You planted your garden… everything looked good… but now your plants just aren’t growing.
If that’s happening to you right now, you’re not alone—and more importantly, it’s usually not what people think. In this video, I break down the real reasons plants stall out after planting.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Why Your Plants Aren’t Growing
00:29 What’s Actually Happening
00:37 Roots Come First (Why Growth Looks Stuck)
01:30 Cold Soil Slows Everything Down
02:24 The #1 Watering Mistake
03:35 Transplant Shock Explained
05:00 Why Fertilizer Isn’t the Problem
06:28 What To Do Right Now
07:31 The One Exception (Timing Matters)
36 Comments
Have you already planted peppers in zone 10? I'm in 9b. Can I plant peppers now?
What’s something you’ve planted that just… isn’t doing anything right now?
Drop it below 👇 I read every one and it helps me see what you guys are dealing with.
Ya, going down to low 30’s F/Sat/Sun here. Now garden here until end of May
I have to wait another 3 weeks before thinking about planting my garden. I live across the border from Detroit, daytime high today of 12C / 54F, night time low close to the freezing mark. Plants have to establish roots before they take off growing.
None here, days are still mid 40 and low 30s at night. Last frost date is May 5th here. I'm ready to go. On Saturday nights will go to mid 40s and I'll plant my radishes, lettuce, and potatoes. Next week days will be low 70s with nights in the low 50s and I'll start hardening my tomatoes. I'll be ready to get them into the ground first week of May depending on forecast.
Thanks, I needed to hear this today. I transplanted morning glories out last week and they're doing f**k all, I know they're acclimating and rooting… but I dote – I worry. Cheers mate!
I haven’t planted anything in my garden yet. Not till middle of May. I do have lettuce in the greenhouse. Some peppers will go on n there but not yet. There is spinach chives and parsley that made it through in the garden as we had an unusually warm winter.
Thanks Brian, central California, I’m slowly fighting back the BERMUDA! It’s not just a triangle, it’s the grass!
Thank you Brian.
I can't plant yet here in Florida because we are in a severe drought. It's sad.
Here in the Sacramentos, New Mexico, we've planted all varieties of tomatoes but have to wait on peppers. & eggplant. We're covering at night because temps are still dipping into low 40's sometimes. Lettuce peas & spinach have been in for a month here at 7,000 above sea level.
Yeah, the weather is crazy this year. I live in Campobello South Carolina. It was 60° yesterday cold wet and rainy today. It’s a beautiful 80° not a cloud in the sky. And then this weekend, same thing low 40s high 60s.😢😢😢. Come on spring.
Thank you Brian you explain everything so clearly 🪴💚
What if the top of the soil is getting hard? Using a spade I can see there is moisture below. When I watch your videos, it doesn't seem like the top is hard.
have that problem with my cucumbers every year. once they get their true leaves, they seem to stop growing, sometimes up to a month before they start growing again
My tomatoes weren't looking too good. I checked the roots and they looked real nice, i decided to start hardening them off along with eggplant an last years pepper plants. I move them into a tent at night until it warms up to 50 degrees overnight, Zone 7 NY. Direct sowed a bunch of seed, squash, melon even cucumber. None sprouted yet and ill resow in a few weeks again
Such a helpful video. Thanks!
Thank you Brian. Makes sense to me. 🤔🌷💚🙃
I THOUGHT this year with the warmer weather that we MIGHT be able to have a jump start on our gardening season this year, not so. 🥺. It’s beautiful one or two days then the temps plummet to near freezing 🥺🌷💚🙃
Growing Vegetables is not that easy, another point is pH-Level. I could go on and on … Importand is that you learn day by day. I graduatie this year as an Chemical Technical Assistant. And i can tell you it can get get very complicated, deseases, how the different nutrients are balanced. But if you follow the tips in your video i guess 90% of the problems are solved 🙂
Hi Tony i’m loving the new update.The app is a credit to your self well done. Can you give me some advice regarding the garden laid out as I put my beds in and put two 17 beds in but can not delete one as it comes back on and also I ham growing potatoes in potato in buckets on my beds so made a new bed on container then try to put potatoes in but does not highlight the potatoes just other plants . Thanks lee
Here in the PNW, I have only planted/transplanted cool weather crops so far.
Our weird May/June weather makes timing critical.
Ladyboys of the world unite. I love gardening.
Zone 6 in PA here. April and May vary wildly year-to-year. One year they're too hot for cool-season crops and the next they're too cool for the warm-season crops, even fatally so sometimes, without protection. This year it's been the latter, mostly. Fortunately not so cold as to kill the warm-season stuff I planted out early because it was getting rootbound, and had to decide. The struggle is real up in here, but it's always a fun little dance.
All this bioengineered weather is making it hard to plant. Zone 6 now have to wait until about May 10th.
My swiss chard seeds sprouted almost immediately but then most of them just sat there. It's been a month and only a couple are larger. I'm trying not to overwater this year (had issues with that in the past), but I don't know what might be causing the problem. I live in central Texas, so the heat could be a major factor, but according to my husband swiss chard never did very well in this yard since he was young. Maybe it's just the wrong area and there's simply no hope.
I have lots of hot peppers that are months old at this point and haven't grown an inch. They all have tiny undeveloped roots when I pull them up and they just look like little 2 inch tall trees
Very informative vid…thanks! I've been hardening off small marigold plants on sunny days when it's above 50 degrees. They're not growing, but maybe that will change in a week or two.
I had a whole tray of okra seedlings, about 50 plants, I put out for some sunshine and forgot to bring them in. I now have 4 okra. At least I don't have to cry over thinning them, one nights light frost did it for me.
My potatoes are thriving, my peas are good. My tomatoes are slower but I expect it's because of them still getting established.
You so get what is happening right now in my garden! Thanks for redirecting my discouragement of yellowing plants to, "I got this." Soil temperature is so important too. Love your channel!
I have been SO discouraged because one of my beds looks so much worse than the other. But this video made me think of the road! The one by the road is excelling and that makes sense because it radiates the heat to the garden! The one by the house doesn’t get that same benefit.
Sincerely thankful for the timing in this. I’ve been so dejected lately due to this bed being so far behind.
Solid growing information, thanks. People need to hear this every year until they get it right. It is certainly not easy to grow a garden with all of the multiple factors to deal with. Great all around growing information for successful gardens and gardeners. Great job !!
Learned this the hard way, correct warm temps timing beats starting early. Huge difference.
Zone 9b/14 here (Sonoma Valley in Sonoma County, CA/surrounded by nothing but vineyards). Have a bunch of vegetable starts, still in their containers. Not quite ready to put them in my raised beds. Tomatoes and peppers look happy, but the yellow squash, zucchini, and cucumber starts are turning yellow, possible with diseased weeds. They're all in full sun, for about two weeks now, since bringing them home. They've gotten regular, light watering. Any suggestions? Am working on installing a drip system before planting, maybe a few more days. But they almost look too stressed to plant. Been loving your channel! Thanks to your guidance, I have planted a thriving Strawberry garden this year.
REALLY good info- great reminders, THANKS!
Have noticed significant maturing and growth of plants that are planted in black row covers for the last few years here in new hampshire- HUGE difference in size, health and production.