen tomato plants for the price of 4 😂
Can you do a video on how to pinch at "the elbow" and what plants you can do that with please?
@@cjay5100 When you look at a tomato plant, there are the main branches and then there are these little sprouts that grow in the "elbow" between the main branch and the stem. If it's small enough you can pinch it with your fingers. I just stuck several in a small pot and have been watering them.
Clarification: This is my first time doing this so I can't guarantee they're going to survive the whole season, but they're still alive so far. I also didn't try this with determinate tomatoes because they seem to have a set number of flowers and fruits.
@@cjay5100 the elbows are often called “suckers” and with tomato plants in particular, it’s super easy to get a tomato stem to root, so if you take any sizable pieces off the original plant, usually if you trim off all the leaves for the bottom half or so of the branch, you can just bury the stem up to the leaves and usually it will take root and grow. Tomatoes are really the only vegetable I can think of where you can actually do this and have it fully mature, though a LOT of plants will grow roots from the stem in good conditions.
Is there a handy resource that provides a list of plants that this splitting method works?
Yass! Since learning this I always look for the BOGOs in all my seedlings! The most I've gotten is 3 peppers for the price of 1 but I've never looked for leeks or onions!
I did divide a large hanging strawberry pot into 5 different plants because to buy them individually was way more expensive.
I always look for the multiples in every nursery pot. 3-4 for one every time!
I did the same for my spring onion's!! So many more than I expected 😂 the more the better.
I always do this. Found a hosta at the nursery the other day with 4 hostas in one pot. I had to get it 😂
That's what I do with Green Onions too 😍 Gotta get that bang for your buck, especially these days 🙌🏽
I let my green onions go wild I leave them in the ground all year take only what I need. It snows 🌨 here I'm in zone 6a I think I'll do a shorts video today on them ❤
I do the same! Buy at the store and cut them 2 inches from the root and stick them in the dirt. Keep cutting them 2 inches from the soil to harvest. I'm in FL so they grow all year round. #unlimited green onions 😂
I'm loving the 2litre bottle planter hack for my green onions that are just like this. I feel like these would work great in something like that too! I'd love to see your take on it!
where?
This goes for aquarium plants as well.
I thought I was getting scammed paying $10 for a little underwater plant and then when I took it home it broke apart into 30 individual plants
They grew so fast in my tank as well, by the next month I was selling clippings on Craigslist
Thank you for this great idea. Blessings to you from Queensland, Australia.
I noticed this last year, so I've been telling all my friends
This is why I love your channel! You focus on usable garden hacks and stay away from alt right political rants and verbally abusing your followers. You’ve grown a wonderful business from focusing on adding value each day. You’re such an inspiration.
we plant thousands of leeks roughly every other year.... there are nurseries that sell six packs with literally one leek per plug, and nurseries that sell six packs with 50-100 leeks in the six pack. I always drive all over to find who has most leeks per plug lol.
I just taught my husband this last week. I bought a container of bulbed flowers. I found one for the same price with TWICE the amount of bulbs.
I'm so glad you posted this!
Perfect for those seasons you didn’t quite get to starting your seeds. 🤣💚✨
I bought a molding tulip for a dollar. Hoping the bulbs I took out regrow.
I don't think I've ever bought anything from a nursery that wasn't root bound, that was a nice bundle you found 😃
Hells yeah. Just bought 5 tomatoes for the price of 2.
I had that happen when I bought a spider plant last year. I bought what I thought was one healthier plant (the others were a bit weak-looking), and it turns out there were three! So now I have 3x the spider plants that I thought I'd have lol.
I just learned this with my snake plant. Repotted it and there were actually three in there but the biggest one had 3 roots that broke off anyway so I could’ve gotten 4-5 plants out of that one! I only did two though
You can cut off and root all the hanging babies, too, and have even more plants.
I don't understand why more people don't know this. It's a great way to support a local greenhouse on a budget.
Yes! I love these shorts! You have inspired me to garden and record my own progress! Thanks for all of your knowledge and encouragement! I do shorts on my channel! It’s simple videos on gardening so a viewer won’t have to watch for about 30 min! Be blessed!!! 💕💕💕
Yeah testing it out!
Jajaja good way to promote your own channel at the same time you prove you have nothing to teach about there. Virtuousity 💀
Some lawn and garden stores throw out bad looking plants regularly and will part with plants that are able to be rejuvenated or deseeded for free!
Yes, I bought a few pineapple guava plants because of your channel. Being from America, I’ve never heard of them before, less than a year ago. I got three plants, two of them named varieties. I’m excited to try them once they fruit.
I bought a sunflower seeds just to eat and as an experiment I trowed a few in a pot. I'm shocked and impressed because every single one sprouts, so this year I will have a tons sunflowers everywhere!
Also, instead buying a tomatoes seeds, I eat the tomatoes, but saving a few seeds and throwing them directly in the soil. I have about 20 growing already, soon to be transplanted outside.
Anything in the onion family can be separated like this without damaging them in any way.
I did this with my coffee "plant" ended up with nearly a dozen 4 inch tall coffee plants. I kept the largest for myself and gave the rest away to friend and family, mine is now about 2 feet tall.
Inspired me to start my garden soon❤️👌
I just did this with broccoli plants. They were in eight packs. There were four plants in each cell. I bought two packs and now have 64 broccoli planted 🦋
You've truly inspired me today .thank you
I did this with my lemon grass this year. Bought one plant; it’s now in three giant containers.
Loved it! Short and sweet!
I like it, but I do love watching you make longer videos, it’s almost like it doesn’t satisfy my obsession with your videos, if u get what I mean😂😂😂
I do this with many nursery plants! And basil from the grocery store.
So as someone who runs a nursery, we do the same thing. We will find heavily overgrown plants at other nurseries and divide them. Though we aren't as delicate as this. We usually just beat the dirt off on the ground caveman style, then rip them apart like a savage, but everyone has their methods. Plants are tougher than you think.
Brutal! 🔨
Love how you did it. Thank you
The double entendres are awesome!!!🙈🙈🤣🤣🤣🤣
Keep them coming ! It's surprising how many people don't know about this money saving tip ~ LOVING MY RAISED BEDS - BY THE WAY !
I can’t wait until spring!!!
Another good tip!
Glad you think so!
I am hooked on your channel and have shared the links with my local garden group. Thanks for letting us learn and GROW with you!
Nice I was wondering this other day in the garden .
I always make a thorough search when I decide to buy transplants. Last year I scored 5 extra peppers from a six pack, 3 extra cukes in a 4 pack and rescued some tomatoes that were dried out and ready to be disposed of. 😊
Kevin....you just told my secret to plant buying in general, besides clearances. Saves time and money! It's my win-win. Now, a win-win for everyone. 🤣😂🤣
Wow! This was from 2 years ago....🤣😂🤣😂
I love these shorts, I save them to a gardening tips playlist that I refer to like a book. Many of my houseplants were also multiple plants in one pot so I repotted them and now have a little jungle in my home👍
Glad to hear this!
Very true. Starter plants from the store always just drop a few seeds in too small of a space
Everytime i buy starts i hunt for the multi sowed ones. Im like. Free plants!!!!
I always do this! I do it with the spines in the middle of container flowers, too.
I spent AGES doing that with dragonfruit plants last weekend. Surprisingly long roots for such small plants.
Gratitude. Hope all is well after the recent storm.
I always count the number of plants in a pot and purchase the pot with the most. Just bought a strawberry basket. Some only had 5 crowns, mine had 8. It Made it well worth purchasing that over the other pots😊😊😊. Pays to look!
When separating leeks u can trim the roots with sharp scissors, leave about an inch of root
U can also trim the leafs but don't cut the growing tip.
Don't cover leeks with soil, just make a hole with a dibber and drop them in the hole and water in the hole.
Some things make sense to buy as starts and others do not... often see people buy pea plants or carrots and I just want to grab them and push them back to the racks of seeds.
I like your video shorts...I think they're fun and happy little morsel 😊
Thank you! 😊
Your jokes are getting dirtier every day Kev 😏
As a person who loves plants.
A good dirty joke brings my a healthy crop.
Lol it went over my head. Was that the “you can make them a little wet to make it easier”?
They're dirty jokes because there's soil involved. 😂
@@greenbeancasserole6646 "Start spreadin' them leeks"
I thought I was the only one who was like 🤣😏
Great tip. I will be looking for plants like this from now on
I did the same with acorn squash. Pulled apart 6 plants from 2 seedlings from the store. They are all thriving.
Yes we need to be wise with our money and more knowledgeable about how to grow vegetables and herbs for our kitchens
I bought a small pot of leeks that contained three times as many, but were half as large. I gently pressed the middle kind of unfolded the bunch, then planted them in a shallow ten inch pot. It was a very tedious task, but I’m looking forward to seeing what it looks like today!
the Gene stuffy on the pig and the Louise stuffy on the zombie would’ve been so accurate
? Planting all the plants you bought? What an amazing hack, I never woulda thought of that!
❤ to the short segments
Love the shorts, keep them a coming! ❤️❤️🌻🌻
Thank you! Will do!