Gardening doesn’t need to be difficult. Taking a simple and easy approach to gardening can still be successful. Gardener Scott shares 12 ways he gardens in a lazy way that still leads to gardening success. (Video #384)
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27 Comments
Love your way of thinking and calming voice.
The creeping thyme and oregano I established in three of my raised beds have almost completely filled in between my veggies giving me a permanent living mulch.
Mulch around my walking area was making too much work for me because the NM thunderstorms kept moving it into piles at the east end of my garden. I would rake it all back, only to do it over again the next time it rained. So I had landscaping timber installed and filled the whole area with gravel. Now it's completely maintenance free! Also, I smiled at the way you let natural plants be part of your garden. I have wild verbena, sunflowers and globe mallow growing all around my raised beds. They make great additions as pollinators and beauty! I'm really looking forward to some videos about your use of the new greenhouse! I'm using one for the first time this year and have MUCH to learn!
Some of the lazy crops I like to grow are dry beans, dry peas, winter squash, dry corn, wheat, etc. Plant them, water when needed and harvest when it is convenient. You can let the crop sit on the plants for weeks waiting to be harvested whenever it is convenient for you.
I'm new at gardening so — THANKS everyone for all all the fabulous tips! Appreciate it… And thank you Gardener Scott for your awesome channel… I'll for sure try some of these ideas…from ME in AZ…🌺
Ah ha ha! You say lazy, I say efficient! 👏 I’ve got a baby and a 5-y-o, busy mamma with waaaaay too many plant babies then what a sane person would have. I could spend all day just pulling dead leaves or beautifying…. But nope! I have to prioritize and maximize! Keep the veggie garden productive so I can feed the fam. Cheers to us EFFICIENT gardeners! 😆 Some of us just have no choice, and that is a-ok. 🍓
Great tips! I became a lazy gardener when I developed back and hip problems. Because I love gardening so much, I had planting beds built from cinder blocks to a height that makes it easy to garden sitting down. I use a wheeled walker that has a seat, and a bag to keep my gardening tools in. I can even use the walker as a mini wheelbarrow, by putting a bucket on the seat to get things to and from the compost.
Great video Scott. Addresses some issues of concern , if I see a plant growing in my planter and I am not sure what it is, I will let it grow until I know it is not something I planted then either let it continue, or add it to the compost. Seasonal changes are tougher. When it is too hot for one plant, I have to be ready to replace with something that fits.
So much good advice, a lot of which reaffirms what I'm already doing. For example, lazy compost and mulching to avoid weeding.
Enjoyed this video. Being able to manage a garden without it being overwhelming takes a lot of planning and constant monitoring but some things are Ok to let go. I also have a lot of plants that came up that self sowed and it is just like nature intended and often they seem happier than the ones that I purposely planted. Each year I also have some surprise volunteers and they always are welcome. And I do a little bit of hand weeding everyday too. I think a lot of the work I do is early planning and planting, and then it can be routine maintenance after that.
Thanks for the garden tips! What kind of prep do you do before laying the wood chips. I have an area that is full of berry bushes and dwarf fruit trees, and a couple grape vines and I would love to not have to mow and weed eat this weekly. We also have a giant pile of wood chips from 5 very large trees we had to take down. Seems like the perfect solution.
Most of my flowers are perennials, and as I plant more I'm choosing low-maintenance natives. Maintenance is usually water when it's extra dry, a sprinkle of spring fertilizer, and cutting down the dead stalks in fall. I attract pollinators and feed hummingbirds with almost no effort. The vegetable garden takes the side benefit.
Ironically this lazy gardener video has inspired me to not be lazy and get out into the garden for watering and weeding! Thanks as always, GS!!
I would appreciate any tips from anyone with experience growing eggplant. My eggplants have thrived and produced scores of gorgeous fruits. But now they are 6 and 7 feet tall! All the blooms and fruit are at the tops, almost out of my reach. Should I top the plants? How do I do that without damaging them? Thanks.
Here are some of the things I do to do less:
The only time I thin my apple trees is when I see worm holes in them. When I do, I drop the infested apples to the ground. I never pick up those apples, the pest predators need something to eat to keep them around and those apples are good fertilizer for the tree. I can't remember when I didn't have more good apples than I could eat or store. Often some of my fruit tree branches will break due to not thinning them. I just leave them be if they are still connected and harvest the fruit on them after it ripens then I cut the branches off and send them to the wood chipper at the end of the season. Even though most of my garden is no till, the easiest way I have found to grow corn is to shallow till the ground until the quack grass and weeds are all gone. Then I plant the corn and mulch with grass and weed clippings to kill weeds, hold the moisture and feed nitrogen from the clippings to the corn. Only trouble was, tilling with my walk behind tiller was way too much work so this year I bought a 6' three point tiller to pull behind my tractor. I figured that, with the inflation that is coming, the money I paid for the tiller wouldn't be worth much next year. Now I only spend about 10 minutes tilling 4 or 5 times before planting each successive corn plot. Also a while back I purchased a commercial mower with a blower, grass hamper and hydraulic dump so the only work needed for mulch is to spread it with a pitch fork when necessary. For compost, I start one pile and add all organic material including kitchen scraps the composting toilet material, dead rodents and birds to it for an entire year. I keep a pile of leaves and grass clippings near the pile to cover any smelly material as it is added. I start a new pile every year. I never turn the piles and the compost pile of the 3rd year is what I use in the garden. An no there is nothing left in the compost pile that will make you sick after sitting for three years. Everything decomposes in that time.
Lazy gardening for me definitely needs some kind of automated irrigation system, like a drip irrigation. With a solar panel+battery attached to the pump, that should be plenty lazy.
That mailbox idea is totally brilliant
When I do use fert it tends to use granular. Grab a loose handful throw it at the base of your plants let water soak it in call it in call day
I’ve missed your Monday live since I’ve gone back to work in the office 🥺
Would you recommend clover as ground cover if I’m not ready to plant out my whole yard yet?
Ha! I bought one of those collapsible totes on your recommendation. We use it. It's probably paid for itself. But I've always done a lot of chop and drop and it annoys my husband who then brings me the tote
Deep mulch + irrigation on trees is one of the biggest time saving things here in the southwest. Eventually I'll put in drip lines for our raised beds, watering annuals daily can get to be a chore. I absolutely have to leave up my rabbit cages / tree tubes, though. I don't have enough vegetation for the rabbits to eat and they go right for the veggies / fruit trees. They'll entirely leave the native plants alone once they've grown accustomed to them (usually only a month or two where they might nibble to figure out if the plant is edible). Native, flowering annuals/perennials/shrubs near your fruit trees is super useful in my opinion. We usually get aphids early in the season, but by mid-summer, they're very hard to find (usually hidden in spots on our brassicas). Feed the predators and they'll do a ton of work for you 😁 We get free lacewings / ladybugs / wasps as they just show up on their own.
my season is too short to really expect a pumpkin harvest BUT my neighbour taught me that pumpkin leaves can be eaten. In her home country Kongo they use pumpkin leaves as a vegetable. They taste great sauteed with spring onions. I add water as I cook them so they soften.
+ for the tool mailbox alone!
Wouldn't the seeds from the weeds that are dropped just resow and grow back even more? I would love to adopt your method! Just don't understand….
I have never watched one of your videos and not hit the like button. 100% like! Each video teaches or reminds me, and definitely inspires.
That is a title that gets my attention.
I don't think of it as being lazy, I think off it as time management to do other things.