7 Things Smart Gardeners Do That Beginners Don't

My tips, 1) leave room to weed, water and harvest without damaging plants or equipment 2) compost 3) daily attention

Sprinkling fertilizer on the top gets your kitty and puppy very interested in digging up your new seedling

i did see from another gardener that there is one reason to have the soil exposed to the direct sun- it decreases the amount of places for snails to hide.

Love Gray's "plant play dates"!

I'm so happy I planted extra first a tray of starers fall on top of another tray of starters 😢 then I planted my brassica's out to early got a frost and most of them died 😮 so I may have to many tomatoes and peppers but I don't no what will happen next so I have extra 💪🏾

i met a handful of new garden friends - who also happen to be excellent communicators. i might add that in my experience i havent had to be as precise as these recommendations (well maybe except watering and keeping up on watering) because nature often responds to our efforts and if the plants experience our efforts they have tended to respond favorably. my essential point is - if you are not doing these practices yet or as exactly as recommended, thats ok; just start, observe and notice what works in your micro-climate with your plant-friends. have a great season everyone!

I have a very teeny pond in my yard that gets all sorts of interesting visitors, even in my inner city neighbourhood. It's also how I know the honey bees are awake and on the move again; I counted at least a dozen bees at any given time this afternoon!

I fill empty containers when warming up my shower water to use in the garden. 🎉

Love the videos i finally got my light six cell in about to start sowing I don't call him that I'll call Paul who's that guy with the mustache lol

Thank you for giving me the boost permission to start so many seeds lol we often do that and bit seems excessive but now I feel vindicated! Visited San Diego in March and just missed you at Mission Hills!

Love the gardeners you guys have pulled together over the last few years. A little different from time to time - different faces diff takes.... all good.

I was not prepared for how similar to Kevin and Jacques Paul looks

Minnesota zone 5a. Gardening tip? Perrenials! Ha! They really give you the confidence boost in spring. We had 70-80F in April. May 5th frost. I only have the potatoes, onions, peas, carrots, radish, fava beans planted. Warm crops wait till last week in May first week in June.

How about some tips on how to manage "trays and trays" of seedlings when you have NO SPACE to do so? I have almost no room indoors other than a couple poorly lit windows, and while it's easy to START a dozen of each of 10 to 15 crops, (only ultimately using 2 or 3 of each), it is A MONTH LONG TRAPEZE ACT to then get them transplanted out into bigger pots, and an eventual daily juggle moving them in-to-outside and back again for the final weeks, to get them REAL light and hardened off [equipment always makes all these things easier, but every dollar you spend on the garden (including those recommended fertilizers) its a dollar defeating the purpose of doing this in the first place! (one bag of fertilizer can be almost 50 bucks... that's already more than more ppl spend on vegetables in a month!). So trying to do so this with old takeout Tupperware and last-year's-seedling's plastic husks only serves to complicate any attempt at "organization" (only in word bc noone would observe it, as such 😢) ... Ok. This turned from a cry for help into unhinged venting, so I'll stop... (But I'll still take that advice !)

There is a reason to expose the black soil to the sun. It warms up the soil

What’s up, Eric? 😂

Shannie's bunny: um yeah, whatever, chomp munch munch munch 😂

I freaking love these collaboration videos with all my favorite YouTube Gardeners. You guys rock!

Hardening off works in theory very well but if you work a full-time job, there is no hardening off so now what?

I really need that Organic straw