9 Beginner Gardening Mistakes to Avoid 😱 ❌
9 Beginner Gardening Mistakes to Avoid 😱 ❌
Grab some raised beds to start your 2021 garden off right: https://shop.epicgardening.com/ – there are so many mistakes that a new gardener can make that will result in poor harvests or even NO harvests. Here are 9 of the ones I think most beginners run into at some point or another!
0:00 – Intro
0:56 – #1: Inconvenient Location
1:42 – #2: Planting in Poor Light
3:09 – #3: Too Far From Water
4:34 – #4: Not Mulching
6:05 – #5: Not Preparing Soil
8:01 – #6: Planting Things You Hate To Eat
9:09 – #7: Planting Too Close Together
10:24 – #8: Planting At The Wrong Time
12:09 – #9: Not Asking For Help
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My beginners mistake is getting litre and gallon confused and grew tomatoes in 5litre pots instead of 5 gallon pots. FYI 5 litre = 1.3 gallon
Love the Sender. My problems are i am in a wheelchair so a few Tipps on easy planting inexpensiv please. The 2. Problem my tiny Terrasse is between 2 Hauses so good Tipps will be great. I prefer you cannal because i like your vice and your are not so over the top. And i get the feeling you know what you are talking about. Thanks for the help.
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People should put their plants that dont need a lot of sunlight in the shade
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Last tip is the best!
I shred all the brown paper that comes into my house and use shreds for mulch. Breaks down in about a yr and stays out of trash can.
Thanks for the video, these are some really great tips and tricks!
Can someone link me an invite to the Discord server?
The invite in the description is expired. I’d love to join!
when it comes to mulch and you don’t really have access to it, would rabbit bedding (usually straw) or hamster bedding (usually cedar) work?
Great video that you have here! I love this idea! I’ve recently started gardening myself and have recently posted a video about me sowing my seeds. Check it out here :https://youtu.be/nWHpX3yu2Dc and let me know what you think! As a newbie gardener I definitely would love some suggestions!!!
Love this and you are right – I would talk gardening all day if I could 🙂
Make a mushroom bed on the side of your house which doesn’t get much sun. Maximize all the growing potential 😉
I Have a couple of rabbits so some of the things I grow I don’t like but my rabbits do so I grow them give it to them then use there droppings in my compost bin and use it in the garden the next year or my indoor flower pots.
I put a foot of mulch over my strawberries and it only got to -40 3 times,
I hope they survived
I’m going to be honest, my biggest deepest secret is that i when i was 14 i didnt know how much of a pest mint was so i just planted a single one in the middle of my garden… I think you can guess what happened
For those who never look up and see all the unnatural checkerboard lines in the skies…with all the chemtrail spraying, I can’t even begin to imagine what’s all in the soil?
This is so informative! I lost my whole garden last year to a black fungal disease. I’ve been searching on ways to prevent it and after hundreds of videos and blogs, your video was the most educational and straightforward! Thank you🧡🙌🏻
Do not buy Pennington seeds they have as much as 95% inert material in the packages
I’m starting my first garden (mainly mosquito repellent plants) and this channel has helped me soooo much. Thank you 🙏🏽
Love the practical tips here. I’m setting up my 3rd garden (due to a move) the watering and distance of the garden… are things I learned from my last garden.
Living in zone 9 I’ve definitely been tricked about when to plant. But mostly… planting to early thinking our low temps were over. March is tricky for us here. Lol
If you have chickens and a garden, decide which one you want to fence. I personally love watching my chickens roam free around the yard, but it has severely limited my gardening space. I used to have so much parsley that I would dehydrate bunches of it. My chickens love parsley. They also dug up my rock melon vines, tomatoes, mint, capsicum, eggplant, and lettuce. They were very creative digging around the chicken wire. That said being able to use chook poo on the plants and trees I still have is great too. The chickens love digging around the base of the fruit trees. 🙂
These sound more like ADHD friendly tips 😂
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As a 16 year old I strive to be that 80 year old…
I just moved to New England from Texas, and when I saw everybody on my street putting their leaves out by the curb instead of using them as mulch in their gardens I immediately went "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" especially when my neighbor decided to be "nice" and scooped up all the leaves I was saving for mine! Leaf litter makes AMAZING mulch, and people just…sweep it up and throw it away. The same with grass trimmings. We don’t throw away our grass trimmings. Some we leave on the yard as nutrients for the grass, the rest we use as mulch. And our lawn is beautiful and green and lush and thick because of it whereas all the neighbors who sweep all that grass litter up and throw it out have tons of bald, bare, hard earth spots where nothing will grow. And we use zero fertilizers on our lawn! Using your yard and lawn trimmings to feed back into your garden is my favorite way to grow things and the #1 mistake of throwing it out is the thing I see most often.
Love your vids! Been a gardener for years, but just moved to this new climate where new fruits and veggies and lettuces are suddenly available and learning new gardening tips here! 🙂
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Im starting my garden
Thank you kevin! This really help me a lot with my garden!
I literally just clicked on this video cause you look nice.
What could be the reason for some of my plants to start growing and then die any ideas or information would be greatly appreciated
Drip hose and a timer would work best if your multi splitting all over the place
I got a tree in my yard that makes great mulch/potzel if they’re the same idea.
Wow! Thank you so much. This was super informative!
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Great, probably no garden for me then. I have too many trees and certain parts of my yard only get direct sun for about 3-4 hours a day in the afternoon.
I use mostly leaves because I have a lot of big trees, but there is a shreaded straw available that is sold for things like covering an area freshly seeded with grass. It isn’t cheap, but I do like it. Regular straw is really hard to position and move because it is in such long pieces.
Easy to access is very important
Bro I’m straight up tripping about the 1:05 mark where you approached from far away talking about gym bags but the audio was perfect and it seemed synced then you mouthed the words in real time wtf I need to lay off the shrooms this isn’t cool.
i planted something in novmber seems so odd to me where I live its consistently snowy by then
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Your discord link is expired! does anyone have a working one?
Re: 6 & 7, grow what your guinea pigs love to eat, which is …. everything. Quickly. Constantly.
so what was your problem with the hydro cucumbers? I’m a seasoned gardener with in ground growing, but this year is my first year doing hydroponics and cucumbers were one of the crops i was planning on growing. I’ve got the flora trio of nutrients this year, but i’m planning on switching to aquaponics next year.
Check in with your local county office. Mine does soil testing for free and has a gardening calendar telling you everything you need to know. When to start indoors, outdoors, and in high tunnel gardening. Days to browse seed catalogs. A day to plan the design of your garden. Sunday’s are days off. There’s much more hopefully someone can get use from this.
I absolutely LOVE this comment section!!
Can absolutely confirm the neighborhood gardener. I was on a walk in my neighborhood and I always noticed this one house had perfectly manicured plants in the front yard. One day the old man (80+ with a thick German accent) was outside and he waved and I said "I love your Clematis!". He immediately started talking about where he got them, how old they were, the name of the cultivar… etc. 5 minutes later he had invited me into his back yard and was showing me literally every plant he had and the history of them. His wife brought us tea and we sat there talking about plants for 40-50 minutes.
Nowadays we chat often and he is always asking me what I’m growing and how the plants are doing. He has also suggested several types of things for my various sun levels and even taught me how to properly trim my Azaleas. His name is Benjamin and we are still friends today. I have a bed of Tulips that are, no joke, the largest Tulip plants I have ever seen anywhere in my 43 years. I am always looking at other people’s Tulips and they are never anywhere near the size of my monsters. I credit Benjamin and his soil advice.
Anyway, if you get a chance to, try to say hi to anyone in your neighborhood who looks like they know what they’re doing when it comes to plants. As Kevin said, they will be thrilled that someone else noticed all their hard work.
My best producing garden was a 4ft x 4ft square foot salad garden. 🥗 2 types of lettuce, 3 types of tomatoes, cucumber, small carrots… I’m doing another one this year because the last two bigger beds sucked