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Okay, welcome everyone. Welcome back to Monday Night Chat. Welcome back. Welcome back to Monday Night Chats. Welcome back y’all. Welcome back. Listen, it is a beautiful, beautiful evening outside. And we said, why not do Monday night chats sitting outside on the back porch. So, that’s where we are. That’s what we’re doing. And we have an amazing topic for you all today. Yes, we have an amazing topic. We are in good spirit. No mosquitoes. I know. Temperature is just nice. Perfect. Yes, the fall season is just Oh, this feels so good. Yes, it does. Yes, it does, you all. So, hopefully you all have gotten off to a wonderful fall season start. Yes. Which of course means if you watched our Monday night chat last week, we talked about that it’s never too early to start preparing for the 2026 garden season. Yes. Yes. Right. So hopefully you all have started your preparations there. And also those seed starting trays that you are done using, now is the perfect time to get them, clean them, sanitize them, put them away so they’ll be ready for this upcoming seed starting season. Yes. Put them get them, get them set so you can get into the flow. Yeah. We want to get into a good flow. Yes. this spring where we won’t be held up with, you know, looking for things, cleaning things at the last minute, trying to start the seeds, knowing what you want to plant. So, we getting all that out the way. We getting it out the way. That’s absolutely correct. But tonight’s video is dedicated, well, yes, dedicated to beginner gardeners. Okay. Now, even if you’re a seasoned gardener, you are still very, very, very needed in this Monday night chat because whatever we don’t discuss, you can put it in the comment section to help all of the new gardeners who are getting ready to plant their gardens for the very first time. Yes. So, we need everybody a part of this, okay? Whether you’re seasoned, expert, intermediate, you know, whatever the levels are. Yeah. If you are beyond beginner, we definitely need all of that support right in the chat. Yes, we do. So, let’s go ahead and get into it. We’re going to start this off by basically going over some tips to provide for all of our beginning gardeners for 2026. Yes. Okay. So y’all, let’s go ahead and dive head first right into it. Beginner garden tip number one, you all. Yes. Begin with a few easy crops like lettuce. Yes. Herbs, squash. Yep. Tomatoes. Yep. You know, something that’s real simple that you can easily get used to. That’s right. Right. And then you can elevate yourself to stuff that’s more, you know, kind of like I guess hard to to grow or whatever. Yeah. But just start with the easy stuff. You know, like Mr. H was saying, squash. You can you can plant a squash seed and you’ll have to fight the squash to stop it from growing cuz it’s going to continue to grow and it’s going to continue to produce. So start with like the basics, you know, real easy herbs. And another one is like basil. Basil is probably one of the easiest herbs you can grow. In fact, if you threw some seeds down somewhere, I guarantee you, you will see basil, even cilantro, coming up in that very same spot. Yes. Year after year. Right. So it’s very easy to grow some of these very simple crops. Now, another thing is to start with just a few raised garden beds. If you’re going to do raised beds, one to three raised garden beds so you don’t get overwhelmed. Yes. Okay. Or if you don’t want to do garden beds, you can always just do containers, but start with something small. Don’t go out and dig a 2,000 square foot garden and you and you haven’t grown anything. Yes. But if you feeling like you can do it, hey, don’t don’t tell don’t listen to us tell you not to. You go ahead on and you do just that. Also, you want to learn like Mr. H said, mastering the basics, which is plant spacing. Yes. Right. Row spacing, seed depth, because not all seeds are going to be planted at the exact same depth. Some seeds are very massive, right? We have some pumpkin seeds in there that are absolutely huge. Yes. But then when you look at little seeds like cabbages and tomato seeds, they’re really small. And even some herb seeds like lavender or gosh, so many different herb seeds that are so super tiny, you wouldn’t bury those as as deep as you would a pumpkin seed. Yeah. And there are some seeds that you don’t bury at all. There are some seeds that you just sprinkle on top of the soil and maybe pat them down, but you don’t bury them at all because they need the light to go ahead and germinate. Right. Yes. So, like Miss H said, focus on your basics first. Your plant spacing, your seed depths, the type of crops you want to grow and eat based upon what you love. Okay? And also the spacing. You want to have enough room for air flow so it won’t set up disease. That’s absolutely correct. So you want to have that spacing so that air can come through there and and it won’t get all uh you know leaves turn black on the ends and all of that. Yeah. Don’t crowd your plants. I know we can practice um uh square foot gardening. But even in square foot gardening it’s not so densely some of the plants are not so densely crowded that they can’t get some type of airflow. So consider that. Okay. All right. Garden tip number two. Make sure that your plant get at least 6 to 8 hours worth of sunlight. That’s right. You got to have that sun. That’s absolutely correct. Also, you want to avoid planting your garden in lowlying areas. You don’t want to plant your garden in an area where there’s like this massive dip where when it rains it’s going to just collect water and the water is not going to drain because you can drown your plants. If it’s little seedlings, you will certainly drown them, right? But you don’t want your roots to rot and you certainly don’t want your plants to start to suffer from having way too much water. Yes. Yes. You don’t want too much water. No, because that can be like devastating. Yes, it can. Okay, so the next tip is make sure that your crops is next to a water source. Please make sure that you are able to get some water because I’m telling you, you in in those temperatures that’s like in the 90s and what close to 100. Yes. If you miss a couple of days, those plants when they young, they not going to make it. They going to They going to die. They not going to make it, you all. They not going to make it. Yes. Yes. Oh my goodness. Yes. Cuz you want to make sure that they’re, you know, well, you know, taken care of and make sure that it’s enough water, you know, because we want to make sure we Yeah. Because you don’t want to be carrying water a mile up the road to water your crops either, right? So, make sure that your crops are planted in an area where you can get to the water source easily. You know, I know for us, like we would at first, we would have to take this giant water hose and haul it all the way across in order to water our big garden until we set up the drip irrigation. Yeah. Right. But it’s still helpful that our garden was close enough to the water where it wasn’t a massive inconvenience to water everything. So now your next tip is watch how the sun moves across your garden space. Yes. Pay close attention to how the sun is moving as it goes from uh east to west. Pay attention to that because your crops will do best if they are getting lots and lots of southfacing sun. Okay? So watch how the sun moves. When the sun is actually in the south, look at where it shines on your garden. So you can see what crops wherever you plant your garden plot, what crops you can plant based upon how the sun is, right? Because you don’t want to face your garden in an erection where your tomatoes may be growing five, six, seven feet tall and then behind the tomatoes, you got these little pepper plants and they’re being shaded out completely by a long massive tomato plant that’s just not going to allow the sun to get through to the little pepper plants. Right. Yeah. So, watch how the sun moves and plant your garden accordingly. Yes. And also, you know, the first thing that we look at is trees shading the crops out. Yep. Sometimes if you living in an area could be a building. It could be a building, you know, to where how the sun moves, it’s going to be like shading half of your yard because the the building is a little tall. Yep. So, you want to watch that sun and see where most of that sunlight is concentrated at. Absolutely correct. And that’s where you want to put all your crops. That’s right. Remember he said you want your garden to get 6 to 8 hours of sun each day. Yes. Beginner gardening tip number three. Right. Know your zone. Know your grow zone. Yes. You can look it up. You can Google it. Yeah. Here in Georgia we are zone 8. Yes. We’re zone eight. Whatever state you in, just make sure you know your zone. Yep. That’s going to give you your your more like um your your garden calendar on when to Yeah. when to go ahead and put those crops in the ground. That’s right. Because you could be down like south in Florida. I think that’s zone 9. Yeah. You know, they got plenty of warm weather. So, they can grow longer than zone 8. That’s right. And then you move all the way up to towards the northeast and Canada, it gets colder and colder. Those zones starting down, right? zone three, zone four. So, you definitely want to know your hardiness zone. Like Mr. H said, we’re zone eight. And you don’t plant all of your Oh, microphone. Sorry. You don’t plant all of your crops at the same time, right? Some things get planted a lot earlier than others. Yes. Right. Like for us, the first thing that’s about to go in here in zone 8 for 2026 are these beautiful strawberry plants that you see on the table. Yes. And then our garlic is about to go in as well. Yes. So there are some crops that you can plant at different times, but it’s very important for you to know your zone. Know your zone. It’s very important. It’s for the survival of the crops. And not only knowing your zone, you also want to know your average frost date. Whether that’s your first frost date or your last frost date. You want to know your frost dates because that also gives you an idea of how much time you have before you can either uh put crops in. You want to know how much time you have before that crop will no longer be uh able to grow because maybe you’re going to get a first frost really soon. Maybe your first frost is in August or September depending on where you are, right? So, you want to make sure that you know your uh first and last fro frost dates and that way you can plant and plan your garden accordingly. Yes. For the last couple of years, the frost dates been a little tricky. They have been because uh we’ll think it’s the last frost and a couple of weeks later, another frost just pop up and I mean everybody put their crops in the ground one year and it just lost it all. We lost a lot of crops. Peach trees, buds, everything fell off. Everything was dead. We had no peaches in Georgia that year. Yeah. Very small amount of peaches. In fact, our average last frost date here in our zone is in March, right? But we had a frost to come through midappril. Yes. And it devastated the crops. So, not only does it help to know your frost date, but you got to keep an eye on the weather. Yes, you do. So, it’s it’s kind of tricky, but hey, we got to do do the best we can, right? That’s right. We got to do the best we can. Garden tip number four. You have to work on improving your soil. Yes, you do. You have to. We got to work on it. We got to make sure it’s strong and tough enough and rich enough, whatever it got to be. So, what we going to do? We going to make sure we add compost and manure. Make sure that it’s ready for the plants to feed off of. That’s right. any kind of organic matter, you you want to add that in to your soil to get the soil beds ready for growing, right? And even if you wanted to have your soil tested, you can do that now. You can get a soil test kit from pretty much anywhere nowadays, from your local extension office. You can have your soil sample sent there. You can even order one from Amazon, right? Test kits are everywhere. So if you wanted to have your soil tested, that’s a great idea. Yes. Just have your soil tested and then if it’s if it need a little something then So what always works is, you know, compost, manure, you know, and you got a lot more things you can add to it. Yeah. You know, worm castings, leaf mulch, right? All of those things break down and help to feed the soil. So, just make sure that you’re adding some rich organic matter into the soil. And one thing I always tell Mr. H is please don’t walk in our garden beds. Yes. You don’t want you don’t want to walk in the garden bed for more than one reason, right? Say for instance, if you go out into like uh the city, you don’t know what you’re going to be stepping on, right? So you can bring that back to your garden song, right? And contaminate it, you know, cuz you don’t know horrible what’s on the bottom of your boots. That’s true. Because you could be at the gas station stepping in oil and gas and all of that and then come back and walk in your garden. That is not a good idea. Yeah. Right. And also you can compact the soil down. You don’t want to do that. You want to keep the soil nice and fluffy. You’ve worked so hard to enrich the soil. Yes. when you walk in on it, you’re just compacting the soil. So, avoid walking in your garden beds. If they’re raised beds, don’t step over in them. And and try your best to walk around to work the soil because that soil has to be airrated. Yes. you know, for the root system. When when it rains, the water go through, you know, the soil and and it, you know, brings down the the the nutrients that you feed it from on top and the roots get all of that and boom, comes all the way through the leaves and the um fruit. You want a nutrient dense soil. I always feel like something crawling on me, y’all. But you want a nutrientdense soil. Yes. Yes. All right. So, before we continue with our next tip for our new beginning gardeners, we’re going to take a moment to give a shout out to the sponsor of today’s video, which is our awesome, awesome sponsor, Azure. Come on, bugs. Azure Standard. You finally got it out. Azure Standard, y’all. Azure. Azure Standard. Standard. You all know that we recommend Azure to you all quite often. We buy a lot of our goods in bulk from Azure Standard. Especially things like our wheat and our household cleaning pro our household cleaning products and other things you know that we love to get from Azure. We always choose to buy in bulk, right? Yes, we do. We get our beans from them. you. They have so many options. You know, your rice, your soaps, your produce. Even if you’re not going to be gardening this season and you needed to get produce to put away, you can buy your produce in bulk. Your onions, your uh bell pepper, they have celery. You can even buy fruit, peaches, pears, cherries, you you name it. You can get so much from Azure. And if you’re new to Azure, you can use our code homestead 15. Yes. And shop with Azure. And that will save you 15% on your first order of $100 or more. But even if you’re not new to Azure, you can still use our link to shop Azure Standard, and that’s going to be found down below. And that lets Azure Standard know that Homestead Heart sent you. Okay. All right, y’all. Let’s get right on back to these tips on how we can make it easy for our new beginning gardeners to grow their own groceries. Yes. Okay. Tip number five. Tip number five. You want to water deeply. You want to make sure that you get that water down in the soil. You want to make sure that it’s it’s soaking in there. That’s right. You want to water well. very well. Now, one of the easiest ways to test to see if you’re watering well enough, just stick your finger in there. Yeah. And if the top two inches are nice and moist, then you’re doing really, really good. Right. So, just stick your finger down in there and see if it’s moist below the top two inches, below the top two inches. See if it’s good and moist down there. And if so, you know, you’re doing a good job of watering. Okay? But just water the uh uh very very deep. And you can use the irrigation, you can use watering cans or soaker hoses, whatever floats your boat. You just make sure that you on a very consistent watering scale. Yes. And also what we want to touch on is the best time to water. Yep. Which is early in the morning. Yes. You want to water early in the morning so you know that that those crops going to get that water early and they have all day. When the sunshine hits it, everything is working for it. Yeah. You know, it’s going through it this cycle, the sun hitting the crops and you know, evaporation is happening right by you watering real deep. Water is deep down in the soil. Yep. And it’s coming on up and the sun is doing its job. The water is doing its job. The plant is doing its job. Yep. Now, another thing, another good reason to water early in the morning is so that you’re not out there burning up in the middle of the day trying to water your crops and it’s 100° outside. Oh, yeah. So, definitely water very early if you can. Yes. Or you can get that uh system set up with automatic water, the irrigation. Irrigation. Yes, you sure can. Garden tip number Six, mulch your garden beds. Mulch is so important, right? It is. It is. Now, I know I know you see a lot of us using ground cover, but I’m going to be honest, I would prefer wood chips any day over the ground cover as long as we were able to get a consistent load of wood chips in. Right. Yeah. But just getting them sporadically every few years was not helpful for us. But you know, if we were able to get the wood chips every single year, yeah, a nice good amount to make sure that we keep adding just keep layering, we would prefer to mulch our gardens with the wood chips. But there are certain there are so many other options for you if you want. Some people use grass clippings before the grass has gone to seed. Some people use mulch hay or straw, but you just have to be mindful of weed seed when it comes to hay. Okay? And then of course chemicals that somebody could have sprayed on their hay as well. So you want to be mindful of that. But definitely if you can mulch your garden. Yes. All right. Garden tip number seven. You all, you want to learn how to identify weeds and pests. Pest. Woo. Because they going to work you. They going to be going to work while you in the bed sleep. They still they going to be working all night. Me and Mrs. Z was trying to figure out shall we get some kind of light or some kind of, you know, uh, bug zapper or what can we do? We was trying to figure this thing out when it comes to these pests. My goodness. Oo, they going to work, y’all. Because you’ll come out one day and well, actually, you’ll work in your garden one day when you’ll see all the big beautiful plants and all of the growth happening and you’re so excited because you see the little flowers starting to develop, which is an indicator that fruit is on the way, right? And then you’re all excited, you feeling happy. You go in and you get a good night’s sleep. And you wake up in the morning, you know, getting ready to daint your little cell phone on out there to the garden. And the next thing you know, you walk in that garden and everything is ate up. The leaves go. Oh my god. I I I was thinking where these things come from. What’s their purpose? Just to come and take us down. That’s their purpose in life. Just to come and take us down. these pests, I’m telling you, make gardening hard, right? Yes, it do. You know, like your first couple of years can be uh it won’t be as bad because you just growing in that area. Getting started. Yeah. You know, but after this second and third year, oh, they going to come out of the woodworks. They will. Well, now I’m going to tell you, squash bugs, they going to find you. No matter where you are, if if you have squash bugs, they are going to find your squash plants. If you’ve never grown squash, grow them. And if you see squash bugs year one, they was already anticipating your garden. Yes. They were already sleeping, thinking about it. I know one day they’re going to grow a garden with some squash in it. Uh-huh. And they always find a way. And those army worms, whatever them Yes. Yes. Army worm. Look, there are so many pests you’re going to find. Mhm. That are just going to miraculously appear in your garden. Yes. You’re going to have issues with possible issues with tomato horn worms. Those things will destroy your tomato plant overnight. You can probably run into cucumber beetles, flea beetles. I mean, you you can run into so many pests in your garden and you will find out about pests that you never even knew existed, right? No. So, like you may be thinking about a squash bug and you may think that a squash bug and a vine bore are the exact same thing, but they’re not. But they will do the exact same job and that is destroy your beautiful squash plants, you know. But one of the ways that you can combat that is make sure that you’re planting in your garden um plants that will bring in those beneficial insects that don’t mind eating the insects that are taking out your garden. Yes, they can you can even consider a bat house for certain pest because bats they love insects. They love tomato horn worms, right? And remember, they’re nocturnal, so they can see very well at night. Okay. So, you can consider that as well. Yes. Because I’m telling you, and then not to mention those weeds. The weeds, too. Oh, those weeds. Yes. Uh you can weed one day and think you everything is good. You come back two two or three days later, weeds is just popping up. Oh my god. And don’t let it rain. If it rains, you really will see the weeds just again magically appear. There they are. As big as your tomato plants, you know. Yeah. But also, if you plant pollinator friendly flowers and things like that, oh my goodness, you can bring in ladybugs and uh praying mantis and all of those, you know, those things really help. Those insects help the garden. So you can bring those in. And again, going back to mulching, that will help keep down the weeds. Yes, it will. Garden tip number eight. Eight. Start a compost bin. Please start a compost bin. That’ be so beneficial. Yes. You know, it it it will save you a lot of money. Mhm. And also you can know that what you got is not contaminated with any kind of chemical. Exactly. Exactly. Because I know that uh a lot of us the last few seasons we were talking about in the chat how we were buying bags of compost. Some of you were buying different brands. And you were saying the issues that you had with purchasing compost in bags. how it was just some of it was full of fire ants, some of it was mostly wood, some of it had very little compost at all, right? It was just a bunch of wood chips, a bunch of sticks, right? And so we all had and somebody else said they had some kind of infestation in the bag. They didn’t know what kind of pest it was, but when they dumped it out, all of these bugs just went everywhere. Just a bunch of little creepy crawly bugs. There’s like thousands of them, man. You know, so you have to think about making your own compost bin. If you have chickens, they are fantastic at composting. Okay. Yes. But if you don’t, you can make your own. Mr. H. And I are going to make a compost bin, and we’re going to show you how. And and we’ve never really made compost bins here because we we’ve just allowed our chickens to do all of the work for us. Yes, we put uh garden scraps and wood chips and all of that inside of our chicken houses and and we only harvest the compost once a year and that’s in the spring. Yeah, that’s it. Mhm. So, by the time that year rolls around, if we do have wood chips sitting directly on top, because we’re coming out of the winter, we just rake it to the side and we take out what’s underneath and what’s underneath it doesn’t smell like chicken poop. It’s beautiful, right? Compost should be beautiful, black, earthy, right? It should Come on now. What is wrong with you? It should be earthy. It shouldn’t have a a stank to it. Yes. Yes. If you will. Yes. Yes. You know, in in in compost, knowing, you know, that you can go if you don’t have um chickens, but you know, anybody that have chickens or anybody that have cows, I’m pretty sure they’ll be glad to give you some compost. Manure. Yes. Manure. They’ll be glad to let you come get some if you if you can deal with it. Mhm. And compost bins are pretty easy. I mean, it’s just going to be a mixture of carbon and nitrogen and and and whatnot. Just you’re just literally layering. That’s it. You got leaves and kitchen scraps or coffee grounds and things of that nature. You can use um grass clippings and all of that. Yeah. All of those things are great for a composting bin. And not only that, they will help to bring earthworms up from the ground and they will also help to compost that pile as well. And you only need to just turn it every two to three weeks or so. It’s not something you have to babysit. Yeah. But you do need to tend to it. Okay. But we’re going to walk you through the steps of building a compost bin so you’ll see how easy it is. And actually, we’re not going to build a small one. We’re going to we’re going to make a nice Yeah. big giant compost bin. Yeah. You know, compost bin that’ll mean something when we get ready to use it. You know, we have our own compost instead of going getting spending so much money on it. You know, we know we can do it ourselves. That’s right. That’s right, you all. Okay. Garden tip number nine. You want to keep a garden journal. How many times do you hear me say that? I say that over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. In fact, we make garden journals available um in our little spring t-shirt shop somewhere down below. We have garden journals that we create just for you. So, keep a garden journal. You want to take note of everything in the garden, starting with what you plant. Yes. And where you plant it. Where you planted it. Right. So many times we say, “Oh, what is this plant? What what is this?” Until they end up, we got another mystery garden. Oh, I thought this was squash. I thought this this type of tomato, but it may seems like it’s not important, but a garden journal is very important. it is because it allows you to document the journey of what you’re doing to help you improve on the next growing season. Yes. So, you’ll be able to keep track of what crops grew best for you, where you planted them, how often you watered them, the pest issues you had, how you resolve those pest issues, right? Yes, it helps you to think about what you will do different the upcoming growing season. So, you definitely want to keep a garden journal. Yes. And you also can take notes on how the weather was. That’s right. You know what the date how the weather was on the 8th? Yeah. 14th, 15th. Yeah. You know, of of let’s just say it was the of March or something like that. Did it get too, you know, was it a frost that came all of a sudden? Yeah. And what did you have to do to protect your crops? Were you successful? Yes or no? And what would you do different? Yes. So, that’s a very, very good point. Yes. Keep up with the weather. How much rain did you get that week, right? Or that month or that garden season. You want to keep up with those things because it helps you to prepare for the year ahead. Yes. So get a garden journal. Yeah. So you can see, okay, what was the harvest like? Like you said, you know, did we get a big harvest, small harvest? How did it work for you? You could, could you time it a little bit different where you get better results, you know? Do you need 40 tomato plants? Yeah. Yeah. Can you scale it back to 30? Can you scale it back to 20? Right. Yeah. So, you just want to take notes because that way you can make a decision on what you’re going to do the next time. And finally, you all, garden tip number 10. We made it to 10. Yes, we did. Now, listen. After all of those top nine tips that we just gave you, this is the most important of all 10. Yes, it is. Yes, indeed it is. Be patient and enjoy the process. Sit back, relax, be patient, like Mr. H said, and enjoy the process. Yes, that’s all you got to do, right? Listen, you’ve worked so hard for this. So, when you see the first flowers coming on and you see that itty bitty green tomato sticking out the backside of that flower, get excited about that. You know, take pictures of your journey. Yeah. You know, let the garden be a place where you want to relax. Yeah. You want to sit and relax, you know, put yourself some little chairs and a little table with some beautiful color and flowers everywhere and just sit out there with yourself a cup of tea or a cup of coffee early in the morning. relax and look around at that beautiful, beautiful garden that you have just created for yourself. Yes. Right. Yes. And also enjoy the fruits of your labor. That’s right. That’s right. Yes. Make the garden fun. Make it fun. You know, you’ve planted some beautiful crops out there, some things. And you know, of course, you’re planting for necessity, but you also want to plant because you want it to be a nice place where you can come and unwind and leave the world behind, right? And not think about what’s happening all over the world. You just want a place of peace. Yes. Okay. So, sit back and enjoy your garden. sit back and relax and just enjoy the new scene that you created yourself with your hands and don’t worry about the craziness. Whatever you hear, you can just be in your own space. Yep, that’s absolutely correct, y’all. Yeah. So, that’s it. That’s our top 10 gardening tips for all of our new gardeners. Okay, you all. So, that’s going to do it for this video. And if you like the video, like the video, give it a thumbs up, and don’t forget to subscribe to our channel, and hit the notification bell so you don’t miss any videos that we upload to our channel. Thank y’all for joining us on Monday Night Chats. Thank y’all so much for joining us on Monday Night Chats. Peace and blessings. Peace and blessings. Yes. Yes. See y’all in the next video. Peace.