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7 Smart Garden Planning Decisions That Make a Big Difference



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Spring garden planning made simpler. In this video, I share 7 garden planning tips that help you decide what to plant, what to skip, and how to create a garden that works better for your time, space, and lifestyle. Thanks for watching – Steph 🌱 Gardening in Massachusetts zone 6b. #gardening #garden #flowers #lifestyle #home

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24 Comments

  1. @HookedandRooted

    Hi Garden Friends, After keeping a garden journal all year, I’m sharing seven things that stood out and changed how I approach planting, containers, and long term garden planning for the seasons ahead. If you’re planning your 2026 garden, or simply reflecting on what worked and what didn’t, I think you’ll relate. Let me know your thoughts in the comments. Thanks for watching – Steph 🌱 Gardening in Massachusetts zone 6b. #gardening #garden #flowers #lifestyle #home

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  2. @KimatRevAcres

    Great list Steph added to my 2026 garden organizer a great review when I feel overwhelmed. Three years ago I was watering a minimum two hours every morning before work. I started to think of my gardens/containers as a chore added water drip a game changer and started enjoying my flowers. Thank you and Happy New Year!

  6. @upnorth21

    Great tips! I also let go of my bulb buying this fall. It will be interesting to see what comes back this year!

  7. @WindyBryant

    Thanks for all the good info. However, your shirt/dress is beautiful. Share where you purchased please.

  12. @sayless1024

    Hi Steph and all😁
    Can you recommend a heavy duty garden chart with a dumping option? I am really interested in purchasing one?

    Thanks,
    Sayless

  13. @kathleenpalmer845

    GAME CHANGERS …

    1) Drip irrigation for our containers
    2) hose attachment to apply weekly fertilizer for containers
    3) Yard Enforcer for deer, bunnies, raccoons & bear
    4) growing dahlias in containers that I overwinter in my garage

    Drip irrigation has been a HUGE game changer for us . We have a large deck with upwards of 50 containers of annuals, 7 hanging baskets of zucchini, summer squash and cucumbers, a couple window boxes of carrots plus a Greenstalk vertical garden for our herbs, strawberries and tomatoes to keep watered. It saves us so much time by having them on drip with a timer to go off every morning for 15 minutes . The Greenstalk reservoir fills twice a week.

    The sprayer jug we put our PW water soluble fertilizer in has cut our watering time down to a tiny fraction of what it use to be.

    The motion detector sprinklers – we bought a second one after we saw how helpful they were in saving our hostas and hydrangeas from the deer and keeping the raccoons and bear from our bird feeders. We set ours to go on at dusk and off at dawn. They cut way down on spending money to keep spraying Liquid Fence .

    The dahlias in large containers on my deck – I don’t have to dug them up and store them and replant in the spring . I just store the pots in the garage for them winter. I divide them every few years .

  19. @lihj9350

    So what did you do with so many dahlia tubers, can you keep them for two more years, or give them to your friends :)?

  20. @christinachef

    I said I'd never have a minivan, and I got one and had it for 10 years, it finally died and we had to get a smaller car and I cried. I ended up loving that van.

  21. @teresagdanski7454

    Hi Steph. Would you at one time share your garden journal. I’m been gardening for a while but have never journaled. It would be nice to see how other people do it. What they keep track or and how. Thanks for your channel. It’s such an inspiration and especially love all your gardens. Makes the winter season bearable.

  22. @silverfox5732

    It's so nice to hear someone else say doing things you love do and that it's ok to just take a break and stop to smell the flowers we do have .less is more in my case. But I love your graden and wish that had the space fore more sometimes 😂

  23. @donnasantamaria8317

    This video was just so timely for my life. "Dahlias, darling, it's not you it's me". I have started transitioning to small specimen evergreens which require no pruning and increase my winter interest. I did my first warm/hot colors bed 2 years ago, and was surprised at how much I loved it. Thank you for the encouragement.

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