We all make mistakes in the organic vegetable garden. In this video I’m going to highlight 12 vegetable garden mistakes you can avoid if you know they are mistakes.
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34 Comments
Hi Brian, would you plz advise if we can take the compost that is available at the town grass dump yard? It’s free for us here, never tried though. Wondering if we bring home some bad insects. Please advise.
It's not gardening time here, so I've been preparing in other ways. I think the smartest thing I've done is watching your videos and actually taking notes. (which I am doing right now.) We depend on our garden for a good portion of our food, and it hasn't always turned out great. I would like to ask about cucumbers and squash…every year they are destroyed by powdery mildew. Is there a way to prevent that??? Even treating it with copper sulfate or neem oil hasn't gotten rid of it once it takes hold. THNX!!!
What are your top 5 veggies you can grow in 3 gal plastic planters in zone 8B, panhandle of Florida
I started seedlings and of course now the weather has turned and I haven’t enough light to keep my seedlings growing well. Gaah! What can I do to save my seedlings from darkness indoors and cold outside?
As far as growing what you don't eat… I'm trying to find new things to eat and have healthier items to chose from.
Same on the eggplant🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
We installed drip irrigation six years ago: it’s life changing😊
I used a compressed bale of straw for mulch this winter. What a mistake! There were so many weeds popping up through the straw. Thinking of using wood chip mulch in the summer. Do you you have a recommendation for a brand and/or type? Thanks!
My biggest fail ever was to presprout Okra for three years! All the transplants died. Last year I sowed them directly outside and they where thriving!🧐🤷♂
I live in Vermont where it rarely hits 90.I have raised beds and a cattle panel 8×16 greenhouse.slugs are bad and Japanese beetles eating mostly my grapes and raspberries. I go out every day with a bag to collect them. I have better luck with tomatoes and peppers in the greenhouse in the summer. I can start lettuce,spinach and radishes in early march in the greenhouse with 2’ of snow on the ground.tomatoes and peppers can’t go outside until June 10 or so.raised beds in the greenhouse gives me a big head start
Where can I find organic straw? And do you put it on after your plants come up or after you seed? Thanks also mulch attracts earwigs how do you deal with those
Thanks for the good advise. Love the birds. My husband and I do wildlife photography and we love to watch the birds. He said they are White Crowned Sparrows.
Didn't see a single mistake that we are making in our garden. Why, because we saw MANY where we tend to lax at and more. Simply made the twelve point list and have it posted as a daily reminder. As always, Thank You for another informative and enjoyable video!
I got rain early in the morning the next day, then it went away. It stayed cold, but it will warm up for a while. I couldn't wait. I had2 elephant garlic left and pulled them. I actually grew some elephant garlic.
Great, spot-on tips. I've recently started working on correcting several of them but it is a work in progress. I loved my drip I installed when I was in Calif and used the time I didn't spend hand watering, inspecting and tending to my plants instead. Another tip which kinda ties several of yours together is to pick one or two crops that you really like and focus on mastering it this year. How to grow, eat fresh, preserve and use later. Once you have that down, choose another the following year. Looking forward to another great growing season and your very helpful videos.
I’m in zone 9b Texas and drip irrigation has made all difference in how much produce we harvest. Plus it reduces powdery mildew and other diseases that are caused by watering leaves with a hose. I think it’s one of if not the most important one in my zone.
My plan was to get the dripline installed last year, but I could not get it done. My hope is to fulfill that plan this year. I love watering by hand, but water conservation and consistency are so important. I'd like to hook them up to a barrel so I can prefill it and allow time for chlorine to escape, and also use it for fertilizing the garden.
Not only that, I get so tired of my hoses kinking up on me. I found a brilliant bright green hose that does not kink up, but the water conservation and consistency are really important to me.
I bought some drip irrigation and held onto it for a whole year because I was intimidated to install it, come one more southern Cali summer and I decided to jump in head first!! I felt really stupid for holding out for so long because it was really easy to do, ladies we can do it too with no help!!!
Excellent advice as always!
Bought your book…loving it!
Looking forward to the irrigation video. I've purchased all the components for a drip irrigation system, and need advice on how to install and run it.
I was told to not use last years potato or tomato soil for same crop this year. What do you do with that soil in the grow bag? I have a small yard and have to do raised bed or buckets/bags cause of horrible soil.
We installed drip irrigation using drip tape from growers solution and I hate it! It doesn’t water enough and the soil around plants in the middle, between two lengths of tape don’t edge watered even though it’s been on for two or three hours. I want to completely start over with a different system but we already spent so much money on this system that’s not working for us. So I will sadly have to supplement with hand watering again this year.
I think it's good to grow ONE plant of something you don't normally eat every year. I now eat many more types of vegetables than I used to because I had that little harvest and looked up recipes for it. I now eat collard greens, something I never tasted before growing it, and there are many more!
This was such a helpful video and clarified many things for me. I would love to see a video (for those of us who don’t have a indoor grow light set up) on direct seed starting tips. Thanks Brian!
In Ireland our summers can be very changeable weather, makes it hard to grow crops that need a lot of sun, I tried two years running to grow sweetcorn, I won’t be this year.
One mistake I made last year was planting cabbage ( and lots of it ) then discovered I DONT EAT CABBAGE IN SUMMER MONTHS loll
Won’t do that either this year.
I’m still learning ❤
I enjoy hand watering and it gives me time to check out the plants and see if there are any problems. A drip system would be nice but I'm not that handy 😂
Snow!!
Is that a seeds tray back in the corner?? What type lamp are you using??
I wrote out my garden plan on a sheet of paper and then when I was starting my seeds I couldn't find the piece of paper so I started all the seeds 😆 I've been seriously considering doing drip irrigation from a raised rain barrel since I'm in an apartment. But I don't know if I'll have the energy and how much it'll cost. Looking forward to the video to see what ideas I get 👍🏼
I am in central Illinois and we have freezing weather in the winter. Would I need to pick up all the drip irrigation after every season and reinstall it each spring?
I've created a plan. As the snow keeps coming, I've redone the plan. I've drawn it out. I've erased it & redraw it. I've reorganized my seed box. I've added start dates to the calendar. Most importantly, I've driven my husband crazy talking about the garden
Great video! I would only add to research your local weather patterns. Different regions are so different from each other. example California weather and North texas weather
I wanted you to know the last year of my Grandpas life was watching your videos. We spent last spring and summer growing tomatoes in containers. He had become bedridden and your container gardening videos helped him to garden again. He passed just before Thanksgiving and was excited about wintering peppers. I am proud to say his pepper plant has survived. He was a man that needed to be busy, and you gave him the tools to be productive again. God bless you.