❤️. My dad who loved gardening passed away last year. He developed dementia and he obsessed on weeding the gardens and yard, and would often talk out loud while he worked. This year I am coping with the loss of both parents last year by planting a garden. I am most looking forward to enjoying a great harvest of tomatoes and squash, two of dads favorite garden producers! I chuckled to myself as I noticed I talked out loud a few times while I was pulling weeds! The Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree!
I lost my Mama 12 years ago and the garden was the perfect place to cry, to laugh, to learn to smile again as I worked through loss, growth, and eventually to allow healing to take place. May your good memories fill you as you talk to those seeds and weeds! And may your garden bring forth good things to fill you.
@Leah pitman I’m so sorry for your loss. I lost both of my parents ( my dad in September 2021,) I lost my 49 year old brother to Glioblastoma brain cancer in March 2021, 6 months to the day before my Dad. My Dad was a gardener my whole life. I believe I’m really dealing with this with gardening as well. I know exactly how you feel. I even put his garden gate on my garden. Try to have fun and find joy in our garden. It’s my therapy for now being the only one left of everyone I grew up with is a really odd feeling. Take care
I've survived till now thanks to nature and gardening, just love it so much, I also talk to all of them, every day 😊 hello beautiful, wow you grown up! Basically I talk like if they are people, but I understand they don't speak but they answer back, in beauty and taste 😍😋 my dream is go back home (one day 🙏) to my roots or better lay my own roots, as basically all my family is gone... Keep all the seeds, give them, sale them, and spread them all over... real seeds are rare those days. Carry gardening 💯👍❤️
My sincere condolences for the loss of your parents. You know what ..I always talk out loudly when I am in my garden, because I keep chatting to the plants and pollinators, lol
I'm gardening alone this year. My husband recently passed away, and we gardened together for 40 years. He did most of the work in the garden, but I was his companion, and learned what I could. At this point, doing it alone, I realize how many questions I have for him. I so appreciate your videos and I'm learning a lot. Thank you. (I still wish he was here to garden with).
He is there . Nothing is as hard as missing those we dearly love, especially at times we used to share with them. I miss my father in the garden. I talk to him. You will find moments where you know he is still with you just in a different way. Mine brought me a rose that was my favorite and has not been seen since he planted one forty years ago. One showed up as I left the garden center a few weeks ago. I talk to him all the time about how to garden etc. Your beloved husband is with you and I wish you many beautiful days in your garden. 🌷💕🌷
As a child living in federal housing projects, the city of Boston gathered 'potential' juvenile delinquents and transported us to the country to work on a dirt farm. At first I hated it, but over time I learned to love it. Today at 73 I still love my garden. I do maintain a worm farm and harvest castings.
It a whole lot to it google vermicomposting. You do need compost worms, not just any worm. Compost worms work in the top 3” of soil. Can start in a plastic bin with soil, peat, compost, shredded cardboard and shredded paper. Feed every few days to a week with kitchen scraps. Keep bedding fairly moist and ouila! Worm castings in a few months. I actually have my bins inside my house. Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm to buy worms
A friend of mine raised chickens when she cleaned out the coop she'd bag up the poopy straw for me in a big black garbage bag...I'd fill up a large storage bin with water put the poopy chicken hay in a large plastic clothes hamper that had the openings all over, I'd submerge the hamper with hay into the storage bin with water...let it soak for a few days lift the laundry basket out which caught the rinsed hay leaving what I called "chicken poop soup" used that for watering my rose bushes and wow! My rose bushes were beautiful and healthy! 🌹
We dropped well over $1000 into plants, bushes,& trees this year. We just hope our fruit trees & bushes make it. After 2 years of my wifes' MS diagnosis I was able to get her excited about doing a garden this year. 20+ strawberry, 9 blueberry, 3 peach, 2 fig, 3 raspberry, 3 blackberry, & 1 mulberry. I look forward to my wife enjoying gardening again this year & years to come while she can.
Please read up on the benefits of sunshine and supplemental vitamin D-3 and K-2 on MS. Dr John Campbell has a youtube channel that is very educational. The time outside should help her.
@@auntypat1492 most definitely as it will help heal your worries and hurts. Outdoors. Sunshine. Growing things. Best medicine in the world. Prayers for you and your precious wife. 🌷💕🌷
My parents were remembered by more people than I rrealized for their gardening and the abundant crops they shed abroad, made me happy, miss them so much. They lived well into their 80s, had both got incurable cancer, both miracules lived and were cancer free, healthy till God took them home. I know, because I led them to the Lord, they were always good people,, they just got saved.
Living in Texas, I planted our garden early March and already have harvested many vegetables. As the hymn says " I come to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses. And the Voice I hear falling on my ears, the Son of God discloses. And He walks with me and talks with me..."😁
I am a container gardener. It is very hard for container gardeners because they need a fresh source of organic material to keep the microbes alive so they can feed the plants and maintain a living soil. This has been the most interesting video I have seen on fertilizers.
My first year gardening, I am 73 so never to late. I am just hoping to get a harvest. I am so excited. I am starting some seeds and some plants. I have some Tomatoes, kale (very tiny plants from seeds), squash, sweet peppers and sweet potatoes. My grandfather had a garden every year and he grew lots of stuff, I wasn’t interested then but now I am going for it.
Seed starting is still the one thing I have problems with (I usually buy seedlings, I think called 'transplants' in the US, ie baby plants). But I think I will need to buy a heat mat and perhaps some grow lights to start them indoors. Brian has a great video on grow lights and seed starting (I forget what it was called). So hope your new venture has proved successful - it does take a few seasons to nail down the preferences of some plants, particularly in your own climate and micro-climate, your garden position, etc.
I was rescuing & caring for sea turtles in Baja and had a vision. A few hours before 2000 I was in Alaska, met the man of my dreams, hand built a home & garden. 2010 he died & I tragically lost everything. Transplanted to st. John VI. Building a home & garden. Irma/Maria wiped it all away. I've been floating on a boat since. Barely making it through covid, in November my dad died, my best friend was murdered and I gave up. For the last 6 months I truly believed I would die with out living my dream of home and garden. I just turned 53 and decided not to give up & try again. I am looking for land and will one day soon be growing a garden, I'm looking forward to that! Found your channel today, liked & subscribed, took notes, and will be buying your companion planting book. Thank you, you have helped me rekindle my passion for growing in a garden. 💞
@@cocomarch8019 You have been through so much, I am sorry, it sounds unimaginably hard.May your dream come true and healing through gardening be with you. Blessings from Australia, going through hard times, too. I will think of you as I sow my sweet pea seeds on St Patrick's Day, tomorrow. 🙏🍀
I'm so sorry to hear what you went through. . . "Blessings" song by Kari Jobe your way! If you see empty plot with good soil near your area. Ask them to plant a garden in exchange of anything you grow on their plot. I heard this is practiced in certain European countries. Maybe there's community gardens or farm for market? Gardening is great therapy from almost anything.
I helped garden on the farm seventy years go and have gardened all over the United States ( career moves). My garden is over four thousand square feet. My compost is is complemented with pond algae with marvelous results. Gardening is a humbling experience and fights depression and ennui . Most of the produce goes to the food shelf as I live alone after my wife died and the kids are grown. Never too old to learn .
How do you use pond algae as fertilizer, and how do you collect it? That's a amazing large garden. Can grow most of your food on 4000sq feet. And have plenty left over.
As an empath who sometimes suffers from anxiety, the madness of this world can be overwhelming. My remedy is working in the garden where I feel grounded in peace and joy, knowing I'm helping create a tiny piece of heaven right here in my corner of the world. I love hanging out with the plants, birds, bees, butterflies in the cool of the morning and the excitement of seeing the plants grow and thrive. It's as magical as the first bean plant I planted as a child and let's face it, we can all use a little magic in our lives.
I envy you. I’m now disabled and have no energy for gardening or anything else. I used to get “peace” from my garden and now I struggle to keep one plant alive. It’s a calandiva and it was a gift when my Frenchie dod passed. I’m terrible with flowers and now it’s sick with root rot and I’m doing everything to propagate the plant since it means so much to me. Keep your health. Don’t stress about anything. Be well and have peace.❤🌼🥰
@@MegaTattoo69 Welcome to the crunchy woo-woo part of RUclips. When the revolution comes, they'll be the first to starve as they clutch crystals and plant by the light of the moon.
@@mildredwilkins5781 Correct, Mildred. One human's annual urine output contains enough NPK and micronutrients to grow them enough wheat to bake a loaf of bread for them every day for 14 months.
The thing that happens in my garden that makes me smile, is when you walk out in the morning to check on your plants and it seems that they have grown 4” over night. The wind is moving them around and there is green all around you. Good stuff!
This is my first garden using containers. Since I have mobility issues, I am starting small with tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, and a few herbs. I am listening to all your videos as I need lots of advice.Hoping for a great harvest. Thanks so much.
I am a beginning gardener. I have started my own fruits and vegetables and am looking forward to working in the garden and learning from it. I was ill from strokes and in an assisted facility for many years and am now ready to go on with, and enjoy life in my happy new home and garden.
I have 3 bunnies, all girls. Got them specifically for their "Bunny Berries ". I made manure tea with a 5 gallon bucket. Filled 3/4 full of Bunny manure the filled with water. Every time I passed it I gave it a stir. Very good information. Thanks
Blessings to you and your mission. I am retired and is a caregiver for my daughter whom is on life support. Gardening in a small space backyard and sharing and encouraging my community to grow food has created a therapeutic environment for me. People of all ages (babies to elderly and people whom have never touched soil). Gardening has given my daughter the will to survive and remove depression. God’s blessings are being showing through the garden. My goal is to continue to touch lives and show miracles through growing. I will never stop. I visit nursing homes, assisted living facilities, church groups, started in my community a community garden last year and it is great, I could go on. Gardening is fun and relieves stress. Helps people have hope! I love growing varieties and 90 % of my growth is from seeds. Any support that I can receive would be a blessing.
@Jeri Brockington hopefully I can be a blessing to you. I am a heart patient with a blood disorder and low blood pressure issues for about 15 years. Slowly my mobility went from swimming 40 laps 3 times a week to barely being able to walk up steps. I started watching terrace gardening in 2019 after a hospitalization and started planning. I literally can only do a little here and there per day but my first all out attempt is this year. Tons of trial and error but I'm learning from my mistakes. Hubby took sick late last year and had to retire. He has a couple of procedures to go, but hopes soon to be able to do more than water the plants. I like the theme of your project, helping people help themselves which affects health in a positive manner. I can't bless you financially but maybe this idea will help. Get all pictures, video and testimonials from participants and make a few infomercials for your YT page. Include ways to donate. Then ask YT content creators to participate by including your infomercials as PSAs in their videos to help support your project. Best of luck you you and all the people you are helping. Stay blessed and don't give up!
I had severs depression 15yrs aog ; but doing home gardening helped me to recover a lot as l lives by myself after l bought a wooden house in a place without tap water ; so l developed stratergies to collect & store rain water & use my waste water & grow my own garden to have regular food supplies for myself , thank for sharing ; we arenever to old to learn something new
What I am most looking forward to in my garden this year is the quiet of being outdoors with the plants and the birds, which is so calming and grounding. It has been long hard winter, so this soothing time in the garden is something I really look forward to. Plus I look forward to the joy of eating and sharing home grown vegetables.
Clear, concise, and straight to the point. Love your content. I’ve never subscribed to any gardener video sites but I’m never disappointed with yours and you seem like a genuine good person. Thank you for all the great education. I never get tired listening to your videos!
What I am looking forward to the most is following along with you by watching your videos to have the healthiest garden and plentiful harvest to preserve, share and eat! Thank you for your channel and this community.
I'm retired now and building a new garden. As a grandma, I'm looking forward this year to harvesting a bumper crop of tomatoes and peppers and beans, just like my grandma used to do. Not just for the harvest itself but to teach my family about self reliance. I'm re-learning how to grow things with the help of Next Level Gardening. Thank you so much!
I actually made my own 'hydrolyzed fish fertilizer ' last year from online recipe! It took several months, but worked great. I was amazed that all bones, etc, were dissolved by the enzymes. Next time friends/ family go fishing, I'm sending a bucket to collect all the scraps/cleanings😉
I am new to gardening. Just recently semi retired so I started with flowers by planting my hydrangeas from cutting. I am inspired by your videos and started planting tomatoes and green beans spring this year. I followed your instructions very close on how to do vertical planting with my tomatoes. They have bloomed but no fruit yet. I enjoyed watching Next Level Gardening and thank you!
Can’t wait for my 2nd season growing tomatoes vertically. Last years harvest was great, but with my new changes this year, learned from this channel, it should be even better.. love this channel and all the Neptune Harvest products I have been using!👍
I am excited to start gardening again after a 5 year gap. It's a wonderful way to be closer to what is real in life, and a great stress reducer. I got 2 of the extra high corrugated metal beds and one is already planted, one more to go. I was lucky to find a neighbor with heirloom tomato starts, and a local school with more neat varieties of tomatoes and peppers, and am eagerly looking forward to the wonderful flavor and nutrition of homegrown produce and herbs again. Your channel has become one of my favorite resources to catch up on the best practices and changes in gardening. Thanks so much!
My husband just bought me a small greenhouse and I’m so excited. I’m looking forward to being able to garden after several surgeries this past year where I won’t have to work hard but will be productive and grow food! Thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom! ❤
im addicted to watching every home gardener's simple and humble analyses of products they use and their relative experiences of such. I love these videos. I think im addicted to specific anecdotal information.
I'm looking forward to watching my new cucumber tunnel getting covered. Each of the last 3 years I just try expanding and improving what I grow, how I grow, and how I use what I grow. Channels like yours have been a big help in that regard.
Doing a raised garden for the first time and am loving all compost and fertilizer gems, as well as all the planting/care advice. Can’t wait to see the results.
I'm looking forward mostly to the relaxing time in the garden. Working in the dirtt and caring for my plants is so enjoyable and gives me nature time which I believe improves health in itself. Not to mention the wonderful goodness of those fresh picked vegetables, especially tomatoes. Thankyou for all the good information on fertilizers. I learned alot.
My parents were green thumb gardeners and I remember the large amount of vegetables we grew and gave away in our small community. We always had enough to take us through the winter and until next growing season despite the fact it seemed we fed half the community. Mom was always saying take this bag of xxx to such and such and off on my bicycle I went. I learned from Dad, and later on learned much from Jerry Baker (now passed away)...his simplistic gardening books are priceless in my opinion. In any event, I have picked up a few tricks from you and say one is never too old to learn...thanks! I remember my old high school agriculture teacher saying chicken manure was the best NPK...
This year I'm looking forward to having healthy soil this year. Last year I did have a single worm in my soil. This year so far just digging around, I've seen a few. I planted all the herbs to make a true Puerto Rican sofrito so I'm praying all the herbs grow plentiful to share with family, friends and strangers!
I have never had a garden myself, only “helped” my dad. I’m looking forward to learning this year as I do it myself. Thanks for all the great info. To someone new to gardening, you are a wealth of info!
This summer.... 2023 I'm excited to transition my garden from "in ground" to raised beds!!! I have gardened in Morthern Minnesota for almost 50 years and have never had raised beds.... THIS IS THE YEAR!!! I would LOVE to add the Neptune products to my garden! Thanks so.much for making this opportunity available!!! BLESS YOU!!!😊
Last year was my first time trying to garden. I watched hundreds of videos. I've found yours very helpful. Thanks for the guidance and wish me luck as I go hog wild this year.
I'm always looking forward to just seeing how well everything grows , it's always fascinating to watch all the seeds that I've planted turn into food, ready to eat well and share the bounty.
Brian, everytime I watch one of your videos, I learn so much! Been following you for a couple of years now and my garden has definitely shown improvement each year. I'm looking forward to a great crop of pickling cucumbers this year. My grandchildren love them and go straight to the garden when they arrive. They eat them right off the vine!!
I am most looking forward to gardening without a full blown drought like we've had this year in TX. City water is ok but rain is what a garden needs the most. ❤️
I am looking forward to just seeing my garden flourish this year. I put in 4 raised beds about 15 months ago, and the difference between last year and this year is amazing. The soil is healthier, making everything happier!
This year, we put new liners and soil in our raised box gardens, so I am anxious to see how they do. I am also excited to see so many strawberry plants this year!
As Iam getting older I look forward to raising my garden beds a little higher this year. I'm excited to learn about gardening with your videos. Thank you for teaching us all.
I am most looking forward to seeing my “garden” healthy and thriving this season. I was incapacitated mid season last summer and my garden became a hot mess with little harvest. I do all my gardening in raised containers, so I am excited to try the Neptune Fertilizer and seeing a bountiful harvest of tomatoes, peppers, and beans midsummer. And thank you for this video! It was the best overview of fertilizers I have seen to date.
What I am looking most forward to this year is success!! This is the FIRST garden I have had since 2005, and it's all in containers again (no yard). I have (everything organic) Amish paste tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, nasturtiums, garlic, basil, Thai licorice mint, Yukon Gold and Russet potatoes, fenugreek, and sunflowers. Thanks for the Neptune Harvest contest entries! I used their products in 2005.
This year what i look forward to the most with starting my garden is actually getting to do it with my daughters. These past 2 years have been rough for them so i am excited to be able to start a fun project with them that we can continue to do with each other throughout the season! Plus fresh food on the table!!
Love the videos! I'm looking forward to Springtime and getting started with prep & planting. I enjoy the creative to planting the new garden and watching for new sprouts popping up! 😀
Gardening sooths my soul, in addition to feeding my body. I'm looking forward to a much better and bigger harvest than in recent years, thanks to tips like we were privileged to hear in this video. Thank you Brian!
❤️ What I'm looking forward most in my garden this year and years to come is more diversity and yield of product. One of the things I enjoy most about my garden is being able to give my neighbors great wonderful organic food. I've been doing this for a number of years and everybody I give it to really appreciate it.
Thank you again for all your useful information! This is my first time having a veggie garden and have been using Neptune's harvest products on your recommendation and am so excited to be finally growing my own tomatoes along with other vegetables. It is a learning process and want to thank you for explaining everything the way you do. Looking so forward to my first tomato sandwich!
Been watching a while now and have really picked up a lot of helpful tips and information. Really looking forward to this season garden for some fresh tomatoes and especially peppers that I use in my family’s past down recipe for chow chow and relish. Thank you for what you are doing
♥ For my birthday I received a stair-step above ground garden. Since I am now wheelchair bound at 73 I have had to give up my larger yard to try my hand at container farming and I'm very interested in following you and tying to these learn these mysterious ways! My neighbors call me The wheelchair gardener.
Last year was terrible to garden. I had pain in my feet, the heat in the middle of June in Washington state burned all my tomato flowers and just starting veggies. I was very discouraged and thought that I will take a break this year. Your videos helped me to change my mind. Your info about fertilizers is one of the best on RUclips now. Thank you.
Yes, gardening in Washington state last year was a bit hot. Keep on, and hopefully all the rain this spring translates into more moisture reservoirs in the soil. I am collecting as much as I can in sealed and open garbage cans (fish in the open ones like my 100 gal horse tank. No longer have the horse.) Good luck to you! Gardening is crucial this day and age. His videos are great!
I have never amended my raised bed garden soil (5 years old). I actually didn’t know I needed to. I started watching your videos about 2 months ago and I am amazed at the stuff I am learning. I did get tomato veg fertilizer, kelp, and crab shell from Neptunes harvest and I believe I am already seeing a difference. Here’s to a great productive garden this year with LESS bugs! Thanks for all the information and glad to see you are doing well.
I homeschool my 4 and 6 year old and we are doing a little garden this year. We do not have much room so your videos have been very helpful in more ways than one. Thank you!
I am a beginner gardener. I had my first garden last year which came out good but found i had room for improvement on almost everything! I stumbled onto your channel and found that i am addicted to it. You are a wealth of information. Very easy to understand. I have my paper and pencil ready when you are on. I am trying for the first time composting and raised garden beds. I am so excited for the spring I can barely wait. Thank you for helping me understand what my garden is trying to tell me. I truly appreciate your help. Thank you Susan.
I’ve only re-started my veggie garden after years of not doing one, and find your videos very helpful and down to earth. I have 6 raised beds- 4’ x 8’ and am in the process of adding several no till beds. Although my house is located on land that I’ve been told was formerly some of Milton Hershey’s farm land, in many places it has thick rock deposits a couple of inches below the soil level. I am adding a layer of cardboard covered with grass clippings, 3” of screened topsoil & 3” of mushroom soil. Hopefully this will give me a good planting base.
My three year old granddaughter is my constant companion in the garden. Last year she fell in love with cherry tomatoes. This year she helped plant potatoes. We are getting new potatoes and they’re her new favorites. I’m looking forward to the yellow squash and zucchini coming in to see her expressions when she tries them.
This video was my inspiration to go down the "worm tea rabbit hole" and I am glad I did. I now do a batch of aerated worm tea about every 3 weeks and get great results. Next on my agenda is my own vermiculture set up to enhance my composting efforts and make my own worm casting so I know I will be getting the freshest stuff possible. Love that rampant bio-activity!
Oak is also an amazing material with many uses in the garden! I use the leaf litter from my Oak lot as mulch in some beds as well as compost. The woodchips from old rotten Oak is also powerful stuff! Happy gardening and thanks for sharing the tips 💖✌️😁
This year I'm most looking forward to experimenting with growing vertical, with several different climbing plants. I started my babies indoors this year for the first time! Peas, Cucumbers, beans, sweet potatoes, melons, gourds, including watermelons and pumpkins! I'm also hoping to continue to expand further out into our back alley, possibly collaborating with a neighbour also keen on the project, to convert space currency supporting weeds, into space for sunflowers, and corn!
I am a ‘new’ gardener looking to take my gardening to the next level- WITHOUT Miracle Grow. I have had less than stellar results the past 2 years. This video has opened a whole new world of microbes, fertilizer and soil building. Let’s get this garden party started! Thank you very much!
Learning to garden in Georgia. Moved from Michigan,I didn't have problems with high temperature/disease/bugs and clay soil. Thanks for the information on building soil with the correct products. Thank you!!
What I’m looking forward most in my garden is continuing to learn how to be successful in harvesting, then canning, all I can as I’m very new to having a garden. I’m almost 67 years old and have never had a garden. I truly feel it very well may be the only food available at some point in the future.
It’s our first time gardening and we spent the winter learning on RUclips, growing our seedlings indoor, and it’s been incredible to finally get our baby plants out and see them grow! So much learning (thank you) and we’re looking forward most to harvesting our Chinese cabbages and lettuce soon, and hopefully will keep our winter squashes well and alive for a fall harvest, and for myself to create more natural, gluten free recipes for my blog with foods I’ve grown myself.
GFD does prep - I started gardening in 1976 just after my husband got sick. My parents taught me a lot. As a teen I Swore I'd never waste my time on a garden. My garden is much smaller and I can less. But the winter is for planning my garden and canning. God bless you both. I've found gardening is a bonding experience.
I’m really looking forward to finally starting a garden this year Brian. Your video’s have encouraged me to try growing my own veggies. I’m 74 and recently retired so now I’ll have time to have a legit garden. Tried growing patio tomatoes in pots before with little success, hopefully the Neptune product will help! Thanks B🙏
I tried growing tomatoes in pots without any success. This year they are in the ground (with all the chicken manure from my girls), and it is going really well. Having sampled my heritage varieties this year, I can see I will have to repeat this every year now! Utterly delicious.
I am a new gardener this year started in January, moreover, 😢all I look forward to is learning all I can with smart you tubers like you, and keep bad bugs out of garden as much as possible, in addition to successful growing three or four plants at a time each year.
Yours is the only channel I've encountered where people bare their souls. It's your calm voice and excellent advice. There are some sad stories out there!
Thank you Brian for the manure tea directions! I had tried one in the past, but didn't know about having to dilute it. Of course, I ended up burning to death the test subjects. Going to start some tomorrow. I'm really looking forward to my first sweet potato and my first butternut crops. Love all your great information!
After moving 3 times in a year, I finally have a house I can call my own and have been busy prepping my garden areas. I have been making wonderful discoveries as I clean out old garden beds. I love including my littles in the growing process and look forward to the delight in their eyes when they see new growth from the seeds or starts that we have planted.
I lost both my mom and grandmother who both loved gardening and so Im scouring videos trying to learn what I havent learned yet. Fertilizer is one of them. Looking forward to seeing my produce and fruit grow.
My mother-in-law is moving downstairs. She shares a love for gardening with me. We live on a small island that was a fishing getaway. There are less than 20 of us that live here full time. It is rugged and has tiny cabins/houses that are in need of repair or have been upgraded. It's quiet and not a life everyone aspires to. We must bring everything over by boat. Soil? We have shells.. lol. We are in the process of strengthening and building soil organically. We do have seaweed wash to shore and I have gathered it before. You have encouraged me to keep going. Excited to realize the possibilities that will not cost much money. Thank you.
Discovered your channel recently and have learned soooo much! Haven't had a garden for over 20 years so this year I'm looking forward to growing my own vegetables again! Thanks for all the great information!
Enjoy watching the garden grow and giving away the extra tomatoes we have. Using worm castings for the first time and looking forward to the benefits it will bring to the plants.
I've been gardening for years some vegetables, mostly flowers, and have always use miracle Gro. I am now retired and trying to do things more organically. I've had the time to research through RUclips and found you and your Neptune products. Looking forward to seeing if the results will be as beautiful as miracle Gro, but safer when consuming vegetables.
What I look forward to this year is building my soil and growing a good array of vegetables! Been learning how and on my way! Thank you for educating us 😊
What I'm looking forward to most from my garden this year (besides eating what I grow) is everything I know I'm going to learn. This is only my second garden (tripled in size from my first) and I've already learned so much since I first got into gardening last summer. I can't wait to keep working and make this into my dream garden. My goal is to be able to have a full salad made entirely from things I've grown a few nights a week. Then next year I want to expand again and maybe get into being able to store/can some things. Someday (probably a few years down the road) I want to be able to feed my family from my garden instead of the grocery store. You're videos are so helpful!
I went from "haven't grown a garden in 8 years" directly to "bought all the canning jars and supplies and hope to feed my family from my garden" all at once! Congrats on the expansion and welcome to the addiction that gardening can become!
I’m looking forward to my first year being able to garden full time! I was able to go to a part time job so we could grow more natural foods for our family. I have learned sooooo much from your channel. I haven’t tried the Neptune products but I am going to order the tomato fertilizer you showed in this video. Sounds like exactly what my tomatoes need. Thank you for your channel and all the knowledge you share with us beginners. 💜
We just built a small greenhouse and added some raised beds and a few potted plants. So far all the seeds I have direct sewn are doing great. Thank you for all the tips and sharing dos and don'ts, they are truly helpful. My kids are taking an interest and we are looking forward to learning and growing our own food.
I'm looking forward to watching my daughter learn and enjoy seeing the fruits of her labor as she helped me tremendously this year. Her love of gardening is growing each day as mine had many years ago.
I’m most looking forward to having a large space to treat as my own! In the past I’ve done some gardening at a community place where they till the soil fall and spring, don’t allow mulch overwinter, etc. etc. This year, I have a whole back yard to turn into a vegetable jungle. Very excited to put my hours (and hours) of RUclips garden content consumption to use.
I LOVE YOUR SHOW! Last year was a disaster for me here in Houston. My vegetable crop produced nothing except a tomato the size of a cherry. No, it wasn't supposed to be a cherry tomato. LOL Now, I am watching just about every video on RUclips that covers container planting. My sister just moved in with me and is in charge of the compost bin. She is a bit scattered, but I let her have free reign. I am going to order some products from Neptune and pray that I have more to harvest this year.
My Mom recently passed away at 98 years old, and I am creating a brand new garden in her honor! I haven't had a vegetable garden in many many years, and I'm so excited to be doing it this year. I am truly inspired by your videos and your story, and I'm taking so many notes in hopes to have the best vegetable garden ever! Thank you so much for your great videos, you really have a gift!
This year I am looking forward to seeing the results from the new garden beds my husband made for me. He made four rectangular beds, two tall boxes with an arched trellis for our runner beans, and three beautiful round beds (one with a trellis). So happy with them. Thanks for all your great info!
I am just beginning gardening, and I've learned sooo much and still have so much to learn. Thanks for the help. I'm hoping for a beautiful, healthy harvest soon!
Blood meal, bone meal and Alaskan fish oil "morebloom" is my favorite goto for organic fertilizer. Compost with chicken and duck manure, compost tea and jadam ms is what I've been focusing on last year, along with adding larg amounts of organic matter to the soil to star the bed. Using nearly rotted logs leaf litter and mulch. Getting bigger and better each year... don't ruin your pillow case use an old shirt.
While I had some severe issues with insects and lack of above ground gardening knowledge,, your tips are helping me with my next planting. Since I live in Arizona, I will be gardening & canning year round. Will try Neptune's harvest. Thank you.
I started using Neptune’s Harvest two years ago based on your recommendation, it’s a great product and I’m sold on its value. Loved learning about some of the science behind fertilizing. This year once again looking forward to the abundant tomato harvest. I’ve gotten an increased harvest from your great advice with the Neptunes Harvest and aspirin spray. Thanks again Brian.
I'm a mom and concerned about what my family is getting in our store-bought veggies. I am learning gardening in a southern climate - used to live up north - and I SO enjoy listening to you! You make me feel I can do this! What I look forward to most is consistent success with my salsa and salad veggies. We've added cukes, zucchini, kale and broccoli this growing season and they're just so puny! They need good food, which I'm now looking forward to adding with Neptune's products.
Start composting. It is free after all! Plus get some red wriggler worms at the tackel/bait shop, to eat some of that compost and kitchen plant scraps. Worm poop is about as good a fertilizer as you can get. And they multiply so soon they will be eating all of the composting material you can give them. And crush your egg shells for calcium. Epson salts is a great source of magnesium. And ammonia is a cheap source of nitrogen! All of this is in video form on RUclips! And roses love banana skins! Most plants do but esp roses! Plus you can plant the stub ends of celery, carrots, onions, etc to grow new produce. And i have a secluded pile of compost I grow button mushrooms in. I threw some old mushrooms in and the next year I had mushrooms galore from that pile being inoculated with the old kitchen mushrooms the year before. And this was in northern Minnesota! What a happy unintended thing to occur! Gardening isn't hard, difficult or needlessly expensive. At least it doesn't have to be. Gardening is great as it can be done while recycling plastic cups and containers, composting and sharing with with friends and neighbors, and seed saving from this year's crop to plant next year! You can buy a 6 inch tomato plant at the store for $2.98 or you can buy a pack of seeds for $2.98 and grow 50-100 tomato plants! Pick which works best for you! It is a fun hobby that can last throughout your life time! Plus gardening is a great stress reliever!
I learnt a lot about manure tea from you I used to jusT grow in the used tea leaves and water the plants This year I am lookiing forward to growing the Cherokee Purple Heirloom tomatoes in containers. I am 83 years old I have very little space , so I grow my vegetables in4 boxes. I love to nurture sick and dying plants, broken seedlings which may be discarded by my neighbour who is an avid gardener; to root sucker shoots etc . In short gardening is my passion . It keeps my mind and body healthy and strong.
I’m still waiting for my tomato 🍅 but I already have some yellow squash. I also have flowers on my tomato, Armenian cucumber. I just planted the bell pepper 🫑. And most of all my flowers 💐 have grown and blooming. Everything is from seed except bell pepper 🫑.
I've been excited to seed sow this year. I'm like a little kid as I go out and check the progress each day. All kids should grow plants from seeds - great lesson in patience and anticipation!
I’ve been vermicomposting in a 4 x 4 raised bed. I started with red wiggler worms in coco coir, kitchen food scraps and shredded paper in one corner, covered with cardboard and old potting soil bags to keep it damp. I add fresh horse manure and sometimes coffee grounds to another corner and let it age a few months to make worm bedding. Then add kitchen compost in different places, the worms follow the food and moisture. When a corner is done I uncover it to dry and then scoop it out and use in the garden.
I would like to get just one thing from my fall garden that I can eat - I have had a serious problem with grasshoppers and no flowers on my tomato plants. I mainly container garden and this is only the first spring garden I have produced. With the heat and temperature fluctuation I can only hope next year will be better. Good luck everyone and happy gardening!!
I'm looking forward to everything this year! This is the first time I've attempted to grow food, Ive only ever grown flowers in the past. I'm so excited and I think my family is sick of me talking about it, but oh well, they are going to reap the benefits in the end (hopefully) 😆
Both sets of grandparents were big into gardening, largely out of necessity but they gave a large amount of it away free to people in their communities who needed it. I think seeing that connected me more to all of this a kid. Im really looking forward to optimizing my production to continue with that legacy. I really enjoy feeding my family and friends with what I grow and sharing with others what I've learned so they can do the same. I love the idea of being more connected to my food and, I think if everyone did a little we could rely on each other more strengthening our communities and pivot away from our dependance on big ag.
I'm looking forward to getting into my garden. I have a lot of work to do as I have not been able to get in it all this year. My sister had cancer and I was caring for her until she past away.. like a garden, time is precious.
I am in a new place gardening for the second year. I am so excited after hearing your lectures fantastic information and I am an experienced gardener actually 71 years young and haven’t gotten almost I guess 60 years.😅
❤️. My dad who loved gardening passed away last year. He developed dementia and he obsessed on weeding the gardens and yard, and would often talk out loud while he worked. This year I am coping with the loss of both parents last year by planting a garden. I am most looking forward to enjoying a great harvest of tomatoes and squash, two of dads favorite garden producers! I chuckled to myself as I noticed I talked out loud a few times while I was pulling weeds! The Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree!
Blessings and prayers for you Leah!
I lost my Mama 12 years ago and the garden was the perfect place to cry, to laugh, to learn to smile again as I worked through loss, growth, and eventually to allow healing to take place. May your good memories fill you as you talk to those seeds and weeds! And may your garden bring forth good things to fill you.
@Leah pitman I’m so sorry for your loss. I lost both of my parents ( my dad in September 2021,) I lost my 49 year old brother to Glioblastoma brain cancer in March 2021, 6 months to the day before my Dad. My Dad was a gardener my whole life. I believe I’m really dealing with this with gardening as well. I know exactly how you feel. I even put his garden gate on my garden. Try to have fun and find joy in our garden. It’s my therapy for now being the only one left of everyone I grew up with is a really odd feeling. Take care
I've survived till now thanks to nature and gardening, just love it so much, I also talk to all of them, every day 😊 hello beautiful, wow you grown up!
Basically I talk like if they are people, but I understand they don't speak but they answer back, in beauty and taste 😍😋 my dream is go back home (one day 🙏) to my roots or better lay my own roots, as basically all my family is gone...
Keep all the seeds, give them, sale them, and spread them all over... real seeds are rare those days.
Carry gardening 💯👍❤️
My sincere condolences for the loss of your parents.
You know what ..I always talk out loudly when I am in my garden, because I keep chatting to the plants and pollinators, lol
I'm gardening alone this year. My husband recently passed away, and we gardened together for 40 years. He did most of the work in the garden, but I was his companion, and learned what I could. At this point, doing it alone, I realize how many questions I have for him. I so appreciate your videos and I'm learning a lot. Thank you. (I still wish he was here to garden with).
So sorry for your loss but I'm sure you learned a lot from him so your garden will flourish. He is with you in spirit.
@@dorothymatthews6690 Thank you for your kind words. Being in the garden this year is very bitter-sweet.
So sorry for your loss. I truly understand wanting to ask the husband questions.
@@Soccermom1018 Thank you.
He is there . Nothing is as hard as missing those we dearly love, especially at times we used to share with them. I miss my father in the garden. I talk to him. You will find moments where you know he is still with you just in a different way. Mine brought me a rose that was my favorite and has not been seen since he planted one forty years ago. One showed up as I left the garden center a few weeks ago. I talk to him all the time about how to garden etc. Your beloved husband is with you and I wish you many beautiful days in your garden. 🌷💕🌷
As a child living in federal housing projects, the city of Boston gathered 'potential' juvenile delinquents and transported us to the country to work on a dirt farm. At first I hated it, but over time I learned to love it. Today at 73 I still love my garden. I do maintain a worm farm and harvest castings.
"Dirt farm" made me chuckle😂😂❤❤😊😊
Would you share what are some of the tips of raising worms and harvesting castings please?
It a whole lot to it google vermicomposting. You do need compost worms, not just any worm. Compost worms work in the top 3” of soil. Can start in a plastic bin with soil, peat, compost, shredded cardboard and shredded paper. Feed every few days to a week with kitchen scraps. Keep bedding fairly moist and ouila! Worm castings in a few months. I actually have my bins inside my house. Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm to buy worms
A friend of mine raised chickens when she cleaned out the coop she'd bag up the poopy straw for me in a big black garbage bag...I'd fill up a large storage bin with water put the poopy chicken hay in a large plastic clothes hamper that had the openings all over, I'd submerge the hamper with hay into the storage bin with water...let it soak for a few days lift the laundry basket out which caught the rinsed hay leaving what I called "chicken poop soup" used that for watering my rose bushes and wow! My rose bushes were beautiful and healthy! 🌹
We dropped well over $1000 into plants, bushes,& trees this year. We just hope our fruit trees & bushes make it. After 2 years of my wifes' MS diagnosis I was able to get her excited about doing a garden this year. 20+ strawberry, 9 blueberry, 3 peach, 2 fig, 3 raspberry, 3 blackberry, & 1 mulberry. I look forward to my wife enjoying gardening again this year & years to come while she can.
Sending prayers
Please read up on the benefits of sunshine and supplemental vitamin D-3 and K-2 on MS. Dr John Campbell has a youtube channel that is very educational. The time outside should help her.
@@auntypat1492 most definitely as it will help heal your worries and hurts. Outdoors. Sunshine. Growing things. Best medicine in the world. Prayers for you and your precious wife. 🌷💕🌷
For the ms diagnosis look for an herbalist.
My parents were remembered by more people than I rrealized for their gardening and the abundant crops they shed abroad, made me happy, miss them so much. They lived well into their 80s, had both got incurable cancer, both miracules lived and were cancer free, healthy till God took them home. I know, because I led them to the Lord, they were always good people,, they just got saved.
Living in Texas, I planted our garden early March and already have harvested many vegetables. As the hymn says " I come to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses. And the Voice I hear falling on my ears, the Son of God discloses. And He walks with me and talks with me..."😁
Love the song !!
I love that song. It makes me think of my Dad
Love that song❣️
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I am a container gardener. It is very hard for container gardeners because they need a fresh source of organic material to keep the microbes alive so they can feed the plants and maintain a living soil. This has been the most interesting video I have seen on fertilizers.
My first year gardening, I am 73 so never to late. I am just hoping to get a harvest. I am so excited. I am starting some seeds and some plants. I have some Tomatoes, kale (very tiny plants from seeds), squash, sweet peppers and sweet potatoes. My grandfather had a garden every year and he grew lots of stuff, I wasn’t interested then but now I am going for it.
Seed starting is still the one thing I have problems with (I usually buy seedlings, I think called 'transplants' in the US, ie baby plants). But I think I will need to buy a heat mat and perhaps some grow lights to start them indoors. Brian has a great video on grow lights and seed starting (I forget what it was called). So hope your new venture has proved successful - it does take a few seasons to nail down the preferences of some plants, particularly in your own climate and micro-climate, your garden position, etc.
Welcome! It's great fun!
Best wishes for a productive garden!
I was rescuing & caring for sea turtles in Baja and had a vision. A few hours before 2000 I was in Alaska, met the man of my dreams, hand built a home & garden. 2010 he died & I tragically lost everything. Transplanted to st. John VI.
Building a home & garden. Irma/Maria
wiped it all away. I've been floating on a boat since. Barely making it through covid, in November my dad died, my best friend was murdered and I gave up. For the last 6 months I truly believed I would die with out living my dream of home and garden. I just turned 53 and decided not to give up & try again. I am looking for land and will one day soon be growing a garden, I'm looking forward to that!
Found your channel today, liked & subscribed, took notes, and will be buying your companion planting book.
Thank you, you have helped me rekindle my passion for growing in a garden. 💞
I'm so sorry for what you've been through. I'm glad you're here and wish you luck. You can do this!
@@NextLevelGardening ahhh thanks
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@@cocomarch8019 You have been through so much, I am sorry, it sounds unimaginably hard.May your dream come true and healing through gardening be with you. Blessings from Australia, going through hard times, too. I will think of you as I sow my sweet pea seeds on St Patrick's Day, tomorrow. 🙏🍀
I'm so sorry to hear what you went through. . .
"Blessings" song by Kari Jobe your way!
If you see empty plot with good soil near your area. Ask them to plant a garden in exchange of anything you grow on their plot. I heard this is practiced in certain European countries. Maybe there's community gardens or farm for market?
Gardening is great therapy from almost anything.
I helped garden on the farm seventy years go and have gardened all over the United States ( career moves). My garden is over four thousand square feet. My compost is is complemented with pond algae with marvelous results. Gardening is a humbling experience and fights depression and ennui . Most of the produce goes to the food shelf as I live alone after my wife died and the kids are grown. Never too old to learn .
How do you use pond algae as fertilizer, and how do you collect it? That's a amazing large garden. Can grow most of your food on 4000sq feet. And have plenty left over.
What you are describing is a farm. You produce and distribute food, that is verbatim a farm
Move next to me! =)
I call life security not job security any more
4k square feet is a mini farm! 😉
Aquarium water works miracles!
It's great that Neptune has found such a wonderful use for what it used to discard! Thanks for your non-poison approach!
As an empath who sometimes suffers from anxiety, the madness of this world can be overwhelming. My remedy is working in the garden where I feel grounded in peace and joy, knowing I'm helping create a tiny piece of heaven right here in my corner of the world. I love hanging out with the plants, birds, bees, butterflies in the cool of the morning and the excitement of seeing the plants grow and thrive. It's as magical as the first bean plant I planted as a child and let's face it, we can all use a little magic in our lives.
Lay off the fruit loops!!!
I envy you. I’m now disabled and have no energy for gardening or anything else.
I used to get “peace” from my garden and now I struggle to keep one plant alive. It’s a calandiva and it was a gift when my Frenchie dod passed. I’m terrible with flowers and now it’s sick with root rot and I’m doing everything to propagate the plant since it means so much to me.
Keep your health. Don’t stress about anything.
Be well and have peace.❤🌼🥰
You didn't mention human urine as a FREE fertilizer.
If you're not on meds which would be contra-/indicated
@@MegaTattoo69 Welcome to the crunchy woo-woo part of RUclips. When the revolution comes, they'll be the first to starve as they clutch crystals and plant by the light of the moon.
@@mildredwilkins5781 Correct, Mildred. One human's annual urine output contains enough NPK and micronutrients to grow them enough wheat to bake a loaf of bread for them every day for 14 months.
The thing that happens in my garden that makes me smile, is when you walk out in the morning to check on your plants and it seems that they have grown 4” over night. The wind is moving them around and there is green all around you. Good stuff!
This is my first vegetable garden. I'm hoping it goes well!
What a lovely image. Thank you for that. Apartment dweller, my 'garden' is pots and buckets, and I haven't experienced that 4" phenomenon, yet. ;)
This is my first garden using containers. Since I have mobility issues, I am starting small with tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, and a few herbs. I am listening to all your videos as I need lots of advice.Hoping for a great harvest. Thanks so much.
I agree! Nature's balm!
Just recently read that a breeze in the garden helps plants grow. So, gently glide your hands over the plants.
I am a beginning gardener. I have started my own fruits and vegetables and am looking forward to working in the garden and learning from it. I was ill from strokes and in an assisted facility for many years and am now ready to go on with, and enjoy life in my happy new home and garden.
I have 3 bunnies, all girls.
Got them specifically for their "Bunny Berries ". I made manure tea with a 5 gallon bucket. Filled 3/4 full of Bunny manure the filled with water. Every time I passed it I gave it a stir.
Very good information. Thanks
Me too 😂
Blessings to you and your mission. I am retired and is a caregiver for my daughter whom is on life support. Gardening in a small space backyard and sharing and encouraging my community to grow food has created a therapeutic environment for me. People of all ages (babies to elderly and people whom have never touched soil). Gardening has given my daughter the will to survive and remove depression. God’s blessings are being showing through the garden. My goal is to continue to touch lives and show miracles through growing. I will never stop. I visit nursing homes, assisted living facilities, church groups, started in my community a community garden last year and it is great, I could go on. Gardening is fun and relieves stress. Helps people have hope! I love growing varieties and 90 % of my growth is from seeds. Any support that I can receive would be a blessing.
Beautiful!🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️
@Jeri Brockington hopefully I can be a blessing to you. I am a heart patient with a blood disorder and low blood pressure issues for about 15 years. Slowly my mobility went from swimming 40 laps 3 times a week to barely being able to walk up steps. I started watching terrace gardening in 2019 after a hospitalization and started planning. I literally can only do a little here and there per day but my first all out attempt is this year. Tons of trial and error but I'm learning from my mistakes. Hubby took sick late last year and had to retire. He has a couple of procedures to go, but hopes soon to be able to do more than water the plants.
I like the theme of your project, helping people help themselves which affects health in a positive manner. I can't bless you financially but maybe this idea will help.
Get all pictures, video and testimonials from participants and make a few infomercials for your YT page. Include ways to donate. Then ask YT content creators to participate by including your infomercials as PSAs in their videos to help support your project.
Best of luck you you and all the people you are helping. Stay blessed and don't give up!
I had severs depression 15yrs aog ; but doing home gardening helped me to recover a lot as l lives by myself after l bought a wooden house in a place without tap water ; so l developed stratergies to collect & store rain water & use my waste water & grow my own garden to have regular food supplies for myself , thank for sharing ; we arenever to old to learn something new
What I am most looking forward to in my garden this year is the quiet of being outdoors with the plants and the birds, which is so calming and grounding. It has been long hard winter, so this soothing time in the garden is something I really look forward to. Plus I look forward to the joy of eating and sharing home grown vegetables.
Thank you so much for being clear and simple!
Clear, concise, and straight to the point. Love your content. I’ve never subscribed to any gardener video sites but I’m never disappointed with yours and you seem like a genuine good person. Thank you for all the great education. I never get tired listening to your videos!
What I am looking forward to the most is following along with you by watching your videos to have the healthiest garden and plentiful harvest to preserve, share and eat! Thank you for your channel and this community.
I'm retired now and building a new garden. As a grandma, I'm looking forward this year to harvesting a bumper crop of tomatoes and peppers and beans, just like my grandma used to do. Not just for the harvest itself but to teach my family about self reliance. I'm re-learning how to grow things with the help of Next Level Gardening. Thank you so much!
You might also like Living Traditions Homestead channel. They are fantastic teachers also.
@@pamelaremme38 I agree.
I am suggesting
Momma Js Country Gardening
She is retired and brings small space gardening with big growing results.
Have fun in gardening
I haven't planted a garden in years. But l am this year along with many kinds of fruit trees. I look forward to your advice.
I actually made my own 'hydrolyzed fish fertilizer ' last year from online recipe! It took several months, but worked great. I was amazed that all bones, etc, were dissolved by the enzymes. Next time friends/ family go fishing, I'm sending a bucket to collect all the scraps/cleanings😉
Good idea if you can contain the smell while it's cooking LOL
I haven’t raised a garden for 45 years
I am now 66 years old and can’t wait to prepare my garden this year
Great video
Thank you and God bless 🙏🙏🙏
I am new to gardening. Just recently semi retired so I started with flowers by planting my hydrangeas from cutting. I am inspired by your videos and started planting tomatoes and green beans spring this year. I followed your instructions very close on how to do vertical planting with my tomatoes. They have bloomed but no fruit yet. I enjoyed watching Next Level Gardening and thank you!
Can’t wait for my 2nd season growing tomatoes vertically. Last years harvest was great, but with my new changes this year, learned from this channel, it should be even better.. love this channel and all the Neptune Harvest products I have been using!👍
I am excited to start gardening again after a 5 year gap. It's a wonderful way to be closer to what is real in life, and a great stress reducer. I got 2 of the extra high corrugated metal beds and one is already planted, one more to go. I was lucky to find a neighbor with heirloom tomato starts, and a local school with more neat varieties of tomatoes and peppers, and am eagerly looking forward to the wonderful flavor and nutrition of homegrown produce and herbs again. Your channel has become one of my favorite resources to catch up on the best practices and changes in gardening. Thanks so much!
My husband just bought me a small greenhouse and I’m so excited. I’m looking forward to being able to garden after several surgeries this past year where I won’t have to work hard but will be productive and grow food! Thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom! ❤
im addicted to watching every home gardener's simple and humble analyses of products they use and their relative experiences of such. I love these videos. I think im addicted to specific anecdotal information.
I'm looking forward to watching my new cucumber tunnel getting covered. Each of the last 3 years I just try expanding and improving what I grow, how I grow, and how I use what I grow. Channels like yours have been a big help in that regard.
Doing a raised garden for the first time and am loving all compost and fertilizer gems, as well as all the planting/care advice. Can’t wait to see the results.
I'm looking forward mostly to the relaxing time in the garden. Working in the dirtt and caring for my plants is so enjoyable and gives me nature time which I believe improves health in itself. Not to mention the wonderful goodness of those fresh picked vegetables, especially tomatoes. Thankyou for all the good information on fertilizers. I learned alot.
My parents were green thumb gardeners and I remember the large amount of vegetables we grew and gave away in our small community. We always had enough to take us through the winter and until next growing season despite the fact it seemed we fed half the community. Mom was always saying take this bag of xxx to such and such and off on my bicycle I went. I learned from Dad, and later on learned much from Jerry Baker (now passed away)...his simplistic gardening books are priceless in my opinion. In any event, I have picked up a few tricks from you and say one is never too old to learn...thanks! I remember my old high school agriculture teacher saying chicken manure was the best NPK...
This year I'm looking forward to having healthy soil this year. Last year I did have a single worm in my soil. This year so far just digging around, I've seen a few. I planted all the herbs to make a true Puerto Rican sofrito so I'm praying all the herbs grow plentiful to share with family, friends and strangers!
I have never had a garden myself, only “helped” my dad. I’m looking forward to learning this year as I do it myself. Thanks for all the great info. To someone new to gardening, you are a wealth of info!
Same here.
This summer.... 2023 I'm excited to transition my garden from "in ground" to raised beds!!! I have gardened in Morthern Minnesota for almost 50 years and have never had raised beds.... THIS IS THE YEAR!!! I would LOVE to add the Neptune products to my garden! Thanks so.much for making this opportunity available!!! BLESS YOU!!!😊
Last year was my first time trying to garden. I watched hundreds of videos. I've found yours very helpful. Thanks for the guidance and wish me luck as I go hog wild this year.
I'm looking forward to teaching garden classes to homeschool students. It's really pushing me to learn all I can and put a lot into garden planning..
I'm always looking forward to just seeing how well everything grows , it's always fascinating to watch all the seeds that I've planted turn into food, ready to eat well and share the bounty.
Brian, everytime I watch one of your videos, I learn so much! Been following you for a couple of years now and my garden has definitely shown improvement each year.
I'm looking forward to a great crop of pickling cucumbers this year. My grandchildren love them and go straight to the garden when they arrive. They eat them right off the vine!!
I am most looking forward to gardening without a full blown drought like we've had this year in TX. City water is ok but rain is what a garden needs the most. ❤️
I am looking forward to just seeing my garden flourish this year. I put in 4 raised beds about 15 months ago, and the difference between last year and this year is amazing. The soil is healthier, making everything happier!
This year, we put new liners and soil in our raised box gardens, so I am anxious to see how they do. I am also excited to see so many strawberry plants this year!
As Iam getting older I look forward to raising my garden beds a little higher this year.
I'm excited to learn about gardening with your videos.
Thank you for teaching us all.
I am most looking forward to seeing my “garden” healthy and thriving this season. I was incapacitated mid season last summer and my garden became a hot mess with little harvest. I do all my gardening in raised containers, so I am excited to try the Neptune Fertilizer and seeing a bountiful harvest of tomatoes, peppers, and beans midsummer.
And thank you for this video! It was the best overview of fertilizers I have seen to date.
What I am looking most forward to this year is success!! This is the FIRST garden I have had since 2005, and it's all in containers again (no yard). I have (everything organic) Amish paste tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, nasturtiums, garlic, basil, Thai licorice mint, Yukon Gold and Russet potatoes, fenugreek, and sunflowers. Thanks for the Neptune Harvest contest entries! I used their products in 2005.
This year what i look forward to the most with starting my garden is actually getting to do it with my daughters. These past 2 years have been rough for them so i am excited to be able to start a fun project with them that we can continue to do with each other throughout the season! Plus fresh food on the table!!
Love the videos! I'm looking forward to Springtime and getting started with prep & planting. I enjoy the creative to planting the new garden and watching for new sprouts popping up! 😀
Gardening sooths my soul, in addition to feeding my body. I'm looking forward to a much better and bigger harvest than in recent years, thanks to tips like we were privileged to hear in this video. Thank you Brian!
People say I'm crazy calling gardening my therapist but it's just that it sooths my soul and feeds my body.
❤️ What I'm looking forward most in my garden this year and years to come is more diversity and yield of product. One of the things I enjoy most about my garden is being able to give my neighbors great wonderful organic food. I've been doing this for a number of years and everybody I give it to really appreciate it.
From the sun,,,is for everyone. Thanks is a nod of respect. It is much better to give than receive.........as long it is yours to give
Thank you again for all your useful information! This is my first time having a veggie garden and have been using Neptune's harvest products on your recommendation and am so excited to be finally growing my own tomatoes along with other vegetables. It is a learning process and want to thank you for explaining everything the way you do. Looking so forward to my first tomato sandwich!
Been watching a while now and have really picked up a lot of helpful tips and information. Really looking forward to this season garden for some fresh tomatoes and especially peppers that I use in my family’s past down recipe for chow chow and relish. Thank you for what you are doing
♥ For my birthday I received a stair-step above ground garden. Since I am now wheelchair bound at 73 I have had to give up my larger yard to try my hand at container farming and I'm very interested in following you and tying to these learn these mysterious ways! My neighbors call me The wheelchair gardener.
Last year was terrible to garden. I had pain in my feet, the heat in the middle of June in Washington state burned all my tomato flowers and just starting veggies. I was very discouraged and thought that I will take a break this year. Your videos helped me to change my mind. Your info about fertilizers is one of the best on RUclips now. Thank you.
Yes, gardening in Washington state last year was a bit hot. Keep on, and hopefully all the rain this spring translates into more moisture reservoirs in the soil. I am collecting as much as I can in sealed and open garbage cans (fish in the open ones like my 100 gal horse tank. No longer have the horse.) Good luck to you! Gardening is crucial this day and age. His videos are great!
I have never amended my raised bed garden soil (5 years old). I actually didn’t know I needed to. I started watching your videos about 2 months ago and I am amazed at the stuff I am learning. I did get tomato veg fertilizer, kelp, and crab shell from Neptunes harvest and I believe I am already seeing a difference. Here’s to a great productive garden this year with LESS bugs! Thanks for all the information and glad to see you are doing well.
I homeschool my 4 and 6 year old and we are doing a little garden this year. We do not have much room so your videos have been very helpful in more ways than one. Thank you!
I am a beginner gardener. I had my first garden last year which came out good but found i had room for improvement on almost everything! I stumbled onto your channel and found that i am addicted to it. You are a wealth of information. Very easy to understand. I have my paper and pencil ready when you are on. I am trying for the first time composting and raised garden beds. I am so excited for the spring I can barely wait. Thank you for helping me understand what my garden is trying to tell me. I truly appreciate your help. Thank you Susan.
I’ve only re-started my veggie garden after years of not doing one, and find your videos very helpful and down to earth. I have 6 raised beds- 4’ x 8’ and am in the process of adding several no till beds. Although my house is located on land that I’ve been told was formerly some of Milton Hershey’s farm land, in many places it has thick rock deposits a couple of inches below the soil level. I am adding a layer of cardboard covered with grass clippings, 3” of screened topsoil & 3” of mushroom soil. Hopefully this will give me a good planting base.
My three year old granddaughter is my constant companion in the garden. Last year she fell in love with cherry tomatoes. This year she helped plant potatoes. We are getting new potatoes and they’re her new favorites. I’m looking forward to the yellow squash and zucchini coming in to see her expressions when she tries them.
This video was my inspiration to go down the "worm tea rabbit hole" and I am glad I did. I now do a batch of aerated worm tea about every 3 weeks and get great results. Next on my agenda is my own vermiculture set up to enhance my composting efforts and make my own worm casting so I know I will be getting the freshest stuff possible. Love that rampant bio-activity!
That's great!
I started my.own worm bins and I highly suggest a guy here on youtube called AV. He responds to comments as well. Good luck!
@@dana102083can you pls post his page. Is it just "AV" ?
Is the worm tea instructions in this video?
Oak is also an amazing material with many uses in the garden! I use the leaf litter from my Oak lot as mulch in some beds as well as compost. The woodchips from old rotten Oak is also powerful stuff! Happy gardening and thanks for sharing the tips 💖✌️😁
This year I'm most looking forward to experimenting with growing vertical, with several different climbing plants. I started my babies indoors this year for the first time! Peas, Cucumbers, beans, sweet potatoes, melons, gourds, including watermelons and pumpkins! I'm also hoping to continue to expand further out into our back alley, possibly collaborating with a neighbour also keen on the project, to convert space currency supporting weeds, into space for sunflowers, and corn!
I am a ‘new’ gardener looking to take my gardening to the next level- WITHOUT Miracle Grow. I have had less than stellar results the past 2 years. This video has opened a whole new world of microbes, fertilizer and soil building. Let’s get this garden party started! Thank you very much!
Learning to garden in Georgia. Moved from Michigan,I didn't have problems with high temperature/disease/bugs and clay soil. Thanks for the information on building soil with the correct products. Thank you!!
What I’m looking forward most in my garden is continuing to learn how to be successful in harvesting, then canning, all I can as I’m very new to having a garden. I’m almost 67 years old and have never had a garden. I truly feel it very well may be the only food available at some point in the future.
It’s our first time gardening and we spent the winter learning on RUclips, growing our seedlings indoor, and it’s been incredible to finally get our baby plants out and see them grow! So much learning (thank you) and we’re looking forward most to harvesting our Chinese cabbages and lettuce soon, and hopefully will keep our winter squashes well and alive for a fall harvest, and for myself to create more natural, gluten free recipes for my blog with foods I’ve grown myself.
GFD does prep - I started gardening in 1976 just after my husband got sick. My parents taught me a lot. As a teen I Swore I'd never waste my time on a garden.
My garden is much smaller and I can less. But the winter is for planning my garden and canning.
God bless you both. I've found gardening is a bonding experience.
I’m really looking forward to finally starting a garden this year Brian. Your video’s have encouraged me to try growing my own veggies. I’m 74 and recently retired so now I’ll have time to have a legit garden. Tried growing patio tomatoes in pots before with little success, hopefully the Neptune product will help! Thanks B🙏
How about checking out Robbie and Gary Gardening Easy.....she's amazing and her ways are super cheap. Good luck.
I tried growing tomatoes in pots without any success. This year they are in the ground (with all the chicken manure from my girls), and it is going really well. Having sampled my heritage varieties this year, I can see I will have to repeat this every year now! Utterly delicious.
I am a new gardener this year started in January,
moreover, 😢all I look forward to is learning all I can with smart you tubers like you, and keep bad bugs out of garden as much as possible, in addition to successful growing three or four plants at a time each year.
Yours is the only channel I've encountered where people bare their souls. It's your calm voice and excellent advice. There are some sad stories out there!
Thank you Brian for the manure tea directions! I had tried one in the past, but didn't know about having to dilute it. Of course, I ended up burning to death the test subjects. Going to start some tomorrow. I'm really looking forward to my first sweet potato and my first butternut crops. Love all your great information!
After moving 3 times in a year, I finally have a house I can call my own and have been busy prepping my garden areas. I have been making wonderful discoveries as I clean out old garden beds. I love including my littles in the growing process and look forward to the delight in their eyes when they see new growth from the seeds or starts that we have planted.
Fresh tomatoes my favorite! Also my figs have doubled this year. 💖
I lost both my mom and grandmother who both loved gardening and so Im scouring videos trying to learn what I havent learned yet. Fertilizer is one of them. Looking forward to seeing my produce and fruit grow.
My mother-in-law is moving downstairs. She shares a love for gardening with me. We live on a small island that was a fishing getaway. There are less than 20 of us that live here full time. It is rugged and has tiny cabins/houses that are in need of repair or have been upgraded. It's quiet and not a life everyone aspires to.
We must bring everything over by boat. Soil? We have shells.. lol. We are in the process of strengthening and building soil organically. We do have seaweed wash to shore and I have gathered it before. You have encouraged me to keep going. Excited to realize the possibilities that will not cost much money. Thank you.
Discovered your channel recently and have learned soooo much! Haven't had a garden for over 20 years so this year I'm looking forward to growing my own vegetables again! Thanks for all the great information!
Enjoy watching the garden grow and giving away the extra tomatoes we have. Using worm castings for the first time and looking forward to the benefits it will bring to the plants.
I've been gardening for years some vegetables, mostly flowers, and have always use miracle Gro. I am now retired and trying to do things more organically. I've had the time to research through RUclips and found you and your Neptune products. Looking forward to seeing if the results will be as beautiful as miracle Gro, but safer when consuming vegetables.
What I look forward to this year is building my soil and growing a good array of vegetables! Been learning how and on my way! Thank you for educating us 😊
Best of luck!
What I'm looking forward to most from my garden this year (besides eating what I grow) is everything I know I'm going to learn. This is only my second garden (tripled in size from my first) and I've already learned so much since I first got into gardening last summer. I can't wait to keep working and make this into my dream garden. My goal is to be able to have a full salad made entirely from things I've grown a few nights a week. Then next year I want to expand again and maybe get into being able to store/can some things. Someday (probably a few years down the road) I want to be able to feed my family from my garden instead of the grocery store. You're videos are so helpful!
I went from "haven't grown a garden in 8 years" directly to "bought all the canning jars and supplies and hope to feed my family from my garden" all at once! Congrats on the expansion and welcome to the addiction that gardening can become!
I’m looking forward to my first year being able to garden full time! I was able to go to a part time job so we could grow more natural foods for our family. I have learned sooooo much from your channel. I haven’t tried the Neptune products but I am going to order the tomato fertilizer you showed in this video. Sounds like exactly what my tomatoes need. Thank you for your channel and all the knowledge you share with us beginners. 💜
We just built a small greenhouse and added some raised beds and a few potted plants. So far all the seeds I have direct sewn are doing great. Thank you for all the tips and sharing dos and don'ts, they are truly helpful. My kids are taking an interest and we are looking forward to learning and growing our own food.
What I'm looking to most in my garden this year is to have one: I'm a beginner gardener and if I can just get started then I'm happy !
I'm looking forward to watching my daughter learn and enjoy seeing the fruits of her labor as she helped me tremendously this year. Her love of gardening is growing each day as mine had many years ago.
Nice!
I’m most looking forward to having a large space to treat as my own! In the past I’ve done some gardening at a community place where they till the soil fall and spring, don’t allow mulch overwinter, etc. etc. This year, I have a whole back yard to turn into a vegetable jungle. Very excited to put my hours (and hours) of RUclips garden content consumption to use.
I LOVE YOUR SHOW!
Last year was a disaster for me here in Houston. My vegetable crop produced nothing except a tomato the size of a cherry. No, it wasn't supposed to be a cherry tomato. LOL Now, I am watching just about every video on RUclips that covers container planting. My sister just moved in with me and is in charge of the compost bin. She is a bit scattered, but I let her have free reign. I am going to order some products from Neptune and pray that I have more to harvest this year.
It was the heat. It is getting worse every year. I am getting some shade cloths to put up at rhe end of July so my garden doesn't fry.
Rebuilding our raised beds. WE love our fresh food - thanks for all you help us with.
My Mom recently passed away at 98 years old, and I am creating a brand new garden in her honor! I haven't had a vegetable garden in many many years, and I'm so excited to be doing it this year. I am truly inspired by your videos and your story, and I'm taking so many notes in hopes to have the best vegetable garden ever! Thank you so much for your great videos, you really have a gift!
Love that. How wonderful to have had her for so long!
What a great way to honor her memory and may you reap a bountiful harvest! Hope you win the contest as well!
This year I am looking forward to seeing the results from the new garden beds my husband made for me. He made four rectangular beds, two tall boxes with an arched trellis for our runner beans, and three beautiful round beds (one with a trellis). So happy with them. Thanks for all your great info!
I am just beginning gardening, and I've learned sooo much and still have so much to learn. Thanks for the help. I'm hoping for a beautiful, healthy harvest soon!
Blood meal, bone meal and Alaskan fish oil "morebloom" is my favorite goto for organic fertilizer. Compost with chicken and duck manure, compost tea and jadam ms is what I've been focusing on last year, along with adding larg amounts of organic matter to the soil to star the bed. Using nearly rotted logs leaf litter and mulch. Getting bigger and better each year... don't ruin your pillow case use an old shirt.
While I had some severe issues with insects and lack of above ground gardening knowledge,, your tips are helping me with my next planting. Since I live in Arizona, I will be gardening & canning year round. Will try Neptune's harvest. Thank you.
I started using Neptune’s Harvest two years ago based on your recommendation, it’s a great product and I’m sold on its value. Loved learning about some of the science behind fertilizing. This year once again looking forward to the abundant tomato harvest. I’ve gotten an increased harvest from your great advice with the Neptunes Harvest and aspirin spray. Thanks again Brian.
You're welcome! 😊
Been using pond and fish tank water for years. Great tip! Looking forward to fresh tomatoes. Nothing beats homegrown.
I'm a mom and concerned about what my family is getting in our store-bought veggies. I am learning gardening in a southern climate - used to live up north - and I SO enjoy listening to you! You make me feel I can do this! What I look forward to most is consistent success with my salsa and salad veggies. We've added cukes, zucchini, kale and broccoli this growing season and they're just so puny! They need good food, which I'm now looking forward to adding with Neptune's products.
You can do it!
Start composting. It is free after all!
Plus get some red wriggler worms at the tackel/bait shop, to eat some of that compost and kitchen plant scraps. Worm poop is about as good a fertilizer as you can get. And they multiply so soon they will be eating all of the composting material you can give them. And crush your egg shells for calcium. Epson salts is a great source of magnesium. And ammonia is a cheap source of nitrogen!
All of this is in video form on RUclips!
And roses love banana skins! Most plants do but esp roses!
Plus you can plant the stub ends of celery, carrots, onions, etc to grow new produce. And i have a secluded pile of compost I grow button mushrooms in. I threw some old mushrooms in and the next year I had mushrooms galore from that pile being inoculated with the old kitchen mushrooms the year before. And this was in northern Minnesota! What a happy unintended thing to occur!
Gardening isn't hard, difficult or needlessly expensive. At least it doesn't have to be. Gardening is great as it can be done while recycling plastic cups and containers, composting and sharing with with friends and neighbors, and seed saving from this year's crop to plant next year! You can buy a 6 inch tomato plant at the store for $2.98 or you can buy a pack of seeds for $2.98 and grow 50-100 tomato plants!
Pick which works best for you! It is a fun hobby that can last throughout your life time!
Plus gardening is a great stress reliever!
I learnt a lot about manure tea from you I used to jusT grow in the used tea leaves and water the plants This year I am lookiing forward to growing the Cherokee Purple Heirloom tomatoes in containers. I am 83 years old I have very little space , so I grow my vegetables in4 boxes. I love to nurture sick and dying plants, broken seedlings which may be discarded by my neighbour who is an avid gardener; to root sucker shoots etc . In short gardening is my passion . It keeps my mind and body healthy and strong.
I'm a first time gardener and I'm just super excited to have homegrown tomatoes!
I’m still waiting for my tomato 🍅 but I already have some yellow squash. I also have flowers on my tomato, Armenian cucumber. I just planted the bell pepper 🫑. And most of all my flowers 💐 have grown and blooming. Everything is from seed except bell pepper 🫑.
I've been excited to seed sow this year. I'm like a little kid as I go out and check the progress each day. All kids should grow plants from seeds - great lesson in patience and anticipation!
It's so exciting to see the sprouts pop through. Just yesterday my peas started coming up!
I’ve been vermicomposting in a 4 x 4 raised bed. I started with red wiggler worms in coco coir, kitchen food scraps and shredded paper in one corner, covered with cardboard and old potting soil bags to keep it damp. I add fresh horse manure and sometimes coffee grounds to another corner and let it age a few months to make worm bedding. Then add kitchen compost in different places, the worms follow the food and moisture. When a corner is done I uncover it to dry and then scoop it out and use in the garden.
I would like to get just one thing from my fall garden that I can eat - I have had a serious problem with grasshoppers and no flowers on my tomato plants. I mainly container garden and this is only the first spring garden I have produced. With the heat and temperature fluctuation I can only hope next year will be better. Good luck everyone and happy gardening!!
I'm looking forward to everything this year! This is the first time I've attempted to grow food, Ive only ever grown flowers in the past. I'm so excited and I think my family is sick of me talking about it, but oh well, they are going to reap the benefits in the end (hopefully) 😆
Both sets of grandparents were big into gardening, largely out of necessity but they gave a large amount of it away free to people in their communities who needed it. I think seeing that connected me more to all of this a kid. Im really looking forward to optimizing my production to continue with that legacy. I really enjoy feeding my family and friends with what I grow and sharing with others what I've learned so they can do the same. I love the idea of being more connected to my food and, I think if everyone did a little we could rely on each other more strengthening our communities and pivot away from our dependance on big ag.
Yes it's going to be crucial to the planet's health
I'm looking forward to getting into my garden. I have a lot of work to do as I have not been able to get in it all this year. My sister had cancer and I was caring for her until she past away.. like a garden, time is precious.
I am in a new place gardening for the second year. I am so excited after hearing your lectures fantastic information and I am an experienced gardener actually 71 years young and haven’t gotten almost I guess 60 years.😅