My husband recently spotted my copy of your book on our coffee table. He thought "companion plant" meant houseplants best suited per your personality type. 😄
You are so lucky there lol. Here in Northern WI we don’t usually plant until Memorial weekend. Then we go like crazy to get it all in so we get a good growing window. But I use all your info and have grown the best tomatoes including heirlooms just by trellising to one main stem. Thank you so much.
I just snipped my onion scapes to use on my charcuterie board for Easter brunch. Baby carrots, fresh green onions too, I love having them at the ready for guests. Thanks Brian!
Brian, I use your fabulous book all the time. I love it and I honestly don’t know what I’d do without it. We’re in zone 10b and grew our zucchini as trees, per your previous example, last year and only took down the trunks at the end of Feb. We had them in a raised bed, but measuring from the soil surface to the tops, the trees themselves were over 7’ tall when we finally took them down. And they were STILL producing. 😱 FYI, we used 10’ redwood 2x2 stakes and sank them 3’ into the bed to make sure they were stable. “Overkill is underrated.” 😎 Thanks again for all your great info and for staying relatable by allowing us to see when you make mistakes…as well as how to fix them. Keep up the great work!
We make onion top pesto with the onion tops. We also cut up and dehydrate the onion tops. We then use them in the winter in soups or you can grind them up into onion powder. Two crops from one plant. We find it does make the onions bigger.
Very soon my garden too will be planted and green and alive. I have my fingers crossed we both have a stellar year! Especially you now that you have an easy way to preserve your crops now.
I like the tulle tip also. I've used bird netting and it's a nightmare!!! It not only gets birds tangled up, it grabs every button and edges of your sneakers and anything else nearby😄
I LOVE the zinnias! I'm planting them everywhere! I even had them to re-seed themselves so I already have some in the garden and they made it through this last cold snap we had.
Yay! Let's plant!! So happy the rain is mostly behind us now. Looking forward to planting my raised beds that I have been composting for the last year! Thanks for your vidoes, Brian. I watch and re-watch them all the time!
I'm outside in sunny (chilly) Maryland in 7a, up potting herbs and listening to you as you garden. Thanks for the blue hubbard Tip! I am starting it before my zucchini and yellow squashes !
Love the fact you don't use hand tools. I love to get my hands dirty, like a big kid playing in the dirt. Plus love the little stick placement markers, i though i was crazy for doing that for the longest time LOL :)
I’m in the U.K. .. we had a lot of rain too.. although this country is known for it 🙄 but more than normal… it gave me a good chance to get all of my bare root purchased strawberry and rhubarb plants to settle in their new pots with least problems 😊
I like your tree tepee I wish that I could do that in my garden, we can get some incredible wind here and the tepee would blow over in a heartbeat. 🙁🌷💚🙃
For beans and cucumbers I use two 8x4 wire mesh from HD, those used for concrete slabs, connected up with tight and down 4’ apart. They need hardly any support and they work well. Kind of a cattle fence, but only 8’ high, standing as A.
For the trimming of the onions, Lazy Dog farm mentioned a study had been done and it’s a myth. Essentially, the reason trimming was even done was for the mechanical transplanting needed the leaves to be shorter so it didn’t interfere with the moving mechanisms of the transplanter. I would love to see a side by side comparison to see if it’s a repeatable result.
I saw a video on this. They said it was done because if the top leaves got too heavy they flop over and kink the stem near the bulb. They said once this happens the onion thinks its done its job and stops growing a larger bulb.
Rice hulls are also a great mulch. It's used for retaining water and for drainage so it replaces pearlite. Rice hulls are also easy to turn into biochar. You have to mail order it though.
This is hands-down, the best education I’ve gotten learning to start and plant my garden. It doesn’t hurt that it’s apples to apples, considering I live in Palmdale/Lancaster area which is a very similar climate and growing season
Agreed! I’m in the same growing zone (10a) and do many of the same things Brian does. I’ll even try wood shavings this year, because the straw I purchased for mulch last year produced far too many weeds for me.
Nice info I still have some catching up to do. I used Pine needle as a mulch on the veggie garden we will see. I works great for our Azelia's Lillys and Ferns. Thank You
Brain, please look into "chicken poop boards" to help reduce how much pine chips your having to buy/use, along with being able to choose where to poop goes, and reducing the smell. Cleaning the boards (with vinyl on them) makes cleaning up so much easier and less flies.
Thanks for the information on planting, it's very helpful! I'm still waiting for snow to melt here, plus another snowstorm for our area in the next 2 days...ugh
Watching you 🌱 plant and sit on the ground is therapeutic vicarious gardening for me waiting for spinal fusion to heal. Thank you for helping me be patient! 🌻🙏
Last year, I decided to learn about planting in my 8a Zone and planted a few things one being a cherry tomato plant. I used your method of using 2 tomato cages and my plant gave me an abundance of wonderful cherry tomatoes! Since that was so successful, I decided to get raised beds and plant additional vegetables this year. My gardening experience was in Washington state and here I'm able to add plants that wouldn't survive up in Washington state without a greenhouse but I don't know much about them. Could you do a video on planting and raising asparagus? My father came from a long line of organic ranchers even when it wasn't popular but they had the best Moorpark apricots in Santa Clara Valley! My father carried on with organic farming in Washington state and I learned a lot from him but there are things that I have either forgotten or he didn't plant because of our short growing season. I took your suggestion and I'm using all of the organic Neptune Harvest products that you recommended. I live in a senior and young family community and the food inflation is really affecting their ability to buy a variety of vegetables I will be referring to your previous videos as I don't have a lot of space but want to help my community as much as possible. Thank you again for sharing all your knowledge and getting our minds off of world events.
I love this channel!! Love how your garden is coming together too! I don’t know if you read my ether comment, but on your Next Level Homesteading, would you mind doing a video on how to cook Fennel?!
I was so excited last year to discover pine shavings for mulch because 1) low cost and 2) dense evaporation protection. But now I'm not as excited after seeing how hard it is to keep the pine shavings from integrating down into the soil and sucking up all the nitrogen as it decomposes. I've gone back to straw because it's easy to pull aside when planting. I found a source of unsprayed finer straw and let the bales sit out all winter so now they are starting to decompose and they form a dense mulch mat. Perfect.
Here where I live in Arkansas the last frost date is April 9 th. The weather is warm this week but still have to wait. I fought vine bores last year and lost. I’ll. Definitely try the tool covering. Want to do carrot this year so loved the shade cloth tips. Video is very helpful. Thank you so much. Blessings ❤️🌺
So informative! And your forgetting to fertilize your zucchini plantings made me laugh out loud -- you'd think I'd never done that.😉 I will also be switching to pine shavings for mulch. What a great substitute for straw!
Pine pellet bedding for your muddy chicken run instead of shavings, they are way more absorbent than shavings and you need less to suck up the water and firm things up.
I tried the Blue Hubbard squash as a trap crop last year. I guess you could say it worked as the svb killed it first before moving on to my zucchini and yellow squash…🤦🏻♀️ Trying again this year with the zucchini planted in a new bed and covered in tulle
I always have problems with Mexican Bean Beetles in my bush beans. I’ve never heard anyone talk about them and wondered if you have any suggestions on how to get rid of them. Thanks, keep up the great work!
Plant a few beet seeds, same depth. The beets will come up a couple days ahead of the carrots. When they do, flame weed the carrot bed and you'll be weed free long enough for the carrots to get well established
Love your channels. Looking forward to going more vertical. My question is looking at your raised bed garden: what do you do to run your irrigation lines between the beds? Or are they all separately fed?
I wonder if Aspen bedding for small animals would work too. We always have an abundance to pine shavings for our rabbits and goats but somewhere I was told it was bad for the garden. I don't even remember why. I order huge bags of Aspen from Walmart online for $10 now. It doesn't have the oils like pine. I might just try that!
Have you ever used moisture or PH testers? I use both, however this is my first year planting seeds with a moisture sensor. Do I want near total saturation with seeds at first, then let it get dryer? What if any seeds do you soak overnight? Old guy, new to raised gardens with bagged "dirt". From what I have seen, you can or should plant onions around tomatoes, peppers, carrots, and other things. No real need to plant any on their own in a small hobby garden. The rain hasn't left Tennessee yet, but spreading out some.
I sometimes have germination issues with beans so I've been adding mycorrhiza to my planting! Sometimes by putting insect netting/tuille over your squash, you can trap the squash bugs under neath as they emerge from the soil?
Yesterday I got half the yard weed whacked, per your inspiration. My back needs a day recover before finishing. Today, I went to hand weed some of my fabric beds…and after all this insane amount of rain, it was too dry to pull without breakage. (No fair!) Tomorrow I get potting soil for a big container (2’x2’) for lime tree. It’s about 5g max size now. Wondering if I should do your pot in a pot trick, since the pot is a few transplant sizes bigger than it’s current size. Does that work for trees, or is the big pot ok?
If alliums grow similar to other plants maybe just snipping the tip will remove apical dominance and stop the current leaf growth as the plant looks for other locations to send out shoots. I also wonder if this would encourage more smaller leaves to develop, and is the size of the leaf an indicator of the thickness of the blub wall/layer, and the number of leaves the actual number of layers
I also got small Parisien carrot seeds, last Autumn! Mine are called 'Market Baron.' Can't wait to see how they turn out! Thanks for the great idea to plant them amongst my onions! I hadn't thought of that and last year mine got absolutely blitzed by something! The turnips (Falco) did too. Not sure what did it, though. Hope the onion scent keeps them at bay! Is it too late to grow more onion starts? Mine didn't over-winter very well and I still have tons of starts left over, in my potting shed.
Assistance requested :) My indoor tomato plants are about 5 to 6 inches tall and were doing great - until I transplanted them from starting packs into larger solo cups. The leaves are turning lighter and then yellow and then droop and look as though they will die. The plants are still growing and adding more leaves. I used Sta-Green potting mix, Sta-Green coco coir, and Miracle Grow percolite for the medium in the solo cups. I mixed 1 to 1 with the potting mix and coco coir. When I purchased the potting mix, I did not notice that it contained fertilizer also - a 1 6 1 fertilizer. Have I created a mix which holds water to long? It's been 3 weeks and I've only had to water them once so far. I will try to post this within the 2 hour frame of the next video, but thought I would give it a shot here as well.
Brian, thank you as always! Question: For your carrots, why didn’t you use the freezer method that you told us about a while back? You did a direct sow in this video.
Brian, could you address grubs? How to handle/manage them? Last year I just had to use Sevin and would like to know a different way to handle them that’s a bit more organic. I was desperate because they were wiping out my plants and then the raccoons found them and really destroyed my garden.
I have seen gardeners use a board over the row of carrots to keep the moisture in until they germinate. I thought they like to germinate in the dark...
Not necessarily they just can't be covered by much soil. They dont have tge stored energy needed to pushbthrough a bunch of dirt. The board keeps the moisture in.
I have a question. When you were planting the zucchini you said "each get their own straw". Do you use the straws to know where you planted the seeds? Do you mark the straws? I have a really bad time of my plant markers fading or getting lost. I just wondered what you were doing with straws. Thanks!
Wonder if you could offer some advice. Ive grown stuff in my raised beds, successfully for 3 years. This year I mixed in an organic compost. Since doing this, seeds don't germinate and any transplants either seem to be slow growing or stunted. Even weeds don't grow. I did a germination test with seeds in the ground and seeds in a pot with different compost blend and the other one was already a foot tall before the ones in the ground had sprouted. Is there anything I can do to fix this or will I have to dig it all out and refill?
So so.much cheaper. We also converted the chicken bedding to wood shavings a while back and the combo of wood shavings and chicken manure has been great in the garden
I bought a block of compressed pine shavings 2 years ago and just used the last of it last year. Got it at Menards for around $5 and used it to mulch my 3 Birdies beds and 3 large pots where I grow my peppers.
Off topic but I have a question that hopefully you can answer. Where can I buy specific plant labels like you'd see in each individual plant at The Home Depot or Taylor's do it center?
Im soglad you mentioned using pet bedding to mulch. I am an indoor gardener and a few years ago (during pndemic) I bought what I thought were small bricks of bedding for my daughter's hamster. When they came..they were 3 HUGE bricks of bedding and of course, I couldnt return them.. Walmart substituted the LARGE bricks for the small ones I ordered and charged me only like $1.50 for each one..they actually refunded the like $5.00 and "made" me keep the large bricks..I have been using them as mulch for the past 3 years and still have 1 I havent even opened yet. The hamster passed away Jan of 22..I threw him in my hot compost bin (David the Good told me to-In a song)..so thank you for sharing that with your viewers!
I don’t think cutting the leaves of onions will benefit the plant. As a bulb I would follow the Dutch bulb growers who cut off the flowers but keep the leaves to grow big bulbs. How much water do your plants get?
This is a question I ask out of curiosity that occurred to me when fertilizing my plants with Neptune's Harvest. I have a relatively small number of plants so I can easily make up the NH and water mixture in a watering can and sprinkle my plants. How on Earth to use it for such a large garden like yours?
I used tomato hooks for my pole beans last summer, worked grea but was a bit of a tangle to disassemble afterward. Same with peas, messy but effective.
Could you maybe answer a question for me about trap crops? How is it that the insect population on the trap plant doesn't just expand to the point where it spills over to the desired crop next door? I've never seen, say, fungus gnats who were so entranced by overripe peaches that they'd ignore an overwatered houseplant nearby.
Hiya Brian. I know closed caption doesn't work with newly posted videos. Unfortunately with my hearing loss I couldn't hear what kind of squash to plant for squash traps.
@Next Level Gardening thank you. Yeah I know you have no control over that. Curiosity when you order from baker creek how long does it take to get your order?
Sorry, I think reducing the onion foliage will result in a SMALLER bulb, not larger. Time will tell. I use pine shavings, too, but they break down slower than straw.
Hi Brian! Looking 👍 good Sorry to bother you, but I'm very nervous about the Hay I just bought. How would I know if it's that chemical? Bought it at Tractor Supply, and its compressed. Should I call the store? 😮😬
Unfortunately they won't know. You can sprinkle it on a patch of Earth and water it in well. Plant some seeds underneath of something Fast growing like lettuce. Wait a few weeks and see if the lettuce looks deformed. It's not full proof but it can give you a good idea
@Next Level Gardening Thank you very much for your prompt response, but I'm really afraid of using it since it is not 100% sure. I would rather drive 1 hour back to the store and return it. Thank you very much for all your help, and your place is looking like a dream😍👍
Brian, with the pine shavings, do you have issues with it effecting the soil like you can with pine sawdust? I mulched with sawdust one year and it killed everything it was around.
My husband recently spotted my copy of your book on our coffee table. He thought "companion plant" meant houseplants best suited per your personality type. 😄
HAHAHA!! My next book!
You are so lucky there lol. Here in Northern WI we don’t usually plant until Memorial weekend. Then we go like crazy to get it all in so we get a good growing window. But I use all your info and have grown the best tomatoes including heirlooms just by trellising to one main stem. Thank you so much.
I just snipped my onion scapes to use on my charcuterie board for Easter brunch. Baby carrots, fresh green onions too, I love having them at the ready for guests. Thanks Brian!
Growing zucchini vertically is a game changer and I will never go back!! 👩🏻🌾💚 !!
great to hear!
Brian, I use your fabulous book all the time. I love it and I honestly don’t know what I’d do without it. We’re in zone 10b and grew our zucchini as trees, per your previous example, last year and only took down the trunks at the end of Feb. We had them in a raised bed, but measuring from the soil surface to the tops, the trees themselves were over 7’ tall when we finally took them down. And they were STILL producing. 😱 FYI, we used 10’ redwood 2x2 stakes and sank them 3’ into the bed to make sure they were stable. “Overkill is underrated.” 😎 Thanks again for all your great info and for staying relatable by allowing us to see when you make mistakes…as well as how to fix them. Keep up the great work!
thank you so much!!
7 feet tall; wow!
I love the companion planting tips. Please continue this.
Will do
We make onion top pesto with the onion tops. We also cut up and dehydrate the onion tops. We then use them in the winter in soups or you can grind them up into onion powder. Two crops from one plant. We find it does make the onions bigger.
Very soon my garden too will be planted and green and alive. I have my fingers crossed we both have a stellar year! Especially you now that you have an easy way to preserve your crops now.
Yes!!!
I was blown away by the tulle tip ! Never thought of that and I have a ton of leftover tulle. Striking ‘bird netting’ from my shopping list right now.
Great!
My hubby switched from bird netting to tulle for his blueberries, as the birds and even a young rat snake got stuck in it! Works like a charm!💕
I like the tulle tip also. I've used bird netting and it's a nightmare!!! It not only gets birds tangled up, it grabs every button and edges of your sneakers and anything else nearby😄
@@tesswagner895 😃
I LOVE the zinnias! I'm planting them everywhere! I even had them to re-seed themselves so I already have some in the garden and they made it through this last cold snap we had.
Still having unseasonable cold with snow here in Oregon! Looking forward to that sun!!
Yay! Let's plant!! So happy the rain is mostly behind us now. Looking forward to planting my raised beds that I have been composting for the last year! Thanks for your vidoes, Brian. I watch and re-watch them all the time!
Let's get growing!! 😊
All I can grow is snow. Merry Springmas. I'm starting to think spring will never come.
I use pine shavings inside my chicken coop and when i clean it out I save the shaving for mulch
How long do your chicken poop pine shavings take to compost before using as mulch?
I'm outside in sunny (chilly) Maryland in 7a, up potting herbs and listening to you as you garden. Thanks for the blue hubbard Tip! I am starting it before my zucchini and yellow squashes !
Yes, I am in Maryland too. Just waiting to plant.
I make seed tapes for my carrots. It takes a bit of work to do them but then I don't have to thin.
Love the fact you don't use hand tools. I love to get my hands dirty, like a big kid playing in the dirt. Plus love the little stick placement markers, i though i was crazy for doing that for the longest time LOL :)
Lol
I am going to try either cardboard or newspaper when planting my carrots this year.
I’m in the U.K. .. we had a lot of rain too.. although this country is known for it 🙄 but more than normal… it gave me a good chance to get all of my bare root purchased strawberry and rhubarb plants to settle in their new pots with least problems 😊
I have used pine shavings for years. The best and cheapest form of mulch. Thank you for the new video.
I like your tree tepee I wish that I could do that in my garden, we can get some incredible wind here and the tepee would blow over in a heartbeat. 🙁🌷💚🙃
For beans and cucumbers I use two 8x4 wire mesh from HD, those used for concrete slabs, connected up with tight and down 4’ apart. They need hardly any support and they work well. Kind of a cattle fence, but only 8’ high, standing as A.
For the trimming of the onions, Lazy Dog farm mentioned a study had been done and it’s a myth. Essentially, the reason trimming was even done was for the mechanical transplanting needed the leaves to be shorter so it didn’t interfere with the moving mechanisms of the transplanter. I would love to see a side by side comparison to see if it’s a repeatable result.
We'll see what happens. I'll update you
I saw a video on this. They said it was done because if the top leaves got too heavy they flop over and kink the stem near the bulb. They said once this happens the onion thinks its done its job and stops growing a larger bulb.
AWESOME TEACHING BRIAN ❤ LOVE YALL ❤
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Rice hulls are also a great mulch. It's used for retaining water and for drainage so it replaces pearlite. Rice hulls are also easy to turn into biochar. You have to mail order it though.
Thank you for the tip!💕
This is hands-down, the best education I’ve gotten learning to start and plant my garden. It doesn’t hurt that it’s apples to apples, considering I live in Palmdale/Lancaster area which is a very similar climate and growing season
thanks!
Agreed! I’m in the same growing zone (10a) and do many of the same things Brian does. I’ll even try wood shavings this year, because the straw I purchased for mulch last year produced far too many weeds for me.
Thank you for the heads-up reminder. Pine shavings sound great!
So excited for all your lessons! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
You're welcome! ❤️
Every step in the plantings is full of helpful ideas! Thank you! Happy you're enjoying some dry days!
Thanks for the tip on pine shavings as mulch. I'd thought of that last year but wasn't sure how well it would work.
Thank you for the companion planting suggestions. I love this time of year and all the new promise in the garden.
You're welcome! Me too!
The past 3 years I've planted Zinnias and Marigolds in my raised garden beds. This year I'm also trying some petunias and calendula.
that blue sky rain and more rain here in southern ireland
Nice info I still have some catching up to do. I used Pine needle as a mulch on the veggie garden we will see. I works great for our Azelia's Lillys and Ferns. Thank You
Just potted some dahlias today from your other video. Will use tomato trellis and squash stakes this year. Keep doing what you do. Love it
So nice of you
Thanks for the pine shavings idea!
We use pine pelleted bedding in our coops (typically used in horse stalls). Highly recommend it over shavings!
I use the same pellets instead of cat litter. Smells SO much better!
Brain, please look into "chicken poop boards" to help reduce how much pine chips your having to buy/use, along with being able to choose where to poop goes, and reducing the smell. Cleaning the boards (with vinyl on them) makes cleaning up so much easier and less flies.
Learned a lot. I’ll be ordering that Companion Plant book soon. Thanks!!
Thank you for the small space tips!! love from zone 9b Sonoma CA
Thanks for the information on planting, it's very helpful!
I'm still waiting for snow to melt here, plus another snowstorm for our area in the next 2 days...ugh
You are so welcome!
Watching you 🌱 plant and sit on the ground is therapeutic vicarious gardening for me waiting for spinal fusion to heal. Thank you for helping me be patient! 🌻🙏
Aww. Here's to a speedy recovery!
Thank you so very much!! Take care of your back! Too many years of loving my gardening and not my back! 😊🌻
@@christyw2010 I hear you!
Hi Brian, still too early here for outside planting but enjoy watching you.
Have a good day 🌟👵🏻👩🌾❣️
So nice of you
Last year, I decided to learn about planting in my 8a Zone and planted a few things one being a cherry tomato plant. I used your method of using 2 tomato cages and my plant gave me an abundance of wonderful cherry tomatoes! Since that was so successful, I decided to get raised beds and plant additional vegetables this year. My gardening experience was in Washington state and here I'm able to add plants that wouldn't survive up in Washington state without a greenhouse but I don't know much about them. Could you do a video on planting and raising asparagus? My father came from a long line of organic ranchers even when it wasn't popular but they had the best Moorpark apricots in Santa Clara Valley! My father carried on with organic farming in Washington state and I learned a lot from him but there are things that I have either forgotten or he didn't plant because of our short growing season. I took your suggestion and I'm using all of the organic Neptune Harvest products that you recommended. I live in a senior and young family community and the food inflation is really affecting their ability to buy a variety of vegetables I will be referring to your previous videos as I don't have a lot of space but want to help my community as much as possible. Thank you again for sharing all your knowledge and getting our minds off of world events.
I love this channel!! Love how your garden is coming together too! I don’t know if you read my ether comment, but on your Next Level Homesteading, would you mind doing a video on how to cook Fennel?!
I was so excited last year to discover pine shavings for mulch because 1) low cost and 2) dense evaporation protection. But now I'm not as excited after seeing how hard it is to keep the pine shavings from integrating down into the soil and sucking up all the nitrogen as it decomposes. I've gone back to straw because it's easy to pull aside when planting. I found a source of unsprayed finer straw and let the bales sit out all winter so now they are starting to decompose and they form a dense mulch mat. Perfect.
Rice hulls are much better.
Millennial Gardener?
Here where I live in Arkansas the last frost date is April 9 th. The weather is warm this week but still have to wait. I fought vine bores last year and lost. I’ll. Definitely try the tool covering. Want to do carrot this year so loved the shade cloth tips. Video is very helpful. Thank you so much. Blessings ❤️🌺
So informative! And your forgetting to fertilize your zucchini plantings made me laugh out loud -- you'd think I'd never done that.😉 I will also be switching to pine shavings for mulch. What a great substitute for straw!
Re Reading your book now!
My dad stepped on his onions to get the bulbs bigger. it worked. The onions were large like yours are when he did it.
Really? Never heard of that one.
Love all the videos lately❤. So much information❤❤
I started using cedar pet bedding as mulch last year and had no problems with it. Maybe I was just lucky the first year. Time will tell.
We had snow this morning in Bonney Lake, WA. We never get snow this late. Smh
Pine pellet bedding for your muddy chicken run instead of shavings, they are way more absorbent than shavings and you need less to suck up the water and firm things up.
I tried the Blue Hubbard squash as a trap crop last year. I guess you could say it worked as the svb killed it first before moving on to my zucchini and yellow squash…🤦🏻♀️ Trying again this year with the zucchini planted in a new bed and covered in tulle
Interesting... I was always told by old farmers to plant 3 bean seeds.
I see Zenias in my future!
Sometimes you can get the pine shavings cheaper if it’s wet or open because the animals need it to be dry.
I always have problems with Mexican Bean Beetles in my bush beans. I’ve never heard anyone talk about them and wondered if you have any suggestions on how to get rid of them. Thanks, keep up the great work!
I do believe I covered those in my book. Potatoes I think?
Plant a few beet seeds, same depth. The beets will come up a couple days ahead of the carrots. When they do, flame weed the carrot bed and you'll be weed free long enough for the carrots to get well established
What is flame weed?
We still have snow I can't start gardening yet here in WA state we got snow too an inch but it's too cold
How long do I have to wait before I start my garden in WA state
Love your channels. Looking forward to going more vertical. My question is looking at your raised bed garden: what do you do to run your irrigation lines between the beds? Or are they all separately fed?
Planting legumes into the compost is like a canary in the coal mine on bacteria in compost Jess from roots and refuge has done this.
I wonder if Aspen bedding for small animals would work too. We always have an abundance to pine shavings for our rabbits and goats but somewhere I was told it was bad for the garden. I don't even remember why. I order huge bags of Aspen from Walmart online for $10 now. It doesn't have the oils like pine. I might just try that!
Have you ever used moisture or PH testers? I use both, however this is my first year planting seeds with a moisture sensor. Do I want near total saturation with seeds at first, then let it get dryer? What if any seeds do you soak overnight? Old guy, new to raised gardens with bagged "dirt".
From what I have seen, you can or should plant onions around tomatoes, peppers, carrots, and other things. No real need to plant any on their own in a small hobby garden. The rain hasn't left Tennessee yet, but spreading out some.
I never knew about that with straw being that i just bought a big bag of it, but do love the fact that i can use pine shavings...
thanks for the tip.
You're welcome!
Excellent information.
What Zone are you in? I'm in Florida Zone 10. Guess I need to get your book.
Thank you!
Thanks! 9b/10a
Esther's D@ Hi there, neighbor! I'm also in Florida growing zone 10. Are you on the Gulf side?
I sometimes have germination issues with beans so I've been adding mycorrhiza to my planting! Sometimes by putting insect netting/tuille over your squash, you can trap the squash bugs under neath as they emerge from the soil?
Salut de belles cultures merci je m’abonne 🙏🙏🙏
great vid
Yesterday I got half the yard weed whacked, per your inspiration. My back needs a day recover before finishing. Today, I went to hand weed some of my fabric beds…and after all this insane amount of rain, it was too dry to pull without breakage. (No fair!)
Tomorrow I get potting soil for a big container (2’x2’) for lime tree. It’s about 5g max size now. Wondering if I should do your pot in a pot trick, since the pot is a few transplant sizes bigger than it’s current size. Does that work for trees, or is the big pot ok?
If alliums grow similar to other plants maybe just snipping the tip will remove apical dominance and stop the current leaf growth as the plant looks for other locations to send out shoots. I also wonder if this would encourage more smaller leaves to develop, and is the size of the leaf an indicator of the thickness of the blub wall/layer, and the number of leaves the actual number of layers
I also got small Parisien carrot seeds, last Autumn! Mine are called 'Market Baron.' Can't wait to see how they turn out! Thanks for the great idea to plant them amongst my onions! I hadn't thought of that and last year mine got absolutely blitzed by something! The turnips (Falco) did too. Not sure what did it, though. Hope the onion scent keeps them at bay! Is it too late to grow more onion starts? Mine didn't over-winter very well and I still have tons of starts left over, in my potting shed.
Great video! Looking for specific help with liquid fertilizing - how much and how often?
Assistance requested :)
My indoor tomato plants are about 5 to 6 inches tall and were doing great - until I transplanted them from starting packs into larger solo cups. The leaves are turning lighter and then yellow and then droop and look as though they will die. The plants are still growing and adding more leaves. I used Sta-Green potting mix, Sta-Green coco coir, and Miracle Grow percolite for the medium in the solo cups. I mixed 1 to 1 with the potting mix and coco coir. When I purchased the potting mix, I did not notice that it contained fertilizer also - a 1 6 1 fertilizer.
Have I created a mix which holds water to long? It's been 3 weeks and I've only had to water them once so far. I will try to post this within the 2 hour frame of the next video, but thought I would give it a shot here as well.
Let the dry a bit. If it's just the bottom leaves and it's still putting on new leaves it's fine
@@NextLevelGardening Thank you! I will do so. Your videos are excellent, by the way. Have a great week!
Thanks! You too
Brian, thank you as always! Question: For your carrots, why didn’t you use the freezer method that you told us about a while back? You did a direct sow in this video.
Just giving multiple options
@@NextLevelGardening Thanks Brian!!!! We appreciate you!
Brian, could you address grubs? How to handle/manage them? Last year I just had to use Sevin and would like to know a different way to handle them that’s a bit more organic. I was desperate because they were wiping out my plants and then the raccoons found them and really destroyed my garden.
Thank you Brian. QUESTION: if your using pine savings do you need to worry about the shavings robbing nitrogen from the soil? 🌷💚🙃
Not if you don't dig them in
I have seen gardeners use a board over the row of carrots to keep the moisture in until they germinate. I thought they like to germinate in the dark...
Not necessarily they just can't be covered by much soil. They dont have tge stored energy needed to pushbthrough a bunch of dirt. The board keeps the moisture in.
When you buy pine needles for mulch are they sanitized? Would they have slug eggs and such?
fabulous planting tips.
I have a question. When you were planting the zucchini you said "each get their own straw". Do you use the straws to know where you planted the seeds? Do you mark the straws? I have a really bad time of my plant markers fading or getting lost. I just wondered what you were doing with straws. Thanks!
Wonder if you could offer some advice. Ive grown stuff in my raised beds, successfully for 3 years. This year I mixed in an organic compost. Since doing this, seeds don't germinate and any transplants either seem to be slow growing or stunted. Even weeds don't grow. I did a germination test with seeds in the ground and seeds in a pot with different compost blend and the other one was already a foot tall before the ones in the ground had sprouted.
Is there anything I can do to fix this or will I have to dig it all out and refill?
Farm stores are MUCH cheaper than pet stores. Even Walmart would be cheaper than a pet store.
So so.much cheaper. We also converted the chicken bedding to wood shavings a while back and the combo of wood shavings and chicken manure has been great in the garden
Just got a frost warning 4 min ago 5 weeks after so called last frost date lol 9b
I bought a block of compressed pine shavings 2 years ago and just used the last of it last year. Got it at Menards for around $5 and used it to mulch my 3 Birdies beds and 3 large pots where I grow my peppers.
Off topic but I have a question that hopefully you can answer. Where can I buy specific plant labels like you'd see in each individual plant at The Home Depot or Taylor's do it center?
What was the outcome of the different growing mediums you tried for germinating seeds?
Thx for the video! Where the heck are you that your last frost is already over?
They are near San Diego, CA. Zone 9 or 10? 😎
Im soglad you mentioned using pet bedding to mulch. I am an indoor gardener and a few years ago (during pndemic) I bought what I thought were small bricks of bedding for my daughter's hamster. When they came..they were 3 HUGE bricks of bedding and of course, I couldnt return them.. Walmart substituted the LARGE bricks for the small ones I ordered and charged me only like $1.50 for each one..they actually refunded the like $5.00 and "made" me keep the large bricks..I have been using them as mulch for the past 3 years and still have 1 I havent even opened yet. The hamster passed away Jan of 22..I threw him in my hot compost bin (David the Good told me to-In a song)..so thank you for sharing that with your viewers!
You're welcome
I don’t think cutting the leaves of onions will benefit the plant. As a bulb I would follow the Dutch bulb growers who cut off the flowers but keep the leaves to grow big bulbs.
How much water do your plants get?
That will look great but will 12 bean plants be worth the trouble for a harvest?
No. I will be adding more
This is a question I ask out of curiosity that occurred to me when fertilizing my plants with Neptune's Harvest. I have a relatively small number of plants so I can easily make up the NH and water mixture in a watering can and sprinkle my plants. How on Earth to use it for such a large garden like yours?
I use a watering can. Takes a while. I'm experimenting with foliar feeding in a hose sprayer and drip injection
Have you tried using your tomato hooks for the beans and squash etc?
Squash yes... beans no
I used tomato hooks for my pole beans last summer, worked grea but was a bit of a tangle to disassemble afterward. Same with peas, messy but effective.
Thanks Brian! QUESTION: does anyone know if tulle can help prevent SWD on my blackberries?
Could you maybe answer a question for me about trap crops? How is it that the insect population on the trap plant doesn't just expand to the point where it spills over to the desired crop next door? I've never seen, say, fungus gnats who were so entranced by overripe peaches that they'd ignore an overwatered houseplant nearby.
With a lot of trap crops you plant successfully ... bag and toss out the ones that are covered.
Hiya Brian. I know closed caption doesn't work with newly posted videos.
Unfortunately with my hearing loss I couldn't hear what kind of squash to plant for squash traps.
Yea sorry for that. Blue Hubbard
@Next Level Gardening thank you. Yeah I know you have no control over that. Curiosity when you order from baker creek how long does it take to get your order?
@@bernadettecraftygal2090 hmmm, I would say 7-10 days???
@Next Level Gardening okie dokie. Thank you Brian.
I didn’t think the pine shavings could be used. I was under the impression it wasn’t good to use.
Definitely can!
Sorry, I think reducing the onion foliage will result in a SMALLER bulb, not larger. Time will tell. I use pine shavings, too, but they break down slower than straw.
Is there anything wrong with using redwood needles for mulch in your garden
What would you suggest as a companion plant for rhubarb?
Hi Brian! Looking 👍 good
Sorry to bother you, but I'm very nervous about the Hay I just bought. How would I know if it's that chemical? Bought it at Tractor Supply, and its compressed. Should I call the store? 😮😬
Unfortunately they won't know. You can sprinkle it on a patch of Earth and water it in well. Plant some seeds underneath of something Fast growing like lettuce. Wait a few weeks and see if the lettuce looks deformed. It's not full proof but it can give you a good idea
@Next Level Gardening Thank you very much for your prompt response, but I'm really afraid of using it since it is not 100% sure. I would rather drive 1 hour back to the store and return it. Thank you very much for all your help, and your place is looking like a dream😍👍
@@mariap.894 Thanks Maria!
Brian, with the pine shavings, do you have issues with it effecting the soil like you can with pine sawdust? I mulched with sawdust one year and it killed everything it was around.