I’ve never had the soil tested-😂too cheap. I did look up what soil has that wood and sheep sorrel likes and it was magnesium. I need to rework the irrigation as I think the 1/4” line is meant to be shorter and will go to 1/2”. Problem is Rainbird only offers 17” spacing on 1/2” in our store so I may stagger those or switch to a drip tape at 12”. It’s difficult and will need to add more on/off valves. I haven’t installed it in the flower beds yet as some don’t like that much water. Nasturtiums and cosmos can be picky here. If I let them alone they seem to be fine. They sometimes need water but I can see at times they don’t like it as the fern like leaves turn brown. Nasturtiums I think the old original yellow and orange variety does best. The new ones are spindly and small. I’ve noticed this with new flowers I’m trying like the brown eyed Susan vine 😂😂I’ve never seen a vine that preferred to crawl on the ground vs up a trellis. It was a weak growth plant to start and as we are close to frost-It decides to grow!🙄. Big whoop. That’s the downside of trying new flowers here, we just don’t have a long enough season. This vine should have took off as we have a hot microclimate and apparently this vine can be invasive in hot climates so I thought it would work, it just takes too long to get its feet. Nice info Pam! Enjoyed it.
My black eyed susan vines did zilch this year and I have had success in the past but I only grow them from seed so not a lot of $$$ down the drain. They are so pretty when they grow. I agree, many times the newer colors of varieties of the old tried and trues just don't grow as prolifically but this year has been weird all the way around. I am too cheap also so I just amend as I can with compost and proceed. Many folks in new builds should start with amending the soil and just doing containers the first year so the soil can improve. The buckwheat is a stellar soil builder and can even help neutralize the ph in one season.
What wonderful information that you provided all of us, not just new beginners, but all of us. I really am interested in knowing what my weeds are telling me about my soil, I just find that completely interesting, so good to see one of your videos and I am glad that you had a great time while you were gone.❤❤
Great advice. I often wish I could recoup all the money I have spent on plants that didn't make it, but then again, I would just spend that money on more plants. 😂
Thank you for pointing out the zone information. So many gardening UA-camrs promote zones as gospel. I feel like it’s got something to do with the proven winners brand, I always see it pushed by those that promote their stuff. Turns me off quite honestly. Your approach is very level headed which I like.
Partnering with Proven Winners is very profitable. And I agree, many are relative newbies and not really well aged in the gardening world but they are great entertainment.
Drought in Ohio, WV and KY ravished our flower and veggie gardens this season. Argh! This is more rare so many of us do not have drip systems. And paying for extra water can be expensive. And sewer bill is same as amount of water you use--even if water goes into ground and not into the sewer. So sewer companies make lots of money off of a drought.
I hear you. My DIY drip system saves me so much water since we do not get any summer rains. Our sewer and water bill is atrocious too, even if we do not use any at all. The vacation homes up here sit empty for much of the year and their water bill will be the same as mine much of the time. We get an allocated amount and I definitely go over that amount in summer and have to pay extra for that but it is not enough to give up gardening. The charges have really gotten out of control.
Pam, very good tips in this video. I completely agree, relying only on USDA zone info can be a big mistake. You have to account for sunlight levels, water levels, soil type, and many other things. Zone info can be very helpful but as you said it's only one part of the picture.
Thank you. I know I repeat it often but I get asked many times about my zone and really that is not what they actually need to know, especially with annuals.
I made these mistakes and still do. I think one of the biggest mistakes I’ve made is not being brave enough to divide my perennials or move a plant to a better location. Once I started to do this I can’t believe the difference. I was too worried I would accidentally kill the plant by dividing or moving. It took me way too long to figure out that I was harming the plant by not doing it.
I finally grew some cosmos from seed. Have them in several spots with different light and still non bloomed. I’m going to try a different variety next year.
I am so glad that someone has said something about the zones. Thank you. I am in 9V just north of San Francisco and I can grow anything almost here. I have more than 100 Hydrangeas yet when you look up Hydrangeas specific ones that I have it will tell you they only grow to 8b. wrong!.! Many of the big companies that sell plants make that mistake. So I need to look very carefully at the plant and at my conditions and then go ahead and buy it.
Hi there Pam, I have missed you!!! I went back into your channel and unsubscribed to resubscribe and hopefully your videos will show up in my feed again. I hope you are well and just busy working in your garden. I have been busy digging up my favourite plants and potting them because I am moving in Spring and won't be able to dig them or perhaps even find them if they are slow starters. I have so many new ideas for my blank slate new build. I am taking only the roses and pink plants.....I have always wanted a pink garden....so this is the perfect opportunity to create a new garden.
That is a great way to look at it. Starting from scratch with a definite idea is a wonderful way to keep it to a theme and you have learned from your past mistakes so you won't make them again. Saving you time and money!
I've been fighting voles for 3 yrs. I have to put pea gravel around plants up to stems/stalk to keep voles from eating them or put baskets over small plants and now I have to put every plant in wire mesh bag. I use less mulch now because voles can hide in mulch, leafs, pine needles. Ugh! I'm trying a new poison in small containers to unalive voles.
I have been baiting bored out carrots and poking them in every tunnel I find and so far it seems to be doing the trick in lessening the population of gophers. We had voles in Idaho and I had the best hunter kitty. He made short work of those critters. My current cat is not a hunter, doggone it! I have started to get brave again and have been planting things without the wire mesh bags. I hope I don't regret it.
Dear flower patch lady, im not sure how i missed this video, i feel as though i had watched but not remembering it all.hmmm,,! I have been topsy turvy more than usual but thats no excuse. I do love your content, also just love thst you do take note and tell us about the delightful little visitors to your garden, little finch.i do this all the time, if you don't thst particularly second of visit can be gone. I sometimes rarely but recently had a woodpecker on my feeder, was on the telephone to my sis,shouted out whow sis ect .but then i had forgotten what we were saying, thankfully sis remembered. I have to say when it comes to doing a chore then starting something different without thinking 🤔. Thst happens daily i just have always been that way.😅.im very guilty of not repotting a few indoor plants that i ad put outside this summer, they desperately need to be dealt with and brought back in.aloe vera and peace lillys..the weather has been horrible and bet so they are going to ruin. Well after i visit mum today i hope to start them.pam i hope you're chickens are well they sound happy. I hope in spring to add a few to my tiny flock..oh! Im still waiting for my tomatoes to ripen, its like waiting for Christmas. So pleased you will have more sunshine next year,after the trees come down.thankyou for great advice xxtake care,from me and my garden girls 🐔. Xx
I am so glad you round it helpful. I have been gone again but I will have some more videos soon. I am thinking of downsizing my flock a bit. The area for their run would work well for my Bespoke Greenouse and we get many more eggs than we can eat with over a dozen hens. If I lessen my flock I can make a smaller run and have my greenhouse there. Its a thought but since it would be a major undertaking it may take awhile to get it done.
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse.look forward to seeing you soon pam.oh yep I do a swap with any spare eggs.with a couple friends 😊. Xsee you soon, I hope all is well x
😂 at cosmos I started some in April on the window ledge they grew slow then just took off there above my head I'm 5foot 2 so not so hard but all I'm seeing is foliage so I pulled them all out they are thugs ! I'm in England btw ❤
Oh wow! My heliniums are like that this year, if I couldn't see them from my elevated porch I would transplant them to elsewhere in the garden. They are beautiful, when I can actually see the flowers.
Good morning Pam! 😊 So many great tips! I agree: don’t give up too soon ❤ also on zoning! Technically, here in Jamestown, I’m a 9a…. Nope lol 😂 I garden like I’m 8b and it does make a difference. Growing up and living in the Bay Area, I was soooooo spoiled! I could grow anything with very little effort 😅 not gonna lie… I miss that! Haha But I don’t miss the lifestyle, so there ya go. Btw, I just love your metal arbor/bench in the mid portion of your video. It’s unique and lovely! 🥰 have a great day!
I am sitting on the same type bench arbor in the first part too, I am just not back far enough to see the entire thing. I got these about 20 years ago at Costco, of all places. I have never seen them anywhere else again since. I move them about trying to find the best spot. Or to just switch things up. Yes, I miss gardening in the valley so much, it seemed more effortless as anything seemed to grow well for me there.
Don't give up on Lantana. They've recently come out with many "annual" Lantanas in wonderful colors, but there are perennials, when planted in the ground, which will come back. We had an "Arctic freeze" a few years ago, when the temps got down into the negative numbers for a few days, which just doesn't happen here, first time here in more than 70 years, and the perennial Lantana still came back! Just look for the perennial type. Otherwise, consider the Lantanas, which I love, as another annual.
This is supposed to be the perennial type but only in zone 9 and above. I will look for the other. Since this is more than I will pay for an annual I will try to overwinter it. I am cheap that way.
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse Me too!! :) Lantana is so valued here we usually can find it in the inexpensive 4 inch pots in the Spring with all the other annuals. I have it everywhere because, though it won't survive the winter, given some water it will survive this crazy heat we have and still bloom when few things will. I Like to put Lantana, Marigolds and Pentas in large pots on my (very hot) West porch in the Spring (so lots of hot yellow, red and orange flowers) but by August the only thing still surviving is the Lantana. I actually plan to try to save some in a greenhouse this year, but like I said, the annuals are inexpensive in the Spring. I also want to find some of the perennial. I may have to ask someone near me for cuttings or divisions since I cannot find the perennial kind at the stores.
@@DLynne222 Okay, I have not seen it in the 4 inch pots but I will be sure to look next Spring. You would think it would be readily available inexpensively as I am right next to zone 9 areas and the nurseries I go to are in that zone too. I love the one I got and it would be perfect as a long blooming plant in the Artists Garden. I hope to overwinter it safely.
So interesting, you never know what will work for you or why. I am still stymed as to why mine did nothing the past two years, they used to be so easy.
Great video! I have been growing roses for years and now all of a sudden I have someone (insect) drilling holes into my canes wherever I prune. They took out my New Dawn and are now trying to claim Zephirine Drouhin. I've never had to seal canes after pruning and tried using craft glue (that's all I had) this spring. It was a fail. Any helpful ideas?? Thanks.
Wow, that is a mystery. There are several insects that can bore into canes but many don't go so far as to kill the entire shrub just the cane as far as they bore. They should not be able to lay their eggs on the hardened glue and get in, if it is the usual culprits. Have you asked any of your garden neighbors? Maybe they have had the same problem. Or your local extension office may have had others call in about it and they may have a clue as to what you could do.
I would love to learn what weeds tell you about the soil they are growing in.
I just watched a video about that yesterday. It was very interesting.
I am just now educating myself on this and I will share as much as I learn ASAP.
I’ve never had the soil tested-😂too cheap. I did look up what soil has that wood and sheep sorrel likes and it was magnesium.
I need to rework the irrigation as I think the 1/4” line is meant to be shorter and will go to 1/2”. Problem is Rainbird only offers 17” spacing on 1/2” in our store so I may stagger those or switch to a drip tape at 12”. It’s difficult and will need to add more on/off valves. I haven’t installed it in the flower beds yet as some don’t like that much water.
Nasturtiums and cosmos can be picky here. If I let them alone they seem to be fine. They sometimes need water but I can see at times they don’t like it as the fern like leaves turn brown. Nasturtiums I think the old original yellow and orange variety does best. The new ones are spindly and small. I’ve noticed this with new flowers I’m trying like the brown eyed Susan vine 😂😂I’ve never seen a vine that preferred to crawl on the ground vs up a trellis. It was a weak growth plant to start and as we are close to frost-It decides to grow!🙄. Big whoop. That’s the downside of trying new flowers here, we just don’t have a long enough season. This vine should have took off as we have a hot microclimate and apparently this vine can be invasive in hot climates so I thought it would work, it just takes too long to get its feet.
Nice info Pam! Enjoyed it.
My black eyed susan vines did zilch this year and I have had success in the past but I only grow them from seed so not a lot of $$$ down the drain. They are so pretty when they grow. I agree, many times the newer colors of varieties of the old tried and trues just don't grow as prolifically but this year has been weird all the way around. I am too cheap also so I just amend as I can with compost and proceed. Many folks in new builds should start with amending the soil and just doing containers the first year so the soil can improve. The buckwheat is a stellar soil builder and can even help neutralize the ph in one season.
What wonderful information that you provided all of us, not just new beginners, but all of us. I really am interested in knowing what my weeds are telling me about my soil, I just find that completely interesting, so good to see one of your videos and I am glad that you had a great time while you were gone.❤❤
Glad it was helpful! I am just learning about the weeds so I will share when I have done due diligence on it.
Great advice for newbies along with reminders for is experienced gardeners 🌼🐝
Yes, I agree, sadly sometimes we repeat mistakes. Like my not catching the spider mite problem on my poor Japanese Maple tree.
Great advice. I often wish I could recoup all the money I have spent on plants that didn't make it, but then again, I would just spend that money on more plants. 😂
So true! And even though failures are a great learning tool it sure is costly.
Thank you for pointing out the zone information. So many gardening UA-camrs promote zones as gospel. I feel like it’s got something to do with the proven winners brand, I always see it pushed by those that promote their stuff. Turns me off quite honestly. Your approach is very level headed which I like.
Partnering with Proven Winners is very profitable. And I agree, many are relative newbies and not really well aged in the gardening world but they are great entertainment.
Drought in Ohio, WV and KY ravished our flower and veggie gardens this season. Argh! This is more rare so many of us do not have drip systems. And paying for extra water can be expensive. And sewer bill is same as amount of water you use--even if water goes into ground and not into the sewer. So sewer companies make lots of money off of a drought.
I hear you. My DIY drip system saves me so much water since we do not get any summer rains. Our sewer and water bill is atrocious too, even if we do not use any at all. The vacation homes up here sit empty for much of the year and their water bill will be the same as mine much of the time. We get an allocated amount and I definitely go over that amount in summer and have to pay extra for that but it is not enough to give up gardening. The charges have really gotten out of control.
In our nearby town I’ve heard of a separate line for gardening that the city can install. Wonder if that’s an option.
Pam, very good tips in this video. I completely agree, relying only on USDA zone info can be a big mistake. You have to account for sunlight levels, water levels, soil type, and many other things. Zone info can be very helpful but as you said it's only one part of the picture.
Thank you. I know I repeat it often but I get asked many times about my zone and really that is not what they actually need to know, especially with annuals.
I made these mistakes and still do. I think one of the biggest mistakes I’ve made is not being brave enough to divide my perennials or move a plant to a better location. Once I started to do this I can’t believe the difference. I was too worried I would accidentally kill the plant by dividing or moving. It took me way too long to figure out that I was harming the plant by not doing it.
Great point. I should brainstorm a video all about that.
I finally grew some cosmos from seed. Have them in several spots with different light and still non bloomed. I’m going to try a different variety next year.
I wish you success. Great idea trying a different variety.
They are usually later blooming for me and a nice welcome in September/October. They do need full sun and lots of water.
I am so glad that someone has said something about the zones. Thank you. I am in 9V just north of San Francisco and I can grow anything almost here. I have more than 100 Hydrangeas yet when you look up Hydrangeas specific ones that I have it will tell you they only grow to 8b. wrong!.! Many of the big companies that sell plants make that mistake. So I need to look very carefully at the plant and at my conditions and then go ahead and buy it.
9v is supposed 9b
Yes, this! And so many think that zone 9 is the same everywhere, hot, when it isn't. A zone 9 can be cool and damp.
Hate it when that happens to me.
Hi there Pam, I have missed you!!! I went back into your channel and unsubscribed to resubscribe and hopefully your videos will show up in my feed again. I hope you are well and just busy working in your garden. I have been busy digging up my favourite plants and potting them because I am moving in Spring and won't be able to dig them or perhaps even find them if they are slow starters. I have so many new ideas for my blank slate new build. I am taking only the roses and pink plants.....I have always wanted a pink garden....so this is the perfect opportunity to create a new garden.
That is a great way to look at it. Starting from scratch with a definite idea is a wonderful way to keep it to a theme and you have learned from your past mistakes so you won't make them again. Saving you time and money!
I've been fighting voles for 3 yrs. I have to put pea gravel around plants up to stems/stalk to keep voles from eating them or put baskets over small plants and now I have to put every plant in wire mesh bag. I use less mulch now because voles can hide in mulch, leafs, pine needles. Ugh! I'm trying a new poison in small containers to unalive voles.
I have been baiting bored out carrots and poking them in every tunnel I find and so far it seems to be doing the trick in lessening the population of gophers. We had voles in Idaho and I had the best hunter kitty. He made short work of those critters. My current cat is not a hunter, doggone it! I have started to get brave again and have been planting things without the wire mesh bags. I hope I don't regret it.
Dear flower patch lady, im not sure how i missed this video, i feel as though i had watched but not remembering it all.hmmm,,! I have been topsy turvy more than usual but thats no excuse. I do love your content, also just love thst you do take note and tell us about the delightful little visitors to your garden, little finch.i do this all the time, if you don't thst particularly second of visit can be gone. I sometimes rarely but recently had a woodpecker on my feeder, was on the telephone to my sis,shouted out whow sis ect .but then i had forgotten what we were saying, thankfully sis remembered. I have to say when it comes to doing a chore then starting something different without thinking 🤔. Thst happens daily i just have always been that way.😅.im very guilty of not repotting a few indoor plants that i ad put outside this summer, they desperately need to be dealt with and brought back in.aloe vera and peace lillys..the weather has been horrible and bet so they are going to ruin. Well after i visit mum today i hope to start them.pam i hope you're chickens are well they sound happy. I hope in spring to add a few to my tiny flock..oh! Im still waiting for my tomatoes to ripen, its like waiting for Christmas. So pleased you will have more sunshine next year,after the trees come down.thankyou for great advice xxtake care,from me and my garden girls 🐔. Xx
I am so glad you round it helpful. I have been gone again but I will have some more videos soon. I am thinking of downsizing my flock a bit. The area for their run would work well for my Bespoke Greenouse and we get many more eggs than we can eat with over a dozen hens. If I lessen my flock I can make a smaller run and have my greenhouse there. Its a thought but since it would be a major undertaking it may take awhile to get it done.
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse.look forward to seeing you soon pam.oh yep I do a swap with any spare eggs.with a couple friends 😊. Xsee you soon, I hope all is well x
great info as always. However, I need top 20 mistakes for all my issues LOL
LOL, ya, I wanted to keep this video under an hour. I could drone on about the mistakes I have made for a long time.
Great info. Ty
Glad it was helpful!
😂 at cosmos I started some in April on the window ledge they grew slow then just took off there above my head I'm 5foot 2 so not so hard but all I'm seeing is foliage so I pulled them all out they are thugs ! I'm in England btw ❤
Oh wow! My heliniums are like that this year, if I couldn't see them from my elevated porch I would transplant them to elsewhere in the garden. They are beautiful, when I can actually see the flowers.
Good morning Pam! 😊
So many great tips! I agree: don’t give up too soon ❤ also on zoning! Technically, here in Jamestown, I’m a 9a…. Nope lol 😂 I garden like I’m 8b and it does make a difference.
Growing up and living in the Bay Area, I was soooooo spoiled! I could grow anything with very little effort 😅 not gonna lie… I miss that! Haha
But I don’t miss the lifestyle, so there ya go.
Btw, I just love your metal arbor/bench in the mid portion of your video. It’s unique and lovely! 🥰 have a great day!
I am sitting on the same type bench arbor in the first part too, I am just not back far enough to see the entire thing. I got these about 20 years ago at Costco, of all places. I have never seen them anywhere else again since. I move them about trying to find the best spot. Or to just switch things up. Yes, I miss gardening in the valley so much, it seemed more effortless as anything seemed to grow well for me there.
Don't give up on Lantana. They've recently come out with many "annual" Lantanas in wonderful colors, but there are perennials, when planted in the ground, which will come back. We had an "Arctic freeze" a few years ago, when the temps got down into the negative numbers for a few days, which just doesn't happen here, first time here in more than 70 years, and the perennial Lantana still came back! Just look for the perennial type. Otherwise, consider the Lantanas, which I love, as another annual.
This is supposed to be the perennial type but only in zone 9 and above. I will look for the other. Since this is more than I will pay for an annual I will try to overwinter it. I am cheap that way.
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse Me too!! :) Lantana is so valued here we usually can find it in the inexpensive 4 inch pots in the Spring with all the other annuals. I have it everywhere because, though it won't survive the winter, given some water it will survive this crazy heat we have and still bloom when few things will. I Like to put Lantana, Marigolds and Pentas in large pots on my (very hot) West porch in the Spring (so lots of hot yellow, red and orange flowers) but by August the only thing still surviving is the Lantana. I actually plan to try to save some in a greenhouse this year, but like I said, the annuals are inexpensive in the Spring. I also want to find some of the perennial. I may have to ask someone near me for cuttings or divisions since I cannot find the perennial kind at the stores.
@@DLynne222 Okay, I have not seen it in the 4 inch pots but I will be sure to look next Spring. You would think it would be readily available inexpensively as I am right next to zone 9 areas and the nurseries I go to are in that zone too. I love the one I got and it would be perfect as a long blooming plant in the Artists Garden. I hope to overwinter it safely.
I have had no luck with Cosmos. They would come up and get to a certain height and just stop.
So interesting, you never know what will work for you or why. I am still stymed as to why mine did nothing the past two years, they used to be so easy.
Great video! I have been growing roses for years and now all of a sudden I have someone (insect) drilling holes into my canes wherever I prune. They took out my New Dawn and are now trying to claim Zephirine Drouhin. I've never had to seal canes after pruning and tried using craft glue (that's all I had) this spring. It was a fail. Any helpful ideas?? Thanks.
Wow, that is a mystery. There are several insects that can bore into canes but many don't go so far as to kill the entire shrub just the cane as far as they bore. They should not be able to lay their eggs on the hardened glue and get in, if it is the usual culprits. Have you asked any of your garden neighbors? Maybe they have had the same problem. Or your local extension office may have had others call in about it and they may have a clue as to what you could do.
What is the size of your green house.
My larger one is 8' by 12' and my smaller one is 6' by 8' I do believe.