In this video I will share many mistakes people make when planting their vegetables in their organic garden.
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Thank you great video. I'm curious about what you do with the pine shavings when the seasons over? Do you compost them? I've never heard of using them before.
Along the lines of nor planting too early, be careful if you have an unusually war spell because the weather could turn much cooler very quickly. That happened t me this year, and I have been gardening for many years! My peppers are now struggling
Our spring has been completely unusual. Zone 3. We haven't had a frost since mid April. Our last frost date is end May. I adapted for it this year. Started my tomatoes and peppers indoors as usual. I started all my other vegetables in trays but outside. This way they were garden ready but if the temps were to drop I could protect them. I hardened off my tomatoes, peppers and transplanted them out now. All projections are above 55° for night temps. Fingers crossed it all goes gangbusters.
Hemp shavings work great but do expect new plants
You are so right about the importance of timing! Here in Florida 9b, it is important to not wait too long to put things like tomatoes out. It doesn't take long for our weather to become too hot and humid for them to thrive. We are already having temps in the 90s most days. I put my tomatoes out in February and I've been harvesting a lot of tomatoes for weeks now. But, the weather is turning and they are beginning to suffer. Also, instead of red solo cups, I use the clear plastic version because I can see the roots and know they aren't becoming root bound. Thank you for the tip about Sluggo. I just planted my sweet potato slips and I worry about cut worms ruining them. Great video.
My garden does very well holding moisture in the soil by using leaf mulch.
Northern Arizona: monsoon in May. I have not see this b4! Then hail…larger plants are good. Seedlings and flowers will have to be replaced. I forgot the rock phosphate with the peppers. I have a notebook. But, I am not good about writing OR reading notes from the year b4. 75…I need notes to remind me of my notes😢
I know this is a bit off topic for this video but I would like some advice on storing garden products. I used tule (sp?) this year on my beans since the squirels seemed to like eating the tops. The tule helped, but I no longer need it in the garden & it seems a waste to toss. Would like to use what I bought in the future. What's the best way to store it along with containers from planting & such? I have a small yard with a potting bench – that's about it. Appreciate any "housekeeping" tips you might have Brian.
I think one of the hardest things to figure out is watering. I have found that under watering is far less of a problem than the opposite. In fact a little less watering when young cause good root growth provided the necessary N-P-K is available.
I couldn't figure out why my peas and beans weren't coming up or came up and disappeared. I planted three times. I finally figured out the birds love those tender shoots. So I covered them with plastic mesh cages until they were big enough to
climb and that fixed the problem. That is the biggest trick I have learned lately.
Excellent advice. Thanks!
Florida zone 9B I think although honestly I’m not sure because I don’t really do any research of any sort other than watching YouTube videos and forgetting what I watch. My favorite thing to do is just put a bunch of seeds in soil and see what happens. I call it my surprise gardens and generally have a decent amount of luck, although I just planted entirely too many luffa seeds so I’ve been trying to pawn off the plants on neighbors.
🤗❤ Have an amazing week!
I didn't get my stakes, trellises in before I planted, you know the I'll get back to it. Catching up in bed planted full takes more time and can break plants. Think I would've learned from last year
Can you fix root bound plants?
I think I goofed big time. 🙁 Our last frost date is late May, but the weather is not forecasting any freezing temps. Awesome, right? So I planted the other day knowing we had two days of big rains coming. The plants looked great, until the end of the second day of rain. The temps were between 45 and 55 degrees (which is probably too cold…ugh), and now my tomato plants and basil have pale green leaves and brown spots. The sun is out now, and I trimmed off all of the branches and leaves, except the few healthy looking ones, which was only a few…they still don't look great, but hopefully they're not too gone to save. So frustrating the Colorado short growing season!!!
The weather is extra whip lashy in Bellefonte Pennsylvania , now it is finally past frost Temps I have to deal with extremely strong sun with no clouds and very strong winds …. with a little sunburnt plants to deal with but the STRONG WILL SURVIVE!!
Speaking of mistakes, did you ever cover replacing the mulch you filled your raised beds with? 🙂
East central Alabama here, I learned the hard way not to put out too early. I was focused only on the frost date. If I had waited a lil longer to plant my peppers and tomatoes a lil later to avoid early blight and stunted peppers. Miserable for a first time gardener especially since I purchased my plants this first year. I’ll be seed starting next year and it won’t hurt as bad.
strong el nino is coming according to the POW weather channel, just an FYI…
I got so excited that my wife agreed that starting a garden would be good rehab for my lungs and hips, that I bought a small ebay indoor greenhouse. I ordered the kits with the dehydrated compressed discs, and commenced to planting just about everything. No research needed, as my parents and both sets of grandparents raised HUGE vegetable gardens each year. Oh how wrong I was(probably should've paid more attention)! I had a bunch of leggy seedlings that started damping off daily. Me spending 10 days in the hospital, my helpful family(following my lead) assisted most of the rest to damp off. I now understand watering from the bottom!
Gah!! Thank you! You just made "row spacing" vs "plant spacing" hit home for me! Newer gardner with only raised bed and containers… Love your videos! 😊
Don't leave your newly purchased pepper plants on the golf cart where the dogs can get them. Plant massacre.
My mistake is planting things groundhogs and squirrels like to eat. 🌷💚🙃
Thanks Brian. 🌷💚🙃
Hi, I love your video's. I have learn so much about garden, even more than my grandmother taught me. But today I also heard about wood ash and how bigger your garden vegetables will grow. When I say wood ash I mean ashes from a wood stove, a fireplace, a grill. They charcoal works somewhat, but wood does wonders. You might try it and see if what learn is true. Thank you.
Well, today…was finding waiting for my back to heal, yielded weeds too thick for my weed whacker (larger string won’t fit). And, after shoving tomato cages, stakes, and even garden torches deep in the rain soaked soil to try to hold back plants during the winter deluge, resulted in a sword and stone situation. They will.not.come.out. So now I’m going to have to water weeds to get them out before prepping garden bed.
My Grandparents were excellent country gardeners, who always used the Almanac to plant by. The moon phase and position were very important for determining planting days. They emphasized to never plant when the moon was in a kill sign astronomically. Namely Aries and Leo. They also tried to never plant during an East wind. Something to it? Maybe, but they always had great gardens!
I tried spacing my indeterminate tomatoes 1 foot apart with pruning to a single stem and the plants were way too close together. The leaves of the plants were touching each other and majorly overlapping so they quickly got diseased. This year I spaced them 2 feet apart and the leaves are still touching between the plants.
Still waiting on your cucumber video 😢
I have an emergent question. We planted our cucumbers and we are going to use the string/cord system I learned in your videos. But there are 3 cucumber plants growing from the same seedling and it is already in the ground. Do I let all three go up the string or shall I thin it? Some with the zucchini. How can I fix this situation? Thanks!
We are in zone nine,been eating tomatoes and zucchini for at least 2months.
Thanks for your info.👍
Question, can we plant seeds in only peat moss?Tia
Thank you!!
My mistake was not listening & asking questions when my grandmother was alive. i also HATED being in the garden with my mom. (little girl/bugs) I do have a funny story tho. i was talking to my mom the other night about hilling potatoes. My mom started laughing about how much I've changed.
Thanks so much for your videos, so i can learn it now!
Great reminders 👍🏼👍🏼 Somehow we always forget something or make the same mistakes. Last year I learned not to put the zinnias or basil in the same container as veggies. They get big and compete for space and nutrients (in a container). One plant/flowers per container, unless it's an 18 gal tote then 2 max. I can then just place the companion flower containers next to the veggie ones and they will be happy together but with their own space. This doesn't count for ALL companion plants, just the ones that get big.
Edit: Ok I'm not sure if I can do more than one flower per container. I'm new at flowers.
Forgetting what you put where and double planting an area. Yeah, I did that last week. I have no idea what is coming up in that spot.
can you mulch with coconut coir?
This upcoming week looks to be IDEAL for transplanting! I don't mind my peppers, and melons being slow to start, I will enjoy this cooler than usual weather for as long as it takes!
Yeah this year messed me up. It was suppose to be safe from frost, but we got frost about a month after last frost date.
This was my first year growing everything from seeds, I had everything ready to go, and then that last frost destroyed most of my stuff, everything else has been stunted.
I planted tomatoes and peppers 2 weeks BEFORE average last frost date. Had one frost which I covered them, and now I already have loads of tomatoes and peppers on each plant.
I get my tomatoes out early, too. I start them in February in zone 7 and pot them all the way up into 1 quart containers before they go outside. When your plants are 10-12" tall you can still bury them deep in early April and leave 6" above ground, and I find they don't need too much hardening off. They're big enough to just keep going at that point.
I did that with my peppers too this year – got them 8" or better tall in 1 quart pots before going outside. We had a really cool start to the spring – lots of nights in the 40s. So everything took a while to get going, and I had to pluck some early flowers, but everything made it, even the peppers, because they were past being seedlings when they went in the ground. I think I'm better off than I would have been if I didn't start everything in February.
I did the same thing with my herbs too – I'm already cooking with my lovage and cilantro this year.
This video came out a couple of weeks late 🙁 we put all our starters out mid May as we usually do and they all died.