In this video I will share many mistakes people make when planting their vegetables in their organic garden.
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Last frost day recorded as Apr 27…… We had FREEZE May 16 this year
We are in Northern California zone 9b. And we are just now planting our garden. This year’s wether has been so crazy this year. I almost think we are going to have a longer growing season.
Thanks for sharing your ideas. Some good reminders of things I need to keep in mind and a few new tips, too. Always helpful!
Grand Solar Minimum is on like donkey kong.
I've never had a cutworm problem until this year…all my cucumber and melon seedlings are beheaded the day after I plant. Thanks for the Sluggo Plus info. Will order and give a try
Thank you ❤
Sherlock Holmes – "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Gardener's Truth – "When you remove all of the don'ts from your gardening techniques, whatever remains, however illogical, mut be the proper gardening methods." Removing the 85 don'ts from the remaining 15 dos – gives you the proper gardening technique. Know the don'ts far faster than knowing all of the smaller dos. Dos are easy to understand – don'ts are all of the schmuck ups that people "do" out of neglect, passive gardening, laziness, and as uneducated newbies.
(1) Don't plant too early or too late for warm season varieties, (2) Don't plant too early or too late for cold season varieites, (3) Don't plant wrong plants in wrong seasons and wrong plants in wrong grow zones, (4) Don't plant for a single autumn total harvest – and overwhelm yourself with produce, canning, air drying, freeze drying, and have to give away produce to the local Farmer's Market, church or local food bank etc, – or just let everything rot in the garden, (5) Don't plant too close – and then thin out and waste seeds and plants, (6) Don't plant with extreme space – flatlander gardening is already space wasteful – but having extremely distance-spaced plants is also soil wasteful – and easy bug targets, (7) Don't plant too early in the early morning cold night time soil – and then irrigate and also further frost your seeds and transplants, (8) Don't plant too late in the high and late afternoon hot day time soil – and not irrigate to cool down the already hot soil, (9) Don't transplant spindly-stemmed plants, unless you provide some means of support (pole, other climbing means) for the stalk to gain strength and return to proper growing, (10) Don't plant what you are not going to use or eat – wastefulness is illogical, (11) Don't overplant species, and then have too much of a good thing, (12) Don't underplant species, and then have too little of a wanted produce, (12) Know and grow your garden species – know how big a plant will become, how big the fruit will be – and be able to use that volume of produce in a timely manner – successional planting with selective harvesting, (13) Don't over-plant produce and then try finding places to store fresh, dried, or canned produce with no canning space, storage pantry, or drying facility space to handle the load – on the kitchen counter, pantry shelves, garage and basement floor, outside patio and decking, root cellar, hothouse/grow house, etc., (14) DON'T grow hothouse cold-weather vegs (i.e. cruciferous broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, collards, cabbage, kale, tree kale, tree collards – unless you truly have cool/cold weather Fall and Winter seasons keeping the soil cool and moist, (15) DON'T grow hothouse warm-/hot-weather vegs (in a cold weather environment) unless you provide additional sunlight, heat, electrical heat/fans, to keep them warm in a cool/cold grow zone, (16) Don't overwater crops that prefer more-drier soils – blistered potatoes, carrots, beets, turnips, rutabagas, tomatoes happen from overwatering, (17) Don't underwater all of the water hog vegetables (melons, pumpkin, squash, zucchini, gourd, lettuces, lettuce, leafy vegs) – limp celery, lettuce – are just that limp and dehydrated (18) Don't water when its rains (duh !), (19) Don't not water when its sun-scorching heat dome and drought hot (duh !), (19) Don't over-fertilize plants when seeding or transplanting – proper fertilization and time of applications have healthy plants – other than "fertilizer vampires" (tomatoes, peppers, chilis, eggplant, potato solanide plants, … corn). (20) Don't plant and forget – walk and tend the garden – check for bugs, check irrigation and fertilization, successive harvesting of all the root, fruit, and leafy vegs.
–Planting too late! Then to make matters worse, waiting to see if the lame plants get a few straggler fruits and delay the subsequent planting and get a double-whammy. When it time for the next crop to go in, the old one need to come out.
–Not servicing/flushing/and testing the irrigation system before planting.
–Not adding a thick layer of compost before planting
–Not knowing/paying attention to how wet or dry the soil is
–Not shading plants when it gets hot.
That's enough for now. Hahaha!
I grew up with two highly experienced gardening parents who taught me A LOT, the problem was that I wasn’t all that interested at the time and now they are gone💔. I’m so grateful for your channel because it has reminded me of things they taught me and I continue to learn more techniques that I didn’t learn from them!
It’s so interesting that you can plant two peppers right next to each other and they will help support each other! Love that!!! And with tomatoes growing vertically they can also be planted closer together? Boy does that help with limited garden space! Thank you so much for these posts!
My husband and I would love to see your garden in CA! We live in Iowa, but my daughter is out there.😁
We just flew back last night from CA and it was cool there compared to Iowa, so odd!
My biggest problem is leaf miner's and white flies. I've tried the Neem oul with soap and they keep coming back. I'm spraying them every two week's. Any hints?
Thank you.
Great Video. Sent it to my sister in California too. Using the Neptune crab and lobster. Don’t have the kale yet. Weather here in AR is inconsistent but hoping for the best. All warm crops can go in, but we’ve already had high 80’s. Now cold front came through to 70’s. It will be interesting. Blessings❤️🌺
Should I add the same fertilizers you used if I’m planting in containers?
For years I have mixed a light solution of B-1 to help with root shock. Do you think that is necessary?
thank you soo much for your vids,love them.I'm using homemade heavyduty cages I made,18in across,should I just plant 1 zucenni,1 squash,1 cucumber per cage?,thanks again,Rick from Delaware
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.
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