Got a plant rack with grow lights, a butt load of seeds, starting trays, heat mats and making my own seed starting mix from coco coir and vermiculite. What grade of vermiculite do you use to start your seeds? I ordered the coarse from your shop. Google told me fine is best, so I ordered the fine grade. Any advice you can give me would be greatly appreciated. I'm in zone 8a near Charlotte in NC.
I LOVE THE SWEATER ...HELPS SO AS NOT TO BE DISTRACTED BY ALL THE MUSCLES FOR US LADIES...Men have the responsibility of MODESTY TOO AS WOMEN DO ....!!!
I had some celery in pots last year and let the bees enjoy the flowers. I was just clearing pots to reuse and found multiple celery sprouts coming up! I'm in the same zone as you. I've never had luck starting them from seed myself.
This video is the EXACTLY what I need to see. Thank you so much. Goodness… you laugh at your own joke. You’re a typical engineer. LOL…. Anyway, your knowledge is very much appreciated. My plan is to start summer loving plants indoor early this year. It’s too cold here to get them started unless they get a kick-start indoor first. I’m so excited about upcoming growing season. Mr. Dale is all dressed-up ready to go outside. I always look forward to watch him at the end of your video. He is definitely the highlight!!!
Pretty much anything you start indoors right now won't be ready to go outside until March 1. By then, almost everyone can transplant these cool season crops. If you live in a super cold zone, you can start your seeds in late January and they won't be ready to go out until close to April. By then, it's almost too warm in most places. Dale loves a good warm sweater this time of year. His hair is so short.
its going to be an insane garden year. I am a 2nd year gardener, and I can't believe how much I have learned from this & James Prigioni's channel. I also am taking the leap and going to plant at least 4 fruit trees, 1 nut & some berries.
Another REALLY GOOD educational is Hollis and Nancy, Hollis takes you through all the phases of growth and his failures and success. I've been gardening for 30 years and am still learning everyday!! This channel I started following quite awhile ago am learn something everyday from him!!! GOD BLESS!!
I'm glad to hear you're really getting into it! If you want my unsolicited advice, I'd recommend you take it slow. If you try to do too much right away, you can get in over your head and get frustrated. It's definitely overwhelming at times since there are so many incredible things to grow, but don't let it get away from you too quickly. It gets easy to get overwhelmed; ask me how I know 😄 What I *really* recommend is to get a couple fruit trees in. Put in a couple bare root tree orders now. Fruit trees take a couple years to get growing, so getting them in early so they can do their thing while you're growing vegetables is a really smart idea, in my opinion. Some of the easiest fruit trees for us to grow in most areas of the US are Asian persimmons, pawpaw's, figs (if you're Zone 7 or warmer) and Asian pears. They're all pretty resistant to pests and diseases.
Absolutely love this channel. we are moving to North Carolina from philadelphia are to retire. One of our big plans is to have an awesome garden. Your videos are epic and so helpful. We hope to do 8 to 10 8x4 beds and a bunch of containers.
We have had the warmest December that I can ever recall (moved to Arizona desert 1955). Zero rain for months we do remain in a 20+ year drought. My brassicas are doing ok but was a struggle to begin with as temps were in 80+ all through November and December. I am still hoping my carrots actually grow..planted them quite a while ago and they do seem to be breaking surface in the one bed I planted them. I had to use row covers on all brassicas (beds x 2 at 12x4 each) because birds and my chickens that decided to fly over and have a snack. Just finished off my lettuces am going to reseed them this weekend..these struggled not to bolt because of the warm temps. Thank you for all you have been teaching this old woman!
It's been the opposite here. This has been, by far, the coldest December since I moved here 7 years ago. That's the funny thing about the Earth - it's always roughly the exact same temperature. The air masses just move around. If it's unusually warm in Arizona, we are probably equally as unusually cold here in the east. If the whole US is above average, Europe/Russia/China is probably under severe cold. I'm glad the videos have helped you!
@@TheMillennialGardener The problem is that your both right AND at near identical latitudes. But if you view the data on "seasonal peaks and troughs" it'll show that the challenge of "Climate Change" isn't the EXTEMES, but how quick it can swing between hot and cold. I mean what would a 48 hour freeze actually do mid may?
Watched your December video yesterday and it made me realize I was out of bunching onion seeds so I ran out to get some and got them planted last night. Dallas, TX
Happy New Year! You are a valuable and appreciated resource for me. You may not realize this, but you will help me have my best gardening year so far in 2025!
What's growing on, Gardeners!! Great to meet you recently in a place that shall not be named. We had a fabulous time and hope you did too. Thank you for all you do to help us overwhelmed gardeners. Take good care
Tick tock, tick tock. Time is quickly approaching for seed starting time. On January 3rd, I will start by sowing seed starts for onions, cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower. Following them will be time to sow seeds for tomatoes, peppers, basil, dill, cilantro, and Pak Choi. After them, is mustard, chard, Romaine Lettuce, and assorted flowers. Sometime between February 15-20, I’ll direct sow seeds for shelling peas, snow peas, carrots, parsnips, radishes, turnips, and assorted leaf lettuces. Closer to March 1st, I’ll start planting my cool weather crop seedlings. Timing is everything in my garden. When one crop comes out, another goes in immediately. The exception is summer. There is such a thing as too hot to garden in Alabama. Very little grows when temps are around 110F or hotter. Insects and disease are at full force. I do not mind backing off a bit in July and August.
Here in the low AZ desert, summer is a time for me to spend the time just trying to keep everything alive. Nothing new goes outside after the middle of spring.
Some things do really well. Carrots, parsnips, Swiss chard, radishes, red leaf lettuce (like the New Red Fire or something similar) and arugula are good places to start. I've also fallen in love with mustard greens and collards. They're all so easy to grow. Dale, as usual, got way too many presents 😆
I always appreciate the effort and depth of information you put into your videos. Being a content creator, I know how much work and time it takes. Just wanted to say thank you, and happy holidays.
I have learned more about gardening from you than from any other single garden source: THANK YOU and please keep these quality videos coming! It's great to think about growing fresh veggies in the middle of winter (zone 4a here -central MN). I will have to get started on one of those hoop set-ups this spring :) p.s. Dale is absolutely adorable in his cozy holiday suit!
Love someone who actually admits when they aren't saying something correctly. It's okay. we all start somewhere. Rouge d'Hiver is french for winter red; your Rouge pronunciation is just fine. Try "d'eevair" for d'Hiver. I'm not writing that correctly but if you sound it out literally, it should be a lot closer. Thanks for all the good info. We love it.
It shouldn't be surprising, though. Most root vegetables are extremely cold hardy. Back in 2018, we hit a record low of 8 degrees, and my carrots made it through just fine. Teens with a cover overhead should be child's play for most roots. Give it a shot!
I was waiting for this exact video to come from you! Lol All of your videos are really helpful so I was like "THANK YOU" when I saw this pop into my feed.
Have the best year ever😅 love you and dale Respect your gardening information I am actually in your zone, wish I could get an organized garden like yours. CANT AFFORD IT (smile😮)
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this video. It makes it so much easier to get started since you have listed all of the veggies we can plant now. I am getting out my heat mats and grow lights. Thanks for the inspiration! Love your sweater and Dale's too!
Thank you so much for these videos. As 2025 will only be my second year gardening, I am learning so much about timing and temperatures from you and these videos. I am still figuring out spacing in my gardening and would love to see more videos about companion plantings and oest control.
🎄Belated Merry Christmas, & Happy New Year ahead! Yours is the Christmas sweater of all Christmas sweaters! Dale also looks cozy in his own ensemble! Thanks for the inspiration to get back out in the garden during wintertime here in NJ.
Would you be able to give us a little video on watering during winter? I know they don't need as much but when we have rain and such its kind of hard. I'm in zone 8A and make notes in my Garden notebook for the seasons. Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and am praying for a prosperous New Year, God Bless you and your family.
Thank you for your advice on winter gardening! Here in Boston my collard greens are thriving in six inches of snow, hard icy freezes, and night time lows around 10 degrees. They are outside with no cold protection and literally stand up straight supporting the snow. Its a low maintenance way to get your gardening fix even far up north.
Wow, that's fantastic. Collards are something special. Glad to hear someone is growing them up north! I'd still put a row cover overhead. It really is helpful.
@@TheMillennialGardener yes, we should put a cover on the plants. But after a year of growing a giant pumpkin and all that work, the collards are a winter experiment with very little work.
Thanks so much for this video! I am loving your explanation for when to sow onion and shallot seeds and why! I just sowed my onions yesterday and will sow shallot seeds today. I have never gotten large onions, and now I know it's because I've been planting long day varieties when it should be short day. 😅
I am starting a garden for the first time in the weeks to come. I am super excited and watching your videos are so informative. I’ve been sharing them with my friends who are also new to gardening. Thank you
You're very welcome! I'm glad to hear you're starting a garden! I wish you the best of luck. Take it slow. The best advice I can give you is to not do too much right out of the gate. Keep it simple and build confidence, then expand a little each year.
Great info; thank you! You are an inspiration to me. I am starting my first garden west of you in the Piedmont area. Merry Christmas and happy 2025 to you and yours.
Here in the middle of Indiana, my swiss chard has froze and the leaves died- but they're coming back!! I was totally surprised!! But here comes some SERIOUS cold.
In northern Indiana, I went out to check on my fabric covered chard. The leaves were all dead, so I cut the tops off the plant and trimmed off all the dead leaves. Today it's in the mid 50s, and before the rain starts up again I want to go out and see if the stems are doing anything.
Mangoes are going to be virtually impossible without a heated enclosure. They cannot tolerate even the lightest freezes. Tropicals are going to be a major issue unless you grow a condo mango variety in a container and have a very sunny place, like a solarium/climate controlled sunroom to overwinter it. Subtropical trees like citrus are *much* easier, because there are numerous frost-tolerant varieties. I am growing 9 citrus trees in ground, and I have tons of how-to videos. I suggest you watch my cold protection video here from a couple weeks ago: th-cam.com/video/KRLBg7fjpeg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=G8h3Y_JbnK8up1-g You are only a short drive from Stan McKenzie at McKenzie Farms in Scranton, SC, to get all the cold hardy citrus you desire. I have tons of videos about it here: www.youtube.com/@TheMillennialGardener/search?query=citrus
I am watching the heck out of your videos! I think my 15 year garden game is going to really level up! My biggest problem right now is lazy seeding leading to overcrowding and then poor growth...! I'm trying to break that habit!
I always learn something new with you. I don't normally grow super hot hot peppers but that was a very good info. Thank you... happy new year and happy growing 2025!!!
I got some good footage of him opening up presents. He was *really* in the spirit this year. He's been eyeing up the presents in my office for a month waiting for Christmas morning and really had a ball.
Oh boy! Love the sweater!!! DALE'S hat, omg 😂😂😂 the cutest. Thanks for the info. Definitely starting some of them by seed. I'm looking forwards to 2025 season as well.
The freezing temps this Fall and Winter are so unusual in the southern piedmont of NC zone 8a. It’s definitely messed me up a lot, but I’m hopeful to start seeds for Spring!!
Thank you! As a side note, I just released a new video yesterday for the month of February, which is more relevant for this exact moment in time: th-cam.com/video/aBav7f1Y6NU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=0Gqec_DMIhu6Hj6a
If you found this video helpful, please *LIKE* it and share it to help others grow bigger! Thanks for watching😀TIMESTAMPS here:
0:00 Gardening In January Tips
1:00 Winter Vegetable #'s 1-2
3:29 Winter Vegetable #'s 3-12
5:04 Winter Vegetable #'s 13-20
7:13 Winter Vegetable #'s 21-25
10:18 Winter Vegetable #'s 26-27
11:58 Winter Vegetable #'s 28-30
13:09 Winter Vegetable #'s 31-34
14:51 Winter Vegetable #35
16:17 Winter Vegetable #36
18:24 Adventures With Dale
Got a plant rack with grow lights, a butt load of seeds, starting trays, heat mats and making my own seed starting mix from coco coir and vermiculite. What grade of vermiculite do you use to start your seeds? I ordered the coarse from your shop. Google told me fine is best, so I ordered the fine grade. Any advice you can give me would be greatly appreciated. I'm in zone 8a near Charlotte in NC.
@@TheMillennialGardener please check out my FIG question above. I had no idea where to ask it, and it's important! Thank you 😊
D'Hiver is French for "(in) winter"--pronounced, roughly, "DEE-VEHR".
Thanks for the video.
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As a european I really appreciate that you write the temperatures in Celsius degree too. Thank you!
Love the sweater 😂. Merry Christmas to you and yours 🎄💚👨🏿🌾
Thanks! Merry Christmas to you, too! 🎄
I LOVE THE SWEATER ...HELPS SO AS NOT TO BE DISTRACTED BY ALL THE MUSCLES FOR US LADIES...Men have the responsibility of MODESTY TOO AS WOMEN DO ....!!!
I had some celery in pots last year and let the bees enjoy the flowers. I was just clearing pots to reuse and found multiple celery sprouts coming up! I'm in the same zone as you. I've never had luck starting them from seed myself.
This video is the EXACTLY what I need to see. Thank you so much. Goodness… you laugh at your own joke. You’re a typical engineer. LOL…. Anyway, your knowledge is very much appreciated. My plan is to start summer loving plants indoor early this year. It’s too cold here to get them started unless they get a kick-start indoor first. I’m so excited about upcoming growing season. Mr. Dale is all dressed-up ready to go outside. I always look forward to watch him at the end of your video. He is definitely the highlight!!!
Pretty much anything you start indoors right now won't be ready to go outside until March 1. By then, almost everyone can transplant these cool season crops. If you live in a super cold zone, you can start your seeds in late January and they won't be ready to go out until close to April. By then, it's almost too warm in most places. Dale loves a good warm sweater this time of year. His hair is so short.
What zone are you in?
@ I’m in 6b.
@honeybadgers1996
Oh wonderful. I moved from 8a (D-FW area) TX to Twin Cities MN 4b. The challenges are real!!! Take care 🙂
Am becoming so anxious/excited... it's like getting ready for tjis crazy annual race of hearing the "get-ready... get set... GO"!
Love the sweater . I love your garden tips and tricks as well .
I appreciate it! Thanks for watching!
its going to be an insane garden year. I am a 2nd year gardener, and I can't believe how much I have learned from this & James Prigioni's channel. I also am taking the leap and going to plant at least 4 fruit trees, 1 nut & some berries.
Another REALLY GOOD educational is Hollis and Nancy, Hollis takes you through all the phases of growth and his failures and success. I've been gardening for 30 years and am still learning everyday!! This channel I started following quite awhile ago am learn something everyday from him!!! GOD BLESS!!
I'm glad to hear you're really getting into it! If you want my unsolicited advice, I'd recommend you take it slow. If you try to do too much right away, you can get in over your head and get frustrated. It's definitely overwhelming at times since there are so many incredible things to grow, but don't let it get away from you too quickly. It gets easy to get overwhelmed; ask me how I know 😄 What I *really* recommend is to get a couple fruit trees in. Put in a couple bare root tree orders now. Fruit trees take a couple years to get growing, so getting them in early so they can do their thing while you're growing vegetables is a really smart idea, in my opinion. Some of the easiest fruit trees for us to grow in most areas of the US are Asian persimmons, pawpaw's, figs (if you're Zone 7 or warmer) and Asian pears. They're all pretty resistant to pests and diseases.
Absolutely love this channel. we are moving to North Carolina from philadelphia are to retire. One of our big plans is to have an awesome garden. Your videos are epic and so helpful. We hope to do 8 to 10 8x4 beds and a bunch of containers.
We have had the warmest December that I can ever recall (moved to Arizona desert 1955). Zero rain for months we do remain in a 20+ year drought. My brassicas are doing ok but was a struggle to begin with as temps were in 80+ all through November and December. I am still hoping my carrots actually grow..planted them quite a while ago and they do seem to be breaking surface in the one bed I planted them. I had to use row covers on all brassicas (beds x 2 at 12x4 each) because birds and my chickens that decided to fly over and have a snack. Just finished off my lettuces am going to reseed them this weekend..these struggled not to bolt because of the warm temps. Thank you for all you have been teaching this old woman!
It's been the opposite here. This has been, by far, the coldest December since I moved here 7 years ago. That's the funny thing about the Earth - it's always roughly the exact same temperature. The air masses just move around. If it's unusually warm in Arizona, we are probably equally as unusually cold here in the east. If the whole US is above average, Europe/Russia/China is probably under severe cold. I'm glad the videos have helped you!
@@TheMillennialGardener The problem is that your both right AND at near identical latitudes. But if you view the data on "seasonal peaks and troughs" it'll show that the challenge of "Climate Change" isn't the EXTEMES, but how quick it can swing between hot and cold. I mean what would a 48 hour freeze actually do mid may?
Extreme La Nina pattern this year. My Arizona low desert experience this year is the same as yours.
Watched your December video yesterday and it made me realize I was out of bunching onion seeds so I ran out to get some and got them planted last night. Dallas, TX
I think you and Dale should get matching sweaters and hats. Make sure you get one for Mom too!!
Happy New Year! You are a valuable and appreciated resource for me. You may not realize this, but you will help me have my best gardening year so far in 2025!
What's growing on, Gardeners!! Great to meet you recently in a place that shall not be named. We had a fabulous time and hope you did too. Thank you for all you do to help us overwhelmed gardeners. Take good care
Can you refresh my memory where? Was this the nice and warm spot last a little over a week ago?
@@TheMillennialGardener You got it! Sorry for being cryptic but didn't want to share too much publicly. Great food and diving is all I'll say :)
Going for it...biggst garden of my life! Thank you!
Excellent!! Always a good decision!
Tick tock, tick tock. Time is quickly approaching for seed starting time. On January 3rd, I will start by sowing seed starts for onions, cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower. Following them will be time to sow seeds for tomatoes, peppers, basil, dill, cilantro, and Pak Choi. After them, is mustard, chard, Romaine Lettuce, and assorted flowers.
Sometime between February 15-20, I’ll direct sow seeds for shelling peas, snow peas, carrots, parsnips, radishes, turnips, and assorted leaf lettuces. Closer to March 1st, I’ll start planting my cool weather crop seedlings. Timing is everything in my garden. When one crop comes out, another goes in immediately. The exception is summer. There is such a thing as too hot to garden in Alabama. Very little grows when temps are around 110F or hotter. Insects and disease are at full force. I do not mind backing off a bit in July and August.
Here in the low AZ desert, summer is a time for me to spend the time just trying to keep everything alive. Nothing new goes outside after the middle of spring.
MG's video reminded me that I have some Brussels sprouts seeds I've never used. Time to try some this year.
I always get my onions and celery started very early, and I'm thinking about trying winter sewing this year! I hope Dale got some wonderful presents!
Some things do really well. Carrots, parsnips, Swiss chard, radishes, red leaf lettuce (like the New Red Fire or something similar) and arugula are good places to start. I've also fallen in love with mustard greens and collards. They're all so easy to grow. Dale, as usual, got way too many presents 😆
I love the Adventures with Dale. It always gives me a smile.
Wish these videos had the planting zones in their titles.
It isn't zone dependent. Hardiness zones aren't for vegetable gardens. They are for perennials. It is explained at 0:33.
I really was expecting Father and Son Christmas sweaters!! Thanks for a wonderful year of tips, hints, tales and tails!!
Amigo muchas gracias por compartir bendiciones.
❤❤❤ LOVE DALE'S COAT AND HAT!!!❤❤❤
So does he! Well, the coat, anyway. He gets cold very easily.
I always appreciate the effort and depth of information you put into your videos. Being a content creator, I know how much work and time it takes. Just wanted to say thank you, and happy holidays.
I appreciate it very much! Thank you for watching.
I have learned more about gardening from you than from any other single garden source: THANK YOU and please keep these quality videos coming! It's great to think about growing fresh veggies in the middle of winter (zone 4a here -central MN). I will have to get started on one of those hoop set-ups this spring :)
p.s. Dale is absolutely adorable in his cozy holiday suit!
I love your channel. You always explain everything so well. Also, you and Dale always make me smile! Thank you so much for everything!
I appreciate it! I'm glad you're enjoying the videos. Dale sends his love 🐶
Aww! Thank you Dale! You’re such a good boy!❤️
Great information as always. Love your channel. ❤
Thank you! I am in NC and was looking for local gardeners to help me figure out when to best plant things.
Amen brother 🙏. Keep talking, I am listening 🙏😊. Love all you teach ❤️
Thank you as always, Professor!
Love your holiday spirit, gloves and all!
It was so cold. 43, raining, painfully damp and windy. I don’t do cold well, it hurt filming this 😂
@TheMillennialGardener well it's a good thing you don't live where the wind regularly hurts your face on the winter😉🤣😇
Love someone who actually admits when they aren't saying something correctly. It's okay. we all start somewhere. Rouge d'Hiver is french for winter red; your Rouge pronunciation is just fine. Try "d'eevair" for d'Hiver. I'm not writing that correctly but if you sound it out literally, it should be a lot closer.
Thanks for all the good info. We love it.
I laughed so much I missed what you were saying so I'm gonna watch again 😅😅😅❤
I appreciate it!
You are such a great resource. Thanks for all you are teaching us. ❤
Oh by the way I Love your outfit. Shows your awesome personality 😊❤
This is what happens when Brittany buys me clothes...
@@TheMillennialGardenerHaha 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂@@TheMillennialGardener
Such a cool sweater! Super festive. I’m growing radicchio, broccolini, radishes and beets. Glad you’ll get us right with frost covers.
The fact that you can grow root vegetables in sub-freezing temperatures with just a little hoop house is mind-blowing! 😲
It shouldn't be surprising, though. Most root vegetables are extremely cold hardy. Back in 2018, we hit a record low of 8 degrees, and my carrots made it through just fine. Teens with a cover overhead should be child's play for most roots. Give it a shot!
I'm so thankful for your videos!! You explain things so well!! I love yours & Dales outfits 😆
Of course, I love your video, yet again! Cool sweater! Dale looks sporty too!
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed our winter-wears 😂
Thanks for explaining this!
Glad it was helpful!
Great useful info! Keep the vids coming!
Great information as always. Thank you for sharing this video.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the vid, I am changing my whole garden 2025 so I hope to get alot of info from you. Keep going strong my man!
Thanks for the great info! Happy New Year!!
Anthony I was taking you serious, and then you said Big B. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅. That was funny 😅 a play on words. Then your smile and the look on your face.😅 ❤
I had to think, do I redo this or leave it in...it was 43 degrees and raining, I was freezing and wanted to finish. It stayed in 😅
@TheMillennialGardener It's Great!!!
@@TheMillennialGardener The Big B comment was hilarious 🤣
Right where I live! Awesome
Great video. NC gardener here, I’m starting my indoor germination process now. Thanks for the info!
I was waiting for this exact video to come from you! Lol
All of your videos are really helpful so I was like "THANK YOU" when I saw this pop into my feed.
Cute fur baby and another awesome video
Thank you
You're welcome! Dale says hello!
@@TheMillennialGardeneryou're welcome and thank you all greetings Dale 🩵🐾
Excelent. I'll be referencing this a few times.
I’m glad you found it helpful!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Love the sweater
Thank you! Hope you had a great Christmas, and Happy New Year!
Have the best year ever😅 love you and dale Respect your gardening information I am actually in your zone, wish I could get an organized garden like yours. CANT AFFORD IT (smile😮)
I'm gonna do it. I got grow bags for carrots and brussel sprout transplants and my T5 grow lights sitting unused. Good video!
Excellent!! Glad you enjoyed the video.
I have a request. When you move on to Florida, that you keep all these NC videos in your library.
I won’t be moving to Florida until probably at least 2030. It’ll be a long while. These videos wouldn’t be deleted. Once they are uploaded, they stay.
Love the sweater. Just nuts. :)
Thank you 😅
Love the sweater ❤️
Brittany certainly has interesting taste 😅
Awww...Dale does look SO cute!! ❤❤❤
He is something special 🐕
That sweater is elite.
❤ thank you …enjoying learning about growing year around. Trying some new things this winter .
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this video. It makes it so much easier to get started since you have listed all of the veggies we can plant now. I am getting out my heat mats and grow lights. Thanks for the inspiration! Love your sweater and Dale's too!
Boom, there’s my guy! Thanks for all you do
That, my friend, is a truly hideous Christmas sweater. I adore it. Its awesome.
Getting my shallots and onions in next week. Also zone 8
Best video on the internet about , january planting you even added in super hot growing times :) Well done
But how to do for evit the elongation of seedlings ....?!
Thank you so much for these videos. As 2025 will only be my second year gardening, I am learning so much about timing and temperatures from you and these videos. I am still figuring out spacing in my gardening and would love to see more videos about companion plantings and oest control.
My 3 chihuahuas have the same sweater! 😂❤
🎄Belated Merry Christmas, & Happy New Year ahead! Yours is the Christmas sweater of all Christmas sweaters! Dale also looks cozy in his own ensemble! Thanks for the inspiration to get back out in the garden during wintertime here in NJ.
Would you be able to give us a little video on watering during winter? I know they don't need as much but when we have rain and such its kind of hard. I'm in zone 8A and make notes in my Garden notebook for the seasons. Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and am praying for a prosperous New Year, God Bless you and your family.
The best gardening video! Thanks.
I appreciate it! Thanks for watching!
Thank you for your advice on winter gardening! Here in Boston my collard greens are thriving in six inches of snow, hard icy freezes, and night time lows around 10 degrees. They are outside with no cold protection and literally stand up straight supporting the snow. Its a low maintenance way to get your gardening fix even far up north.
Wow, that's fantastic. Collards are something special. Glad to hear someone is growing them up north! I'd still put a row cover overhead. It really is helpful.
@@TheMillennialGardener yes, we should put a cover on the plants. But after a year of growing a giant pumpkin and all that work, the collards are a winter experiment with very little work.
Dale looks so cute! I love the hat
He does 😆 He has very short hair and he loves his winter coats.
Love the sweater!
Thanks so much for this video! I am loving your explanation for when to sow onion and shallot seeds and why! I just sowed my onions yesterday and will sow shallot seeds today. I have never gotten large onions, and now I know it's because I've been planting long day varieties when it should be short day. 😅
You always have great info to share. I love your delivery of your content. You are great about staying on subject.
Thank you! I really appreciate it, very much.
L❤ve the sweater 😂
Thank you!
Just the best! Thank you for the inspiration 🎉🎉🎉
You're very welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.
I am starting a garden for the first time in the weeks to come. I am super excited and watching your videos are so informative. I’ve been sharing them with my friends who are also new to gardening. Thank you
You're very welcome! I'm glad to hear you're starting a garden! I wish you the best of luck. Take it slow. The best advice I can give you is to not do too much right out of the gate. Keep it simple and build confidence, then expand a little each year.
@ Yes sir, thank you.
Best of luck to you! Don't get too disappointed if it doesn't work the first time, it's all trial and error! No matter how long you've been doing it!
@@jeweleagle613thank you!!
Amazing info per usual
Glad you enjoyed it
Just the video I needed! MG, Rouge D'Hiver ("Red of Winter" in French) pronounced as DEE-VAIR. Thanks so much!
Great info; thank you! You are an inspiration to me. I am starting my first garden west of you in the Piedmont area. Merry Christmas and happy 2025 to you and yours.
That's outstanding! I'm glad to hear the videos are helping. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year!
I enjoyed your presentation. Very organized and interesting and helpful.
I appreciate it! Glad you enjoyed it.
😂Your sweater is GREAT!
It definitely is a sweater...🙂
Here in the middle of Indiana, my swiss chard has froze and the leaves died- but they're coming back!! I was totally surprised!! But here comes some SERIOUS cold.
In northern Indiana, I went out to check on my fabric covered chard. The leaves were all dead, so I cut the tops off the plant and trimmed off all the dead leaves. Today it's in the mid 50s, and before the rain starts up again I want to go out and see if the stems are doing anything.
Merry Christmas to you & yours. Always love your videos & your sense of humor. Really makes it enjoyable.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I love the outfit!!!! Just what I needed today 😂
Thanks. I am really taking one for the team with that sweater.
Thank you so much! This was very helpful. Bless you.
Mangoes are going to be virtually impossible without a heated enclosure. They cannot tolerate even the lightest freezes. Tropicals are going to be a major issue unless you grow a condo mango variety in a container and have a very sunny place, like a solarium/climate controlled sunroom to overwinter it. Subtropical trees like citrus are *much* easier, because there are numerous frost-tolerant varieties. I am growing 9 citrus trees in ground, and I have tons of how-to videos. I suggest you watch my cold protection video here from a couple weeks ago: th-cam.com/video/KRLBg7fjpeg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=G8h3Y_JbnK8up1-g
You are only a short drive from Stan McKenzie at McKenzie Farms in Scranton, SC, to get all the cold hardy citrus you desire. I have tons of videos about it here: www.youtube.com/@TheMillennialGardener/search?query=citrus
I am watching the heck out of your videos! I think my 15 year garden game is going to really level up! My biggest problem right now is lazy seeding leading to overcrowding and then poor growth...! I'm trying to break that habit!
Great video full of information. Living on NC east coast I can use all of the information thank you.
Piedmont Triangle here as well, super appreciate the recommendations!
I always learn something new with you. I don't normally grow super hot hot peppers but that was a very good info. Thank you... happy new year and happy growing 2025!!!
Oh Dale is adorable ❤❤❤❤😊
I got some good footage of him opening up presents. He was *really* in the spirit this year. He's been eyeing up the presents in my office for a month waiting for Christmas morning and really had a ball.
@@TheMillennialGardener AWE that's so sweet.
Oh boy! Love the sweater!!!
DALE'S hat, omg 😂😂😂 the cutest.
Thanks for the info. Definitely starting some of them by seed.
I'm looking forwards to 2025 season as well.
The freezing temps this Fall and Winter are so unusual in the southern piedmont of NC zone 8a. It’s definitely messed me up a lot, but I’m hopeful to start seeds for Spring!!
Love the sweater. I will be starting lisianthus in January.
Yesss so excited to get the 2025 garden going …
Great video! I feel inspired now!
Thank you! As a side note, I just released a new video yesterday for the month of February, which is more relevant for this exact moment in time: th-cam.com/video/aBav7f1Y6NU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=0Gqec_DMIhu6Hj6a
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Thank you 🙏
You’re welcome!
Looking good!!
You are DEAD SERIOUS! LOL love the sweater
Thanks!
Love the sweater! 😊
Merry Christmas - Happy New Years !!! CaliKim
Thank you so much! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, as well!