If you enjoyed this video, please *LIKE* it and share it to help spread its reach! Thanks for watching 🙂TIMESTAMPS for convenience: 0:00 Introduction 0:33 Why Vegetable Gardens NEED Fertilizers 2:23 This Fertilizer Could Be FAILING You! 4:36 The Winter Garden Fertilizer Solution 6:46 How To Choose The Right Fertilizer 9:40 How To Fertilize During Winter 12:52 Fertilizer Application Tips 15:22 Adventures With Dale
@@TheMillennialGardener you’re very good but it’s kind of a 50-50 split between watching the video and watching the fight in the parking lot. She works part time at the mall and two drunks are going at it in the parking lot, which is funny because they’re swinging like mad, but nobody’s making contactbut they’re still falling and hitting the pavement.
@@Nanno-f9b ONLY slow release organics. Nothing water soluble. That could make for big green tops and poor bulbing. I let my root vegetables take their time.
Your first two minutes in this vid was the most concise and complete description of why our gardens are so dependent on how we manage them for optimal growth. Congratulations on the most focused description of what we have to do, and why.
Thank you. I like to be very clear that vegetable gardens and fruit trees are very different systems. Once you get your fruit trees established, you can sell the house and come back 30 years later. The trees will still be there. Leave your garden unattended for 1 single year and it'll be a field of native weeds with no evidence that it was once a garden.
It's very important. Forests, and well-organized systems of fruit trees (we call them "food forests") can self-mulch and take care of themselves. Vegetable gardens take nutrients and give little back, so you need to put back what they take every year or your soil will become depleted. Eventually, you wind up with The Dust Bowl.
Haven't even watched yet but lemme say that you're one hard working dude, cranking out content at this time of year. I'm loving it though bc this temporary warm snap in VA has me craving Spring and getting the garden really going. (In typical southeast fashion though it is going to be in the 30s next week-ugh)
I appreciate it it. Gardening never stops. I don't consider it seasonal, and a lot of folks still watch and garden in the winter, so I like to keep the same schedule all throughout the year. Please, be prepared. A lot worse than the 30's are coming. We are going to plummet deep into the 20's and even in the teens in about 8 days. It's going to be a 7-10 day awful-fest.
I'm in N.Y here and last two days have been in the 50s with some rain. But we had 10 degrees for the low a few times. It did in my Broccoli. This winter it's been colder than it has been the last couple of years.
He is very sweet, and he is a great communicator. He is so smart. I think he’s somewhere on par with a 4-5 year old boy, but less of a troublemaker 😂 He’s just a joy.
The best fertilizer i've ever had was home-made compost, and it was completely free. i simply buried kitchen scraps in the raised bed, all my plants grew unbelievably well a few months later.
It does work well. I will say I go through about 2 truckloads a year, so it isn’t possible for me to make anywhere near that much. Supplementing with some fertilizer is a must to maximize your productivity unless you have the ability and equipment to manage giant mulch piles. Maybe one day. That is my dream.
Thanks! Your teaching ability is stupendous! Have you ever thought about doing a mini course for each month or season? It would be great to have all this info in written form at the time it is needed! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for your support and generosity! I greatly appreciate it ❤ Yes, I am currently in the process of developing a website, and I do have plans to offer courses in the future for folks that want a more in-depth, personal touch than I can deliver over RUclips. But, it will probably take me some time to do so. Because I still work full-time, I have to approach every endeavor with baby steps. But, it is on the To-Do List. There is so much that I want to do. I wish there were a way to make each day 6 hours longer 😆
Nothing, I mean nothing, makes me happier than seeing a well cared for and beloved dog 🤗! Was that a Chia pet head of late great Bob Ross making an appearance in this video? I noticed it following you through the garden like a roaming gnome. Bob Ross was a wonderful human, and he fostered orphaned squirrels and other animals.
Dale has it made, I'll tell you. Yes, that's ol' Bob. My grandmom didn't have cable, so when I was over there, all I had to watch was PBS. Nothing but Bob Ross, The Victory Garden, Yan Can Cook and The Galloping Gourmet...
Dale is the most pampered dog I know. I just don't understand how he learned English so well. It's absoutely beautiful to see your connection with your canine boy. Your videos are good, content wise, but I am always waiting to see Dale.
We just treat him like a human. I talk to him the same way that I would talk to a young kid. He rises to the occasion. Just like with people, if you challenge your dogs, they will live up to the challenge. We push him hard, give him a good amount of structure and routine, and talk to him constantly. And he learns. I think a lot of people think they’re just dogs. I was like that my whole life, because I never had a dog before. Dale is my first dog. But when I made the commitment, I said I was going to really challenge him and expect a lot from him, and as it turns out he is very capable. He’s a real person.
@@TheMillennialGardener Gazillion % agree with you!! Dogs, and animals in general are intelligent beings with deep emotions, capable of great love, and as you said dogs are very much like young children. My dogs have behaved as in between infant, toddler, and sometimes kindergartener. In my family our dogs are treated and valued in the same way as human family members. We also make sure to allow our dogs to express their wolf like canine instincts which are unique to them as well.
The video was not long at all. Thanks for being comprehensive about the why and not just what to do. I cracked up because I live on a street called Winter Gardens that my Grandmother named because they found an area with no frost 35 minutes east of ocean in San Diego which is rare that far east. However we get more sun and heat so she knew we would get the best of both worlds out here. Growing a lot still in my grandmas garden still and really enjoying content just recently subscribed and found a few weeks ago!
I never know what's "long" these days. It's funny. On one hand, you have the TikTok/Short content that is just destroying attention spans. But, on the other hand, you have this phenomenon on RUclips where people are actually treating it as a TV service for cord-cutters where they're specifically looking for 30-60 minute content to eat during/after dinner streamed on their TV. It makes it hard to gauge how long videos should be these days...it feels like they either need to be 5 minutes or 35 minutes 😆 The west coast certainly has a special climate. I always say here in NC, it's absolutely atrocious how cold our winters are for how much terrible heat and humidity we get in the summer.
That is a smart dog you have there. You and your wife are blessed to have him. Enjoy the end of your video's to catch a glimpse of him. Maybe he needs a female friend.
I'm aware. The models do not agree yet. Things will change. We should have a clearer picture in 2-3 days. The models already backed off from the catastrophe they were forecasting last week considerably.
I would love for you to grow Japanese Kyoho grape. They taste soooo good!! If you are looking for a lemon tree that can take cold, Japanese Yuzu is a good choice. It has a great smell. I am Japanese living in France. I have many Japanese fruit trees I want to grow in my garden but we don't sell them here in France😥
I'm not familiar with the grape. I will have to look into it. I am fortunate that I can grow Meyer Lemons and have a huge bush loaded with over 100 lemons, so I have my lemon quotas taken. If I still lived in the Northeast, I would grow a Yuzu.
Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge. I’m heading out to fertilize my lettuce and celery now with my Espoma granular and Fish and kelp liquid. Thank you for the guidance. Dale is a cutie!
Great reminder to keep them fed. I have a challenge to one point….. are we 100% sure that organic granular fertilizer actually needs to be scratched into the soil? As opposed to just watering it in lightly without scratching it into the soil? Has anyone done an experiment with a side by side comparison?
What do you use to make your satsuma owari blooms, and when to fertilize, how many times during a year. Your tree always full of fruits - every time you video - magic to me 😍
I actually don't fertilize it. I only fertilize trees when they are young to help them get established. After they become mature, I stop. I dump 1-2 bags of compost around the bottom in late winter/early spring, but other than that, I chop-and-drop and mulch. I keep a very thick layer of mulch around my trees all year and I mulch all the prunings around the base - I feed the tree itself. I try to simulate a jungle/forest floor. This works best for mature trees with advanced roots. That, and aggressive pruning, is the key. Tip your fruit trees to create new budwood and drown them in organic matter.
Teaching a person 'how to fish' (and the 'why to do thing') is an excellent way to explain it. I do not do well with "Do this because it's great." I need to know the why in order to internalize it. I LOVED this one Anthony. Happy New Year to you and the family.
Excellent video dude. I've been mulling over what fertilizers to use, and I'm in the same situation of dealing with greens, be it lettuce, mustard type greens, pak choi, and spinach along with some Japanese crosses of these greens. I got an almost full bottle of the Alaska 5-1-1 and a few pounds of the Miracle Gro Performance organics fertilizer and that sounds like the right path and frankly it almost slipped my mind that I can lean much more on that Alaska 5-1-1 so thanks for giving my brain a shake! I think it's been 3 times this year you've made a video that came around just at the right time for me personally so thanks and have a GREAT new year and hoping the bad events of last year don't play out again in 2025 for you. They'll play out somewhere, for someone, but I think you can use the break!
🐟 for the video. I have tried your prior recommendation of kelp fertilizer in fall 2023 and it was incredible. Thank you for your consistently informative content.
Thank you for this information. I assumed that since it’s winter, it’s not good to fertilize. But I think you are right. I’ll go get my citrus fertilizer this weekend coz they look unhealthy.
Citrus do not go dormant, so they need food year round. If anything, they need the *most* fertilizer in winter, because that is actually when they expend their energy ripening their crop. It takes a lot out of them. Feed them well year round and they will reward you.
Great video !!! I have the fish emulsion and have used it for years, mostly in the summer on my plumerias and other plants. Been thinking I need to pump the greens up a little. This is what I needed to see !!! Thanks for sharing !!! 😊
You can make your own Fish Fertilizer, Hydrolysate and FAA, it's so easy and so much cheaper than just 1 gallon that you can buy, and Im making over 20 gallons of it! If you can get Chicken Manure, you can make a modified JADAM fertilizer, with LAB's every 30 days. I go out and get a small amount now, in the NC cold air and when I bring it inside to the garage, it comes alive, it looks like your brewing beer there is so much activity in there just waiting to be added to soil to start eating that good dirt and excreting food the roots can immediately up take. I started using this mid summer last year and my 6 month old fig trees (All 200+ trees) came alive!! They all put on fruit quickly! This year, I will have close to 500 fig trees, I couldnt afford to feed them if it wasn;t for this stuff..... Did I mention the JADAM is free?
TOO MANY! He has somehow commandeered the entire guest bedroom closet. It is crazy. He has more clothes than I do 🙄 But, he has such short hair that he gets very cold. He lets us know when he wants to be dressed.
Well it looks like Dale hit pay dirt under the Christmas tree 🎄🎁🏉⚽🍗🍖🥎 :) Good for him! Love to see him being so loved :) Again, I learned something new from you. I have never heard of or thought about the efficacy of various types of fertilizers under different temperatures. I am going to re-watch this to make it sink in a little more. Thank you for doing the work of researching and experimenting to find out what works under what conditions and sharing it with all of us to make our gardening experiences optimal. HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and yours and, of course, Dale!🎆
Sounds familiar. Here in Boston with our winter garden of collard greens I have been hitting them with water soluble synthesized fertilizer lately. Throwing down organic pellets in six inches of snow with a frozen ground and nighttime lows around 10 degrees is a waste of money and product. That being said, when we get warming and thawing I do apply small amounts of organic pellets. The collards look great and continue to grow despite very cold temps.
Unfortunately, I tend to agree with you. Although I do prefer fish emulsion for soil health reasons where possible. Bad cold is coming next week. Be sure to have covers on hand.
I am just starting to see dime-sized heads on my broccoli. Trouble is, bad cold is coming for a very long duration. Ugh. Hopefully, we make it through.
It l looks warm where you’re at you’re out there in your T-shirt. Here in Northern Utah. It’s about 23° and too cold for most plants even with my covers over them.
We had a nice warm-up with a 5-day string of 65-72 degree temps. It ends today. Massive cold coming. A truly awful 2 weeks are coming up. It's going to be rough into the back half of January for us. A few days only have highs forecast in the mid-30's, which is 20 degrees below average for us. Our average January high is 55.
Plants need sun to produce carbohydrates, but it doesn’t make N, P, K, Mg and S. If you don’t feed them, they won’t do well no matter how much sun you give them. It would be like giving a human only water and no food.
You won’t know what the NPK is, just like you won’t know when using compost or mulch. You’d have to assess its performance by setting up your own experiment. I have never done it, and as a person that works full time, I find far more value in my time than I do the cost of fertilizer. Fertilizer can be bought for about $1/lb and one large bag lasts me all year, so I find its cost well worth it, personally.
Thanks so much for this video. I learned a lot! Maybe I missed it, but how often should I do this routine? I live in Seattle, with constant rain this time of year, in case that makes a difference.
My huge head of broccoli end up bolting when I was in bed for three days with the flu. I’m so disappointed; I was really looking forward to that broccoli
Broccoli is very sensitive. I recommend you invest in a piece of shade cloth: ruclips.net/video/SbWcCxV7OOE/видео.htmlsi=Tgx7F8_csGbJEJdB I put agricultural fabric overhead my brassicas if it's going to be in the 20's at night. I put shade cloth over my brassicas if they're starting to approach maturity and it is going to be warm. They are very sensitive plants that want to exist in the 40-60 degree range perpetually.
Hi Anthony. Here on the Eastside of Seattle, I decided to only overwinter my attempt at garlic and my three year old purple collard trees. They are well mulched with shredded leaves, whole leaves, and chopped up corn stalks in my two raised beds covered by agriculture fleece. Do the garlic and collard trees need fertilization at all? If so, when and how often?
For garlic, I would amend it with an all purpose granular organic fertilizer. Heavy doses of water soluble fertilizers, I have found, aren’t good for root and bulb crops. They make big greens and small bulbs. Give them some organic granules so they slowly break down and trickle feed them all winter. For the collards, is your goal to overwinter them or for them to grow and you to get a harvest? If you want them to grow leaves, then they will need nitrogen. Fish fertilizer is great for that. If your goal is for them to just sit mostly dormant and start back up in spring, then give them a small amount of granular organics or compost just to keep them happy in winter and feed them with the water soluble stuff when spring draws near.
@ Thanks, Anthony. That’s pretty much what I figured. I used some granular fertilizer and bone meal when I planted the garlic cloves, and figured I was pretty much good until March or so. I think I’m going to allow the collard trees to mostly overwinter, but may start harvesting come late February or early March.
This is just a guess, but because I"m in Miami, Florida.... I treat our winters like spring, fall, and summer? Thanks for the explanation. I appreciate it.
Where you live, the soil stays warm and biologically active year-round, so you don't have the problem with the organic granular fertilizers becoming less effective in winter like most of us do. That being said, this fertilizer combination will work brilliantly for your leafy greens. For your root crops, and your tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and other flowering crops, you'll want to do what I said in this video and boost the NPK to something more balanced. You can do that by adding something like the 20-20-20 to your mix, or just supplement with added bone meal if you want to stay 100% organic.
Save this to watch I had to pick my sister up from work sitting in the parking lot watching the video instead of the fools going through the parking lot.
Is there anything I can do for my garden in winter when it's in the teens at night and gets snow and colder in the next two months. I covered the garden with grass clippings. Maybe a slow release fertilizer. Might be a good video for some. I put all my kitchen scraps out in garden area too all winter.
Do you have a month by month growing guide? When i watch your videos and you say to put your tranplants out, obviously too late to start seeds. Thanks and have a great new years
Yes. Every month I try and release a video on what you can start from seed. This is last week's video all about January: ruclips.net/video/pmLVHNm3dbg/видео.htmlsi=g_JiSCSwqFMmYj17 If you scroll through my videos, you'll find one every single month when the new month begins.
@TheMillennialGardener so I missed the video when you started the brasicas. I'll be sure not to take a fall break again!! I tell any new gardener in my area about your videos. Take care.
My container garden, I have to fertilize every 10-14 days with a water soluble fertilizer. I blend fish fertilizer with Jack's 20-20-20 for them, plus I top them with bone meal monthly. For my fig trees in ground, I don't fertilize them anymore. I did when they were young, but now that they are established, I simply maintain a very thick mulch layer on them year-round. The non-stop breakdown of the organic matter is all they need now that they're mature and self-sufficient. The only thing I do add to them is a big bag of compost to each tree in March.
For indoor gardening, good ol' Jack's 20-20-20. No stink. If you want to add some organic nutrients, you can supplement it with some seaweed/liquid kelp fertilizer, but you have to be careful. It can stink if you use too much and encourage fungus gnats indoors.
Don't use water soluble fertilizers on root vegetables. You'll get top growth and poor bulbing. All I give my root vegetables are the slow release 5-5-5 organics. They are not heavy feeders and only need the slow breakdown of the organics (unlike broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprouts, collards, etc...they gobble up nutrients).
Forgot to mention too that I also use warm water this time of the year. The ground is frozen here in Boston and hopefully this helps the plants absorb nutrients before refreezing.
No. Never, and I live backed up into the woods with a creek behind me, so there are tons of animals. Because I have a fence. It's never a problem. Nothing beats fencing.
From Ol' Lady Gardener.....could you recommend a frequency schedule for applying the water soluble fertilizer, please Mr. Millennial? My winter garden is leafy greens, brassicas, bulb, and root crops and I prep the soil in fall with organic solids and compost. Everything seems to do well but Im sure it could benefit from a schedule of water solubles. Thanks,.Dude!
About twice a month /every 2 weeks should do it. Don’t apply fish fertilizer to your root vegetables. Just use organic slow release for that. Carrots, radishes, beets, etc won’t bulb well if you give them all that nitrogen and nothing else. I failed to mention I don’t give my root crops anything but organic 5-5-5 granules and just let them take their time
Whenever you want. There is nothing wrong with it. Just wash it off beforehand. It's no big deal. Just force yourself to do it, and you'll get over it immediately. Join the ranks of us gardeners squashing bugs with your bare hands and grabbing ladybugs and earthworms and relocating them manually 🙂
synthetic or otherwise, nutrients not only feed plants but also soil biology. there is some but not great difference in soil microbe diversity and number between synthetic fertilizer farm or organic farm. even synthetic fertilizers are less effective in winter, as plants less active. one exception is ammonium sulfate, which does a lot better than others in promoting growth during cold season
It's actually really old. I got it many years ago, and I could never get good coverage on the head. Bob always looked like he had radiation poisoning. I decided to finally just make it a garden statue.
You're welcome! Tomatoes do love fish fertilizer, but it can't be all you give them, and if you give them too much, it can negatively impact their flowering. Tomatoes like a very balanced NPK ratio, or even slightly leaning toward P and K with less N. Something in the 1:1.5:1.5 ratio is really great for tomatoes.
If you enjoyed this video, please *LIKE* it and share it to help spread its reach! Thanks for watching 🙂TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Introduction
0:33 Why Vegetable Gardens NEED Fertilizers
2:23 This Fertilizer Could Be FAILING You!
4:36 The Winter Garden Fertilizer Solution
6:46 How To Choose The Right Fertilizer
9:40 How To Fertilize During Winter
12:52 Fertilizer Application Tips
15:22 Adventures With Dale
Question how many garden beds and what size do you use?
@@TheMillennialGardener you’re very good but it’s kind of a 50-50 split between watching the video and watching the fight in the parking lot. She works part time at the mall and two drunks are going at it in the parking lot, which is funny because they’re swinging like mad, but nobody’s making contactbut they’re still falling and hitting the pavement.
A Bob Ross Chia Pet! I didn't know they still made them!
What fertilizer do you use for root vegetables…carrots, beets, radishes?
@@Nanno-f9b ONLY slow release organics. Nothing water soluble. That could make for big green tops and poor bulbing. I let my root vegetables take their time.
Your first two minutes in this vid was the most concise and complete description of why our gardens are so dependent on how we manage them for optimal growth. Congratulations on the most focused description of what we have to do, and why.
Thank you. I like to be very clear that vegetable gardens and fruit trees are very different systems. Once you get your fruit trees established, you can sell the house and come back 30 years later. The trees will still be there. Leave your garden unattended for 1 single year and it'll be a field of native weeds with no evidence that it was once a garden.
Yes! I really needed that explanation. 😃
MG is great for this! So many rambling, sidetracking gardener videos out there
@@carleanr4051glad I could help!
@@rellimarualI try to edit myself. The videos wind up usually being 40% of the length of what was actually filmed 😅
No wonder my garden looks so bad. I need to feed my plants. Thanks for your informative videos
It's very important. Forests, and well-organized systems of fruit trees (we call them "food forests") can self-mulch and take care of themselves. Vegetable gardens take nutrients and give little back, so you need to put back what they take every year or your soil will become depleted. Eventually, you wind up with The Dust Bowl.
Haven't even watched yet but lemme say that you're one hard working dude, cranking out content at this time of year. I'm loving it though bc this temporary warm snap in VA has me craving Spring and getting the garden really going. (In typical southeast fashion though it is going to be in the 30s next week-ugh)
I appreciate it it. Gardening never stops. I don't consider it seasonal, and a lot of folks still watch and garden in the winter, so I like to keep the same schedule all throughout the year. Please, be prepared. A lot worse than the 30's are coming. We are going to plummet deep into the 20's and even in the teens in about 8 days. It's going to be a 7-10 day awful-fest.
@@TheMillennialGardener Believe me, I've got my incandescent christmas lights and plant jackets ready. Gotta protect the satsuma and meyer lemon trees!
I'm in N.Y here and last two days have been in the 50s with some rain. But we had 10 degrees for the low a few times. It did in my Broccoli. This winter it's been colder than it has been the last couple of years.
Enjoy the snow ⛄️ lol
Omg, I just love Dale. He's like a big human boy so smart and sweet ❤️❤️🙂
He is very sweet, and he is a great communicator. He is so smart. I think he’s somewhere on par with a 4-5 year old boy, but less of a troublemaker 😂 He’s just a joy.
The best fertilizer i've ever had was home-made compost, and it was completely free. i simply buried kitchen scraps in the raised bed, all my plants grew unbelievably well a few months later.
It does work well. I will say I go through about 2 truckloads a year, so it isn’t possible for me to make anywhere near that much. Supplementing with some fertilizer is a must to maximize your productivity unless you have the ability and equipment to manage giant mulch piles. Maybe one day. That is my dream.
Thanks! Your teaching ability is stupendous! Have you ever thought about doing a mini course for each month or season?
It would be great to have all this info in written form at the time it is needed! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for your support and generosity! I greatly appreciate it ❤ Yes, I am currently in the process of developing a website, and I do have plans to offer courses in the future for folks that want a more in-depth, personal touch than I can deliver over RUclips. But, it will probably take me some time to do so. Because I still work full-time, I have to approach every endeavor with baby steps. But, it is on the To-Do List. There is so much that I want to do. I wish there were a way to make each day 6 hours longer 😆
Six hours longer just for gardening please 😂
That explanation of why veg gardens need fertilizer and our help was excellent.
Top video mate. Have a great New Year. Cheers!
I appreciate it! Happy New Year!
Nothing, I mean nothing, makes me happier than seeing a well cared for and beloved dog 🤗! Was that a Chia pet head of late great Bob Ross making an appearance in this video? I noticed it following you through the garden like a roaming gnome. Bob Ross was a wonderful human, and he fostered orphaned squirrels and other animals.
Dale has it made, I'll tell you. Yes, that's ol' Bob. My grandmom didn't have cable, so when I was over there, all I had to watch was PBS. Nothing but Bob Ross, The Victory Garden, Yan Can Cook and The Galloping Gourmet...
Dale is the most pampered dog I know. I just don't understand how he learned English so well. It's absoutely beautiful to see your connection with your canine boy. Your videos are good, content wise, but I am always waiting to see Dale.
We just treat him like a human. I talk to him the same way that I would talk to a young kid. He rises to the occasion. Just like with people, if you challenge your dogs, they will live up to the challenge. We push him hard, give him a good amount of structure and routine, and talk to him constantly. And he learns. I think a lot of people think they’re just dogs. I was like that my whole life, because I never had a dog before. Dale is my first dog. But when I made the commitment, I said I was going to really challenge him and expect a lot from him, and as it turns out he is very capable. He’s a real person.
@@TheMillennialGardener Gazillion % agree with you!! Dogs, and animals in general are intelligent beings with deep emotions, capable of great love, and as you said dogs are very much like young children. My dogs have behaved as in between infant, toddler, and sometimes kindergartener. In my family our dogs are treated and valued in the same way as human family members. We also make sure to allow our dogs to express their wolf like canine instincts which are unique to them as well.
Enjoy the snow ⛄️ lol
I watch all your videos from Japan and have learned so much. Best regards Timmydog
The video was not long at all. Thanks for being comprehensive about the why and not just what to do. I cracked up because I live on a street called Winter Gardens that my Grandmother named because they found an area with no frost 35 minutes east of ocean in San Diego which is rare that far east. However we get more sun and heat so she knew we would get the best of both worlds out here. Growing a lot still in my grandmas garden still and really enjoying content just recently subscribed and found a few weeks ago!
I never know what's "long" these days. It's funny. On one hand, you have the TikTok/Short content that is just destroying attention spans. But, on the other hand, you have this phenomenon on RUclips where people are actually treating it as a TV service for cord-cutters where they're specifically looking for 30-60 minute content to eat during/after dinner streamed on their TV. It makes it hard to gauge how long videos should be these days...it feels like they either need to be 5 minutes or 35 minutes 😆
The west coast certainly has a special climate. I always say here in NC, it's absolutely atrocious how cold our winters are for how much terrible heat and humidity we get in the summer.
This video was very educational I’ve been gardening for a few years and learned so much in this video! Thank you for sharing the information.
I always learn something from your videos and this is no exception
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
That is a smart dog you have there. You and your wife are blessed to have him. Enjoy the end of your video's to catch a glimpse of him. Maybe he needs a female friend.
Major freeze coming, prepare! We have 4 degree windchills coming for Galveston, 20's all week. 2nd week of January watch out
I'm aware. The models do not agree yet. Things will change. We should have a clearer picture in 2-3 days. The models already backed off from the catastrophe they were forecasting last week considerably.
I would love for you to grow Japanese Kyoho grape. They taste soooo good!!
If you are looking for a lemon tree that can take cold, Japanese Yuzu is a good choice. It has a great smell.
I am Japanese living in France. I have many Japanese fruit trees I want to grow in my garden but we don't sell them here in France😥
I'm not familiar with the grape. I will have to look into it. I am fortunate that I can grow Meyer Lemons and have a huge bush loaded with over 100 lemons, so I have my lemon quotas taken. If I still lived in the Northeast, I would grow a Yuzu.
Thoroughly enjoyed this informative video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Dale is precious and earned his Christmas gifts ❤❤
You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed it. Dale certainly enjoyed his Christmas 🐶
Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge. I’m heading out to fertilize my lettuce and celery now with my Espoma granular and Fish and kelp liquid. Thank you for the guidance. Dale is a cutie!
Outstanding! They will appreciate it. I bet you'll see a big change in them within 2 weeks of application. Dale is an excellent present unwrapper 🐶
Great reminder to keep them fed.
I have a challenge to one point….. are we 100% sure that organic granular fertilizer actually needs to be scratched into the soil? As opposed to just watering it in lightly without scratching it into the soil?
Has anyone done an experiment with a side by side comparison?
Omg what a joy to watch Dale open gifts! So cute!
He is the best gift opener I know. Sometimes, he is a little overzealous 😂
Love your videos! The ending, with Dale, was too cute! Thanks!
Thank you! Dale had so much fun opening presents. His Gotcha Day is also in January, so he gets to do it again in a few weeks.
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Never thought I'd end up on a list by watching a gardening video
I'm loving Dale's Christmas PJs. Lol❤
I think he has 3 different sets of Christmas pajamas 😂
@@TheMillennialGardener 😂🤣😂 That's great!!
What do you use to make your satsuma owari blooms, and when to fertilize, how many times during a year. Your tree always full of fruits - every time you video - magic to me 😍
I actually don't fertilize it. I only fertilize trees when they are young to help them get established. After they become mature, I stop. I dump 1-2 bags of compost around the bottom in late winter/early spring, but other than that, I chop-and-drop and mulch. I keep a very thick layer of mulch around my trees all year and I mulch all the prunings around the base - I feed the tree itself. I try to simulate a jungle/forest floor. This works best for mature trees with advanced roots. That, and aggressive pruning, is the key. Tip your fruit trees to create new budwood and drown them in organic matter.
Fantastic video! I learned a lot. Thank you for the extended explanation.
Teaching a person 'how to fish' (and the 'why to do thing') is an excellent way to explain it. I do not do well with "Do this because it's great." I need to know the why in order to internalize it. I LOVED this one Anthony. Happy New Year to you and the family.
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Thanks for sharing your great tips 👍🏼
Glad it was helpful!
Perfecto.. thanks!
You're welcome!
I just add an "Event" in my Garden/Home google calendar, add a link to this video and set it to repeat annually.
Thank you 😆
Thanks! Great information!
Love seeing Dale.
You're welcome! Dale appreciates your love! 😊
Love it, Dale is so funny.
Thank you!
My winter garden is amazing
Glad to hear it!
Excellent video dude. I've been mulling over what fertilizers to use, and I'm in the same situation of dealing with greens, be it lettuce, mustard type greens, pak choi, and spinach along with some Japanese crosses of these greens.
I got an almost full bottle of the Alaska 5-1-1 and a few pounds of the Miracle Gro Performance organics fertilizer and that sounds like the right path and frankly it almost slipped my mind that I can lean much more on that Alaska 5-1-1 so thanks for giving my brain a shake!
I think it's been 3 times this year you've made a video that came around just at the right time for me personally so thanks and have a GREAT new year and hoping the bad events of last year don't play out again in 2025 for you. They'll play out somewhere, for someone, but I think you can use the break!
🐟 for the video. I have tried your prior recommendation of kelp fertilizer in fall 2023 and it was incredible. Thank you for your consistently informative content.
You're welcome! I just simply share what I use that I believe works. I don't like keeping secrets and gatekeeping. I'm glad you're seeing success!
Dale is so cute ❤
He is, and he NOSE it 🐶
Thank you
You're welcome!
Thank you for this information. I assumed that since it’s winter, it’s not good to fertilize. But I think you are right. I’ll go get my citrus fertilizer this weekend coz they look unhealthy.
Citrus do not go dormant, so they need food year round. If anything, they need the *most* fertilizer in winter, because that is actually when they expend their energy ripening their crop. It takes a lot out of them. Feed them well year round and they will reward you.
@@TheMillennialGardenerHello there. What if there isn’t any fruit on the tree, still fertilize ?
Great video !!! I have the fish emulsion and have used it for years, mostly in the summer on my plumerias and other plants. Been thinking I need to pump the greens up a little. This is what I needed to see !!! Thanks for sharing !!! 😊
Very important information thank you
Glad it was helpful!
I loved Dale's attire! Who picked it out? ❤🐶🎄
Happy and blessed New Year to all of you guys!❤🙏🎁🥂🎄🎊
Thanks didn't know all that happy new year
Happy New Year to you, too!
I really needed this video. Havent been fertilizing. At all. Will start tomorrow. But how often? Once a week?
Twice a month / once every 2 weeks should do it.
@@TheMillennialGardenerWould you use both granular and the 511 every 2 weeks?
I love that Alaska fertilizer!!!
It's a not-so-secret secret weapon!
Fish fertilizer was an absolute game changer!!
It's my favorite. Fish fertilizer and bone meal - what a winning combination.
Excellent video!!
Thank you!
You are inspiring, informative and humble. My favorite gardener for years now. Thanks. 🎉🎉🎉 Happy New Year
I appreciate that a lot! Happy New Year!
Great content, as always!!!
I'm glad your video wasn't flagged for containing the words "fert###zer" and "xplod3" 😅
Glad you enjoyed it!
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You can make your own Fish Fertilizer, Hydrolysate and FAA, it's so easy and so much cheaper than just 1 gallon that you can buy, and Im making over 20 gallons of it! If you can get Chicken Manure, you can make a modified JADAM fertilizer, with LAB's every 30 days. I go out and get a small amount now, in the NC cold air and when I bring it inside to the garage, it comes alive, it looks like your brewing beer there is so much activity in there just waiting to be added to soil to start eating that good dirt and excreting food the roots can immediately up take. I started using this mid summer last year and my 6 month old fig trees (All 200+ trees) came alive!! They all put on fruit quickly! This year, I will have close to 500 fig trees, I couldnt afford to feed them if it wasn;t for this stuff..... Did I mention the JADAM is free?
That was really good info. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Top notch advice brother!
Appreciate it! Glad it was helpful.
@ love your channel! My go to for wealth of knowledge on gardening! Further down south but it works!
Great information. 💚
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you this was very helpful ❤
You’re welcome 😊
Very well explained. Thank you. Goodness!! How many pajamas does Mr. Dale have…? He’s so loved😊
TOO MANY! He has somehow commandeered the entire guest bedroom closet. It is crazy. He has more clothes than I do 🙄 But, he has such short hair that he gets very cold. He lets us know when he wants to be dressed.
This is much needed info! Thank you ❤🌱
You're welcome!
I enjoy all your videos keep up the great work 👍
Thank you!
@TheMillennialGardener your very welcome I've learned alot from your videos
Well it looks like Dale hit pay dirt under the Christmas tree 🎄🎁🏉⚽🍗🍖🥎 :) Good for him! Love to see him being so loved :)
Again, I learned something new from you. I have never heard of or thought about the efficacy of various types of fertilizers under different temperatures. I am going to re-watch this to make it sink in a little more. Thank you for doing the work of researching and experimenting to find out what works under what conditions and sharing it with all of us to make our gardening experiences optimal. HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and yours and, of course, Dale!🎆
Sounds familiar. Here in Boston with our winter garden of collard greens I have been hitting them with water soluble synthesized fertilizer lately. Throwing down organic pellets in six inches of snow with a frozen ground and nighttime lows around 10 degrees is a waste of money and product. That being said, when we get warming and thawing I do apply small amounts of organic pellets. The collards look great and continue to grow despite very cold temps.
Unfortunately, I tend to agree with you. Although I do prefer fish emulsion for soil health reasons where possible. Bad cold is coming next week. Be sure to have covers on hand.
Awesome video, thanks for sharing 👍
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Great video.
Glad you enjoyed it.
So much information 👍 thank you 😇👍🇬🇧
You're welcome!
I learned alot. Thx so much.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Some brassicas like broccoli where I live are heading up. I use Alaska morbloom along with the Alaska fish emulsion.
I am just starting to see dime-sized heads on my broccoli. Trouble is, bad cold is coming for a very long duration. Ugh. Hopefully, we make it through.
I’m glad for this knowledge. Thank you
You're welcome! Glad it was helpful!
Most lovely ❤❤❤
Thank you!
It l looks warm where you’re at you’re out there in your T-shirt. Here in Northern Utah. It’s about 23° and too cold for most plants even with my covers over them.
We had a nice warm-up with a 5-day string of 65-72 degree temps. It ends today. Massive cold coming. A truly awful 2 weeks are coming up. It's going to be rough into the back half of January for us. A few days only have highs forecast in the mid-30's, which is 20 degrees below average for us. Our average January high is 55.
@ it was 13 degrees overnight! Going out to see if anything survived.
@@francaughlan4424 😩
Love seeing Dale and the Bob Ross head!
I was wondering if anyone would notice ol' Bob 😂
The best fertilizer is a full 🌞
Plants need sun to produce carbohydrates, but it doesn’t make N, P, K, Mg and S. If you don’t feed them, they won’t do well no matter how much sun you give them. It would be like giving a human only water and no food.
What are your thoughts on making your own liquid fertilizer with weeds and garden clippings? How do you know what the NPK is?
You won’t know what the NPK is, just like you won’t know when using compost or mulch. You’d have to assess its performance by setting up your own experiment. I have never done it, and as a person that works full time, I find far more value in my time than I do the cost of fertilizer. Fertilizer can be bought for about $1/lb and one large bag lasts me all year, so I find its cost well worth it, personally.
Cool Chanel!❤
Thank you!
Great video, thanks! Oh Dale, love your jammies! And so many presents 🐕🐾💞
Thanks so much for this video. I learned a lot! Maybe I missed it, but how often should I do this routine? I live in Seattle, with constant rain this time of year, in case that makes a difference.
My huge head of broccoli end up bolting when I was in bed for three days with the flu. I’m so disappointed; I was really looking forward to that broccoli
Broccoli is very sensitive. I recommend you invest in a piece of shade cloth: ruclips.net/video/SbWcCxV7OOE/видео.htmlsi=Tgx7F8_csGbJEJdB
I put agricultural fabric overhead my brassicas if it's going to be in the 20's at night. I put shade cloth over my brassicas if they're starting to approach maturity and it is going to be warm. They are very sensitive plants that want to exist in the 40-60 degree range perpetually.
Very informative video! I’m taking notes 📝 😊
Glad it was helpful! 😊
Hi Anthony.
Here on the Eastside of Seattle, I decided to only overwinter my attempt at garlic and my three year old purple collard trees. They are well mulched with shredded leaves, whole leaves, and chopped up corn stalks in my two raised beds covered by agriculture fleece.
Do the garlic and collard trees need fertilization at all? If so, when and how often?
For garlic, I would amend it with an all purpose granular organic fertilizer. Heavy doses of water soluble fertilizers, I have found, aren’t good for root and bulb crops. They make big greens and small bulbs. Give them some organic granules so they slowly break down and trickle feed them all winter.
For the collards, is your goal to overwinter them or for them to grow and you to get a harvest? If you want them to grow leaves, then they will need nitrogen. Fish fertilizer is great for that. If your goal is for them to just sit mostly dormant and start back up in spring, then give them a small amount of granular organics or compost just to keep them happy in winter and feed them with the water soluble stuff when spring draws near.
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Thanks, Anthony. That’s pretty much what I figured. I used some granular fertilizer and bone meal when I planted the garlic cloves, and figured I was pretty much good until March or so.
I think I’m going to allow the collard trees to mostly overwinter, but may start harvesting come late February or early March.
This is just a guess, but because I"m in Miami, Florida.... I treat our winters like spring, fall, and summer?
Thanks for the explanation. I appreciate it.
Where you live, the soil stays warm and biologically active year-round, so you don't have the problem with the organic granular fertilizers becoming less effective in winter like most of us do. That being said, this fertilizer combination will work brilliantly for your leafy greens. For your root crops, and your tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and other flowering crops, you'll want to do what I said in this video and boost the NPK to something more balanced. You can do that by adding something like the 20-20-20 to your mix, or just supplement with added bone meal if you want to stay 100% organic.
@TheMillennialGardener thank you very much! Have a blessed and Happy New Year.
Thank you for all the support given during the past years.
Wish you a very Happy New Year!!
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You're welcome! Happy New Year!
Hi! I really enjoyed your videos. My question is how often should I feed my winter garden? I live in zone 10a.
Twice a month, typically.
Awesome facts
Thank you!
Save this to watch I had to pick my sister up from work sitting in the parking lot watching the video instead of the fools going through the parking lot.
Hopefully you're enjoying 😂
Is there anything I can do for my garden in winter when it's in the teens at night and gets snow and colder in the next two months. I covered the garden with grass clippings. Maybe a slow release fertilizer. Might be a good video for some. I put all my kitchen scraps out in garden area too all winter.
So it seems m😢 comfrey tea would be a great winter feeder?
Do you have a month by month growing guide? When i watch your videos and you say to put your tranplants out, obviously too late to start seeds. Thanks and have a great new years
Yes. Every month I try and release a video on what you can start from seed. This is last week's video all about January: ruclips.net/video/pmLVHNm3dbg/видео.htmlsi=g_JiSCSwqFMmYj17
If you scroll through my videos, you'll find one every single month when the new month begins.
@TheMillennialGardener so I missed the video when you started the brasicas. I'll be sure not to take a fall break again!! I tell any new gardener in my area about your videos. Take care.
What do u build your planter boxes out of? Pre treated wood?
MCA pressure treated wood. Perfectly safe for gardening. It's just liquid copper solution, which you can actually source for organic gardening.
Thank you for your videos' :-)
You're welcome! Glad they're helpful!
Do you fertilizer you fig trees with organic fertilizer or a mix of both?
My container garden, I have to fertilize every 10-14 days with a water soluble fertilizer. I blend fish fertilizer with Jack's 20-20-20 for them, plus I top them with bone meal monthly. For my fig trees in ground, I don't fertilize them anymore. I did when they were young, but now that they are established, I simply maintain a very thick mulch layer on them year-round. The non-stop breakdown of the organic matter is all they need now that they're mature and self-sufficient. The only thing I do add to them is a big bag of compost to each tree in March.
Any recommendations for indoor fertilizer? I grow herbs and leaf lettuce under grow lights?
For indoor gardening, good ol' Jack's 20-20-20. No stink. If you want to add some organic nutrients, you can supplement it with some seaweed/liquid kelp fertilizer, but you have to be careful. It can stink if you use too much and encourage fungus gnats indoors.
Thanks!
How often would you recommend for fall fertilizer?
Generally, one application every 2 weeks/twice a month is usually sufficient for your leafy greens.
Would I use this on my carrots too?
Don't use water soluble fertilizers on root vegetables. You'll get top growth and poor bulbing. All I give my root vegetables are the slow release 5-5-5 organics. They are not heavy feeders and only need the slow breakdown of the organics (unlike broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprouts, collards, etc...they gobble up nutrients).
Forgot to mention too that I also use warm water this time of the year. The ground is frozen here in Boston and hopefully this helps the plants absorb nutrients before refreezing.
Can you soak\disso!he granule fertilizer to make it liquid and or bioavailable?
How often do you fertilize like this? Every three weeks?
Twice a month.
Do you get critter pressure when you use fish fertilizers? Raccoon, skunks, possums, and fox dig up my plants when I use it.
No. Never, and I live backed up into the woods with a creek behind me, so there are tons of animals. Because I have a fence. It's never a problem. Nothing beats fencing.
From Ol' Lady Gardener.....could you recommend a frequency schedule for applying the water soluble fertilizer, please Mr. Millennial? My winter garden is leafy greens, brassicas, bulb, and root crops and I prep the soil in fall with organic solids and compost. Everything seems to do well but Im sure it could benefit from a schedule of water solubles. Thanks,.Dude!
About twice a month /every 2 weeks should do it. Don’t apply fish fertilizer to your root vegetables. Just use organic slow release for that. Carrots, radishes, beets, etc won’t bulb well if you give them all that nitrogen and nothing else. I failed to mention I don’t give my root crops anything but organic 5-5-5 granules and just let them take their time
When using the fish fertilizer on folage, how long before you can harvest the leaves? I'm a little bit squeamish.
Whenever you want. There is nothing wrong with it. Just wash it off beforehand. It's no big deal. Just force yourself to do it, and you'll get over it immediately. Join the ranks of us gardeners squashing bugs with your bare hands and grabbing ladybugs and earthworms and relocating them manually 🙂
synthetic or otherwise, nutrients not only feed plants but also soil biology. there is some but not great difference in soil microbe diversity and number between synthetic fertilizer farm or organic farm.
even synthetic fertilizers are less effective in winter, as plants less active. one exception is ammonium sulfate, which does a lot better than others in promoting growth during cold season
Somebody got a Bob Ross chia pet for Christmas!
It's actually really old. I got it many years ago, and I could never get good coverage on the head. Bob always looked like he had radiation poisoning. I decided to finally just make it a garden statue.
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Thanks for watching!
Well, this explains why I wasn't successful growing tomatoes with fish fertilizer! Ty!
You're welcome! Tomatoes do love fish fertilizer, but it can't be all you give them, and if you give them too much, it can negatively impact their flowering. Tomatoes like a very balanced NPK ratio, or even slightly leaning toward P and K with less N. Something in the 1:1.5:1.5 ratio is really great for tomatoes.