Whether you’re just starting out or already a garden pro, these 28 tips will save you time, money, and effort. If only I’d known these sooner when I first started gardening! Your plants (and wallet) will thank you! Timestamped: use the timestamps to jump to the tips you’re most interested in
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TIMESTAMPS: (click the timestamp to jump to a specific tip or re-watch your favorite part)
00:00 Introduction
00:49 Tip 1 – Grow in containers
01:14 Tip 2 – Grow herbs in containers
01:58 Tip 3 – Propagate herbs for winter
02:25 Tip 4 – Grow strawberries in crate towers
03:21 Tip 5 – Grow vertically
04:28 Tip 6 – Grow cold tolerant tomatoes
05:14 Tip 7 – Use shade cloth
06:53 Tip 8 – Plant garlic in the fall
07:24 Tip 9 – Plant close to your house
07:54 Tip 10 – Grow in hanging baskets
09:10 Tip 11 – Grow perennial herbs
09:29 Tip 12 – Divide chives
10:32 Tip 13 – Plant for pollinators
11:45 Tip 14 – Let some herbs flower for pollinators
12:26 Tip 15 – Succession plant
14:02 Tip 16 – Grow tomatoes on a string trellis
15:27 Tip 17 – Grow passion fruit
17:50 Tip 18 – Grow perennial fruit
19:38 Tip 19 – Protect strawberries in winter
20:44 Tip 20 – Don’t try to be perfect
21:23 Tip 21 – Know when to pull a plant
22:06 Tip 24 – Plant in sunniest spot in fall/winter
23:19 Tip 22 – Overwinter peppers
25:58 Tip 23 – Repurpose, reuse
27:07 Tips 24 – Grow greens that produce over long time
29:07 Tip 25 – Use mulch
30:44 Tip 26 – Install drip at the beginning
32:46 Tip 27 – Don’t be afraid to experiment
34:16 Tip 28 – Create a chill zone
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Which is your favorite tip? Thanks for gardening with us! -CaliKim &. CameraGuy
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Hi kim for the first time I'm going Korean radishes have you ever grown Korean radishes how many times do I have to add compost to my smart pots❤
How do you keep mice 🐁 away?
You are awesome!!!!!
Succession planting is such a great idea!! I’m going to do that with my lettuces and greens. Also over wintering your peppers here in So Cal. My Hungarian wax pepper came back and produced wonderfully. Another round of peppers now💚
My number one tip is to keep trying. We live in so many different areas – it never hurts to give something new a try – a veggie, herb, flower – or a way to grow it – in ground, in a container, etc. My biggest tip is to keep trying new things.
Hi Kim,
Hello from freezing cold Alabama. My pepper plants have survived two nights of frost, and there are two more days to go with temps in the 30s. I’ll get one, maybe two more harvests from them, not that need more peppers. I have about 36 quarts of diced peppers from this year’s harvest in my freezers plus left-over diced peppers from last year.
Yesterday, I needed to warm up the house, so I made batch of eight pints of salsa. I have more than enough tomatoes in my freezer to make eight more jars and sixteen jars of tomato sauce. I’ll probably still have tomatoes left over to make tomato soup with.
I have yet to learn when to quit gardening for the year. My fall/winter garden looks great with parsnips, carrots, beets, turnips, red cabbage, Swiss Chard, Dutch Cabbage, Komatsuna, Tatsoi, Yellow Heart Winter Choy, Napa Cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, and Pak Choi growing.
And to think, it starts all over again in January for me with seed starts. By February 20th, I have plants in the ground for my winter garden, chard, mustard, carrots, beets, turnips, lettuce, parsnips, broccoli, cauliflower, onions, peas, lettuce, Pak Choi, cabbage, and whatever else I want to plant. I’ll have 15 of 16 raised beds ready to use. Yeah, I’m probably growing too much, but I have chickens to spoil. They pay me back with eggs, and poop for my compost. Lots of poop!
I like the fig tree idea… I want to try it
Hey
What are the benefits of container gardening as mentioned in Tip 1?