Essential spring gardening tips and mistakes to avoid – including answers to ‘when do I dig my spring garden’, ‘how to prevent weeds’ and ‘when should I fertilise my garden.’
00:00 Welcome
00:39 Subscribe to The Middlesized Garden: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThemiddlesizedgardenCoUk
00:49 Early spring gardening tips video: https://youtu.be/btHmSxHx-QY
01:01 Don’t forget to dead head your daffodils and tulips
01:35 Overview of the garden
02:40 The best place to plant bulbs
03:24 When planting tulips, check what their heights should be
03: 40 Why my tulips are too short
04:24 A tip that helps tulips come back year after year
04:46 Sarah Raven workshops: https://www.sarahraven.com/courses-events
05:24 Mistakes in the tulip borders
06:08 You need to be ruthless when you garden
06:28 Choosing plants for dry shade video: https://youtu.be/Bk9cWVsAVYQ
07:11 When should you dig your garden in spring?
07:49 No Dig For Flower Borders with Charles Dowding: https://youtu.be/MqfFOdup8Wc
08:30 When should you fertilise your garden – the difference between feeding the soil and feeding the plant
09:18 The rose fertilisers I’ve used include: David Austin Organic Rose Feed: https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/products/david-austin-rose-food
Toprose: https://amzn.to/3xO5o0J
and Vitax Organic Rose Food: https://amzn.to/3vBSujD
And (US) Osmocote: https://amzn.to/3v9gqvO
(not all the same brands I mentioned on the video as I accidentally mentioned some all purpose fertilisers I’ve used rather than the rose feed ones. Note that links to Amazon are affiliate and help fund this channel, thank you. Other links are not affiliate)
09:28 How can I prevent weeds in spring?
10:24 How to beat weeds video: https://youtu.be/SvHFHym6cjM
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Very informative video as a beginner gardener. This will be my second season and I enjoy the weather and gardening a lot lately. I didn't knew about dead heading daffodils after blooming for a stronger bulb. I will get my garden sisccors out tomorrow. Last year I seeded a lot of foxgloves and I replanted a lot of them to give them more space. I also transplanted a few to my backyard border. I will continue to water them after transplanting, but so far I noticed that they are though plants and caterpillars don't like them. Last year I took some small plantlets out between the big ones. At first I thought they were not going to make it, but they are coming back strong. The old dried leaves was a perfect refuge for a ladybird colony during the early spring frost. For me this plant is definitely a keeper💪🏻👍🏻🌿🌺
Great tip about deciduous trees and bulbs! Really opens up options for my shady backyard
Thank you again for all your helpful ideas xx
I think the eclectic mix of tulip colors works especially with the euphorbia mixing through out the border. Lovely!
Thank you Alexandra
I have had a red tulip in my front (east) bed fir twenty years . They slowly spread and I love them.
Again another great video! I planted my tulips 12 inches deep last fall and hopefully they will come back year after year. Regarding your tulips, I think the current way they look is amazing! Colorful, natural and relaxed, no need to redo them! I have never planted euphorbia robbiae before. I wonder if you pull them out after spring, do you replant them again in the fall every year? How do they work as perennials in your border?
I enjoy your videos. I live in the Caribe and admire how you develop beautiful gardens in a windy and cool climate!!
Thanks for the tips and reminders. We mulch with compost in the fall and every couple of years we put on new wood chips. The chips keep the weeding to a real minimum. My solution to a clashing mix of tulips is to cut those whose colours don't fit. Then I've got bouquets for the house or for gifts, and my colour scheme is more cohesive.
Thank you for all your resourceful content. 🌱
Loved this video! Tulips 12" deep was my fave tip. I mixed peat moss, top soil & compost manure to spread around base of shrubs, trees and flowers. It literally brought a viburnam back from dying and is now as glorius as others who didnt have issues. The mix also helps with retaining water around roots. Loved your tip to plant bulbs under deciduous trees. I also dont dig or til. Thnx!
Thank you so much for such precious tips out of your experiences.
Great info! I could never pull up a foxglove, either. They are just too precious! 🌷
Thank you so much for sharing! I learned a lot. 🙂 I am learning more about parterres, and would love to know more about yours, how you chose it, take care of it, etc. Also, I was thinking that because you wanted to keep the foxglove that selfseeded, that it makes you a wonderful gardener! I get your point though, but I love that you kept it and will give some extra TLC to the other plant. Lovely all around and thoroughly enjoyed. Paula
Though I'm sure if you rearrange them they'll be great, I actually like the combination of tulip colors that you have right now. To me they make an unexpected combination that works. Just thought I'd mention that. : )
Great information 👍 👌
How do you balance mulching and at the same time not suppressing the wanted self-seeders that need light to germinate like poppies? Is there some ideal time frame to allow both garden wishes to be filled?
I will try the tip of planting tulips deeper. I really had given up on them, but part of that is the deer going right for them in the salad buffet. Now that I have a dog, perhaps they will move along.
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Oh my, what a lovely garden! This is really beautiful. And actually I love the way the tulips are — you might see them as not perfect, and maybe to you its an odd mix of colors, and not so great that in some cases there's just one tulip, etc… but this makes it look natural. And I'm an artist and will tell you that sometimes it's a good thing to put colors together that you would think clash, such as orange and light pink. What this does is create interest, plus it doesn't look so contrived. I see all the different colors in the tulips and to me it is magical.
Also, thank you for the tip to plant tulips 12" deep. I've never done that nor have I heard of it, but will certainly be giving it a try this fall.
Good advice. Lovely garden.😍
Hi Alexandra I'm in
New Zealand – Autumn here – love your videos …. and dog.
Hi Alexandra, thank you so much for all your videos they have been helping me so much as I start my garden… Can I ask you about the Euphorbia, when you say you pull it up… Do you mean pull just some of it out at the root or do you snip it all off to ground level, to keep it from taking over the flowerbed?
hi.. I am confused on no dig garden of adding mulch in any form in perrinal garden.
would that also stop self seeding of some plant like foxglove etc?
Also over the time adding layer upon layer of much will Burry the plant/ crown itself resulting it in not performing well or may even die??
thanks
How brave of you to allow Euphorbia robbei run in the border it would swamp me in our damp climate. Love your video.
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My princess irene tulips are also quite low which was a surprise. I am glad you mentioned the reason why they aren’t as tall as they should be. Very informative video, thank you 🙂
What kind are those beautiful caramel peachy colored heuchera that you have? They are so pretty!
Your garden is so thick and full, that's how I like it, I'm working on making mine like that.
Really useful advice thank you.
Thanks for sharing🍀👨🏽🌾Always good, informative insights
Your border is spectacular !
My tip for weeding is to just do a small section per day.
That way you don't procrastinate and it's no big deal. Before you know it you can't drag yourself out of the garden !
I always look forward to these videos and am pleased to hear your practical advice. Thank you for sharing your lovely garden with us.