Are you a brand new gardener? Is vegetable gardening somewhat of a mystery to you? Join me today as I interview Rachel of the Auxhart Gardening YouTube channel. Rachel has three years of experience under her belt as a container gardener, a raised-bed gardener, and an in ground gardener. I’ve invited Rachel to share her experiences as a new gardener because I’ve been gardening so long that I don’t remember some of my early challenges. Rachel is an honest YouTuber who shows you the good and the bad. Go check out her channel.
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This is my second year and one thing I learned from my first garden last year was to plant flowers that attract bees amongst my garden. What a difference this year. I already have potatoes and tomatoes and beans !
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I was very impressed with your guest. I did subscribed to her channell. But Scott you cannot be replaced. I have grown tomatoes at Minot AFB and could harvest until January. I had a closed in space. Plastic wrap and a few fans keep the area warm? Until the wind took down the plastic. I then had frozen beef steak tomatoes. I do love those days. It would be -40 degrees and still eating off the Vine ripe tomatoes. So I guess I'jm an old ,/New gardener. At 72 feeling very Old today.
Congratulations on 150K!!! ☀️☀️☀️
great interview sir i think i do support her from when she planted garlic with you..but i will check
I learned from my grandfather who grew up in the late 1800s so I guess I have a different outlook. I haven't really thought about how young gardeners learn. I remember when seed packets had a drawing of what the emerging plants looked like on the back but they don't do that anymore. YouTube has really been a good teacher for sure.
Great video
It was a pleasure to visit and talk with you! 🙂
Hi Scott so gd to watch this fresh off the shop floor at breakfast time here. I have subbed Rachel's channel thanks again
This is my 3rd year gardening and welcome all advice
I get my compost from the local tip
We get free compost in Korumbarra, (Australia)
A big shreader machine comes to the tip once or twice the year
You can get MDF material in mix but you select the best sections of the mix
I get trailer loads for free
I had the biggest crop of tomatoes l have every had this year
I enjoyed Rachel's advice and will be checking out her channel!
Love this! So encouraging. I think it’s so true that we learn so much from experience and sometimes failure. Knowledge really gets steeped in that way.
Lol… Yeppers, many different thoughts on gardening techniques… Dicephering what works for your garden and your area!! 💚
"What to plant and when to plant it?" That is oh so true Rachel! Wow Scott, that wind. We had it here in Colorado too my friend and it devastated the small amount of cool weather veggies and herbs I set out. I will plant more. Like Rachel said, "What to plant and when to plant it!" I love it! This is my first time gardening, so hopefully, I will figure it out soon. 🥰
So I saw in your last post that you bought mulch from your local heb and would like to know the location of that heb. The hebs around my area dont have any of the mulch available 🙁
😐😎..i Started 'gardening' from being 'the 1' had to 'cut The Lawn' …🙂..Its been 'A Rewarding Challenge'….😎..Totally Agree on The Soil!!🌿..these Shepherds Purses…trying to Help me out..😁..😎..Also!💥..Heard a Warning about 'Bad Manure'…so..smh.
So valuable! Love the interview.
Thanks to both of you! Great to see the collaboration!
We subscribed to Rachel's channel after your recommendation. we really enjoy her honesty. hopefully one day we can have 100 subscribers once we have our garden set up complete.
enjoyed your video and I think that's so great that Rachel has been gardening for three years I can remember when I first started Gardening I started In the ground I think what made me switch to raised beds was that I was not able to till my garden anymore becouse my tiller quit working and I was not able to buy another one
What fun it looks like y'all had together. Great interview with Rachel and it was fun to see Phoebe Sharona's cameo as well. Happy Gardening!
Congrats on 150k subscribers. Was that a skunk jumping off the fence at the beginning of the video?
Congratulations scott once again on surpassing 150,000 New subscribers / Friends,
I have learned alot from you the past 1.5 years –
Im so grateful for all your informative content ,especially since we live not far from one another , .
This was my 1st year growing our own transplants and I went over board , but thats fine , I gave alot away plus had a plant sale with my 9yr old granddaughter .she loves gardening also ,
I find it very therapeutic also an now with PRICES GOING UP DAILY / WEEKLY , we are growing as much as we can..GREAT INTERVIEW. .
HAVE A BLESSED WEEK .
MRS JOSETTE THARP .MONTGOMERY COUNTY , TEXAS 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I noticed some of your galvanized beds…do any have bottoms ? I need one for a deck area. I was thinking of a 2×8 or 3×8 watering trough from tractor supply that I could put holes in ? What are your thoughts ? How many holes should I put ?
I've been watching your channel for a while, but only subscribed today after your collab with Rachel. It's nice to see the more experienced working with the less experienced!
What a great Q&A Scott 🌱🌱🌱🌱
Thanks 🙏
I garden in elevated raised beds, due to back issues. Will you address anything on this subject? I'm not sure what soil to use, fertilizing, so much more.
Thank you Scott and Rachel – I too had started backyard gardening roughly 3 years ago and have had to learn a whole different process after living in the Midwest most of my life. I live in Texas, Zone 8A and the challenges seem to never subside – My father could grow anything it seemed and maybe that is where i get my desire. – Enough babble – Thank you for your honesty and insight. – God Bless
Hi Scott, Greg here in Az.
I believe several types of plants got stunted from the weather dipping back down into the 30's and 40's at night, such as my peppers, tomatillo's zuccs. and so on. i was wondering if they will pull out of it or should I re- plant. what is your thoughts, Scott?
Thank you this is a very nice video, many questions as a new 3 yr gardening thank you !
Anybody else hit like before you even watch the video? 😉
There may be stages when you are backyard gardening in order to supplement the groceries veggies haul. I started with 1000 gallons of compost to amend the the 11 cubic yards of sandy soil that the landscapers pulled out of my wife's ornamental garden in order to de-compact it. During 5 years I embraced the garden waste from 4 family members in order to compost it and to amend the expanding raised garden beds. Running out of space for new veggie beds I declared we no longer need family garden waste. You need 6 inches of compost for a new no-dig bed, but only 1 inch to for an existing one. I admit that I still add small amounts of crushed charcoal, crushed basalt and bentonite clay to the compost pile.
Thank you.
Great info. TFS 👍🌱
I am very new so I really enjoy you teaching us this is my year ❤️❤️❤️
I used to go by what the seed packet said, but I now feel when to plant on seed packets is more of a rough estimate. And I do get emails from companies about "What to plant in October" only to look outside and see frost on the ground.
I saw in one of your videos that you torched the top of your soil prior to planting cow peas. Can you explain please? Sorry if this is a question I should know the answer to!
Very good advice. Over winter I have tried to learn more about the biology of the soil and now I want to use that to build soil. A lot I don't know as a someone who has gardener for years.
I spotted a Seeds for Generations packet in your video! I love them and highly recommend them.
I am a new gardener. This will be my 3rd year and I’m still lost most of the time so I’m glad I found your channel.
I recently found your channel and it's great. This is a good video and there is a lot of good advice. I'm not a "new" gardener but I've been expanding pretty rapidly and have faced a lot of new gardener type challenges as I'm growing a larger variety of things and in many different spaces. I'd add a few more things that have worked for me, I have not really fallen into a lot of the new gardener traps – more lucky than good.
Rachel mentioned this but it's worth reiterating – grow what you eat the most. Don't plant eggplant if you eat it once every 6 months. I think one of the best things to plant right away are trees, since they take a few years to produce…get those in the ground first. We are in Florida in 9b and the first thing I planted were banana trees since we go through a lot of bananas. I also planted a lime tree and some avocado trees, I use a lot of limes! Those are all now producing and it was worth the wait.
I am now looking at food as a problem to solve. I look at what I buy in the grocery store and am trying to replace it by growing it myself. Hopefully we do not descend into a Sri Lanka type breakdown of society here but it seems possible in the future. We eat a lot of potatoes, so I planted enough to produce a few hundred pounds. I've recently added other types of trees and will be adding more soon, just trying to grow the things I normally buy at the store. I think this is a sensible way of doing things.
I would stress again, start with trees if you can. Sketch out (even if it's in your mind) where things will eventually be going. If, in 3 years, you don't like the tree where it is you can chop it down or prune it back – you control the tree, it does not control you. An avocado tree does not need to be 35' tall, trim it or espalier it conform to your environment. One of the better trees to grow are Mulberries. They grow quickly, are easy to propagate and are difficult to kill and everbearing varieties will fruit 4x per year.
Scott, Not sure what to do as you know I'm very new at this. I'm also in a 9a our nights are dropping down into the mid-'40s, I've got my hoops up but am totally lost about when to start covering everything? Is it by degrees or how long are the days? Making all kinds of mistakes? But still having a ball, learning so much so fast. Thanks for your help!