This was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!! My MIL has been the one to teach me how to garden, and it’s been wonderful, but I wasn’t sitting well with the way she cleaned every.single.plant out of her spaces. Being a friend of the bees, I had the intuition that most things could remain over our long winters. I have been slowly assessing each of my own plants to decide what to do. For example- I left my broom corn stems - now hopefully some little bees will hunker down inside of those. 😁
Thanks for this great video! As more people view & learn - hopefully, we can make a positive impact with our beneficial insects, healthy fungal-dominated soils, etc. It kills me to see the majority of people bagging & throwing out leaves & clippings as if it's garbage! Then, they want to know why they have weak, diseased plants with no vigor. I hope you get tons of viewers! OK, off to look at your books. 😊
I love your advice because it always results in less work for me! I rake up the leaves on the lawn and bin them to use as mulch and in my composter. I do cut the stalks of hosts and day lilies for looks.
This week I was planning on doing the laborious task of cutting down everything in the garden. And i wasn’t looking forward to it. Whelp! You just saved me some work. The one thing we always do for sure is leave the wildflower beds and the aster die back and dry out and it creates their own little thickets. It gives all the birds great cover when the hungry hawks that live in the trees across the street make their daily rounds to try and catch some birds out in the open when they’re feeding around the garden, and the moles and mice live under the brush. And the quail hang out in there too. There is nothing better than looking out my kitchen window and seeing the birds under the brush while a gentle snow fall covers the tops of the brush. I think nature in winter is my favorite. Thank you for teaching me how to create nutrient dense soil and dispelling the myths and what products are good and which are a waste of money. I’ve learned so much from you.
THANKS FOR THIS INFORMATION 👍 I USE TO CLEAN UP MY FLOWER AND VEGETABLE BEDS IN THE FALL BECAUSE IT JUST HAD A CLEAN LOOK. NOW I DONT TOUCH THE FLOWERS THAT WILL COME BACK IN SPRING AND I PUT DOWN A GOOD LAYER OF CHOPPED LEAVES AND LEAVE THE ROOTS IN THE GROUND TO DECOMPOSE 👍
Im glad to have the benefits of my messy ("just leave it as it is--it's fine") tendencies pointed out to me. Brought in my first bag this autumn of browned off, large leaf maple leaves, from along the highway this afternoon. I need more mulch than my garden generates.
Every time I think about even cutting my annual flowers back, something reminds me that there's a bird going to be looking for those seed heads in the winter. And I just got to leave a few dead flowers out there for the birds.
Thanks you for telling us on what to do in the fall with our flowers - I have all perennials so most of them I cut back in the spring except some of the ones I dont want to over seed ..your channel tells the truth about gardening - the scientific way of dealing with anything - please keep us posted …& we need to be reminded of what to do ….there’s s much to learn ..
Thank you for your advice on the Yucca Plant. It seeds Twice yearly and are as you said, hard to remove. Until my Carer was so hacked off with trying to remove them. A chainsaw suddenly was bought after she got cut by the leaves and got a bad allergy from them. She said, "By the way this C-Saw is your Birthday and Christmas Present!" I'm in a Wheelchair, (NOT AN EXCUSE,). I am end stage of M.S. I couldn't even hold the C-Saw. TIP, Don't Expect Someone who has Amost Continuous Tremors Let Loose With A C-Saw! She prided herself in De-Flowering/Seeding her. She almost cut a foot off her. Tossed it in the Compost bin, (Last Autumn) . My Neighbour phoned me and said she can see something spiky in the C-Bin. I asked her if she'd go with my Carer as a witness. She did, the piece she'd cut off grew another 6 inches with Beautiful Roots. She phoned me laughing, I asked her if she wanted it? I gave it to her. Sometimes karma is One's Best Friend. She'd burned the seeds in the wood burner! We laugh about it now. I just thought you would like to know and maybe put a smile on your face. My Night Nurse is texting for me.🪴 x
Thank you for this one, Robert. I've been looking at several of your videos recently and find your soil science presentations particularly interesting. I just have to consider the best ways of adapting what you teach to my climate zone, but the principles are well enough explained that I can do that.
I think your advice is phenomenal but you never tell us one very important thing about using cover crops what do we do with the cover crop do we just cut it and leave the roots or do we pull it to plant are vegetables what cover cops would you recommend for vegetable gardens vegetable gardens I live in Texas you get three days of freeze and it kills everything thank you for your hard work I know it's hard to make these videos
Another great clip.... Most of it isn't applicable to me. I live in the tropics.... It's only wet or dry. I think my takeaway is .... Leave all dead and dry plants throughout the "dry season" and clean up just before the "rain season." Thanks.
My huge problem with not cleaning up leaves from trees is that I'm very allergic to maple and oak leaves, especially when decomposition. If i don't remove them, I remain allergic all winter or until there is a good amount of snow on the ground. If you tend to have allergies all winter until you get snow, 🤧 you might also have this allergy. Get tested. Find out. Move the leaves far away.
I can get 'Hog Fuel' from the mill 20km away -- it's pine and cedar. They make poles (telephone & fence) so the outer skin of the trees. I use it between garden beds ... mostly paths. I can also get cedar small chips not quite dust. The neighbor use to be a saw mill so they used the wood chips in the walls of the food storage buildings -- 2 feet of wood chip insulation all around except the entrance had 2 thick doors like a porch to not change the temperature so much. They called them 'Ice huts' because they would get blocks of ice from the near by pond to keep food cool in summer. Anyways, they're selling the property and knocked over the buildings and all the chips are spilled out. As well, I can get unlimited coffee bags from the Kicking Horse Coffee in Invermere BC for free -- I put them everywhere. They're great for covering beds in the winter but mostly I use them wherever I want to hold back weeds. I've planted in them but they're Jute so decompose pretty readily. Thank you for the video -- as always I learn so much!!!
If you have a lot of leaves I mow over it on my driveway several times and put them as a layer like mulch on my garlic for the winter and it breaks down fast by spring and gives the garden lots of nutrients
Be careful with your deadheading your yucca: I have red yuccas in my garden. They happen to really attract aphids so I used to deadhead them and this year I fell a little behind and started to see them in my roses. Just before I finally got around to insecticidal soaping them I started seeing ladybugs so I left them alone. Now I have hummingbirds which adore eating aphids.
That Clematis is amazing. I'd love to know the variety! Id love to see a video on mulching vs. cover crop. I'm older and am dealing with mild mobility issues and am loath to have a crop I have to chop into my spring soil to be able to plant.I usually add composted manure and then top with leaves.
Sweet autumn clematis (Clematis paniculata, Clematis terniflora) is one of the late-blooming clematis vines that features not only flowers different from most clematis, but also an unusually heady scent. Small, pure white flowers emerge in August and September and by fall, become a silvery mass of fluffy seed heads.. I had a couple when I lived in Michigan. I liked it because it was a later bloomer. The Jackmani clematis is also massive. It’s an earlier bloomer. I had many clematis. But those two were my favorite because of how huge they got.
this is great at advice thank You. I live in the west of Ireland and I grew up oma small farm where We had an array of animals and a little ,market garden. `my next project is to put in a pond so i would love some of your books but I can't seem to find the one on ponds? Can You direct me please?
I trust your advice, but for example, wood chips in garden for cover!, I had heard wood chips can change the PH which can be damaging to many plants. I live in an 7 ish zone area with minor rain fall typically, and our soil is very alkaline ie sandy. Water retention is an issue here. So I use wood chips. Any advice for me? Thank you for your service.
I've never done an autumn clean up except for dead heading flowering plants which spread viable seeds. I do it in spring, usually mid to late March. I'm in temperate zone 8 & usually do a last cut of the lawn at the end of October, then I run the mower over again once the trees are bare, purely to collect up the leaves.
In my experience with my Yucca, it tends to keep its flower spikes for a long time, even past the point of there being much flowers. When the flower spike starts making fruit, it is a good time to remove them. Deadheading them then puts the plant into making energy for its roots, and its foliage looks much better during the rest of the year.
Humans have been indoctrinated with the belief that we need to make everything to be "perfect" aesthetically, yet "God" made it to be chaotic! Most yards/gardens that are in perfect order are not beneficial to anyone or anything besides the one who created it.
Why have garden , it just takes your life away spending time labour , rubbish , money , keep life simple , just grow to eat , fancy gardens when you get old you cant do bugger all , keep it simple , it a corporations thing to manipulate you , spending money , and you changing it natural surroundings , environment , 😊
Which is why we canned the realtor who kept pushing HOAs on us and went with a realtor who understood that we didn't want to be subject to the ignorance of some stupid committee telling us we can't be smart in our yard. I spent too long in the military to have some civilian snob tell me how to live my life.
Fortunately, gardeners in our area have taken HOAs with backward & environmentally damaging views to court & won. Shining some sunshine on condominium boards that fail to keep buildings maintained at risk to lives just to keep fees low and HOAs that pass & enforce environmentally damaging “rules” in their fiefdoms could be part of the solution to declining insects, birds other wildlife and quality of life for humans. Walking the walk :-)
This was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!!
My MIL has been the one to teach me how to garden, and it’s been wonderful, but I wasn’t sitting well with the way she cleaned every.single.plant out of her spaces. Being a friend of the bees, I had the intuition that most things could remain over our long winters. I have been slowly assessing each of my own plants to decide what to do.
For example- I left my broom corn stems - now hopefully some little bees will hunker down inside of those. 😁
Thanks for this great video! As more people view & learn - hopefully, we can make a positive impact with our beneficial insects, healthy fungal-dominated soils, etc. It kills me to see the majority of people bagging & throwing out leaves & clippings as if it's garbage! Then, they want to know why they have weak, diseased plants with no vigor. I hope you get tons of viewers! OK, off to look at your books. 😊
I love your advice because it always results in less work for me! I rake up the leaves on the lawn and bin them to use as mulch and in my composter. I do cut the stalks of hosts and day lilies for looks.
If you cut them about a foot or so high it still provide a winter hone for native bees !
Thank you for sharing your garden knowledge, I have watched many videos but your videos make the most sense when it comes to plant health
This week I was planning on doing the laborious task of cutting down everything in the garden. And i wasn’t looking forward to it. Whelp! You just saved me some work. The one thing we always do for sure is leave the wildflower beds and the aster die back and dry out and it creates their own little thickets. It gives all the birds great cover when the hungry hawks that live in the trees across the street make their daily rounds to try and catch some birds out in the open when they’re feeding around the garden, and the moles and mice live under the brush. And the quail hang out in there too. There is nothing better than looking out my kitchen window and seeing the birds under the brush while a gentle snow fall covers the tops of the brush. I think nature in winter is my favorite.
Thank you for teaching me how to create nutrient dense soil and dispelling the myths and what products are good and which are a waste of money. I’ve learned so much from you.
I love your garden fundamentals and was forced to garden your way due to becoming disabled.
Thanks for sharing.
THANKS FOR THIS INFORMATION 👍 I USE TO CLEAN UP MY FLOWER AND VEGETABLE BEDS IN THE FALL BECAUSE IT JUST HAD A CLEAN LOOK. NOW I DONT TOUCH THE FLOWERS THAT WILL COME BACK IN SPRING AND I PUT DOWN A GOOD LAYER OF CHOPPED LEAVES AND LEAVE THE ROOTS IN THE GROUND TO DECOMPOSE 👍
Im glad to have the benefits of my messy ("just leave it as it is--it's fine") tendencies pointed out to me. Brought in my first bag this autumn of browned off, large leaf maple leaves, from along the highway this afternoon. I need more mulch than my garden generates.
I love that rock down by your shade garden. It has an eye on it.
I find leaves confuse weeds and make them easier to pull. Also plants like iris's really like a winter leaf cover and grow under there.
Every time I think about even cutting my annual flowers back, something reminds me that there's a bird going to be looking for those seed heads in the winter. And I just got to leave a few dead flowers out there for the birds.
Thanks you for telling us on what to do in the fall with our flowers - I have all perennials so most of them I cut back in the spring except some of the ones I dont want to over seed ..your channel tells the truth about gardening - the scientific way of dealing with anything - please keep us posted …& we need to be reminded of what to do ….there’s s much to learn ..
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Thank you and happy gardening to you too.
Love that my lazy approach is legitimised! Thank you!
Thanks for the list. How about a video on putting the vegetable garden to bed? And I like this "out in the garden" video style.
Thank you for your advice on the Yucca Plant. It seeds Twice yearly and are as you said, hard to remove. Until my Carer was so hacked off with trying to remove them. A chainsaw suddenly was bought after she got cut by the leaves and got a bad allergy from them. She said, "By the way this C-Saw is your Birthday and Christmas Present!" I'm in a Wheelchair, (NOT AN EXCUSE,). I am end stage of M.S. I couldn't even hold the C-Saw. TIP, Don't Expect Someone who has Amost Continuous Tremors Let Loose With A C-Saw! She prided herself in De-Flowering/Seeding her. She almost cut a foot off her. Tossed it in the Compost bin, (Last Autumn) . My Neighbour phoned me and said she can see something spiky in the C-Bin. I asked her if she'd go with my Carer as a witness. She did, the piece she'd cut off grew another 6 inches with Beautiful Roots. She phoned me laughing, I asked her if she wanted it? I gave it to her. Sometimes karma is One's Best Friend. She'd burned the seeds in the wood burner! We laugh about it now. I just thought you would like to know and maybe put a smile on your face. My Night Nurse is texting for me.🪴 x
Thank you for this one, Robert. I've been looking at several of your videos recently and find your soil science presentations particularly interesting. I just have to consider the best ways of adapting what you teach to my climate zone, but the principles are well enough explained that I can do that.
I think your advice is phenomenal but you never tell us one very important thing about using cover crops what do we do with the cover crop do we just cut it and leave the roots or do we pull it to plant are vegetables what cover cops would you recommend for vegetable gardens vegetable gardens I live in Texas you get three days of freeze and it kills everything thank you for your hard work I know it's hard to make these videos
Another great clip.... Most of it isn't applicable to me. I live in the tropics.... It's only wet or dry.
I think my takeaway is .... Leave all dead and dry plants throughout the "dry season" and clean up just before the "rain season."
Thanks.
My huge problem with not cleaning up leaves from trees is that I'm very allergic to maple and oak leaves, especially when decomposition. If i don't remove them, I remain allergic all winter or until there is a good amount of snow on the ground. If you tend to have allergies all winter until you get snow, 🤧 you might also have this allergy. Get tested. Find out. Move the leaves far away.
You are a great teacher! Thank you for the excellent lesson.
very interesting topics. I learned a lot in a short time. thank you for your knowledge.
I can get 'Hog Fuel' from the mill 20km away -- it's pine and cedar. They make poles (telephone & fence) so the outer skin of the trees. I use it between garden beds ... mostly paths.
I can also get cedar small chips not quite dust. The neighbor use to be a saw mill so they used the wood chips in the walls of the food storage buildings -- 2 feet of wood chip insulation all around except the entrance had 2 thick doors like a porch to not change the temperature so much. They called them 'Ice huts' because they would get blocks of ice from the near by pond to keep food cool in summer. Anyways, they're selling the property and knocked over the buildings and all the chips are spilled out.
As well, I can get unlimited coffee bags from the Kicking Horse Coffee in Invermere BC for free -- I put them everywhere. They're great for covering beds in the winter but mostly I use them wherever I want to hold back weeds. I've planted in them but they're Jute so decompose pretty readily.
Thank you for the video -- as always I learn so much!!!
If you have a lot of leaves I mow over it on my driveway several times and put them as a layer like mulch on my garlic for the winter and it breaks down fast by spring and gives the garden lots of nutrients
Love 💕 your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. ❤
Brilliant info. Thanks for spreading the knowledge 🤍💙🤍
Be careful with your deadheading your yucca: I have red yuccas in my garden. They happen to really attract aphids so I used to deadhead them and this year I fell a little behind and started to see them in my roses. Just before I finally got around to insecticidal soaping them I started seeing ladybugs so I left them alone. Now I have hummingbirds which adore eating aphids.
Grate advices!
Excellent advice. I’m going to do all of this from now on. Thank you.
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You have so many good ideas. Thankyou so much.
Fantastic information my garden now houses bugs
Thank you Mr. P. 🌺💚🙃
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Ya, I quit using insect poison, hurts too many of the good ones. I just plant more, & hope for the best. I try, & God provides :-)
There’s a genius designer, behind all of this for sure … proverbs eight the woman named wisdom gives a speech discussing this very topic
That Clematis is amazing. I'd love to know the variety!
Id love to see a video on mulching vs. cover crop. I'm older and am dealing with mild mobility issues and am loath to have a crop I have to chop into my spring soil to be able to plant.I usually add composted manure and then top with leaves.
Sweet autumn clematis (Clematis paniculata, Clematis terniflora) is one of the late-blooming clematis vines that features not only flowers different from most clematis, but also an unusually heady scent. Small, pure white flowers emerge in August and September and by fall, become a silvery mass of fluffy seed heads..
I had a couple when I lived in Michigan. I liked it because it was a later bloomer. The Jackmani clematis is also massive. It’s an earlier bloomer. I had many clematis. But those two were my favorite because of how huge they got.
Oooo I just planted a bears breeches!! I'm goingbto let it go to seed bc I love it
Always excellent!
this is great at advice thank You. I live in the west of Ireland and I grew up oma small farm where We had an array of animals and a little ,market garden. `my next project is to put in a pond so i would love some of your books but I can't seem to find the one on ponds? Can You direct me please?
What do you do with annuals? My oversized tomato plants have been in the way for months 😂
Excellent video! thank you
Thank you for your tips , always very helpful.
Thank You!
Useful video.
I feel like most things want their own growth to fall out or away in the spring and getting rid of that ruins the stronghold against winter
What if I cut the stems of perennial flowers instead of simply deadheading them? Would insects not be able to utilize them after they have been cut
What about putting the grasses in large bottomless pots!
I trust your advice, but for example, wood chips in garden for cover!, I had heard wood chips can change the PH which can be damaging to many plants.
I live in an 7 ish zone area with minor rain fall typically, and our soil is very alkaline ie sandy. Water retention is an issue here. So I use wood chips.
Any advice for me?
Thank you for your service.
Excellent advice!
Appreciate your advice, from the Antipodes.
Enjoy your autumn while I enjoy my spring.
Would you say the same for asparagus ferns? Should I leave them in place until spring?
If you want free plants, leave the seed heads and transplant your free plants next spring.
TH✂️NKS
I know you're in Canada but where are you? Ontario? BC? Somewhere else?
Guelph, ON.
Can you talk about pest control and gardening? Here in Florida, you must have pest control but certainly not good for the garden
I've heard that ash leaves may be detrimental. Is this true?
If you have an ash tree
Appreciate it .
Walnut leaves and fruit husk are acidic and toxic
@@Wyndham21044 thank you
I've never done an autumn clean up except for dead heading flowering plants which spread viable seeds.
I do it in spring, usually mid to late March.
I'm in temperate zone 8 & usually do a last cut of the lawn at the end of October, then I run the mower over again once the trees are bare, purely to collect up the leaves.
Yep, I clean up when the insects are waking up in spring to try and lessen disturbance
In my experience with my Yucca, it tends to keep its flower spikes for a long time, even past the point of there being much flowers. When the flower spike starts making fruit, it is a good time to remove them. Deadheading them then puts the plant into making energy for its roots, and its foliage looks much better during the rest of the year.
I always do chop and drop and let all that decompose and feed the soil with all that nutrients and help the bugs over winter in it
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8 to 9 out of 10 insects around are beneficial by what metric? That doesn't sound right. Logically there should always more prey than predators.
Beneficial insects are not necessarily predators. Some are, like lady bugs but others are pollinators, like the native bees.
Maybe leaves only hurt your lawn because you cut the grass?
Humans have been indoctrinated with the belief that we need to make everything to be "perfect" aesthetically, yet "God" made it to be chaotic! Most yards/gardens that are in perfect order are not beneficial to anyone or anything besides the one who created it.
Why have garden , it just takes your life away spending time labour , rubbish , money , keep life simple , just grow to eat , fancy gardens when you get old you cant do bugger all , keep it simple , it a corporations thing to manipulate you , spending money , and you changing it natural surroundings , environment , 😊
Thanks but no thanks.This place is a total mess. I'll keep gathering up the dead stuff and avoid an HOA fine.
Which is why we canned the realtor who kept pushing HOAs on us and went with a realtor who understood that we didn't want to be subject to the ignorance of some stupid committee telling us we can't be smart in our yard. I spent too long in the military to have some civilian snob tell me how to live my life.
I'll not live in a HOA to begin with
Me neither! HOAs don’t give a hoot about the environment. All they care about is prettiness.
Fortunately, gardeners in our area have taken HOAs with backward & environmentally damaging views to court & won.
Shining some sunshine on condominium boards that fail to keep buildings maintained at risk to lives just to keep fees low and HOAs that pass & enforce environmentally damaging “rules” in their fiefdoms could be part of the solution to declining insects, birds other wildlife and quality of life for humans. Walking the walk :-)