🖐🏼 5 Tips for LIGHT IN YOUR GARDEN! :: Building the Foundation of a Successful Garden

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Hi everyone Janie here with dig plant water repeat welcome back to my garden and welcome to the next installment in my video series building the foundation of a successful garden that I am doing with Proven Winners so this series for five months November through March we are going through month by month and

Focusing on different aspects of the foundation of our Gardens so come spring when we start purchasing all these beautiful lovely plants they are ready to go in our Gardens and we understand the concepts that we need to have a successful garden this month January we are moving right along and we are

Discussing light and why light is very important for us gardeners light along with water and soil is one of the main components a plant needs to thrive plants take light from the sun and convert it into energy for food for itself this this is a process known as

Photosynthesis I’m sure we’ve all heard of this in elementary school the tricky thing is some plants need more light than others some plants can handle all day hot burning Sun and be as happy as can be and other plants maybe only need dapple light or mostly shade to thrive

The goal for us as gardeners is to find the optimal amount of light in our garden for each particular plant so that it can flourish and Thrive so let’s get into it let’s talk about five tips every Gardener should know about light in the garden to optimize your success tip

Number one is knowing your terms you’ll notice on a plant tag the grower has labeled the plant with a certain light term whether it is full sun part sun part shade full shade or even indirect light these terms are the Grower’s way to guide us to put that plant in the

Optimal position in our garden for it to thrive and knowing the definition the horiculture definition of these terms is important so that we can speak the same language as The Growers full sun is pretty straightforward and pretty self-explanatory these plants like light and they like lots of it technically

Full sun is eight or more hours of Sun during the day now contrast that with a little bit more confusing terms and those are part sun and part shade a lot of people will actually lump these two terms together and say that they’re the same thing but actually these two terms

Have very distinguishable characteristics that we need to know about part sun means 4 to 6 hours of sunlight per day part shade means 2 to four hours of sunlight per day but there is a difference in the type of sunlight that part sun and part shade are talking

About part sun can handle four to six hours of any type of light during the day that would be morning sun or afternoon sun part shade plants however are a little bit more delicate they can’t handle as much sun they like two to four hours of Morning Sun only so

Morning Sun is a lot more gentle and a lot more soft then the hot afternoon sun so whenever I see a plant that says part shade I know that it likes sunlight but it likes gentle sunlight now full shade is a little misleading in my opinion if

I see a plant tag that says full shade my automatic inclination would be that this plant can’t handle any sunlight at all and that’s actually not the case full shade plants can handle 2 hours or less of soft gentle Morning Sun and there are actually some full shade

Plants that would love you and Thrive if you gave them about 2 hours of gentle Morning Sun each day and then finally you might see a plant that’s labeled as bright indirect light often house plants are labeled this way but there are some very very shade loving plants that you

Can put in your garden that like bright indirect light these plants are the plants that need no direct sunlight at all so imagine if you have a window and the Sun is beaming in through the window on to a table these plants would like the area right next to those sunrays not

In those sunrays right next to it so it’s never actually getting the sun rays on its leaves but it’s just it’s close enough that it’s going to absorb some light all right now that we understand any term that you might see on a plant tag here’s something to consider that

You’re not going to see on a plant tag and that is tip number two which is consider light intensity an often ignored but extremely important concept that we as gardeners need to remember is the light intensity of our particular region so take for example a gardener that lives in Phoenix Arizona the middle

Of a desert and compare that with maybe a gardener that lives in Upstate New York you take a plant and you put that plant in full sun eight or more hours of Sun in both regions both are technically in full sun right if we follow the Horticultural terms but logically we all

Know that 8 hours of Sun in Phoenix Arizona is very different than 8 hours of Sun in Buffalo New York and it’s really hard for Growers to indicate this on plant tags so it’s up to us as gardeners to understand the differences between the sun intensity in our

Particular region another way to think about light intensity is the varying amount of intensity as the day progresses again Morning Sun is going to be soft and gentle to your plants and then the mid to late afternoon sun is going to be very intense and much hotter

So you could take a plant and you could put it in 8 hours of Morning Sun or 8 hours of hot afternoon sun and it’s going to be a little bit different it’s going that plant is going to take in a different intensity of light depending on whether it’s morning sun or afternoon

Sun so when choosing locations for plants in your garden it’s important to determine which type of sun and the intensity of sun the plant is going to get in that spot in your garden where I live in California the Sun’s light intensity is very very strong in the

Darkg days of summer if I go out in the mid to late afternoon I can almost feel my skin burning it’s so hot and it’s so intense so I have to take this light intensity into consideration when I choose my plants and when I choose the location for my plants there are a

Couple things that I can do to kind of work around this light intensity one of them is I can air on the low side of a range so for instance if a part sun plant needs four to six hours of Sun maybe I’ll give it four hours of Sun

Instead of six or maybe if it’s a full sun plant that needs eight hours of Sun maybe I’ll maybe I’ll do just eight or maybe seven the other thing that I often do is I often protect my plants from the hot afternoon sun and I do this by

Either planting them on the east side of a wall so it’s only getting the morning sun or maybe a barrier or maybe another plant or shrub just to protect it from that intense intense Summer Sun compare this to someone who lives in an area that doesn’t have the same light

Intensity that I do maybe someone who lives in the Pacific Northwest these gardeners need to search for the sun they need to get as much sun as possible for their plants because not only is the sun’s intensity weaker there but it’s also often covered with cloud cover so

These G ERS need as much sun as possible for their plants so what they can do if they have a range part sun 4 to 6 hours maybe they want to air on the side of 6 hours so again it’s just kind of thinking about your region thinking

About your sun intensity and planting in certain locations accordingly tip number three is choosing your plants wisely it’s time to go plant shopping but before you get in the car and head to the plant store I want you to think about the area that you’re planning to

Buy for is it full sun is it hot afternoon sun is it gentle Morning Sun think about it before you go to the plant store so that when you get there you can check the plant tags see what light levels The Growers have labeled those plants as and purchase accordingly

If you’re going to purchase online like on the proven Winner’s website you can actually filter out by light level and make it really easy for you now you’ve picked out your plant you’ve bought it taken it home and planted it in the ground but your job as a gardener is not

Done tip number four is is assess for signs of light problems and this is something that you need to do regularly just like you need to assess for signs of water problems you need to assess for signs of light problems it’s important to check your plant to watch for signs

Of either too much sunlight or too little sunlight signs that it’s too much sunlight might be burning or scorching on the edge of leaves so if you see kind of brown edges that are crispy and almost look like someone’s taken a lighter to them that might be a sign

That that plant is getting just a little little too much light or maybe a lot too much light another sign of too much light is if the blooms start bleaching out so I love super tunia blue skies it’s one of my favorite super Tunas but where I live because I have such intense

Light I can’t put that plant in too much sunlight or the blooms will bleach out and it just won’t be as pretty as I want it to be the more shade I put it in to a certain level the more beautiful the blooms are and the characteristics of

This gorgeous BL blue flowers really come out so I know I can’t put that plant in 8 hours of Sun I’ve got to put it in six or less hours of of sun because I’m taking my sun intensity into consideration okay my last tip tip

Number five that I have for all of you is that it is okay to adjust as needed if you notice a plant has a light issue it is okay to move that plant from one location to another to either give it more light or to give it less light

Plants are pretty resilient and they they actually might appreciate the move and start performing a lot better for you another way to adjust light for a certain plant is to adjust structures that are around that plant can you limb up the lower limbs of a nearby tree to

Allow more sunlight through can you put up a lattice partition to give some dappled light or even put up a beautiful tutour that might block it from the hot afternoon sun my favorite way to garden and I feel like the only way I could Garden is trial in error it doesn’t mean

I’m failing it just means I tried something and it didn’t work out so if I notice a problem I will just move the plant or move a structure I’ll adjust accordingly okay so that is it for my five tips for light levels for your garden make sure you check out my

Playlist my building the foundations of a successful garden playlist I will link it in the description down below I already have a soil video and a water video and I have two more videos coming up in February and March so stay tuned for that so I hope I hope this video

Helped clear up any confusion any of you had about light definitions or labels or maybe even issues with light intensity in your garden but I do want to leave you with one final consideration and that is as gardeners we can try to categorize and label every single thing

In our garden and in gardening in general but we have to remember we are not in charge Mother Nature is so even if a label says full sun Mother Nature might have a different idea for that plant in that particular Garden in that particular spot and the secret sauce for

Having a a successful garden is having the ability to listen to Mother Nature to assess the plant to look at it to see if there’s any issues going on and to act accordingly so it’s important to remember we can do our best as gardeners and try and learn as much as possible

But Mother Nature she’s the boss I hope you all enjoyed this and I hope you all have a chance to get in your garden Today