Enjoy the journey, learn from others, learn from your mistakes and successes, and pray over your garden! Thank you for watching and commenting! I love people like you!
Leslie, I started gardening in 2020. I didn't know what I was doing, and I needed help. I couldn't even keep a plant alive, always referred to myself as having a black thumb. I came across your square foot gardening class, I watched it, took notes and off to garden I went 😂 In the Spring of 2020 I started with two 12' x 2' raised beds (24 sq ft) I didn't have huge success, but I grow my own food! We've slowly added more beds, now over 350 sq ft, plus a bunch of grow bags, and some trees! In the past 4 years I have grown over 1,000 pounds of organic food! To some that may not be much, but to me that is huge. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and passion for gardening.
What a wonderful message for me to receive! Thank you so much! May I use this, without your name, as a testimony for our gardening consulting business? What an encouragement you have been to me! Blessings and happy growing!
I need help, first I want to say I love your energy and encouragement. I have started a tiny garden on my porch in 4 gallon buckets. I am nervous that im doing it wrong. and i need to harvest soil from the woods I do not know where to look to find it, i have lots of woods around me and am concerned that the soil will be wrong. I do not know how to train my climber plants either. my plants seem to be growing slow to and the raisedbed soil i bought doesnt seem to be retaining water, i am just nervous because i have never done this before. It is wonderful to see the seeds have sprouted but i want to know what to do to take care of them. HELP
I'm not sure how large your garden is, but I would suggest that you start small so you don't have to be so nervous. Maybe just 2 by 6 ft or something like that. Harvesting forest floor is best done when there's not a lot of undergrowth in the forest. Specifically in the cold months. I would suggest just putting in a good growing mix that you purchase . Put in a small trellis of PVC with some plastic netting. Use a couple pieces of rebar and put the rebar in the ground and Slide the PVC over the rebar I would get two 2 -3 ft pieces of rebar and 1 1/2 inch PVC. Buy some elbows to put on top of the PVC to make an upside down U. Then just slide the PVC over the rebar that has been pounded into the ground. Hang some mesh from the top of the U and that'll be your trellis. When the plants grow you can either weave them in and out of the mesh if the holes are large enough, or tie them to the mesh with good twine or tomato clips . You could watch some TH-cam on how to make a simple trellis for other ideas I hope this works for you. Again start small to relieve the stress. Add the best compost that you can find to your mix. That means getting it from a nursery rather than a big box store. God bless you as you move forward. Another idea is to attach the mesh netting to the PVC frame with zip ties. Just make sure they're heavy duty zip ties .
Hi Leslie, we are just starting to garden, so thank you for your advice! God bless you and your family, bless and protect!
Enjoy the journey, learn from others, learn from your mistakes and successes, and pray over your garden! Thank you for watching and commenting! I love people like you!
Leslie, I started gardening in 2020. I didn't know what I was doing, and I needed help. I couldn't even keep a plant alive, always referred to myself as having a black thumb. I came across your square foot gardening class, I watched it, took notes and off to garden I went 😂 In the Spring of 2020 I started with two 12' x 2' raised beds (24 sq ft) I didn't have huge success, but I grow my own food! We've slowly added more beds, now over 350 sq ft, plus a bunch of grow bags, and some trees! In the past 4 years I have grown over 1,000 pounds of organic food! To some that may not be much, but to me that is huge. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and passion for gardening.
What a wonderful message for me to receive! Thank you so much! May I use this, without your name, as a testimony for our gardening consulting business? What an encouragement you have been to me! Blessings and happy growing!
@@LeslieCaza You’re welcome. Absolutely, I think they will be lucky to have you. 😊Thank you.
I need help, first I want to say I love your energy and encouragement. I have started a tiny garden on my porch in 4 gallon buckets. I am nervous that im doing it wrong. and i need to harvest soil from the woods I do not know where to look to find it, i have lots of woods around me and am concerned that the soil will be wrong. I do not know how to train my climber plants either. my plants seem to be growing slow to and the raisedbed soil i bought doesnt seem to be retaining water, i am just nervous because i have never done this before. It is wonderful to see the seeds have sprouted but i want to know what to do to take care of them.
HELP
I'm not sure how large your garden is, but I would suggest that you start small so you don't have to be so nervous. Maybe just 2 by 6 ft or something like that. Harvesting forest floor is best done when there's not a lot of undergrowth in the forest. Specifically in the cold months. I would suggest just putting in a good growing mix that you purchase . Put in a small trellis of PVC with some plastic netting. Use a couple pieces of rebar and put the rebar in the ground and Slide the PVC over the rebar I would get two 2 -3 ft pieces of rebar and 1 1/2 inch PVC. Buy some elbows to put on top of the PVC to make an upside down U. Then just slide the PVC over the rebar that has been pounded into the ground. Hang some mesh from the top of the U and that'll be your trellis. When the plants grow you can either weave them in and out of the mesh if the holes are large enough, or tie them to the mesh with good twine or tomato clips . You could watch some TH-cam on how to make a simple trellis for other ideas I hope this works for you. Again start small to relieve the stress. Add the best compost that you can find to your mix. That means getting it from a nursery rather than a big box store. God bless you as you move forward. Another idea is to attach the mesh netting to the PVC frame with zip ties. Just make sure they're heavy duty zip ties .