4 HUGE Transplanting Mistakes You Need To Avoid | Ultimate Grower's Guide
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Welcome to part three of our four-part series: The Ultimate Grower's Guide. We're taking all of our knowledge & experience and putting it into this jampacked series for you so you can grow as much food as possible on your farm or in your garden.
0:22 Intro & Recap
1:28 Four BIG Mistakes To Avoid
13:08 Next Steps
Parts 1 and 2 were focused on starting off right. Things like what seeds to buy, what soil to use, when to plant, and getting your seedlings off to the best start possible. Now we're talking about the next steps.
After you've chosen the right seeds and created an optimal growing environment, you get to see your seedlings grow and get ready to be transplanted! When you're planting out, though, it's easy to make big mistakes.
1. PLANT HEALTH 1:51
You need to make sure that your plant has grown enough and is an adequate size before you plant it into your garden. The size depends on your plant, the pot or tray size, and a lot more. Be on the lookout for plants that are happy, healthy, and strong enough to survive the environment you're putting them in.
Consider things like soil quality, pests, time of year, temperatures, etc. If you're bringing a plant out from the greenhouse or inside your home out into the elements, that's a big change!
One way to assess your plant's health is to check out its root system. Usually, you want to be able to see some roots, but you don't want it to have grown so much that's it's getting rootbound. A rootbound plant is going to have trouble unwinding and accessing the moisture & nutrients in the soil that it needs.
2. POOR SOIL 4:36
Another common problem that you need to look out for is the health of your SOIL. This can mean your soil is too hot, too dry, too crowded, too compacted, etc.
If you're following the recommendations from the second video, your seedling is used to light & fluffy soil. You want to mimic that environment in your ground, raised beds, or pots. Over the past five years, we've built up our soil with compost, manure, chips, organic material, beneficial microbes, and more. Gardening is a journey, and your soil health should improve every year as you keep adding to it.
3. WATER 6:55
Before transplanting, water in the hole FIRST. Ideally, you can evenly saturate your soil a day or two beforehand. This is where things like your drip irrigation come in handy! Water is key for your plants and key for the microbes in the ground to stay alive. Keep them protected with mulch too!
4. TIMING 10:03
In this video, we're planting in the morning, and the temperature isn't going to be too high today. We know our plant is going to be able to withstand this big change. If you're transplanting during the summer, especially in warm & dry climates, we recommend planting in the evening, though. You'll also want to consider using a row cover or shade cloth to protect your plants.
After you plant right at the soil level, you may want to give it additional layers of protection like diatomaceous earth to keep snails, pillbugs, etc. from eating your plant. Sluggo is another great organic product. You should only have to do this once, and then your plants will be able to handle future attacks.
After your plant is in the ground, you may need to fertilize more depending on the results of your soil test. Small plants with small root systems need help tapping into nutrients at times. We like to use organic fertilizers like liquid fish emulsion since it's easy to use for us and easy to access for the plant.
Check out more info below and stay tuned for the final part of this series!
KEEP LEARNING
→Want more gardening tips? Head on over to our site and the LEARN dropdown: sandiegoseedco...
→You can also sign up for one of our classes (go through it at your own speed). We have "Organic Gardening: Grow Your Own Food" and our famous "Seed Starting Academy" available now: organicgardeni...
GET STOCKED UP:
→Vegetables: sandiegoseedco...
→Flowers: sandiegoseedco...
→Herbs: sandiegoseedco...
→Rare Seeds: sandiegoseedco...
→Tools & Merchandise: sandiegoseedco...
CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
→Instagram: / sandiegoseedcompany
→Facebook: / sandiegoseedcompany
#Gardening
![Blox Fruits Dragon Rework Update [Full Stream]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/EqDAp8udhm0/mqdefault.jpg)
![Felix "Unfair" | [Stray Kids : SKZ-PLAYER]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Oswujxm2Ag0/mqdefault.jpg)
How is your winter garden coming along? Let me know!
Got a few lettuces going some peas potatoes and a few herbs and overwintering some peppers small container garden
Any advice on what to plant what am I missing that could be done in containers at this time
Its doing GREAT Brijette! I always have more than I alone can eat and so I share much out. I even have some of your Ethiopian Kale, Great Lakes lettuce, Golden Beets, Carmel spinach, Mizuna mustard, Misclun mix, and Nantes carrots growing in my plot at the Carlsbad community garden, along with the brassicas , radishes, cabbages, bok & pak choi and chards that were already started. Your vids help me so much with recommendations for our area. Thank you! C'MON part 4 ! :P
@@luismexicano7378 the jjujujuuuu
Zone 8 a, its all dead now. Well accept what I am pulling in and out of the house in pots for sun right now.
Love that there was a monarch flying around in the background at one point in the video. 🤗🧡
Getting ready to harvest cauliflower and broccoli. Live in bonita
You're such a good garden mother 🤗
I follow epic gardening, no till growers, Korean natural farming, nature’s always right, and Charles dowding, and I’m learning some new stuff following you now, thanks for the knowledge!!
Had so many problems with aphids last year so potted a ton of basil,mint and mums. Had aphids once so mixed oil, soap and peppermint oil to spray. Have had nothing more. Cabbage us coming along
Yaaaaaaay!!! I have been loving this series! And omg a big take away for me was to “water” my soil even when it is just soil! Makes total sense!
My Fava beans I purchased from SDSC are thriving and looking awesome.
Enjoy watching your quide
Thank you watch your videos everyday and my garden is thriving 🙏🏼
I’m having great success using a DIY cloche made from large juice containers with the bottom cut off for tender transplants. I twist it a couple inches down around the seedling. Works great.
Great idea :)
Great information!
hi! thanks for the info!! Im getting ready to plant my garden this year. Do you have any recommendations on planting cucumbers and squash in San Diego. This would be my 3rd year trying to get a decent amount of fruit hopefully I do things right this time and get more than 2 fruits haha . thanks!!
Thank you once again for these tips we can do in our gardens to promote healthy and thriving veggies. Appreciate it!
Yes!
8:40 great soil
How do you manage gophers? I'll be moving from LA to SD sometime next year and hope to still grow in the ground. No evidence of gophers in the lot (yet).
We trap them. They will find a way to your garden
@@SanDiegoSeedCompany Thanks for the warning!
What about the mercury and arsenic levels in fish emulsion? Thoughts??
The trace amounts are not of concern to us. You can research your particular brand. Here is an interesting article. archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20000326&slug=4011973
What is your go to fish emulsion?
Organic brands
You gotta start taking Apple Pay on the website 😪
We did! We did! Thanks for the great suggestion.