How to achieve a better garden this year! Identify and write down your gardening goals – you’re more likely to achieve them. I’ve picked the top 8 gardening goals and identified what might stop you achieving them. Happy New Year!
00:00 Welcome
01:01 Gardening goal: make a compost heap
02:28 How to make easy compost video: https://youtu.be/_0fwi_Ix240
02:39 Gardening goal: clear a cluttered corner
03:50 Ideas for a difficult shady corners video: https://youtu.be/C6F6Reobj78
04:01 Gardening goal: Revamp the garden to fit in with lifestyle changes
04:32 How to link your house and garden video: https://youtu.be/jRkfOVNa9a4
04:39 Video on how to design your garden if you’re not a garden designer: https://youtu.be/5kQQDGUOXlg
04:45 5 garden design tips and 2 mistakes to avoid: https://youtu.be/HtsqXEMeocM
04:56 Gardening goal: grow more fruit and veg
05:28 The Cloud Gardener – YouTube channel on balcony gardens: https://www.youtube.com/@UCGUlqRaS_tuUIJz7OUOzw8A
05:38 Good fruit and veg growing channels – try each one to see which suits you best:
Charles Dowding https://www.youtube.com/@UCB1J6siDdmhwah7q0O2WJBg
Huw Richards: https://www.youtube.com/@UCeaKRrrpWiQFJJmiuon2WoQ
Liz Zorab at Byther Farm: https://www.youtube.com/@UCe0Ha5QljsCV5UqIkobBrcQ
Lovely Greens (Tanya): https://www.youtube.com/@UCL5rTpHIfmKzmRcp7yiKjJw
Sean’s Gardening World: https://www.youtube.com/@UCPqCByYpHD66ebkhDfDvHcw
06:10: Gardening goal: make your garden more wildlife friendly
06:26: Wildlife friendly gardening tips: https://youtu.be/hvnmRx_DVoA
07:23 Rose growing tips video: https://youtu.be/CsOAr8mZrnA
07:52 Gardening goal: a more sustainable garden
08:19 How to make home-made organic fertilisers: https://youtu.be/LaMREENk_-4
08:58 Easy care, sustainable lawns video: https://youtu.be/ABX-1FhZCtk
10:49 Gardening goal: make the garden more low maintenance
11:01 10 Low Maintenance Plants for a Stylish Garden video: https://youtu.be/yiPB7n6ELc4
11:15 Low maintenance evergreen garden video:
11:23 No Dig For Flower Gardens https://youtu.be/MqfFOdup8Wc
11:39 Gardening goal: save water in the garden
12:53 A wildlife friendly garden that re-routed rainwater from gutters into a pond: https://youtu.be/CaK2unUklNg
14:09 How to achieve your garden goals playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrZRLHPUbGmCAw05OL_WgTyE-xYTz4X_-
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Ant wait it feels like it’s been forever since I’ve had the pleasure of a video from this channel and I’ve missed them.❤️
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! I just can't wait for gardening season! I am excited to about this video and all the info I receive because of it. 🎉
If you have any questions after the video, leave them in the comments below! Thank you.
Thanks a lot and Happy New Year! ❤️🎄
Another great video 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Many thanks for the mention. 2023 for me is all about pushing the allotment garden as much as possible to grow my own food.
Making money is an action. Keeping money is behavioral discipline , but “Growing money is intelligence” most inspiring writeup that helped💢💫
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I always enjoy your vids. They are always so informative. Happy New Year. Looking forward to a great year of gardening. ❤
Last year I lost my gardening mojo and declared the goal to do as little as possible and still reasonable maintain my HUGE flower garden. I didn’t plant veggies, I only wedded out the big thugs and when things started to look untidy, I concentrated on the pathways and edges and not so much on the interior of the beds. It worked reasonable well and I was happy with the results. It gave me time and energy to just observe the garden and discover what I really like and don’t like about it. This year, my mojo is back and I’ve got big plans for a few renovations and I’m once more excited about the coming year.
Wow Alexandra, now that's what I call a good start to the year! What a wonderful video. Ideas galore. Thank you for inspiring us.
Hey Alexandra, it was so nice to see you on and thank you for this great video. Sorry to say that the chat did not realy work on this side. There are many things to think about and as it is way to warm already outside at the moment, I wonder how the new year is going to be. The last year was hot in germany and the lawn tried out but the "" weeds"" did fine. So I let them grow in the lawn for the bees and birds. And the cats also liked to lay there. So even the weeds can have use. 🙂 the garden looks horable at the moment because I do not cut and clean before winter but it gives homes to wildlife. I also found out, that it shelters the roots and I loose less plants. So happy gardening year to everyone.
Thank you for all of your excellent tips and advice Alexandra and a Happy New Year to you 😁🍾🎉
I am guilty of the untidy corner, I have plans to clear that up this year, and I'm going to be more chilled out about aphids and let the resident sparrows do the work! My children bought me a ladybird house for Christmas so that will be installed soon, fingers crossed that some residents move in as that will also help with the aphids 👍 I would love to grow veg but my garden is Piccadilly Circus for the local cats, so if anyone has any tips for dealing with that problem then I would be very grateful, and believe me I have tried everything! Roll on springtime! 😁
Happy new year Alexandra, I may have missed the live. I do have a question if you have the time to advise. I’m in 6b Canada. I have a stand of full grown Austrian pines. My oak leaf hydrangea do well in the area but my question is, what do you suggest I do with the fallen needles. Do you rake them? Can I just cover with mulch? I do both, rake then mulch. What if I just left them. Also, should I apply lime to neutralize the soil acidity for my hydrangea? Thank you
Thank you so much for this video. This video is the summary of all the words of wisdom about every aspect of gardening.
Happy New Year, and happy gardening.
"Don't Water Your Lawn" What a great title for another great video with more great advice!🌸🌸🌸
Good afternoon Alexander, it is 10 past 5 in the late afternoon, just watched the gardening video and enjoyed it as much as ever with a few good chuckles by myself regarding a guilty conscinece 🙂 First and foremost a very happy and prosperous new year to you and your husband and family for 2023. The year as always has gone by quite fast but much have been achieved, many happy moments and so on. I have to rush as I promised my husband and son a death by chocolate pudding today and there is not much time left to start the baking. Promises makes debt. I will think of you with happy thoughts whilst enjoying the sweetness a little later, just the thing to eat after a hard days work in the garden. I will save some for tomorrow as I plan to do some work, you know where! We have 3 medium sized rain water barrels that are inter connected and the majority of that water goes into the swimming pool via another hose connection. We have had to seldom top up our pool especially in the summer season, and this year we have been blessed with much rain. The pool is just about ready to spill over. We just have to plan carefully, decide how much time we have to garden. Nurseries can be most helpful but enquire from friends and family even neighbours all will be just to happy to advise and guide. All the best, take care, many blessings.
Great vidéo, thank you
Great video!
Thanks so much for another wonderful video! You gave us lots to contemplate for the start of the new year. Best of luck for 2023 growing season.
Thank you, what a great content can’t wait for spring to use all great information in my garden, and Happy New Year 🎉
Such sound comprehensive advice & clever ideas! ~ just wonderful. All blessings for a happy & healthy New Year Alexandra 🙂
Thank you for this video; as informative as always, and so encouraging also. Thank you.
I have finished the 3rd year of my 5 year plan to rid the property of the lawn and create a self sustaining wildlife and food garden. Well; As self sustaining as possible. Like you I don't do much veggie gardening, but I will try to work something out in the 5th year. Next summer it's structures like trellis' and pergola and of course more plants, native and otherwise. Love the show, keep it coming.
Happy New Year, Alexandra! I'm in Colorado, USA, zone 5a and 6500 feet elevation. I love watching your beautiful videos where there is rain! I grow a large Kitchen garden and I'm creating a new large in-ground garden for serious food growing. I wish it was easy to grow fruit here, we really struggle but I'm going to plant raspberries, again, and hopefully they'll do well. All the best in 2023!
I’m in US. I always admired gardens in your area. Ben from Grow Veg showed a huge Rosemary and I so wish I could over winter them here in Z5a in the Midwest. I laughed when you said to get more wildlife😆. Would you like some rabbits and deer? 😆. When I plant I have to include a fence for the cost—a tall one. We had a welcomed surprise visitor a couple nights ago that we have never heard here—the snowy owls!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼. It was so exciting as they actually were talking to each other and are not a loud hoot like woodland owls. I think they were hunting my nemesis🐇 😊. I mean seriously we have a time with them and deer! I split day lilies and was given some last year and didn’t see a bloom as the deer ate them and a rabbit started a den under one—UGH! We are in the country and there is loads of woods But they choose to come to the salad bar in the oasis. It’s a battle 😢. There is no way I can have ornamentals without protection—it tends to look like a prison, but I can’t be spending money and time and come out to find they’ve been eaten to the ground. Im perusing all the beautiful shrubs and roses in the catalogs and online and sigh. I have to always think where do I have room or where do I need to expand 7’ fencing to corral all of the plants. Can you imagine looking at all your beautiful gardens with fencing?
So I’ve started a small orchard and already know I need to enlarge the area with More fencing. I use that nasty bird netting that gets tangles in everything to protect the lower limbs of maples as they seem to be a delicacy compared to the cedar and oaks. I will have to do the same for lilies this year as well—how lovely will that look? I can’t trust deterrents that are sprayed/sprinkled on plants—too risky.
I struggle with a love of formal to informal and forced to do the latter. Just as well, because if things look too good our property tax would go sky high and they just increased again due to all the huge referendums for schools.
So that’s my dilemma. When the security light goes on and you see the rabbit outside the flower bed and he’s staring back at you as if to say “Watch this” and jumps through a fence—we’ve got problems. So here I am in my pajamas chasing out a rabbit and repairing fence. 🙄😣. I need more owls 😂
We have been in a drought for 2 years and use cattle tanks to collect rain water. Some areas out West have extreme drought and are not allowed to capture rain. I know there must be plenty of rain in UK as I always hear about aphids and slugs. They haven’t a chance here.😂. I rarely see an earthworm, But we got grubs😅
Sorry I’m chatty I have Cabin Fever and what better thing to do is chat with fellow gardeners when it’s winter😊
Cheer up I’m gearing up to winter sow some seeds in jugs and start some lettuce inside. I got some supplies yesterday. Since this pandemic, inflation and the companies all knowing people are growing more it has become increasingly $$$ and hard to find supplies. I’m having sticker shock at some seed prices that I could never imagine. The problem is I have to order the rest of bare root orchard plants now or I won’t get them as they will be gone. It takes several years to produce and I can’t afford time to be frugal and wait for a sale—sigh.
Happy gardening in the new year everyone. Enjoyed the video across the pond.
Thanks for your videos, wishing you a very happy gardening new year!
Happy New Year to you Alexandra ! GREAT VIDEO to start the new year. Thank you
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11:15 Low maintenance evergreen garden video:
Inspiring video! You mentioned planting more native plants as a possible goal. A video about some of the plants that are native to your local area would be fascinating, even for those of us who live far away.
Happy New Year!
Happy New year🥳
My gardening goals for 2023:
1: expand the back garden border even more and install a bigger pond instead of a tub
2: watch and enjoy how my very first early spring bulbs are growing and flowering
3: propagating my existing plants and take care of my tree cutting and seedling
4: add more sand/gravel and less soil to my front garden tub pond and replace plants for the right kinds to combad green slime algae
5: enjoy looking at all the wildlife that visits my garden❤