5 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Gardening
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- There are many things I wish I knew before I started gardening, but five of these gardening experiences are more important than others. By focusing on a few critical basics of gardening information, beginning gardeners can have more success and enjoy the gardening journey. With 30 years of experience in the garden, I share the top five things I wish I knew sooner. (Video #107)
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I know this video is about gardening, but I couldn't help to think about how there are so many life lessons present. We ARE the plants in this world. If there is a problem with a plant, it's usually the soil (environment). Negative people (bad bugs) are going to be around so surround yourself with great people (good bugs). The weeds (bad times) in your life aren't always bad for us....they attract the bugs and birds (things and people) we need. With all that said, have patience as you grow and learn to enjoy your failures as you share them with people just like you. Then celebrate the success of others either way. I love this! Thank you Gardener Scott!
This comment is great! These videos are too. I feel like I’ve found my people!
That's pretty good bro. I wish more people thought that we should all lift each other up. More on this later.
If you live pathologically, then you pathologicalize your society and if enough people do that it creates a hell. This was in reference to people who live nihilist existences.
What a great way to explain life.
1)Soil is Key; 80% of all issues/success are due to soil.
Soil = 40% Mineral; 25% Air; 25% Water; 5% Organic matter
(Test your soil for mineral content.)
2) Bugs happen. Don't kill them, attract the good bugs instead.
3) Weeds will win. Learn to control them with MULCH; don't give up.
4) Patience is a virtue. Plants take time to. grow.
5) Learn from your failures; Share failures with fellow-gardeners.
DO NOT USE CHEMICALS FOR ANY ISSUES!
Good synopsis.
thank you! :)
How do you find the proper balance???
How do you measure the amount of air in the soil?
5% Sweat, or tears.
Sin #6: I don't trust my seeds. Instead of planting 1-2 of them in each little hole I plant 3-4 seeds. And then I'm having a hard time choosing which little plant will live and which shall be sacrificed.
I learned that too. I now plant 2 per pot unless the seed is really old, then I plant 3 to 4.
This is actually pretty good advice for life in general.
This could be a life coach speech heavily laden with garden metaphors!
I agree; listening to him makes you not only a better gardener, but also better in life general!!
Thank you sir, for sharing your experience 👌
What a wonderful experience listening to your videos Gardener Scott!! You explain things so clearly without talking down at us newbies; you speak with so much passion and understanding of gardening that it makes me want to go out and get started immediately. But am just starting my compost pile while waiting to build my raised bed. I moved to the Mpumalanga Province in South Africa a year ago and unfortunately we're on solid bedrock you cant make a 10cm hole without an excavator LOL it's that bad. We have vast citrus Macadamia nut and avocado farms surrounding us and everything seems to flourish even though it's largely orange clay soil covering the rock. So I'm doing lots of research to try and get the best soil mix possible but there's so much information out there. Please tell me, does Bokashi have any benefits as a compost additive? I'm reluctant to use chemical fertilizers but will have to use it if there's no other option. I firmly believe in Bone Meal (my dad had a marvellous garden always and this was his regular go-to) I don't know if this is correct but his results were good. I'm sorry this is so long but I'm a lady of 63, my brother is 70 and I so much want our veg patch (14m x 2m) to be a success, just to see his pleasure. He still works a six day week as a welder boilermaker repairing earth moving machinery and making frames for the most beautiful exotic wood tables but gratefully the co. is letting him retire in Dec and we shall hopefully have immeasurable joy from watching our garden grow. He hasn't had the time over the last 14 yrs but I do now. Three weeks ago we planted four young fig trees and we couldn't believe it when we saw the first three tiny figs forming on Kadota cultivar!! It was leap in the air kind of joy truly. I'm going to watch your 'Make Great Soil' video now; thank you so much for your presence on RUclips and for your kind and patient knowledge you're sharing with us. Blessings and love from SA! Felicity and Alan.
Agreed.
I agree.
But, all my favorite RUclips gardeners are like that. I think the garden is a metaphor for life and the best garden teachers show that well!!!
His words are so soothing, even the dog went sleep, lol.
This is actually pretty good advice for life in general.
Thumbs up if you love the dog trying to get in on the video, so cute!!!
Thanks. She likes to be involved. 🙂
Gardener Scott Thank you so much. I'm a new gardener of 57 who values your wisdom and experience and I needed to hear these words today. More than you know, but I'm sure you can imagine. So I got knocked down again ( compost failure) turns out copperheads loved my compost pile of leaves. On to plan B. What I'm saying is one failure after another can hurt your feelings but to keep going and find what works for you, priceless!!! I'm sure the fruit will be sweeter when I get there, No, I know it will!!! Relax except and learn. Because when your green there is room to grow. Well that's what I took from this video, so Thank you again! Sincerely, Cathy
Agree with you. I look at failures as a challenge to get it right next time.
If we have never killed a plant, we have never tried to grow one. Old timers like me realize we are trying to conduct a symphony, making everyone play nice together, but sometimes we hear a sour note. Just keep on playing. Great video.
Thanks, Elbert. The symphony analogy is spot on.
Elbert, right on. I had family stay with us two weekends in a row. Talk about sour notes, we had a few. I've come to the conclusion that I can accept and work with the good and the bad. I love them all.
Beautifully said
Thanks for your thoughts couldn't have said it better myself happy gardening
The Bob Ross of gardening. Love your positive vibes man
You are the Bob Ross of gardening.
My favourite quote: "Feed the soil, not the plants. The plants will look after themselves."
I like that quote too. Thanks.
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Let food be thy medicine...
Hey Gardener Scott! The most successful gardener in our family was my grandfather who has long since passed. I am so glad I saw this video because I hear a lot of his wisdom in your words of advice. As a new gardener I pride myself on not giving up after one season and hope to one day be as confident in my own garden in Queensland as you are in Colorado (I have visited Colorado Springs multiple times and remember with fondness seeing a painting by Arthur Dove entitled "Fog Horns" in the Fine Arts Center. Cheers!
I have one more to add. It is ADDICTIVE! And if it ever gets in your blood you can't help yourself. After CHRISTMAS and the trimmings are put away, those thoughts start to creep in. You find yourself checking out seed catalogs, thinking of soil amendments or changing the layout of your plants for better use of sun and rain. I can't help myself. This time of year I just have a need to scratch in the dirt.
I ask my mowing man to leave big patches of the weeds in my lawn for the bees and ladybugs etc especially the dandelions and the tiny native wildflowers. He thinks I'm crazy but I'm not. 🤪
The best thing about learning how to garden and solve problems today is RUclips! It's so easy to find answers now. I don't know how the old timers did it.
Grew up in central California. Never used any soil amendment. Now I live in blue ridge mountains in north Carolina. Having to rethink all my techniques. Just have fun with it😃
Interesting. I live on the gulf coast, and growing up the only gardening books I saw were for gardens much further north.
One day it hit me as I was reading a seed packet that said, “Direct sow after last chance of frost.” and realized we don’t even have any frost most years!
Once I understood the importance of soil, zone, weather my “luck” improved greatly!
Thank you so much for your kindness to share your knowledges !!! God bless you and your family !
Mr Scott your videos are so helpful and i can’t stop watching to it! THANK YOU !
Thank you Gardener Scott!! My new Headspace is in the dirt with your meditative videos!
Decades later I finally understood that the soil is alive. As guardians, it is our job to feed and nourish this magical stuff. Look at the rewards. Very nice video.
Thanks. It may have taken awhile, but it's important that you know now.
I'm trying to consider and educate myself as someone who primarily grows soil. Everything else can be built up from that.
Probably why I never had a problem with gardening, from the first year. I knew about compost and quickly learned about beneficial insects. That prepared me for *&$ last year when I started a no-till veggie garden from scratch and had to deal with all the pests from wireworms to deer and everything in between. Luckily after 15 years of decent gardening I was almost prepared for the heartbreak. Next year I'll get a fence to keep the damn deer out. They are still frustrated by the netting and frost blankets I'm currently using. Haven't figured out how to foil those, but the damn voles were certainly happy in there.
@@marshwetland3808 Crop protection is number one priority. I have an endless hoard of predators, bed scratchers, heap diggers, garbage spreaders, hole chewers, angry biters, venomous serpents, and a zillion bugs.
@@dystopiagear6999 absolutely!
Hello gardener Scott! I am enjoying your videos. I am learning a lot of great information... this video specifically have many great lessons not just in gardening but in life itself. That is the best part I like about the process of gardening is it’s like cultivating my own life. I appreciate how you deliver the information as well, you’re like a loving gardening dad... hopefully, I keep learning, and like you, I’d be able to share what I learn to others as well.
I too have grown to love weeding. I set a schedule for each area of my landscape/garden and when it pops up on my to do list for the week I go out and put on a good audio book and get to work. I have used weeding to read dozens and dozens of books about everything from gardening to stock trading and a few good star wars books.
This video may have contained the best advice for life ever...and the gardening tips were great too!
Love your attitude, your calm, your smarts, and your honesty. I feel like I'm talking with someone with a lot of experience and, like me, has learned valuable lessons.
This is not just another "5 things I wish I knew", it is important, distilled wisdom. I knew most of these, but I forgot I know them. Thanks for the reminder!
I love your messages, Gardener Scott. You have an amazing and positive message about gardening. I've just this year made MY very first garden. I have been around gardens most of my life. My grandmother had a HUGE garden. My dad and stepmom had a nice large garden. And I helped them with their gardens. I didn't know how much I'd absorbed of their knowledge, but I'm not so foolish to think I know it all. I searched online for guidance and found you. We now have a lovely raised bed garden. This year I planted summer squash, zucchini, corn, watermelon, green and purple beans, mini butternut squash, cherry tomatoes, beef steak and Cherokee purple tomatoes, sweet potato, sweet red bell peppers, green onion (WOW those little things are potent!!!), carrots and purple carrots, beets, radishes, thyme, basil, dill, and mixed lettuce. I have learned so much this year. I have learned that some things need more room than I gave them (zucchini, squash) and I've learned there is a reason my parents and grandma made mounds and rows, and I've learned to be more patient for things to sprout. I was worried that I'd done something wrong, but boy was I wrong. My garden by the end of this growing season was nuts!!! Next year will be more organized, and easier to harvest from. Boy those zucchinis are hiding genius'!
Great advice for beginners and a timely reminder for the seasoned gardeners. Btw love the dog must be a joy to have him/her around
Thanks. Yes, she is fun to have around. Especially when she behaves in videos.
Thank you so much Gardener Scott. My wife and I had a terrible harvest this past season and I particularly was so frustrated as to what happened. This video really made me feel better and learn from your wisdom. I cant wait to see your apple tree and its first harvest!
Love your videos. Very informative for a new gardener.
Thanks Garndener Scott. Great stuff for gardening and life.
Thanks Gardener Scott. I'll try again this year!
Just what I needed. Thank you Scott.
Thanks for taking the time to remember and educate new gardeners like myself. You offer us wonderful insight. I particularly was impressed with the video showing comparison between peat moss and coconut coir.
My oh my, what a beautiful presentation on the art of gardening. Excellent!!
Thank you for sharing your experience, it is strengthening and inspiring. Take care. Juan
I LOVE me some Gardener Scott! just straight chill
I can so relate. I did so many things that weren’t helpful or productive, like not covering my soil in winter. I love your channel. You are so helpful!
Love your channel! Just stumbled upon it and I’m hooked. Thank you for being a wealth of knowledge. Your videos are amazing - the most calming voice, clear concise information and great advice!!
I have a 97 yr old GPaw and his gardening advice is invaluable! What an amazing resource! ❤️❤️❤️🌺🌷
Goodness, l love your knowledge and wisdom. Thank you Scott for sharing.
I relate to your advice about failures. In the moment, that's what we focus on, but I look back at photos from the garden in past years, and in retrospect, every year has been a success! The failures are small compared to the successes. Mother nature is generous!
Nice to see your dog in the video!! He looks very content! Right now I love my strawberries.. easiest thing to grow. Starting garlic in fall.
Great message Gardner Scott. I got my Gardner Scott t-shirt and love it! Thank you. Have a great day sir 😊
Excellent list. Patience and learning are very important.
Thanks a million for sharing your experience with us. Keep up the good work.
God Bless You Gardner Scott.
What I love about gardening is everything it teaches yo, like what you have just laid out is applicable to life. We can learn much about life by observing the garden.
Gardener Scott you are just a good person , and wise❤️
Excellent advice for new gardeners... shared very good knowledge about success and failures... great job
Thanks Gardener Scott, for reminding me to share (our experiences) what we know. And well, the bit on failures. 😉
You're welcome, Susan.
I am learning gardening and English. Excellent tips. Thank you Scott ! Rom from France
You are welcome. Thank you, Rom.
The gardener's mantra----NEXT Year! It's why we live FOREVER.....because we're waiting for that perfect year.
Loved the video. I've also gardened for 30 years and I love it more every year. Greatest joy there is.
That's right! Thanks.
Great advice ..... I think the patience point is paramount and as mentioned in other comments trancends just gardening into a metaphor of life in general
Best advise on gardening and life as a whole. Thanks
Thank you Scott! Your video (and voice) has had a calming effect on me. I've taken to farming 3 years ago at age 52, and have been facing exactly what you were talking about. Now i feel more hopeful than ever with your 5 amazing tips.
Thank you, Pete. Glad I could help.
THANK YOU for this advice! Perfect for what I needed to hear as a newer gardener! I’m still a work in progress….not a failure. HAPPY GARDENING!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge of gardening with me. I have learned so much from you. 👍🏻🇺🇸
So glad it's been helpful. Thanks.
Being a new gardener, this video is so helpful! Thank you! Actually these 5 points are good advise for life in general!
I'm so glad it was helpful. I agree with you... the lessons of gardening can be helpful in life.
A happy little apple tree. A happy little bug. A happy little weed. Bob Ross’ brother for sure. And I loved watching him paint. This is a great channel for information. Thank you!
I have a black thumb, I was born with it so watching videos like this and learning I am hoping and praying that this year I will actually produce some vegetables in my garden. Gardner Scott your advice is so easy to follow thank you for putting these videos out there for a newbie like me they are absolutely vital! Happy gardening
The gardener whisperer strikes again! LOL thank I felt my regular anxiety going down that had nothing to do with gardening! LOL hahahaa you are awesome. Thank you!
I am beginer to start growing some plant at my back yard, I am so lucky to view this video to creat some basic concept in my mind. Thank you so much for your sharing ur experience to me!
You can do it!
I've been a what I call a sporadic gardener but have carried a love for it since I was very young and in 4-H in northern Minnesota. Now that I'm retired, I want to grow as much of my own food as I can, so I have LOTS to learn! Love your channel and have learned so much already! Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge!
Great advice! Thanks Gardner Scott! - Chris from Mississippi
Thank you. This is the first video I’ve ever seen laying out these important truths. Great content. Thank you sir
Thank you for your videos! This is my first year gardening. I started in a plot where my family had torn down failed grape vines because they were not properly cared for. Next year I want to start some raised beds and plant flowers that attract pollinators
you’re awesome scott! thank you for all this information
Thank you gardener Scott for the informative and entertaining videos. I am newly interested in gardening and will be using raised beds. I am actually glad for some weeds because I have beehives.
One of the best videos I’ve seen in awhile Gardener Scott! Simple important information to make better gardening! I will share. Thanks for posting. 🌲
Thank you, Stan.
@@GardenerScott 1 thing you have to learn .... Biochar only works the first year .... Tests made by university in belgium has proven that ....
Great tips. Thank you. There is no OFF position on the GENIUS switch. Let's get cooking.
Wonderful information, full of your valuable experience. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you, Maria.
Thank goodness that you make these videos! As a fairly new gardener (previous to this year I only grew succulents and potatoes!) it’s good to know others make the same mistakes and how best to fix. Good in good out!! Bug’s definitely happen🤣🤣🤣
Wise words mate. I’m always amazed at how good wasps are at controlling pests. A few years ago I had an infestation of flea beetles on beat spinach. I held off spraying and the wasps picked every last one!
this is my second year and I'm still learning. I will not give up. thank you for the info
That's the way to approach it. Enjoy!
Damn this can be translated directly to life much love happy plants❤️
I agree. Happy plants to you. 🙂
Yeah grt rid of one idiot in government and another one comes along
Thank you for the information you are a hidden gem channel and that is what makes you valuable
I appreciate that. Thank you.
Being concise in speech is a powerful skill
Totally agree. One of the things that make gardening so enjoyable is that there are a lot of ways to fail. It's not easy, but all of those ways that one can fail are manageable. It's fun to learn how to be better and to do better. The reward is food! Do this difficult task and you will be rewarded with food that didn't exist until you wanted it to...Pretty cool.
Absolutely. Few things in life can give us such a reward, even when we get it wrong.
so true, i just altered my soil mix growing MARIJUANA after 15 years and its been amazing......
Thank You for a Up Front and Honest Video on Gardening things I wish I knew.
You're very welcome.
I love watching your videos Gardener Scott. This video has inspired me to continue to enjoy gardening. I grow boysenberries (which is not a very common fruit), and I remember it took almost 2 years for them to grow I had to learn that patience is key. I also experienced failure but then was told that it happens and I did not let that stop me! And even though there’ll be weeds, I use them to make a stinky weed tea fertilizer and I was amazed by the results of that liquid fertilizer! I never even used pesticides with chemicals in them. I always made my own. And the rest of the facts you mentioned in this video 100% make sense and makes very excited to continue enjoying gardening in the future! And I hope to continue growing boysenberries in the future!
I need that. So far I’m on year two of gardening. I’m already doing a lot better, but I’ve already made some mistakes. But I can definitely see my progress. I just gotta keep at it.
I love your videos and your gardening wisdom!
The dog napping makes this video 1000% better, thank you :)
Thank you for your wisdom!
Greetings from Connecticut Gardner Scott! Thank you for another awesome video. I’ve got a small garden approximately 400 ft.² that I’ve pretty much done the same thing with for 20 maybe 25 years. This year something changed with the help of your videos. I planted my first fall garden and added a garlic and shallot bed that I m really excited about. Next year will be all organic and heirloom and I’m more enthusiastic than ever. Thank you very much for so freely sharing so much of your knowledge. I’ll be studying and looking forward to more great videos.
Sincerely grateful, Dale
Hello, Dale. So glad to hear you're trying new things and enjoying it. Thanks.
Very sound advice, I knowing most of these things being on such a low budget, usually workaround things like poor soil and at times I have found pulling weeds very cathartic, also I don't mind waiting for my garden, even though it won't wait for me, it's always a challenge and I never get bored, but I can only do so much.
Thanks. Keep enjoying what you do.
Thank you for this video it’s made me feel so much better.
Glad to hear it. Thanks.
Thanks For Your Informative Videos.
I learn a lot of things about soil and life, ty
Very close to best video that can be produce. I think me and my sweet hart will now try growing. Much thanks.
I'm 10 years in and still learning. Very sage advice...thank you and, blessings!
Thank you.
Pun intended? Lol
Bless you. So much wisdom.
I’m new to this channel, and this advice is going to be put to good use next year☺️
Tips start at 2:36 everything before is a nice heartfelt speech.
Gardener Scott, thanks for the life lessons. We enjoyed listening while eating breakfast. My hubby and I kept nodding our heads in agreement with you. We've been gardening for 9 years since my youngest was around 4 years old.
There's so much to learn from nature and tending a garden is one of the best ways to interact. Plus the kids learn where food comes from. I've named my garden "Hardin ni Nanay" in honor of my grandmother who grew the sweetest white corn, hanging gourds, roma tomatoes, etc. She wasn't the nurturing and interactive type of grandma but by example, she taught me and now I often think of her. Don't give up on your garden, folks!
Thanks for listening and thanks for sharing your story.
Such valuable advice. I am just a fledgling gardener starting out - quite proud of what I've achieved so far, but boy - have I experienced everything you've stated already! The bugs, the weeds, the failures - and battling with soil problems (plus having NO clue how much water is "enough"). I've had to learn to shelve my "perfectionist" attitude and let nature take it's course in many instances - and often times, it turns out okay. Thanks Scott.
Thank you. You're on the right journey.
Great video! Thank You for sharing!
Woowooo! Man you are an inspiration! May God be with you!
GREAT gardening advice!