Greg, I was at my community garden last week, and one of my fellow community gardeners asked me a question: when will you be done with gardening? When does your gardening end? November 1st? December 15th? Or some other date? In my view, this was a question from a novice gardener. As I see it, there is always another garden project to do. The only question is whether you have the time and energy to do it. I thought this might make an interesting video. Of all of the RUclips videos out there, you are one of the best! With that being said: What garden things do you do in the Spring? In the Summer? In the fall? And in your dreaded Canadian winter? I thought your perspective on this question would be interesting. My response to my fellow community gardener was: when does fashion end? When does art end? In my mind, when does gardening end is asking when do you run out of ideas and energy? For me, you may run out of time, but there are always more things you can do. There’s always another garden job. There’s always a next step. I hope to hear from you about this topic. I sometimes sit in my garden and ponder what’s my next step. Ideas sometimes pop into my head. It makes me wonder where these ideas come from. I sometimes think this idea is not from me. I sometimes think the idea is from someone else, and the idea is simply revealed to me. But then again, I could be wrong. As a footnote, I hope you are receiving an uptick in viewer activity from Ohio. When I get asked a garden question, I always refer my fellow community gardeners to Maritime Gardening. I often direct them to: don’t buy soil, build it. That’s a good video and a great title.
Thanks SMH. This is actually a chapter in the book I am currently writing. Maybe I'll do a quick overview in a video - it's a good idea. Short answer - in terms of actual work outside - I stop when the ground freezes and stays frozen. That's usually sometime in december. of course in jan/feb I plan things and order seeds - then in March I am pruning, then in apr I'm planting things indoors and outdoors - and so on
A great follow-up. Thanks!
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Greg, I was at my community garden last week, and one of my fellow community gardeners asked me a question: when will you be done with gardening? When does your gardening end? November 1st? December 15th? Or some other date?
In my view, this was a question from a novice gardener. As I see it, there is always another garden project to do. The only question is whether you have the time and energy to do it.
I thought this might make an interesting video. Of all of the RUclips videos out there, you are one of the best! With that being said: What garden things do you do in the Spring? In the Summer? In the fall? And in your dreaded Canadian winter? I thought your perspective on this question would be interesting.
My response to my fellow community gardener was: when does fashion end? When does art end? In my mind, when does gardening end is asking when do you run out of ideas and energy? For me, you may run out of time, but there are always more things you can do. There’s always another garden job. There’s always a next step. I hope to hear from you about this topic.
I sometimes sit in my garden and ponder what’s my next step. Ideas sometimes pop into my head. It makes me wonder where these ideas come from. I sometimes think this idea is not from me. I sometimes think the idea is from someone else, and the idea is simply revealed to me. But then again, I could be wrong.
As a footnote, I hope you are receiving an uptick in viewer activity from Ohio. When I get asked a garden question, I always refer my fellow community gardeners to Maritime Gardening. I often direct them to: don’t buy soil, build it. That’s a good video and a great title.
Thanks SMH. This is actually a chapter in the book I am currently writing. Maybe I'll do a quick overview in a video - it's a good idea. Short answer - in terms of actual work outside - I stop when the ground freezes and stays frozen. That's usually sometime in december. of course in jan/feb I plan things and order seeds - then in March I am pruning, then in apr I'm planting things indoors and outdoors - and so on
Thanks for another great video, I learned a lot. I have heard that plants can draw nutrients from dying leaves, can you speak to that?
Yes they do! As far as I know they do it though nutrient resorption/recycling.
Will the kale over winter in this bed and you plant garlic in a new spot?
I always plant everything in a different spot :) The kale will only survive the winter if I cover it - otherwise, about 80% of the time it dies.