The 5 minute garden rule will change the way you garden
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- You will be surprised how much this will help you in your garden.
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That 5-minute rule is perfect. I have low-energy, but try to work in the morning when my energy is at its best. Being retired, I have that freedom. I have been telling myself, just do one thing for the garden per day. It's working. I break down the tasks and it really takes only 5 minutes a day. Even if I just sort my seeds and plan where to plant, or choose the pots. Pulling a few weeds is strategic. Yes, the harvest is what it's all about. I enjoy my garden every time I walk past my patio to the car and tweak a few things along the route.
Thats how I do it and over the course of the week it changes alot.
I spend hours and hours in my garden!! Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and okra!! I steak them and string them up!! I have a lot of these plants!! I try to keep planting to get that late harvest. I also grow a ton of extra plants for friends and coworkers!! I grow some flowers! Zinnias and marigolds. Keep it simple!! Going to plant some squash and zucchini in giant pots!! Never ending!! I love it but it takes a lot of time!!
And this year, I plan on an epic fall garden!! Tons of cabbage and broccoli!! Lettuce, collards, and kale!! Short day onions!! Growing ❤these plants from seed!! It will take months just to get the plants ready. Just never ending fun!! 13:40
Ahhh, I liked this one ❤. As a single mom who works full time, I've gotten comments about my desire to garden, and the time investment. I'll figure it out. Some months will certainly be busier than others, but it's not crazy all the time. Nice to hear someone else talk about how it can be possible, even with limited time. Thank you!
Family always come first for me and the time in the garden had to be streamlined
I have my garden pretty much planted up now except for some annual flowers. I have enjoyed the entire process for 5 years. But I am getting older- 71- and getting more conditions and an injury, etc. so now I am working on being more efficient and less spread out area. Planted more perennials like asparagus and berries etc. I am mostly a vegetarian and eat raw as I move from container/bed to the next one. I feed my soul while feeding my family. I enjoy your channel.
Enjoy Your Thursday Sandy bottom. Sunny and still very windy here..
My garden started with a few pots and two small raised beds in 2019. It has pretty much doubled in size each year. Today, I have 16 raised beds of various sizes, three GreenStalk towers, an in ground 10ft x 20ft herb garden, a small orchard with ten fruit trees, and eighteen ten-gallon growbags planted with flowers for pollinators and a couple porch tomatoes (Sun Gold cherry).
I spend about two hours a day gardening; the bulk of my exercise. Yesterday I harvested out shelling peas and picked my first crookneck squash of the season. Today, I took the last harvest of snow peas and cleared them out, and picked my first cucumber of the season.
Tomorrow, I’ll go through the kohlrabi, and harvest Swiss Chard, more crookneck and lemon squash, maybe a zucchini, and three or four cucumbers. That will leave Sunday for harvesting mustard greens (The third reaping from them.). With harvesting comes processing for freezing, canning, or dehydrating. That takes time too.
Garden vittles sure are tasty!
When you look at it as exercise that's an entirely different story.
@@sandybottomhomestead Bad knees, and a Widow Maker with a triple bypass surgery, have left me disabled. Gardening gets me on my feet, and makes me exercise. I can take breaks as often as I need them, even if it means sitting on a chair in the middle of my garden. When the trellis tunnel is covered with vines, it is a nice cool spot to sit and get out of the summer heat. I decided to go back out to the garden and harvest potatoes, not a bumper crop, but decent, and some good size baking tatters too. And my God, the earthworms. Some of them were so big and fat, if I didn't know better, they could have passed as baby snakes. And there were a lot of them.
I spend lots of time in garden. But I’m retired and live alone.but lot of that is just enjoying the walk in the garden
I spend a lot of time just looking at the garden as well. Those mornings in my swing are my favorite
Same with me
I did the same. I started with 2 beds and expanded from there. I am hoping to put in a greenhouse next year.
Gardening is my peace of mind. Relaxing and do my thinking and even praying. A little in the morning and some in the evening. Seasons go by fast when growing food.
Your videos are so inspiring. ❤
You took my post right out of my mouth!😍 My garden is my sanity in an insane world...a little Eden!
i love going out late in the afternoon and pulling a few weeds or doing a treatment. its cooler and the light is great on my garden.
Decades ago, someone (an author/editor) observed the same thing you have observed about "...don't have time," which is that that's an excuse. That writer then went on to say that if the desire is sincere, with just fifteen minutes a day and a tiny bit of discipline, you can: and there followed an impressive list. The only two things I recall that person saying you can do in fifteen minutes per day over the span of a year is a) maintain a garden, and b) write a novel.
You can argue about the second, probably, but those little tasks you've talked about in this video such as pulling some weeds, managing a treatment (or in the case of the improved airflow for your tomato plants, trimming one plant a day), a bit of pruning, tying up a sprawling zucchini, make an entry or a notation in your garden journal.... All can be done, if only we *just move our backsides and DO it!*
Much garden love from Northeast Ohio! 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
I wonder what a novel would look like after a year
@@sandybottomhomestead Same here. The arithmetic, though, is one quarter-hour times three-hundred-sixty-five days in a calendar year or, assuming this wasn't begun on January 1st, in a twelvemonth, equals ninety-one-and-one-quarter hours.
Assuming or granting that the author already had a plot outlined and that we call that outline the skeleton, and all that was necessary when we start the clock was to flesh out the story, maybe like a Harlequin romance? Or possibly like a Mickey Spillane detective novel? Light reading, donchaknow.
And before ANYBODY gets themselves into a lather, I mean no disrespect to either genre. Light reading has a place, a positive, useful and beneficial place. Some folks with heavy-duty responsibility jobs *need* that "unwind" in an evening and losing themselves in some easy reading can soothe a lot of stress.
All the best from NE Ohio! 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
I have the ability to spend as much time as I want and it is never enough. For me the labor isnt work. I genuinely enjoy the hardwork but, there is always a lot to do even more when harvests start coming. I have a Food & Medicinal garden thats roughly 350 sq ft in addition to several containers and towers through out the front yard and backyard.
Don't forget to try pickling those extra snow peas! I did 8 more pints yesterday and have a lot of requests from friends :)
I agree, work smarter not harder. I am still in the formative years with my garden, being new to this area. However I look forward to having it more established and getting on with chickens or some other food producing animals. I have pet horses as well so its all fun, just living the dream 💕
That's awesome!
A little bit a day goes a long way. Me and the old lady walk around the house every night and check the flower beds and garden. This weekend the bulk of the garden is being planted. Will be a full day! But enjoyable day. My favorite day!
Planting days do take up the day for sure
Thank you, great advice!!
Good morning.
I spend about an hour in the morning and then in the evenings.
This weekend the planting begins, takes a good couple weeks to get everything planted.
Then it's weed control the rest of the season.
Good morning.
❤. Love this video 📹 super fantastic 😊😊😊😊, good info 😊
Building a new garden at a new house this years, so there has been a TON of prep to establish the area. But planting, maintenance, watering, etc is about 2 hours a week. I'll frequently set a timer for 5-20 minutes and just get done what I can get done.
Isn't crazy how much you get done in that amount of time
Sometimes I set a timer on my phone so I’ll stop by 1 1/2 hrs….but that’s my choice because I’m having fun! I set the timer so I won’t be decimated for the rest of my day lol. As you say, I could do it in a lot less time if I wanted to.
As long as you are having fun that's all that matters
So funny though I saw you yesterday went up some guy and asked him if it was you, it was not jajajaa , the way I look at it Garden is paradise enjoy my paradise soo much it's my favorite
I have been told I have a twin out there. Where were you?
North Carolina im in Raeford it was at spring lake at a Christian School my niece was doing a play and I met your twin jeejee
Good morning my bearded friend, my garden is my peace after a long 10-12 hrs of work. away from everything, no one is interested in "helping" in the garden. Between that and the grow room id say about 2 hrs or more a day give or take. I decided that my garlic will be ready very soon so I planted bloody butcher and evergreen stowell corn between the rows of garlic. We are going to see what happens.
I hope you get a good harvest! Good morning 🌄
My current garden is 1600 sq ft. Definitely more than 5 min a day. lol. Only my second year at this property which used to be pastureland, so quote the extensive weed seed bank so weeding is the most demanding task. But, manageable by sectioning out the garden and weeding a couple rows each day. 30 min or so daily right now just weeding. As the seed bank diminishes it should take less and less time. Especially once the corn gets tall enough to mulch and the vining plants start to fill in between the rows.
A new garden will take more time. I bet you'll be saving time once you get the weeds under control
Absolutely I’m very short on time on weekdays (work 4am-6pm), but I daily check and thump the pest. Doesn’t take much time once it’s setup. The 10-15 mins I spend in the flower beds and garden beds gets it all done.
That's a long day!
@@sandybottomhomestead It’s my fault I moved out of Memphis to buy my home in Blytheville but didn’t want to leave my job so I make the 3 hour round trip everyday.
I hope you have some good podcasts to listen too
@@sandybottomhomestead Of course it’s Backyard Gardens I’m just getting to 2021 😂😂. Even got a coworker listening now.
Awesome!
Needed this today. Feeling overwhelmed with everything I have to do in every aspect of my life. Need to break it up into 5 minute tasks! Thank you.
You'll be amazed what you can get done
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I try the five minute look around but my garden is attacked by so many bugs this time of year. It’s more like a couple of hours or more
I hope you can get it under control
What fertilizer do you use on your blueberries please.
same fertilizer i use in my garden. well balanced
Can’t wait till all my garden areas are built out. I’ve heard you get larger sweet potatoes in poor soil. You might try not fertilizing half your bed.
I only fertilize once and then let them go
No bro I said fuck it put up 25×100 green house quit my job to start a pot business had shitt partner now it and the space for the second one is my garden so I spend 8 to 10 hours in the garden