I’m going over the most common gardening mistakes, and easy tricks to prevent them! More resources below!
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0:00-0:59 – Intro
1:00-16:28 – 25 Gardening Mistakes
16:29-17:34 – Summary
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30 Comments
Thanks for sharing
Yes! I’ve made all these mistakes too. 🤦🏼♀️
Looking forward to the spring!!
Happy Gardening!
My biggest mistake was not having a secure enough fence for our chickens. They destroyed my hard work one morning. Good thing they are cute, lol. This will be my second season gardening and I already have learned so much but your tips gave me more things to think about.
Very informative video. Thanks for letting us know
thanks dear
#26: find out about pests in your area. I moved into a house that had a garden area from the previous occupant. So I bought a bunch of starts and planted them all. The next day, almost every plant was gone. A neighbor noticed my dismay and told me the previous gardener had taken their cages when they moved out. Which is why the birds, mice, bugs, raccoons and rabbits were able to gorge themselves on my seedlings. Expensive lesson well learned. Cages were up before I planted anything else.
Good job God bless you and your family
I can totally relate. I live in Wisconsin as well and get jealous of the longer growing period of the warmer states. As spring arrives I really look forward to getting that garden in. Thank you for all the great reminders.
You are my gardening Doppelganger!!! I xan relate to 24 of the 25 (never had much of an indoor garden). I too am planning to dial back the garden this year as I have decided to solarize the weeds, and may end up just planting a fall garden. Am also thinking about moving the asparagus because it was a poorly planned patch on the south side of the garden plot but I was too anxious to get it started to think things through! Thanks for your great insights!!
Great video – my personal problem is the need to try all the pretty cool things. I just need to dial it back and only grow 2 seedlings of the “new” things. 😀
Great list! I've been gardening for almost 20 years and this past year was the first time I hopped on the flower bandwagon. I was also one of those that didn't think it was worth it to grow things that didn't produce food. Last year we made a small area of wild flowers and I loved seeing all the bees that it attracted!
I feel we have an issue with a lack of pollination, so we also purchased leafcutter bees from Crown Bees. This year we are going to get mason bees from them as well. I wish we could have honeybee hives, but our city does not allow them. But, mason bees are also supposed to be much more efficient at pollination than honeybees.
Excellent information and impressive way of narrating
Thank you for this. I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s garden gets away from me. One thing I’ve been thinking about lately, so I would add this to your list, (and this is no knock on your videos or anyone else’s) sometimes I might be watching too many gardening videos. While they give me great ideas, it has probably lead to overthinking things. In the past it probably lead to underwatering, which meant that things really didn’t grow well.
Might try deep mulch to help reduce weeds
Great video! I've been trying to plan our garden. Last year I feel like we didn't utilize many of the plants I chose (like kale… I found out I didn't like it and I had 5 giant plants of it lol).
This year we're going to be much more intentional!
My sister planted some herbs the week after Christmas, & they are growing now. She is fairly new to gardening.
i related to all of these haha
I don't think you mentioned, but not allowing plants to flower at the end of the season is a major gardening mistake that I made for years. Allowing plans to flower actually feeds bees at the end of the season at a time when it has become harder for them to find food. Also, there are some pretty good T5 grow lights that are fairly simple to attach to a chain and S hook and hang off some shelving that help me start seeds early in the season. That way you get a longer range for lighting with adjustable height that keeps plants from getting leggy.
Appreciated thank you 🙌🥰
Cut back (prune) a few summer squash stems. I did this last year and my summer squash gave me MORE squash than when I didn’t. It doesn’t hurt them. It helps you see squash bug eggs. It helps with harvesting. It also helps neighboring plants. I planted several summer squash plants right next to tomatoes and both did great! But I pruned both.
Don't use plastic for weed suppression. Apply a thick layer of organic mulch every fall after garden cleanup (I use chopped leaves because I have lots of trees). The mulch breaks down over winter and will still be there in spring to provide a weed barrier for next year's garden. Just push aside for planting.
Great tips! Inspiring
Re #18 and knowing your yard before starting a garden, I’d say that’s a good time to start a container garden. You can move the containers based on the sun and you can get a better idea of which plants thrive where so the next year you can plant in ground.
I cant wait to make all of these on our first garden this year
When it comes to the peppers and tomatoes, my seed packed SAID to plant in February. They are very big and I did say to myself "Maybe I planted my seeds to early" and then remembers that the seed packet told me to. Next year, I will start in March.
Cardboard work great to keep away weeds! Used it for the first time last year and definitely doing it again this year!
Sounds like you and I have a lot in common!
Where did you get your top!?
incorporate vertical gardening for things that are smaller, edible and take up space from your available area.
an app called gardenate,
really handy for little tips like what not to plant with/next to.
when to seed, transplant and what time etc. lets you add notes and mark what plants you have planted…
so handy for beginning my gardening adventure.
no i don't get paid to promote either.
i just have a bad memory so this app helped someone like me.
im disorganized and i find working out the initial starting action, overwhelming.
thank you for talking about the guilt of thinning the seedlings out.