How to garden - what every beginner gardener needs to know....
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- If you're new to gardening, you've taken on a new garden - or even if you've got stuck in a rut with your old garden, then these are the things that every gardener should know. They're the easy gardening basics - the tips that will help you create your own perfect garden.
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0:00 Welcome
0:59 What to do when you first get a garden
1:58 How to start weeding - see my no-nonsense guide to weeding video How to Weed Your Garden: • How to weed your garde...
2:37 The new approach to weeds: • Garden weeds - a new a...
And Jack Wallington's book Wild About Weeds: www.jackwallington.com/shop/
3:52 Where is the sun? Why that matters to beginner gardeners.
5:01 Why a shady border can be one of the best parts of your garden: www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.u... Clever shady garden tips: • Brilliant shade garden...
5:50 Should I test my soil? • Do you really need to ...
6:50 Add a layer of garden compost, mulch or well rotted manure (around 2"-3") to your garden every year
7:29 Watering is one of the most important gardening jobs.
8:39 How to plant a 'dry garden' with tips from the Beth Chatto gardens: • How to make a gravel g...
8:56 How to plant a low maintenance garden
9:31 What are shrubs, perennials, ornamental grasses, bulbs and annuals? A beginner gardener's easy guide
12:13 What garden tools do you need? 7 Essential tools blog post: www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.u...
12:49 The Middlesized Garden tote bag with 'Gardeners Learn by Trowel and Error is available from Spring
13:04 Good beginner gardening books include Gardening in Pyjamas by Helen Yemm: amzn.to/3s9QTPa , RHS How to Garden When You're New to Gardening: amzn.to/3105VLr and for growing veg, Charles Dowding's Organic Gardening, the Natural No-Dig Way: amzn.to/2Pfen76 Note that links to Amazon are affiliate so I may get a small fee if you buy.
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Agree 100%! Such great advice. I learned the hard way, put plants in the wrong place, pulled perrenials in early spring thinking they were weeds and weeded too much so the annuals that reseeded couldnt mature. Took me 3 yrs of really hard work to figure this out. The one thing I have never done is use pesticides and herbicides because i refuse to use poison and i only use organic fertilizer sparingly and guess what? I do not have pest issues. Also I give a plant 3 chances, if I plant something and it dies I only try two more times and then I'm done. Thank you Alexandra this advice is great for new and old gardeners alike!
You are quickly becoming my favorite!
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I absolutely LOVE this video. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I want to make a cottage garden but am really a complete novice. This channel is EXACTLY what I was looking for and is presented so well. THANK YOU…
Great video I know nothing about gardening but have a garden that I could make beautiful. You have inspired me to get started
Excellent content. Love your blog & videos.
I do enjoy your videos so very much. 💗
Thank you so much!
This is the best gardening advice I’ve heard. I’ve been gardening for many years in Virginia, USA (zone 7a). I wish I would have had this information when I first started. Thank you. I really like your channel.
Thank you!
👌good advice as per usual👍✨
Glad it was helpful!
This video is right on time. We must be sharing a “psychic vibe”! I had just decided that, after last year being what it was, I must concentrate on low maintenance gardening, more bulbs, shrubs and perennials, where I should set up some rain collection system areas AND “that’s not a weed, I just haven’t figured out its uses yet”. And this morning, voila! Your wonderful video covered it all. I even watched it twice! Thank you so much. 😊
Alexandra, as a previous correspondent mentioned, lower maintenance garden is becoming more desirable especially as we get older. Would you do a video on shrubs sometime?
I often recommend to people design the garden with winter interest in mind as the garden should then look good all year. Also position if possible, key structural plants of interest ie nice trees or plants with year round appeal opposite your kitchen window or where you can see them from your favourite seat in the house if this is feasible. Good tips and I enjoy your videos very much.
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Thank you!
Great advices! I especially liked the part of “low-maintenance” garden. Combining such plants with a small number of annuals (to bring more colours and variety) could be a perfect setup and maintenance effort.
Thank you!
Always learning
I really needed that last tip. I thought I was a plant killer, I didn't realise that plants diedd at the hands of "experts" too. Very comforting to know it's likely not my fault
It took me many years to come to really accept that!! Mom guilt transferred to gardening. There is a lovely gardener in the US - Linda Vater. She and Alexandra are two of my faves. Linda gives every plant three strikes and you’re out. Move it once, move it twice, move it to the compost (or give it to someone else to try).
Sonovagun! I had just come in to take a break from reclaiming the abandoned back garden. I'm trying using a hoe this time, my fingernails are weeping with gratitude. Anyway, I had left CZcams on autoplay and I found it playing this clip just at the bit about the northern exposure. In the next 10 minutes, nearly all my questions were answered: plant selection, tools, having a decent garden and still having a life.
So glad to hear it!
Excellent tips as always! Pre-weeding and taking time to understand the microclimates in your garden were most valuable for me. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
I love your butterfly jacket!💖🦋🦋🦋🦋😊
Thank you This was a very helpful video . I a m 84 and was Lucy enough to have had a large walled garden for 50 years, I now live in a bungalow which is surrounded by rhododendrons and Camélia & Azaleas. No lovely sunny border, so I am faced with completely different circumstances , I have been here for 3 seasons and having done what Alexandra described I am slowly putting my idea of what I like in a garden inti practice.
How interesting to start again, and thank you for your comments.
I have a shady north facing area of my garden. I fought with it for awhile and now accepted it as a natural woodland area.
Wonderful video Alexandria! I always learn something new from your videos. Happy Spring!
Thank you! You too!
Very helpful....and hopeful as usual. Thank you.
"If you're new to gardening, you've taken on a new garden - or even if you've got stuck in a rut with your old garden" ..... maybe not stuck in a rut but definitely stuck and struggling to make forward progress!... your videos are very encouraging...keep up the good work.
Good Morning! Happy Saturday thanks for the awesome tips. What a beautiful butterfly blouse, lovely color!💕
Your channel is pure gold.
Brilliant advice. My tip is at the end of the day walk round your garden and have a look at what you have done, ignore what still needs doing, that can wait until tomorrow.
Excellent advice!
Very good advice. Thank you. 😊
You are so welcome!
Always a wonderful way to begin my Saturday mornings with a cuppa and a new video from you! Now I feel all charged up to tackle the garden and so a bit of planting. Thank you from Springfield, Missouri USA❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧
Love your channel!
Brand new to gardening. One thing I've learnt to do is remember it's your hobby. You're not trying to win Chelsea or feed the nation. You do this for fun, so, make sure it is!
Good point!
Yeah, great advice there.... If it makes you happy, you're doing a good job..!!
Going into my third year of ‘active’ gardening and getting excited for this year’s plans, this video comes at the perfect time. Remember the basics, don’t be afraid to try and make mistakes and most of all have a good time and enjoy. Thanks for your advice!
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I love your top--perfect for your channel!!
Thank you!
Weed! Garden Answer suggested dividing your yard into seven zones and picking a zone for each day of the week to focus on, so you have eyes on every area each week. I tend to visit the north side of my house less and when I do go there I am amazed how overgrown it has become. I'm trying this system this season to see if it helps. I tend to get wrapped up on one project and work till it is done and it hasn't been working for me all that well.
This is a really informative site - you can tell you're hearing it from someone who has been there, done it, and knows!
This was brilliant. It made no assumptions of the knowledge of the listener which means as a complete beginner it all made sense. Thank you
Another informative video , I like using rain water becuse its better than tap water ( being softwater and better fot plants ) but as you said you need more than 1 butt . Its best to keep your eye open for second hand sites for a good bargin
Gardeners learn by trowel and error - love it! And your helpful videos, of course.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for your suggestions. I like particularly the idea of sitting in your garden in different places to get a perspective of the sun. I never thought of that so important and very obvious but missed by me. Your garden is gorgeous! Love your videos.
I live in my house for 17 years now and started LAST YEAR to sit somewhere else than my favourite place for reading...and i now know how to make other areas of my garden prettyer than just the lookout from my favourite place..balkony for example..💖🌱👍
So very pleased that I came across this brilliant video. My wife is now sadly in a care home and was the gardening genius, I was the labourer! Buying the next house soon and its has big front and rear gardens that have been well taken care of. Also has a garden pond. So I need to learn from scratch as to what to do on arrival. Will be making lots of notes on what I need to do, but will take things slowly and only do something when I understand WHY. Locked garden shed yet to be explored and hopefully lots of gardening tools etc stored within. The house is identical to Linda old family house that is 11 doors away! Thanks so much, I hope my brain cells can cope, great commentary as well, Liam
Greetings from dublin in Rep of Ireland. Your video is very educational .
Glad it was helpful!
Since we are relocating from southwest France to central Portugal sometime this year, your advice is especially timely. Though I am a seasoned gardener who have had gardens in three different countries, I had forgotten the most important perspective which is DO NOTHING the first year except of course to observe how the garden reveals itself throughout the season.
I hope you enjoy your new garden - very exciting.
Excellent video and so easy to follow.
Glad you liked it
Invaluable information. Where were you 30 years ago. I have great gardens established all by trial and error. I had to have patience, and it was costly. I’d say ask older gardeners with beautiful gardens bc they will gladly show, tell and maybe share🌺
Great basic info! Your scarf is gorgeous and I love your beautiful dog!
I was so surprised to see Jack in this video. I used to work with him before he quit to do gardening. Great to see he’s doing well.
Yes, he is and has had several books published.
Always enjoy and learn
After 30 years of gardening in USDAZone8b, we retired to the mountains and Zone6. A new place to grow and learn! I’m loving it. Glad I found your chanel.
Thank you! And I hope you're enjoying your new start.
Thanks
Absolutely on time! As always good advise! Every week I wait for your uploads. Please keep doing what you are doing .
Thank you so much for the amazing video. Very informative as always 👍👍
Very helpful! Thank you so much!!
Thank you very much for making this!
This is a very good gardening talk....so much information, must file away for reference and to share with friends..
Your scarf/ shawl is simply stunningly gorgeous...
Thanks so much for sharing...💝💐
BTW....I love your mantra..."gardeners learn by trowel and error"...👍
Thanks for sharing!! And I love the scarf too - I'd never worn it like that before, but it was chilly in the potting shed and it is remarkably warm for something so light.
Thank you again!
Thank you for this video which I so need your advices; even though is 1year old. This is my third year in my “new” garden and I only just realised because of the size, I could be working there every hour of the day and would never keep up with all the jobs. Despite I have a gardener doing the general up keep every fortnight.
At least I did one thing right, which was for first year I did nothing. Just to see what comes up from the ground. Then last year, I attempted some bulbs , annuals and a rose. I am a novice but excited gardener. So I find All your videos are so applicable. You seem to answer all the questions in my head😆.
Thank you!
Another great and helpful post ! Thank you ❤️☺️
Thank you. Loved this video 🧑🌾
Great advice. I'd add that how cold your garden is makes a great deal of difference to what you can grow and how long you can enjoy it for. I grew up in Kent and London and my parents lived in Sussex so drool over your garden now that I live in Edinburgh. Miss everything looking so bountiful. Enjoying your channel very much.
Love the sitting in a chair advice! Now that's Zen 🤣I've been gardening since mud pies were on the menu, BUT we all need a refresher course and this was lovely and helpful. I could only add in totally agreement with hand weeding a couple of encouraging phrases like every weedy flower head you catch before dispersing is equal to pulling hundreds and sometimes thousands of weeds, and weeds are just plants with virtues unknown. For new gardens I think waiting if possible a full year before ripping out plants is helpful , the plant you thought was boring in one season might be glorious the next , forsythia, flowering quince are obvious, while the search for that luscious winter fragrance of sarcococca coming off a mundane sweetbox could be a welcome surprise.
Absolutely agree, very good points
Wow!! This is so helpful!!Thank you!!
Thank you!
Thanks for the tips!
i love how clear and to the point your videos are. awesome practical and real-life advice!!
Thank you for the excellent overview and guide!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank-you for some wonderful advice & encouragement! 🙏😊
Very nice,informative. Thank you.
Placement and location is so important as you point out. My first veg garden was large and far from the house, it didn't flourish and I dropped it after one year. My kitchen garden now is close to the house and I love it. Also, do you have a video about the proper use and maintenance of garden tools? Mine are looking rather poorly I'm afraid. Thank you for your weekly videos, much appreciated!
Thank you - a video on tools is a good idea, but I don't have one yet. One for the list!
love your videos...thank you so much for your help and information.
Great video. Thank you for your advice❤️
Great video. Very useful information. Thanks.
So paving scraper and hand trowel are now on my shopping list. Some great tips here Alexandra as always 😊
brilliant video and advice for a newbie gardener.
I simply love all your videos especially the great tips in this one. Would love a video on how to set up the multiple rain barrels in this one.
You’re fantastic! I love your very informative videos xox
Really helpful x
Great advice. I enjoy all your videos, though. Your scarf is absolutely stunning and is very complimentary to your colouring. It is so beautiful that I thought you would receive lots of comments about it.
Oh thank you!
So reassuring, thank you. I'm looking for a property with a garden and I've never had my own garden before. Hoping I really get into it!
I totally agree with you Alexandra. My advice is also do nothing, get a chair (preferably with a nice cup of tea) and watch the sun, live with what you have got for a few months and then start. I like the tip on talking to neighbours to identify local weeds. That would be really useful if you are new to an area or indeed maybe changing into a hotter or colder gardening zone. And yes we all kill plants, sometimes we know the reason and could kick ourselves and other times it's a mystery. Great video.
Thank you!
I enjoy your videos very much with such a wealth of knowledge. Love your butterfly shawl/scarf, it's gorgeous! Greetings from South Carolina and summer home in North Carolina mountains where I do most of my gardening.
Subscribed. I'm off work for a little while so have decided to give gardening a go, this video was a fantastic introduction and I'm going to check out your links in the description also. It's time to stop living in a scene from Jumanji 😁
I hope you enjoy it!
I am hooked 🌷❤️🙏
Love this video! Thanks very much for being so detailed and explaining everything so clearly. I feel confident to start.
You are so welcome!
Wonderful wisdom, I needed that review. And some beautiful footage of the different gardens. 💕
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you so much for your wonderful videos!!! I am so glad to have found you. It's the perfect mix of information, encouragement, inspiration and advice.
Thank you!
I just discovered your channel and I really appreciate it. Thank you so much for all your advice. It's a privilege to watch and learn and such a lovely, educating distraction. Thank you again.
You are so welcome!
Thank you for a lovely, helpful video 🙂
Glad it was helpful!
Just starting to watch ur channel. So encouraging and inspirational. Thanks for all the wonderful tips for a beginner!
Thank you!
Just discovered your channel, I'm a new gardener and I cant to learn from your channel!
This is a 5 star video, the best compilation of the essentials of gardening and most helpful advice for beginners and others! I garden for some years now but realized how seldom I sit IN the garden to look from different perspectives. Most times I sit and look AT the garden from the terrace. I will change that. Thank you!
Thank you!
I love your videos you are brilliant 🤩 thank you 🙏 I have learned so much from you❤️😇❤️
Thank you!
Probably better than my method. Buy plants young, buy them cheap, if they die you haven't broke the bank and you try something else. I'm always looking in other people's gardens in my area. What grows for them?
More elaborate advice. Start with evergreens for the skeleton of your garden. it should look OK with them alone because that is all you will have come Winter. Intersperse deciduous shrubs. Take a chance with Perennials next, remember they die back to ground so don't mistake them for weeds next summer. Maybe diagram your garden. Fill in gaps with spring bulbs. I usually put them around deciduous shrubs so they die off as the shrubs take full leaf. I don't bother with annuals. Vibrant shrubs will give you colour. Like Callistemon or an orange Azalea.
Then there is sun/shade, and acidity level. They technically should inform what you buy but I give anything a go. £3 Camellia lives or dies. £16 Camellia, it better live. The rules suggest Camellias and Azaleas need the same conditions. I've got one of each, the Camellia flourishes, the azalea struggles. You never know
To weed I use a root breaker. Saves me bending down. I'm in my early 30s, I did the first yearly weeding of my front garden last week, it took me 3 hours and I felt it in my back. I can't imagine doing it with a short hand tool.
My biggest garden conundrum is a boggy patch. The Soil Floods in Winter, Cracks in summer. I have no idea what will tolerate that
Alexandra, you delivered again! Great video 👌❤️
Thank you!
Absolutely excellent advice I wish I'd had at the beginning of my gardening journey. Clear, useful, empathetic. Liked the balanced, modern advice an weeds. And it helped me understand better the pros and cons of bringing annuals into my perennial border. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
So good!! I’ve only been gardening for a couple seasons....never had the time or even desire while I was raising our children and working full time 😂 (although we did plant annuals in pots for our porch, that’s all I took the time or had the skill to do!). Now retired and in a different home with a couple acres, I have a blank slate, and it’s overwhelming! But I have sooo enjoyed learning from experts I have found on you tube and perusing beautiful gardening books. This was so helpful, and my favorite tip is the first one - at first, do nothing! That’s what I have been doing, taking my time and trying to learn where I get the best sun and where I have good shade and what types of plants I like as well as what will grow well in my area. Bit by bit we are getting there. Thank you expertise, and the “permission” to try, even if it fails!
Thank you, very good information!❤️
Glad it was helpful!
A thoroughly informative video
Glad you think so!
Such great advice. I wish I did these things before I started.
Thank you!
just getting into gardening and absolutely loved this video, so excited to get into it and this video was one of the best guides!
Thank you!
Brilliant video ! So interesting can't wait for the next.need lots of help and advice as now retired will have time to get out in my little garden and with your help learn a new hobby.Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
I love your videos, you are so common-sense forward. I also love your voice, it's so calm.
Thank you! 😊
I never normally comment on videos but this was honestly brilliant and so helpful!! Thank you!
Thank you!