Planning a garden with a few rules can help gardening success. From choosing the right garden location and starting with the right garden size, Gardener Scott discusses seven basic garden planning rules. (Video #229)
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I learned about succession planting the hard way. Smh
Enjoy all your videos. I've been gardening 25 years. I learn something new every time I watch a new video from you. Thanks. Cheers from ont Canada.
Thank you! This year was my first year. Not so successful, because the shops closed. I quickly started with anything I had on hand. A couple of weeks ago, I put together my large raised bed. Then filled it with free wood (hughelkultur) and got good quality soil. Now I am composting in the soil, so by spring it will be extra good. Seeds I have already, but no plan yet. Thanks to your video's I learned that soil is everything and planning is good (I am not a planner normally). I enjoy the good preparing and having enough time to plan it as I like. Thank you Scott!
Another really great episode mr Scott! 👍👍👍 Enjoy Gardening!
God sound piratical advice. To go along with "The right time to plant" if your starting seeds indoors think about the right time to start seeds. I made the mistake this season of starting seedlings to early. A warm spell had me thinking I could have most of them out by mid April. In reality I couldnt get them out till after Mothers day because it turned cold again. The plants got big, I needed to up pot them a couple of times and some were root bound. Next year I am not going to start them until the last week of March or early April.
Thanks Scott! I actually spent a lot of time late summer and fall this year rearranging beds and putting some new ones in or just fixing some beds that had problems. One of the problems I had this year is related to your first point of location. Not the location of the garden but not placing beds in the right spots and not putting the tallest things in the right spots. For example: my Roma tomatoes got 5' tall and shaded my late beets; my early girl tomatoes which get extremely tall were not located in the far northern or northwest section of my garden; my strawberries were in a low wet spot which encouraged rot, slugs, and pill bug infestation. I have a good plan for next year and will be adding a cattle panel arch in the northern section also. Is it spring yet?
Thank you for great video
Thanks for the help this is a necessary watch for all beginners in my opinion and anyone who just loves gardening
Can you overwinter any of the hardy brassicas like kale in that area, and can you create berms or low spots to focus the water where the plants are in the garden? Like channeling the roof runoff along a swale that runs in a circle around the garden. Saving seed is also vital to gardening, as packets commonly have one gram of seeds in them, which can still be a lot, but a new gardener won't know how to use that one gram of seeds effectively, to both save seeds and harvest food sustainably~
Rule 7 has to be at the top of the list. If you do not enjoy what you are doing you will not have the best out come possible. Gardening is one of my best stress reduction programs. Next to chasing my grandchildren around.
Since radishes make a lot of seed, they can be used as cover plantings, and for sprouting, even if some of the hybrid seeds fail to make good roots, so they are always useful, and also very fast and can quickly green up the windows for winter~
Great video! It's good to know all the things to consider for the next seasons garden. I also have been planning my garden for next year. It's fun to do. I enjoy it.
Thank you for this video. My vegetable garden is only 14 feet by 21 feet, on a NE by SW axis. Yet, plants will grow differently in this space depending on the location due to the shade the garden receives. It took me a few years to find which plants grow best in which location in my garden. If you have problems with disease, take the time to figure out what the disease is, how to prevent the disease naturally but mulching, spacing, trimming, watering etc. and consider buying disease resistant seeds or plants.
Great video again. I just had my first spring small harvest (southern hemisphere) of beans, peas and French carrots, so satisfying. The garlic and onions are doing well and the 25 potatoe plants are out of control, on their way to a Guiness record 🙂. First year growing veggies and absolutely loving it! Thanks for the advice gardener Scott.
So make a few of your Gladolia Garden tomatoe seed available to some lucky winner , contest of your choice.
Thanks for teaching Sir
Watching this while I make chili with tomatoes I canned from our garden this year. 😁😁😁
Its funny now I think back,You are right about having fun with gardening. When we were first married, my wife and I followed our parents, we gardened to feed our young family. But, now that we are retired, we do it for fun and give the excess to family and neighbors. It is also easier now too. We don't cut corners, but we got a lot smarter on how to garden with less work involved. It is a JOY to garden and share it with our granddaughter who is six.
Great video! How do I know when is the right time to sow seeds indoors in my area? I’ve tried google and a lot of results aren’t even really related and the few that are all say different times so I’m confused.
Can seashells be used in soil as an alternative to perlite? I know shells can make a great mulch just trying to figure out if I mixed in crushed shells if it would help with aeration in the soil like perlite. Obviously it wouldn't help with water retention tho.
I found myself nodding along to your words. I so appreciate your philosophy about gardening! And I am definitely making a succession plan for my small terrace garden. I am so excited for spring!
I can grow picture perfect plants I just don’t get much fruit 😢😢
When I was a sergeant in the army, and a safety officer as well, I had the idea that rules should be easy to follow so that they're more likely to be followed. I think that's what tip #7 is for me. Why would I want to be miserable? Why would I force myself to be miserable? If I truly enjoy gardening, I will keep doing it. I am building my garden based on that at it's founding principle.
For example, I recently took a page out of your ranking of plants to grow. My ranking and scores were a little different from yours, but onions still didn't score well. I'm still going to grow some, though, because I enjoy it. I'll make more space for tomatoes and peppers, but I also want and enjoy onions.
Please mention to people to be careful where they get their straw , due to the wide spread use of aminopyralids being used on some. I know the person I get mine from and I know his mother uses on her gardens so I know it is safe.
Grow what you enjoy eating. Taste/hunger, motivates.
Am I the only person who is looking at the mailbox in the garden…???
I’m about to turn 30. Started gardening on the front porch of my apartment in containers a couple years ago. Just bought our first house and I can’t stop spending money on this garden for spring. I’m so excited to have my own land and can’t wait for spring to roll around. Hopefully the garden will be ready by then. Thanks for all the great videos!!!
I come here for tips about vegetable gardening, but I really appreciate that you touch on other things (like non-edible perennial shade plants, perhaps).
"The [7th] rule is: 'Enjoy Gardening.'" * Roll credits * 😁
If Greens are nitrogen and browns are carbon, where does the nitrogen go when greens turn brown????
Fabulous video packed with information for the beginner! Oh how I wish your video was available at the beginning of lockdown, you would have saved me so much wasted time, resources and stopped my confidence taking a major hit! I did get a harvest but small and quite late so nothing really had time to get going, only now am I realising it was actually in the main due to soil structure and a lack of correct soil nutrition. 😊
Very good. Oh yes on number 7.
As one that started out as a container gardener for years, then this spring added a 4X8 raised bed, then added another 4X8 raised bed this summer, I sometimes have to tell myself to stop treating gardening as a job and just "Enjoy Gardening".
Dropping jewels as always Scott! Plan for success and have fun gardening and learning!
More sage advice. Thanks so much!
Great advice. I am with Zachary, #7 should be #1.
Perfect 3 family members 4 beds and 1 picky eater that hates all veggies 🤣🤣❣️
Hi, Scott. May I ask that what does “right after the bed “mean? I am following up all of your videos to learn English and gardening. But I’m puzzled with this sentence appears in many videos. Look forward your reply. And thank you so much for your sharing, I’ve learned a lot from your videos.
Thank you!! My mantra the last days while weeding and preparing my garden is,”work smart, not hard”. You have really helped me so much in my garden planning this year!! Thank you for all the informative videos! Have a beautiful day!!!
just found your channel and i love it! i just bought a house (4b) and am planning my front yard garden and you’re helping me out so much! thanks for your time, i really appreciate it! 🙂
You have your own "Play list" on My phone 😁😁😁. I have a question… I want to grow corn BUT my soil is VERY rocky and I have physical issues, basically a Destroyed back, can I grow it in raised beds? Mine are 4*8 and 3' deep, if so, how close do you think I can plant them? okay so I had 2 questions 😁. Thank You Gardener Scott 💯