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This video is a very special spring garden themed collaboration featuring gardeners and industry professionals sharing their best tips to achieve spring gardening success. I hope this video teaches you something new and inspires you to get started with your spring garden.

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***Petrina from Homegrown Florida***
Hi! I’m Petrina with Homegrown Florida. I am a gardening and self-sufficiency content creator from Florida. I love cooking what I grow, preserving my harvest by canning, dehydrating, freeze drying, and freezing, making my own seasonings, teas, and medicines, and making bread with my sourdough starter. The mission of my channel is to provide real world experience and support to gardeners and urban homesteaders who desire to grow and preserve their own food in an organic way. My step-by-step guides and tips provide gardeners of all experience levels with the tools and knowledge they need to be successful while respecting and working with the natural world.
Florida Garden Zone 9B
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***Javier Rivera Co-owner, Stone River Nursery***
We’re a small, home-based nursery that specializes in grafting apple trees on rootstocks adaptable to Central FL climates. We don’t have a visit nursery operation, but we meet customers in the Orlando area to bring their orders or we deliver trees in the Orlando area for an additional fee.
Florida Garden Zone 10a
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Email: bocorazon@yahoo.com

***Melissa from Rylee’s Blooms***
I run a specialty cut urban flower farm at multiple locations in Southern California, I also provide garden consultations for people that want to transform their lawns into native wildflower spaces or vegetable gardens, with a focus on being beyond organic, and not spraying anything in our garden relying on beneficial insects to do the work that nature intended.
California Garden Zone 10B
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Email: Ryleesblooms@yahoo.com

***Vanessa of From The Garden***
I specialize in helping southern and Texan gardeners grow food, medicinal herbs, and flowers year round!
Texas Garden Zone 9A
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***Lonny from The Reid Farm***
Edible fruit tree and plant nursery that offers food forest consultations, tours, installations, and classes.
Florida Garden Zone 9B
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Hello Gardener and welcome to my channel today’s video is very special it’s a spring gardening themed collaboration with Southern or hot climate gardeners from all across the country both Professionals in the industry or just home backyard gardeners like you and me sharing their valuable knowledge and insightful tips to empower you in

Achieving gardening success this spring season some of the featured gardeners are not YouTubers but they have really awesome Instagram or Tik Tok accounts that teach a lot about gardening everyone has a unique perspective on gardening and we can all learn from each other I personally follow these

Gardeners and have learned so much from them and I’m sure you will too if you would like to learn more or connect with any of the gardeners in this video you can find their info in the description below or scan this QR code which will

Take you to a web page with details on each participant I hope you find this video both enjoyable and inspiring providing a wealth of ideas for your own vibrant Spring Gardens kicking this off I’m going to share my top five favorite vegetable or plants to grow in the

Spring number one cucumbers it is way easier easier to grow cucumbers in the spring than during the summer because there is less Pest and disease pressure so if you have struggled with powdery mildew or anthros for example then planted directo seeds as soon as your spring frost a has passed so you can

Harvest as much as possible before summer arrives I recommend Boston pickling if you want to pickle your own cucumbers or partho carpet cultivars like bait alpha or China Jade for fresh eating parthenocarpic means every female flower is self-pollinating so that instantly means increased yields the second group of plant plants is herbs

All sorts of herbs the majority of our favorite culinary herbs grow best in dry and warm Mediterranean climates out of all of the seasons experienced in the South parts of the United States spring mimics this the most so take advantage to grow lots of herbs I especially love

Perennial herbs like oregano Thyme and rosemary but the tropical type herbs like Tha basil Cuban oregano and lemongrass grow even better these herbs right here are host plants for various butterflies so plant way more than you need knowing that some will be sacrificed to their caterpillars I have

A butterfly garden seed collection on my website if you need help picking out some host plants the third group of crops is greens like these right here spring is the last chance to hurry up and directos seed for lots of cool weather greens I call them cool weather

Because once the heat of Summer arrives they just die off they do not like the heat it helps if you plant them in a spot that gets Bright Morning Sun with afternoon shade but eventually the heat will kill them hurry up and plant some

Now so you can enjoy them for a few more months the fourth group of plants is flowers not only are they just beautiful and make me happy every time I look at them but they also serve as an integral part of attracting beneficial insects into my garden which helps me meet my

Organic gardening goals by requiring less applications of treatments try to attract as many beneficials now so they are in place by the time summer arrives and the populations of bad insects really starts to explode plant things like sunflowers which not only attract lots of pollinators into the garden but

They are a trap crop for stink bugs and squash bugs also plants a ton of nestum zenyas borage and alysum which attract beneficial insects like hoverflies and ladybugs did you know that nerum and borage flowers are actually edible nerum have a peppery flavor reminiscent of mustard greens while borage flowers

Taste exactly like cucumbers really delicious the last crop on my list which is also my favorite is tomatoes lots and lots of tomatoes here are a couple of my top recommendations and favorites if you’re in a hot climate like me summer heat combined with high Pest and disease

Pressure is what terminates my plants signaling the end of my tomato season it’s just too much for them the goal is to grow them now and harvest everything out before summer arrives start sewing seeds now so they are nice big transplant size by the time your last

Spring Frost dat has passed I want to give you some really good tips on how to start your seeds for your spring gardening now first if you are a beginner Gardener and this is your first spring please go grab some transplants they are a great way for new gardeners

To start gardening it gives you that boost of confidence because you’re past these delicate seedlings stages and you’re on to growing a plant and you’re going to learn about that plant and learn how to grow it and gain so much knowledge but if you do really want to

Start from seed your best bet is to get yourself a seed starting mix and that’s what I have right here in this bucket I have my seed starting mix and as you can see it is very light and very fluffy you can buy a seed starting mix from the

Store or you can make your own and the easiest combination to make is one that has either Pete Moss or coconut core mixed with something that’s going to help with drainage like perlite or even sand from our backyard and then you want to add some sort of nutrients to it my

Favorite is compost but if you’re getting it from the store black cow is a really great addition the biggest thing about seed starting mix is that it’s fluffy it’s soft there’s not big chunks of sticks and wood chips and things like that that you find in Norm normal

Typical bagged soil the reason for that is when the seed is germinating and it goes to break the surface it is a very tiny delicate little plant and if it encounters a piece of wood chip or a little piece of bark or anything of any great size it is going to hit against

The bottom of that and it’s not strong enough to push that up and out of the way so it can get to sunlight so instead it stops right there it fails and it dies so having a very very fluffy soft mixture allows that seed to come up and

Break that surface my second little tip for you is that whenever you are starting seeds I have a kidney bean seed right here you want to bury this seed as deep as the seed is wide so this seed right here is maybe a little under an

Inch big it’s probably about 3/4 of an inch so I’m going to want to put this seed down into the soil A4 of an inch deep for something like carrot seeds or lettuce seeds where they are so tiny so extremely tiny you barely want to cover those because you don’t want to cover

Them any deeper than what they are so what you want to do is take your soil fill your trays all the way up place the seed on top and then grab yourself a little bit of that soft fluffy seed starting mix and sprinkle it on top just

Like you’re sprinkling salt on your food and then to make sure that the seed doesn’t get dislodged or soses around use a water bottle to Spritz it with water rather than a hose or a watering can that can push out so much water that that seed Floats or it you know moves

Out of the way and it’s no longer covered by that beautiful soft seed starting mix hi Lonnie at the Reed Farm we are getting ready for potential cold snaps here and we are at our cassava patch we don’t want to let these canes go through freeze they will pretty much

Melt to the ground and this is our propagation material for next year’s crop all of this I only need little sections this variety is called Shan’s yellow very very good grower small plants big Roots we’ve had really good success with it but as for my spring

Preparation for cassaba is I need to get it out of the ground now we’re at the end of the season we’ve had a full season growth the roots are ready to come out I don’t want to leave the roots in the ground for too long because they’ll get Woody and inedible and then

It’s a waste of growth I also do not want to risk losing all my propagation material for the springtime these will very easily make it over winter just leaning up in a corner I usually throw them in the greenhouse just in an inconspicuous spot and I go back in

There around March pull them out chop them into 8 in sections and in the ground they go and a nice big Harvest comes out so we’re going to dig a little bit of this and show you what what we got here s the tip off of that little

One this is one of the reasons you want to uh dig like this as opposed to just grabbing the plant and yanking because it is a very very delicate route um as you can see this is know it breaks easily so I don’t want to break it all

Off and lose it in the ground so we like to uh you know really expose the root to right there there we go there’s one beautiful route and you just kind of got to dig around and see what direction they went it’s not advise to start cassava pre-art

Them in pots because the initial Roots tend to circle around and the initials are your biggest manest Roots so if they start circling in a pot you end up with these weird circly roots and they’re difficult to deal with it’s such a easy thing to grow what a great Central

Florida winter staple crop lots of calories here another nice big root look at all of that food this is all off of one single cutting that I put in the ground in March and now all of this becomes my propagation material I will simply leave these um as as large as I

Possibly can I might snap these off but don’t cut them down into little lengths for every cut you’re leaving area for moisture to uh escape and these to just degrade and die away so we’ll remove the leaves so there’s no transpiration through the leaves but I will keep every

Bit of this cane I’ve already started a pile as we’ve been harvesting and using some of this cassava and I’ve just been kind of laying in here waiting for me to take it all into the greenhouse I suspect there might be a couple more pieces of root in

The ground over here so yep sure enough no piece just going to kind of poke around and make sure I got it all but that’s a great harvest from one small cutting we’re going to take this inside process it all down make some flower with it but that’s uh what we’re

Doing in Central Florida as far as spring preparation right now because we are still actually planting some of our fall crops and our winter crops hi guys my name is Vanessa and I run the account from the garden I live in Texas and I’ve been gardening and growing my own

Vegetables and flowers and herb for about 13 years now and today I’m going to take advantage of this dark cold weather here in January in Texas and show you one of my favorite things to plant this time of year it’s the perfect time to sew your own wildflower seeds

And wild flowers come in a wide range of varieties it’s always nice to take a look at local native wildf flower varieties that can support pollinators in your area coolest thing about wild flowers is there are some of the first blooms that actually come out in early

Spring so investing the time to Winter sew some wild flowers now can mean a great head start to an awesome Spring Garden season this is a brand that I have used for a few years now they are called the Native American Seed Co and I love Native American Seed Co because not

Only do they have things that are pollinator friendly specific to Texas but they also have like multiple kinds of milk weed that are really great for supporting our dwindling Monarch populations as as well as varieties of native prair land grasses that will help with erosion cold weather is really

Great for stratifying a lot of these seeds that come in the wildf flower mixes So today we’re going to talk about cold stratification this is essentially chilling of the seeds in order to convince the seed that it’s been dormant long enough and now it’s time to sprout

This is something that you can mimic if you don’t get enough cold weather by putting your seeds in the fridge or freezer for 30 60 90 days but if you do get enough cold weather if you can get your seeds outside in time can get the cold stratification that nature

Naturally gives to the seeds today we’re going to sew some green milk weed and a butterfly Retreat mix which has a combination of Texas blue bonnets Indian blankets Lance Leaf coreopsis American basket flour purple cone flour lemon mint Illinois bundle flour Drummond flocks wine cup Tahoka Daisy standing

Cypress and golden wave some of these varieties I’ve never even grown before but I have already thrown out a couple of these packets at my other Garden where we started a pocket Prairie so let’s go take a look at the pocket Prairie so far this is our Wildlife Area

We have a little Pond we got these tree stumps painted like mushrooms we’re going to put wild flowers because this is our new little pocket prairie area so we’re taking some clearance compost and some Top Soil mixed with cow manure sprinkle it in there and we’re going to

Sprinkle in some wildf flower seeds not covering the grass because it’s not a problem the wild flowers that are native to here are going to do just fine pocket prairies are a great way for you to get around your HOA and still support your pollinator coolest thing about putting

Out a lot of varieties of flow that will Bloom early spring is it brings in beneficial insects and this is what I use as part of my integrated Pest Management strategy sweet alysum being one of my favorite ones because it doesn’t get in the way of any taller

Varieties of plants that I like to grow is a great little ground cover it can be grown on the edges and borders of things and it brings in a parasitic wasp and other beneficial insects that really enjoy this small little cluster type of flowers and it’s some of the first

Flowers that I find bloom in my Spring Garden you can always take a look at something like this Botanical interest blend of wildflower seeds this one is specifically made for pollinators and it has a blend of sunflowers borage zenas Cosmos red clover milkweed purple cone flour marry Gold’s coreopsis Scarlet

Sage filia Dill Aster be balm now this is not a variety of seeds that would really need a a lot of that cold stratification things like sunflowers and zenas and Cosmos do better when they’re direct sewn in warmer weather but because there are things like eona

And bebal in Milkweed inside of here I’m going to go ahead and put out a few of these seeds and then I will sew the rest as I get closer to my last frost dat and that way between this and my native wildflower seeds I have a really good

Continuous Bloom going all around my garden Springtime is when all the pests start waking up from their winter dormy they start to lay new eggs and hatch new larvae that will quickly populate the garden here are some tips to keep those pests in check if you notice a pest

Problem treat for it immediately every day that goes by untreated means more time for that pest to populate in your garden this will require more work and applications of treatment to keep it under control try to stop what you’re doing to nip it in the butt right away

Have treatments in stock at home so you can treat for it immediately this reduces time it takes to go to the store to buy treatments or wait for it to be delivered if purchased online all the while the pest population is increasing identify the type of pest you have so

That treatments are effective the majority of pests you will encounter fall into two categories one chewing insects that Munch and ingest the leaves and other plant material and two sucking insects that pierce the plant to suck out plant juices some treatments work better than others depending on the type

Of insect chewing insects for the most part can be combed by spraying with something like BT which stands for billus thuringensis this is an or organic bacterial spray that coats the leaves of the plants when the chewing insect eats the leaves it ingests this bacteria which disrupts their digestive

System effectively killing the insect this treatment does not work on sucking insects because they are not eating the leaves so for sucking insects use something like spinosad which kills soft-bodied insects on contact or smother them out with insecticidal soap or oilbased treatments like neem oil just be careful using oilbased

Treatments if it’s hot outside because it can burn your plants and lastly check your garden every day so you can spot pest infestations early on just do a walk through or check on the plants when watering or harvesting hi my name is Melissa and I am a cut flower grower in

The city of Whittier in laaber California Zone 10B so we are hot and we are dry even though we’re only about 16 miles from the beach so we get a little bit of marine layer in the mornings that burns off and then it is hot and it’s

Dry but you can still grow cool flowers in a warm climate and I’m going to show you how I’m about to plant about 200 tulips I’m going to be planting them egg crate style and before we get into planting them I will tell you that they

Do require a chill period so if you’re growing these plants you need to make sure that either you buy the bulbs pre-chilled or you pop them in your fridge and you keep them in there from anywhere from 9 to 16 weeks some of the varieties like the doubles or the PE

Style they will actually take up to 18 weeks weeks or require 18 weeks of chill time and because we do not even have a freeze here I checked our last frost date we don’t have one we have to pretend that they’re going through a frost so once they’ve had their

Pre-chill we’re going to go ahead and plant them out and I’m going to show you how to do that by the way um online I am Riley’s blooms and we run a small Beyond Organic Urban flower farm where we focus on teaming with nature and beneficial insects by inviting beneficial insects

In so that we are team no spray by being a no spray Urban flower farm we are able to bring our blooms inside our house and know that they are safe to be placed like on our kitchen table um where we can be enjoying meals with friends and

Family and not have certain chemicals coming off of the flowers so it’s a good idea to know where you’re getting your flowers from and to Source them locally or grow them yourself like I’m about to show you how to do because if you live in a warm weather climate you want to

Start all of your cool flowers now if you haven’t already so the first one we’re going to do is tulips come on so here we are over at the little trench that I made for the Tulips and we’re going to plant them as close as possible

But not touching and then we’re going to cover them with twice as much dirt as they are tall planting spring bulbs make sure that you water them in after you have planted them and then you don’t water them again until you see Sprouts just to prevent them from going into rot

This includes tubers corns all B so this is what it looks like I actually have to dig the trench a little bit larger because I ran out of room I thought I could fit all 200 in that small of space but I still have about 30

To go and then I did order another 120 that should be coming in the mail pretty soon that I will put next to this in the rows in front of this I planted some Antique Rose stock and some iron pastel stock to go with it to round out this

Row that I am currently working on so I do grow many different types of flowers both the warm season and the cool season but just because you live in a hot weather climate area does not mean that you can’t grow beautiful cool flowers hello everyone and happy New Year my

Name is Jr and I am the co-owner of Stone River Nursery here in Orlando Florida and today I’m going to talk to you about why do we defoliate trees when it’s getting to the colder parts of the year how does it help us grow fruit that we think couldn’t grow here in Orlando

But it actually can stay tuned here in our Orlando Florida Residence we grow between 50 and 60 different varieties of apples and none of them are Anna or Dorset golden which are the most typical ones that we can get in different nurseries throughout the state so how do

We do it this is taken on January 2nd 2024 you can see that these trees are mostly bare We defoliated Them manually probably around the middle of November around Thanksgiving time is and the reason we do that is because unlike in a Northern climate we don’t get cold temperatures that send the foliating

Signals to these trees we act as if we were those cold temperatures and we strip the leaves off that will send a signal to the tree hey I’ve already endured winter and all I’m waiting for is for longer days and warmer temperatures to return you can grow

Crops like these and also other Stone fruits that may require higher chill than what we get in our area but then doing this will trick them into thinking they have already endured that cold so it’s a pretty neat trick even now in January we’re getting some flowers and cultivar that you wouldn’t

Expect that they would do well here for example this is aane which is a Japanese cultivar and it already has some blooms let me move over here and show you a few fruitlets of a variety developed by my good friend Stephen edol of skill cold out in California this is black

Strawberry as supposed to be a red flesh apple and hopefully we’re not going to lose them this year we have had a really bad case of bitter rod in 2023 so we’re going to spray these guys as the season progresses in order to keep them but as

You can see even in January where we haven’t gotten the worst of the winter time some of these apples are responding by producing leaves and flowers that have been turning into Fruit another cool thing about apple trees is that cultivars aren’t created equally for instance on January

2024 we have apples hanging on this tree which is a white winter permain tree and this tree was loaded last season I mean it had hundreds of fruit and the tree has gotten taller it’s probably 9 feet tall now but it’s supposed to be kept to

About seven when we prun it every single year uh this just goes to show you you can grow different cultivars they don’t have to be Anna they don’t have to be Thors at Golden and we encourage people to try them out because you never never know unless you grow them so we have

Been successful and we want people to be successful with apples as well so if you contact us at Stone River Nursery we can show you how to do it and you can also grow apples in your own landscape well I really hope that this brief video has

Provided you some insight on why the technique of the foliating apple trees works we also want to thank jera from J’s Garden for giving us the opportunity to collaborate with her and sending information to the gardening community so that everyone can be successful in the different Endeavors they want to

Take on especially now for the new year 2024 so if you want to grow apples here in the central Florida area make sure you contact us at Stone River Nursery thank you everyone and happy New Year hi Bonnie at the Reed Farm we’re here to talk about some of our Spring Garden

Prep and uh one of the things we do here in Central FLorida is I look for seeds that I will be planting in the spring this here is hikma hikma is one of my very favorite summer time Growers which goes in uh late spring they usually

Start to pop up around June I am waiting these out for these pods to turn brown so I know my seeds are nice and mature so I’ll have a lot of seed to plant each one of these little bulges shows you another seed it’s a very prolific Reeder

Lots and lots and lots of panicles full of seeds here would give us a great crop um it is about Harvest time for these I Will Wait these out to harvest until my seed pods have turned brown I’m just crack a piece off just like that the

Beautiful thing about this is we can cut off as we need this will scab over and be just fine I’ll take this whole thing out we’ll bring it up to the house and just kind of pick away at it as we need it so I will uh just kind of take off the

Skin and that beautiful white crunchy piece of Flesh if a potato and an apple made of a little vegetable it can be eaten raw it can be put in soups stir fries any way you would use any kind of fruit vegetable but it can also be eaten raw as opposed

To like potatoes you really want to cook or cassava or UB or any of those so for Central Florida we are right here in theand this is one of my favorite crops we can grow so much of this with such ease it does not require any help through the entire growing season and

All the above ground parts of this are poisonous so very little bug pressure no animal pressure nothing messes with it this is a real winner for Central Florida and uh a great thing to be prepping for spring right now is getting your seeds ready watching these Vines

And uh we will have a very nice Harvest this year with some very large Roots we have out here this is one single season of growth I’m sure I’m going to get 10 or 15 pounds of food right out of that um awesome plant get your hick ma SE in

The ground the thing I wish I would have known about spring gardening back when I was a beginner is that spring gardening doesn’t actually start on the first day of spring the first day of spring this year is March 19th but for me here in Central Florida my spring gardening

Starts on my last frost dat as does yours my last frost a is going to be different than yours depending on where you live so my last frost day is on March 15th I’m going to have some vegetables my spring vegetables that are going to start on March 19th directly in

The ground and those are going to be things like cucumbers melons squash and beans while other things need to be transplanted or do better transplanted and those guys just to make this even more tricky need to be planted before our last frost Aid so things like tomatoes things like Peppers things like

Eggplants usually get started in trays four to 6 weeks before our last frost date so when you hear spring gardening don’t think March 19th go and check out your last frost date and that’s going to tell you when you need to be starting those seats now if you live in an area

That is completely frost free I’m thinking of my friends in South Texas South California and very Southern Florida you guys actually start your Spring Garden in the fall I know you don’t have a frost date so you don’t have a first frost date and you don’t

Have a last frost dat so you can literally grow all the warm season and cool season crops from late fall all the way to early spring so you are growing spring in the winter I know it can be a little bit confusing but once you get a

Handle on when you’re supposed to be starting your warm season vegetables for spring you’re going to have an immediate Improvement in your garden as temperatures increase you might notice a surge in various diseases that affect plants so let me give you some tips to help control the incidents and spread of

Various plant diseases start looking at Garden diseases as pathogens and use the same kind of methods to combat them just as we do to control pathogens that affect us humans keeping things clean and sanitary are key old dying and decaying leaves are host for the various mold fungus spores bacteria Etc that

Cause plant diseases so prune those parts off your plants and remove any debris laying around the ground also clean and sanitize your garden tools because they can transfer pathogens from one plant to another be very careful if you decide to compost with this debris you have to ensure that your compost

Pile gets hot enough to kill the pathogens otherwise do not use infected material when making compost it is best to throw it in the trash or burn it try to keep your plants as dry as possible a lot of these pathogens spread on the wet surfaces of leaves especially after it

Rains or in humid climates like mine here in Florida avoid overhead Watering your plants as much as possible I encourage you to install a drip irrigation system of some sort to reduce overhead watering my absolute favorite treatment to take care of a lot of different Leaf diseases like powdery

Milw and blight is one cup of hydrogen peroxide per gallon of water start spraying when you notice the onset of a disease every 3 to 5 days until you notice that it has gone away a lot of these pathogens drop spores in the soil which wait to jump up onto your plants

And some of them can survive years in the soil if soil-born pathogens like bacterial Wilt are a constant problem in your garden consider solarizing the area for a few months to kill the pathogens I had a bad problem with tomato Wilt so I solarized this entire area over the

Summer and this season I have not lost one single tomato plant to wilt also mulch underneath your plants because this creates a barrier between them and the pathogens in the soil try to vertical garden at every opportunity this picks plants up off the ground opens them up for better air flow which

Dries the leaves quickly makes it harder for soil pathogens to infect them and makes it harder for certain pests like worms to crawl up the plants so all in all it is a great gardening method to reduce a lot of these issues if you don’t have a lot of space then at least

Vertical garden with the plants and crops that are the most susceptible to diseases and pests like tomatoes squash and cucumbers so what did you guys think are you inspired to Garden the spring if you have any spring gardening tips to add please comment below and don’t forget to get connected and follow the

Gardeners in this video as they are great gardening resources happy gardening and I’ll see you in the next video