I am an impatient gardener who is 1 week past her last frost date. It is killing me to wait until May 10 before deciding if I can plant my peppers and tomatoes. My rational side checks the 10 day forecast and can see the night time temps are too low. My emotional side is just too dang excited. Right now the patient, rational side is winning...but it isn’t easy.
Total newbie, have enjoyed watching the seedlings grow. My entire growing knowledge is from you and your mods from the stream lol. Very informative channel, thank you and God bless.
I'm not an amateur but normally bought my plants, 1st yr successfully growing from seed too watching his videos, already realize how much money I'm going to save for yrs to come, making an in door grow space. Plus I love his voice, very calm & learn a lot.
Our frost threat is mostly over in Ohio and this morning I did notice a light frost , So happy my plants are in my sunroom or well covered Thanks for Teaching, Gardenar Scott
We are in fall here and in late summer I noticed some self seeded capsicum plants (probably from my compost). I decided to keep them growing in a pot, watered them with worm leachate. I then made a bird wire cage to fit over the pot and finally covered it all with a large plastic bag. The capsicum have fruited. It was just an experiment but it’s fun to see it worked!
Hardened off a ton of pepper and tomato plants. Had my tomatoes planted and should have been the last frost but forecast changes and I killed most all of my plants. Guess I'll try again next year, and plan for later then this year.
I love all of your videos! They're always so relevant and helpful. You are very articulate and your voice is wonderful 💚🌱 I could just learn and learn all day! keep them coming!!!
Thanks Gardner Scott!!! I love watching your videos. You remind me of our local PNW celebrity gardner Ed Hume with Gardening in America. Also, your video is right on time with pertinent information. I'll be transplanting today! Looking forward to Monday mornings now thanks to you! Happy gardening to you and everyone else out there! ❤️🌱❤️🌱❤️🌱❤️🌱❤️
It is VERY windy where I live. To the point the wind will blow anything across the yard, that is not tied down or heavy. It was VERY hard trying to get my plants use to be outside do to the high winds. And most days the wind blows north and south. I am going to try and plant seeds in pots inside the house and outside in the ground and see which will do better, because of the wind here.
Somehow my best transplant last year was Trader Joe’s basil i took straight from the store and planted high noon 110 max sun. Lots of water obviously but it grew into a crazy bush
Thank You Gardener Scott for the great transplanting mistakes. It is so hard to either wait or are so tired of moving the plants in and out, especially if you are like me and started a lot of seeds this year. You make me listen to my rational side and do the right thing. Lol
Kia Ora Gardener Scott, Happy May Day from Aotearoa New Zealand. I thoroughly enjoyed your tips. I love your patience reminder. I attended a crop swap yesterday and received a Vietnamese mint plant in a peat pot. Vive the plants. 🌱
Thanks, Gardener Scott. I remixed my soil as you suggested and now it retains water down to the roots and plants are doing much better. I had 75% compost and 25% bedding soil. I just turned the numbers around and wow what a difference. Thanks again.
I grew heirloom tomatoes and live in the PNW/Puget Sound area that is zone 8b and we are now largely in the 50's to mid 60's, temps in the low to mid 40's, so safe I think in a week or so to put my seedlings outside to acclimate before transplanting to grow bags. I'll get those prepped over the next few days so they are ready for the transplants. One variety that is listed is the Brandywine, a tomato I have had difficulty finding as a bush in 2018, my buddy found one from I think Buddy at a garden center (I think at Lowes) and it did reasonably well, last year I ended up with cherry tomatoes and they did well too. I am fortunate I have a sunny spot at the south side of my shed for them, they get sun through much of the summer 8am through 8pm or so before the sun sets. Since I am doing grow bags, I may do drip irrigation for them. Last year, I used a bubbler that sat between the two plants and flooded them enough to let soak, it worked well. Will be interesting to see how these fare this year.
I have just recently made an “even before transplanting” goof! I potted up 2 dozen basil plants and half of them have shriveled and died in less than a week.🤔🤦🏼♂️ I’m not sure exactly what I did to kill them off,but I suspect it was handling them in the same way that I handled my tomato plants when potting up. I think I may have just ripped apart the basil roots a little too roughly,and shocked the plants beyond what they are able to overcome. It’s a bummer! Lesson learned.😐
THANKS for mistakes in gardening for plants. What I mean is that you are using a liquid organic fertilizer made from banana peels. Your plants grow fast and healthy. I make banana peel fertilizer at home and use. All my plants are very healthy, they grow faster
I think you can make something like that with any organic matter. Called "compost tea." From what I've read, people either think it's the best thing since regular compost, and others say it isn't very good. So I'm thinking the answer is somewhere in the middle!
Gardner Scott, Will you please give me a schedule of how to harden off a plant - like how many hours a day, what kind of light, what kind of wind & what kind of temperature, for how many days before it will be hardened off? I know every zone is different, I'm in zone 6B. Could you give me a general idea how to do it? Thanks in advance.
I live in Canada, an hour north of Toronto, Zone 5a. The last frost date is essential to know and I never, ever plant summer veggies before then - BUT only after checking/knowing the real weather forecast (therefore, sometimes wait a bit longer, especially considering the soil temp for peppers, tomatoes, eggplants - the classic nightshade family, except potatoes I may put in my grow bags sooner). All cool weather crops are in and doing excellent, from seedlings and seeds. We still can get frost and snow, but they are okay (except from freezing rain or a very deep freeze). My mom always watered her seedling plants right in the planting hole as she planted. I have always done this as well with great success. I never see anyone suggest doing this - is there a reason?
I'm not sure why you don't see more gardeners suggesting your mother's method. It can be a good idea. I think many of us who have the soil moist and ready and then plant a lot of plants at once find it easier to water afterward. When I plant bushes, perennials and trees I water the hole like you and your mother.
First season for me in Ohio with seedlings and grow lights. After being in a sunny sunroom and a WS and SE corner of great sunlight,I moved my tomatoe out in the Sunny 40 degrees day and in about 30 minutes I came out to find no sunny but cloudy and believe my plants went down hill after that, But my "Hillbilly Tomatoe" all seem to be doing fine but the 5 others I am loosing many
Hey @gardenerscott!! Zone 6b here and I just planted my indirect and direct tomatos in my raised beds. They are 12-18 inches high and strong rooted. I buried them deep and after a week or so they are flowering! When should you stop plucking them off and letting the fruit come in? Thanks!!
Do you have any advice for rejuvenating stunted plants from cold or other circumstances? I had an infestation aphids on my small eggplants & peppers so I moved them out from under the grow lights & brought them out on my porch to let the sun & wind do what chemicals couldn't. It worked & I was moving them in & out every day ... but I missed a day & they survived but their growth has slowed.
Do tomato plants like rain? We're set to have 3 days of rain early next week but I've heard from all the gardeners on RUclips that tomatoes don't like to get their leaves wet.
@@goatgal7884 God's gonna be busy here next week. I have a tarp set up to shield from the sun if the temps get too hot or if hail is predicted. The area goes to shade around 4pm every afternoon so hopefully I have it where I need it. I already have 7 foot stakes in each bucket. I grew them like this last year and they did well except they were in front of a tree.
The problem is that if they stay wet it can encourage fungal growth. That’s another reason why ppl say to prune off the lowest branches. It keeps them from staying damp. Rain will happen, but as long as they can dry out after, it’s fine
First time gardener - raised beds. St. Louis County (not city) Missouri, Zone 6b. Bought bedding plants 2 weeks ago since I'm new - will start from seed next year when I'm not so "green" (pun intended). Anyway, I've been hardening them off ever since I go them when possible, but we have had like one day that it didn't get super windy and then predicted heavy rain almost every day for the past week and now Mother's Day weekend - which was going to be my planting weekend - is going to be a wash - storms, heavy rain and still pretty chilly at night for about the next 10 days or so. I need to get these plants out of those small containers. Should I go ahead and get them in larger containers for a week or so to let them grow a bit? Or should I put them out in the actual raised beds and hope they aren't washed away?
If you have bigger containers it's often a good idea to transplant ahead of time, but for just one week it won't make much difference. It may be better to put them directly into beds when temperatures warm enough.
hi gardener scott my name is nick and i have just descovered your channel all the way over here in england i thought it was a very good video i will take a look at some of your other videos i my self am a fellow youtuber and have a channel called nicks veggie patch take a look if you like any tips would be great i guess you are from the good old USA keep up the good work
Hi Gardiner Scott. I made the mistake of using an organic potting mix that contained chicken manure so my tomato seedlings got nitrogen burned (I assume) with yellowing and failure to grow. Do you thinking flushing with lots of water will help? Thank you for your help.
Flushing with water to leach the soil may help but you run the risk of overwatering and drowning the plants. If you can transplant to different soil the plants should recover better.
This is my question: Some people say wait to plant tomatoes, peppers and eggplants until the nighttime temperatures are close to 50 degrees. But we have had extremely mild overnight temperatures here in Rhode Island. Every night for the next 8 days is in the 40's. My plants are hardened off. Is it better to let them stay in their pots, or just plant them, and let them start to adjust to the soil in my raised beds? (hint: I already planted about 10 tomato plants)
I would wait. One of the reasons for waiting for night temperatures to warm is that it signals that the soil is warming too. Your tomatoes will do better when the soil is 60 degrees and the peppers prefer 70 degrees. The plants may "adjust" to cold soil temperatures by becoming stunted and not growing as well as they could.
I went out to my spring garden yesterday. Major infestation of some small insect. 1st thought was aphids. But, I think they move too fast. 2nd thought was white flies. I have captured an example with packing tape and will show them to the expert at my local nursery. I then also realized that they were all over my apricot tree. I hope to save my garden from this invasion. There are ot nearly enough ladybugs or other beneficial insects to take care of this. Any thoughts, lessons or advice are 🙏 welcome.
Gardening expert looked at my insects .. both aphids and white flies plus about 3 other small invaders. I have started with a strong water spray on the tree and plants.
Yes she was, but it can be overdone. When the water drains, the soil can settle and the plant can sink. Watering the hole is good, but the soil shouldn't become a soupy mess.
A mailbox can be an outstanding place to keep garden essentials, like basic tools, tie up tape, gloves, and plant markets, or a garden journal. Keeps them handy, protected and dry.
I am an impatient gardener who is 1 week past her last frost date. It is killing me to wait until May 10 before deciding if I can plant my peppers and tomatoes. My rational side checks the 10 day forecast and can see the night time temps are too low. My emotional side is just too dang excited. Right now the patient, rational side is winning...but it isn’t easy.
Total newbie, have enjoyed watching the seedlings grow. My entire growing knowledge is from you and your mods from the stream lol. Very informative channel, thank you and God bless.
I'm not an amateur but normally bought my plants, 1st yr successfully growing from seed too watching his videos, already realize how much money I'm going to save for yrs to come, making an in door grow space. Plus I love his voice, very calm & learn a lot.
Our frost threat is mostly over in Ohio and this morning I did notice a light frost , So happy my plants are in my sunroom or well covered
Thanks for Teaching, Gardenar Scott
We are in fall here and in late summer I noticed some self seeded capsicum plants (probably from my compost). I decided to keep them growing in a pot, watered them with worm leachate. I then made a bird wire cage to fit over the pot and finally covered it all with a large plastic bag. The capsicum have fruited. It was just an experiment but it’s fun to see it worked!
Hardened off a ton of pepper and tomato plants. Had my tomatoes planted and should have been the last frost but forecast changes and I killed most all of my plants. Guess I'll try again next year, and plan for later then this year.
I love all of your videos! They're always so relevant and helpful. You are very articulate and your voice is wonderful 💚🌱 I could just learn and learn all day! keep them coming!!!
Perfect timing
Thanks Gardner Scott!!! I love watching your videos. You remind me of our local PNW celebrity gardner Ed Hume with Gardening in America. Also, your video is right on time with pertinent information. I'll be transplanting today! Looking forward to Monday mornings now thanks to you! Happy gardening to you and everyone else out there!
❤️🌱❤️🌱❤️🌱❤️🌱❤️
It is VERY windy where I live. To the point the wind will blow anything across the yard, that is not tied down or heavy. It was VERY hard trying to get my plants use to be outside do to the high winds. And most days the wind blows north and south. I am going to try and plant seeds in pots inside the house and outside in the ground and see which will do better, because of the wind here.
Somehow my best transplant last year was Trader Joe’s basil i took straight from the store and planted high noon 110 max sun. Lots of water obviously but it grew into a crazy bush
Excellent, thank you!
Thanks! Good reminders and some new info! 👍
Fun and informative!
Thanks Gardener Scott! Appreciate all the growing tips. 💕from Ky.
Thank You Gardener Scott for the great transplanting mistakes. It is so hard to either wait or are so tired of moving the plants in and out, especially if you are like me and started a lot of seeds this year. You make me listen to my rational side and do the right thing. Lol
Kia Ora Gardener Scott, Happy May Day from Aotearoa New Zealand. I thoroughly enjoyed your tips. I love your patience reminder. I attended a crop swap yesterday and received a Vietnamese mint plant in a peat pot. Vive the plants. 🌱
Good video, and advice. It never hurts to go over the basics of transplanting.
I’m going straight microbe teas for my garden this year. Several varieties but nothing else but mulching. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Really good timing! I am just itching to plant but it is too soon. Thanks Gardener Scott!
Thanks, Gardener Scott. I remixed my soil as you suggested and now it retains water down to the roots and plants are doing much better. I had 75% compost and 25% bedding soil. I just turned the numbers around and wow what a difference. Thanks again.
I grew heirloom tomatoes and live in the PNW/Puget Sound area that is zone 8b and we are now largely in the 50's to mid 60's, temps in the low to mid 40's, so safe I think in a week or so to put my seedlings outside to acclimate before transplanting to grow bags. I'll get those prepped over the next few days so they are ready for the transplants. One variety that is listed is the Brandywine, a tomato I have had difficulty finding as a bush in 2018, my buddy found one from I think Buddy at a garden center (I think at Lowes) and it did reasonably well, last year I ended up with cherry tomatoes and they did well too.
I am fortunate I have a sunny spot at the south side of my shed for them, they get sun through much of the summer 8am through 8pm or so before the sun sets. Since I am doing grow bags, I may do drip irrigation for them. Last year, I used a bubbler that sat between the two plants and flooded them enough to let soak, it worked well. Will be interesting to see how these fare this year.
Right here west of yuma in the imperial COUNTY ca the heat wilts my transplant seedlings.
MG Scott, As always, safe advice all around. Thank you.
Great information! Thanks.
Thanks so much for your teaching, and your method!
I have just recently made an “even before transplanting” goof! I potted up 2 dozen basil plants and half of them have shriveled and died in less than a week.🤔🤦🏼♂️ I’m not sure exactly what I did to kill them off,but I suspect it was handling them in the same way that I handled my tomato plants when potting up. I think I may have just ripped apart the basil roots a little too roughly,and shocked the plants beyond what they are able to overcome. It’s a bummer! Lesson learned.😐
Thank you dear friend! 🙏👍72
THANKS for mistakes in gardening for plants. What I mean is that you are using a liquid organic fertilizer made from banana peels. Your plants grow fast and healthy. I make banana peel fertilizer at home and use. All my plants are very healthy, they grow faster
I think you can make something like that with any organic matter. Called "compost tea." From what I've read, people either think it's the best thing since regular compost, and others say it isn't very good. So I'm thinking the answer is somewhere in the middle!
Gardner Scott,
Will you please give me a schedule of how to harden off a plant - like how many hours a day, what kind of light, what kind of wind & what kind of temperature, for how many days before it will be hardened off?
I know every zone is different, I'm in zone 6B. Could you give me a general idea how to do it?
Thanks in advance.
Linda, I have a video that answers those questions and shows how I do it. Here it is: ruclips.net/video/P9ov_BeQsus/видео.html
I live in Canada, an hour north of Toronto, Zone 5a. The last frost date is essential to know and I never, ever plant summer veggies before then - BUT only after checking/knowing the real weather forecast (therefore, sometimes wait a bit longer, especially considering the soil temp for peppers, tomatoes, eggplants - the classic nightshade family, except potatoes I may put in my grow bags sooner). All cool weather crops are in and doing excellent, from seedlings and seeds. We still can get frost and snow, but they are okay (except from freezing rain or a very deep freeze). My mom always watered her seedling plants right in the planting hole as she planted. I have always done this as well with great success. I never see anyone suggest doing this - is there a reason?
I'm not sure why you don't see more gardeners suggesting your mother's method. It can be a good idea. I think many of us who have the soil moist and ready and then plant a lot of plants at once find it easier to water afterward. When I plant bushes, perennials and trees I water the hole like you and your mother.
Hi Scott. Great video as usual. I have a question about Kiwi. Can I use the cuttings from my kiwi to make new plants? Have a great gardening day.
Thanks. Yes, kiwi can be propagated from softwood cuttings.
Question. Is it better to thin carrots by pulling or is cutting with scissors good enough.
Good question. Cutting is usually better. Pulling one can disrupt the roots of another nearby and lead to misshapen carrots.
@@GardenerScott Thanks. Just wasn’t sure cutting would actually kill the plant.
First season for me in Ohio with seedlings and grow lights.
After being in a sunny sunroom and a WS and SE corner of great sunlight,I moved my tomatoe out in the Sunny 40 degrees day and in about 30 minutes I came out to find no sunny but cloudy and believe my plants went down hill after that, But my "Hillbilly Tomatoe" all seem to be doing fine but the 5 others I am loosing many
Hey @gardenerscott!! Zone 6b here and I just planted my indirect and direct tomatos in my raised beds. They are 12-18 inches high and strong rooted. I buried them deep and after a week or so they are flowering! When should you stop plucking them off and letting the fruit come in? Thanks!!
Hi, Phil. Once my plants are in the ground I pluck off flowers for the first week or two and then let them go.
Do you have any advice for rejuvenating stunted plants from cold or other circumstances? I had an infestation aphids on my small eggplants & peppers so I moved them out from under the grow lights & brought them out on my porch to let the sun & wind do what chemicals couldn't. It worked & I was moving them in & out every day ... but I missed a day & they survived but their growth has slowed.
If you can avoid stressing the plants with excess heat and cold they may recover better. Consistent watering is good too.
Do tomato plants like rain? We're set to have 3 days of rain early next week but I've heard from all the gardeners on RUclips that tomatoes don't like to get their leaves wet.
Its ok when God does the watering.
@@goatgal7884 God's gonna be busy here next week. I have a tarp set up to shield from the sun if the temps get too hot or if hail is predicted. The area goes to shade around 4pm every afternoon so hopefully I have it where I need it. I already have 7 foot stakes in each bucket. I grew them like this last year and they did well except they were in front of a tree.
The problem is that if they stay wet it can encourage fungal growth. That’s another reason why ppl say to prune off the lowest branches. It keeps them from staying damp. Rain will happen, but as long as they can dry out after, it’s fine
@@phyrewillow6463 ive got mulch around all of them.
The tomatoes like rain.
How does one approach all this if you live in Phoenix, AZ?
I lack patience... a lot
First time gardener - raised beds. St. Louis County (not city) Missouri, Zone 6b. Bought bedding plants 2 weeks ago since I'm new - will start from seed next year when I'm not so "green" (pun intended). Anyway, I've been hardening them off ever since I go them when possible, but we have had like one day that it didn't get super windy and then predicted heavy rain almost every day for the past week and now Mother's Day weekend - which was going to be my planting weekend - is going to be a wash - storms, heavy rain and still pretty chilly at night for about the next 10 days or so. I need to get these plants out of those small containers. Should I go ahead and get them in larger containers for a week or so to let them grow a bit? Or should I put them out in the actual raised beds and hope they aren't washed away?
If you have bigger containers it's often a good idea to transplant ahead of time, but for just one week it won't make much difference. It may be better to put them directly into beds when temperatures warm enough.
@@GardenerScott Thank you. Love your channel!
hi gardener scott my name is nick and i have just descovered your channel all the way over here in england i thought it was a very good video i will take a look at some of your other videos i my self am a fellow youtuber and have a channel called nicks veggie patch take a look if you like any tips would be great i guess you are from the good old USA keep up the good work
Could you plant early-ish and just cover your beds at night?
That can be an option. I discuss using hoops covered with plastic in other videos.
Hi Gardiner Scott. I made the mistake of using an organic potting mix that contained chicken manure so my tomato seedlings got nitrogen burned (I assume) with yellowing and failure to grow. Do you thinking flushing with lots of water will help? Thank you for your help.
Flushing with water to leach the soil may help but you run the risk of overwatering and drowning the plants. If you can transplant to different soil the plants should recover better.
This is my question: Some people say wait to plant tomatoes, peppers and eggplants until the nighttime temperatures are close to 50 degrees. But we have had extremely mild overnight temperatures here in Rhode Island. Every night for the next 8 days is in the 40's. My plants are hardened off. Is it better to let them stay in their pots, or just plant them, and let them start to adjust to the soil in my raised beds? (hint: I already planted about 10 tomato plants)
I would wait. One of the reasons for waiting for night temperatures to warm is that it signals that the soil is warming too. Your tomatoes will do better when the soil is 60 degrees and the peppers prefer 70 degrees. The plants may "adjust" to cold soil temperatures by becoming stunted and not growing as well as they could.
I went out to my spring garden yesterday. Major infestation of some small insect. 1st thought was aphids. But, I think they move too fast. 2nd thought was white flies. I have captured an example with packing tape and will show them to the expert at my local nursery. I then also realized that they were all over my apricot tree. I hope to save my garden from this invasion. There are ot nearly enough ladybugs or other beneficial insects to take care of this.
Any thoughts, lessons or advice are 🙏 welcome.
Small insects can often be dealt with by a strong stream of water to knock them off until the good bugs arrive.
Perhaps Neem Oil, if the water doesn’t work? Still organic
Gardening expert looked at my insects .. both aphids and white flies plus about 3 other small invaders. I have started with a strong water spray on the tree and plants.
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Where can you get a good soil test? I got one from a big box store and it gave me a moderate level on everything.
I've used my Extension office.
Your Extension office and/or state university should have a lab for testing.
My mom used to put lots of water in the hole and then put the plant in the water and fill the hole with soil. Was she right ?
Yes she was, but it can be overdone. When the water drains, the soil can settle and the plant can sink. Watering the hole is good, but the soil shouldn't become a soupy mess.
@@GardenerScott thank you
found out the hard way, two weeks ago I planted 8 melon seedlings and there' s one or two of them left
I'm just here wondering why your mailbox is in the garden?
A mailbox can be an outstanding place to keep garden essentials, like basic tools, tie up tape, gloves, and plant markets, or a garden journal. Keeps them handy, protected and dry.
Tools
It's for tool storage. I show how I made it in this video: ruclips.net/video/IIrpGCqcc6E/видео.html
for me its rain rain rain ...ug
Number 1: grow extra seedlings so that when you kill half of them transplanting you still have some lol