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I enjoy watching your videos but in my 70’s I now downsizing with no green place. It’s a high rise which they do all land scape of flowers ! It would nice to do apartments! Thanks Live central Virginia in Richmond Area! No patio
Several years back I made a ground plan of my garden with every bed and row in it, made copies of it and every year I take out a new plan and write in it what I planted and where incl. the date. Makes it easier for me to see where I planted what, so I don´t plant the same there this season. But I also have in the same folder lists where I write down all the varieties I like or don´t like divided by crop, so I do or don´t buy them again.
Drip is definitely something I need to install over the next year. I currently don’t even have an outside faucet and I’ll have to go under concrete so I’ve been putting it off forever, but I just know it’s going to be worth it!
This was awesome! Thanks for posting the clips of your other gardens, too!
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The studio threw me off in the thumbnail – thought it was a second recap video lol
My 10 Things I wish I knew: 1-
Don't use landscape fabric unless you've planted a perennial bed and plan to leave it alone. If it's an area you plan to plant in often, don't use it. 2–Landscape fabric and mulch do not stop weeds. 3–Don't dig a hole in your grass and plant something. Create beds and take care of your soil. 4–Gardening rules don't always apply to everyone.. 5–Clean up after yourself right away. 6–Know where your pruners are at all times! If you drop them, find them. Pruners being shot out of a lawn mower at 70 mph towards you is terrifying, possibly deadly, and breaks your lawn mower and pruners. 7. Find good deals and start seeds. 8–Do not just reach into a soil bag you've left open. Snakes and ginormous spiders like to hang out in there. 9-Wear gloves and wash hands often. Giardia and worms doesn't look fun. 10–Be aware of your surroundings. It feels like you're in a zone when planting so keep an eye on your kids, dogs, and make sure you look around because I have stood up after digging and turned to find deer, fox, bear, other dogs, strange men standing right next to me in my yard! Had noooo idea. Didn't hear them. (I have no idea why text gets crossed out like that..?? lol)26:09 yeah McDonald's has been busted for human dna being in their meat and they darn sure didnt tell consumers…..
The black and white thinking is real in garden planning. I think lettuce is a super-underrated crop for everyone, especially new gardeners, especially head lettuce, because its so ornamental. We used to spend a lot of $$ on greens and now I mostly grow them year-round inside and out. And because the lettuce heads are so pretty, if we didn't eat every head, I wouldn't mind. We eat every bit of it and when I grew my first lettuce head, I felt so proud and encouraged. It's also WAY easier to manage than brassicas when we go from 35 to 70 in a 10 day period. Which just happened. And happens every spring. Timing for brassicas is just really difficult in my area. But lettuce, as a much shorter crop, does great.
Saw your background and thought it was Sunday for a second. 😁
I was waiting for Aaron to advise tree planting as high priority. He didn’t let me down. 👍💚💚💚
Wonderful advise here that as a 30yr gardener I’m taking myself! You never stop learning!!! We’ve been tied to our garden for years and just purchased our first drip system to install this spring. We rather I am super excited to not have to water for 3hrs a day. Im excited to see how much better my plants do having consistent water. Nj gets rain but MANY years we wind up in drought. I went with your video of Aaron’s sisters
House, sat with drip depots website and got started. And we know we need much more.
Thanks for all the information you and Aaron give us. I look forward to seeing and hearing each day from what I can learn from Garden Answer. God has given you so much wisdom !
Awesome advice Laura!!! I LOVE this video!!! Have a beautiful and BLESSED day. 💙💚💛🧡💜 Liz
You are amazing ❤
Oh’my gosh, I didn’t know that about garden photo shoots😮. That makes sense, and I feel so much better about my garden.😊❤
Such good advice, I will be taking your advice and acting on it.😊
Good info for beginners…Aaron will be happy to hear that when I first started gardening,I planted 3 Norway Spruce trees and 2 Dogwoods…love trees to anchor the space
I love these tips, very thought out. The only thing I don’t have experience with is a drip system. Watering ,to me, is my morning time in the garden. It’s very therapeutic for me. Love the video!
My advice to beginning veggie gardeners, your first year will be successful and it will cause you to think, "I got this! ". But let me assured you tour garden for the next 3 years will be difficult and you will realize you dont know what you're doing. This is the point you need to persevere.
Love, love, love this. Thanks for sharing.
We purchased a couple second hand retractable hose reels to see if we liked them. LOVE them. Ready to invest in more. My other tool I love is a hori-hori knife. Clean up is so much easier.
Good Morning! 🌞 I agree with all 10 things. I learned from my Mom, my Mother in law & both my Grandmothers! But when I got married & started my own gardens, I learned through trial & error. Eventually, I made the gardens my own! 😃👩🌾💗🌿
Watching garden tours or Pintrist photos can b inspirational too!
I just love having Aaron add his 2 cents
Do you sell the Fiskar rake?
Love that rake!!!
Fingers crossed, you come out with knee pads. 👏👏
Great information. All good points. Those African Violets behind you look Ah-mazing!!
I loathe watering. So I have had wonderful results using soaker hoses and Garden In Minutes watering grids. The dump carts were a game changer! And I love my Felcos!
Laura you are so right. pictures and videos of gardens are not always what the pictures are showing doctored up you can find thing that look so real which are not real and place them in your garden same as pictures of food at fast food restaurants and such. This video was helpful we used put in a raised garden for some veggies and the hubby was telling me if I want more this was the cost of another. I said just wait to see how this one goes first.
Thanks for sharing.
🙏 thanks Laura. Thanks Aaron for this video. It was really really helpful. It was funny when you were talking about the seed and how you get caught in the vortex. I literally screamed. Yes !!!! cause you definitely definitely do. stacey from philly
🙏 thanks Laura. Thanks Aaron for this video. It was really really helpful. It was funny when you were talking about the seed and how you get caught in the vortex. I literally screamed. Yes !!!! cause you definitely definitely do. stacey from philly
Thank you so much for this information. Laura, you have many super powers, an obvious example is the gorgeous African violet plants in full bloom. Have a safe and blessed week everyone.
For me, my little success, and failures are all journal. For beginners, I cannot stress enough, journal, journal journal everything. And know which way the sun is going to shine on your plants. You also need to have a place in your garage, shed, etc. where you can organize all of your soil your fertilizer, your tools, your planters, seeds starting. So you don’t have to look for it year after year.
I've been a fan of you since your first video, and with this one, I told myself, boy, if everything that GA said was written, coupled with those beautiful pictures, this would have been an epic gardening book. You guys are such a great learning resource: Laura on gardening and romancing the ordinary parenting, Aaron on business management and cool parenting, Benjamin on thoughtfulness, Samantha on being pretty and muddy 😂 Paul and Bethany on hardwork and work ethics, Susan, Mike, and and Monica on kindness and hardwork, I can go on and on. We love you guys. From the Philippines 😊
Thank you for this video! It was your videos on drip irrigation that gave me the courage to set it up, and I am so glad I did, especially in the peak of oklahoma Summer.
Hi Aaron and Laura, thank you for all these tips for beginner gardeners like me!! Would it be possible to get your input on planting trees? Living in a zone 9b and in my beginning stage of my garden, I would like to start with creating a future shade garden. Where would you place trees in your garden? Can there be too many trees in a garden? How to choose the best tree?
Thank you both so much for all you’ve taught me!!
I needed this push! We have 2 boxwoods that have been in our yard since we moved in (12 years ago) and I just don't like them where they are. They are coming out this season! I do have a question about the strip of land between the sidewalk and street. We have a fire hydrant there, so it's obviously a favorite stop for dogs. What can we plant along that strip that can handle dog urine? And please don't say monkey grass. I ripped it out the year we moved in and never want to see it again.
I think variation in plant hight is also important when it comes to a flower bed. I added some ceanothus and hibiskus in a corner with smaller perennials and it looks much better. More dynamic.
Mulch under the raspberries is good , too. Than you must not weed under thorny branches.
Adding horn meal while planting tulips helps with getting more blooms, because some where not blooming at all bevor.
I have been buying a good garden tool each year as seen on various utubes and love them. Makes my “elder gardener” work so much easier. Great video. Love from 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Speaking of shovels…. you mentioned quite awhile ago about maybe having a shovel on your website. Is there a possibility of that happening? Thank you for all the great advice as usual.
Irrigation has been on the forefront of my mind this winter. My veggie beds are some distance from my outdoor faucet (I’ve been watering it with 150’ of that expandable type of hose- but they do not last, one tiny leak and it’s a wrap for that type of hose) so I want to trench to the garden..
question 🙋🏼♀️ Aaron, would you recommend running conduit to run the header line thru? I see you guys did not for Alyssa’s water line to her garden beds. Thank you 🙏🏼
All such valid points. When we bought land & started our gardening journey, we made ALL of these mistakes. After 30 years, it's time to move to a smaller place. I will have a patio garden now, but I will never forget the peace & reward of our large gardening journey ❤. Thank you!
My friend and I garden together. I'm an analyst so this is a very type a thing but…
I requested we look at the past six months of meals we ate and figure out the common vegetables we ate. We got lots of potatoes, onions and storage crops plus green beans, broccolini and eventually cabbage because it's my geese's favorite. For the stuff we want to try there is a local big community garden sale to get one or two 'fun' plants so we don't buy a whole seed packet. I also have a Google sheet so label when I started the seeds, amount of plants inground, yield and output (fed to human vs flock) so we can create a forecasting spreadsheet to understand how much we need for the next year with a 5-10% variance