Let FALL Garden Clean Up BEGIN ✂️ SO SATISFYING!
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- Опубліковано 18 лис 2024
- Fall is here and it's a great time to be cutting back perennials, saving flower seeds, and adding yard waste to my compost pile! I also do a mini garden tour of my side walkway bed that is located on the South side of my house. Plants discussed in this video include mums, joe pye weed, miscanthus / ornamental grass, cosmos, Asiatic lilies, calendula, yarrow, sea holly / eryngium, baptisia / false indigo, great blue lobelia, liatris / gayfeather, daffodils, dianthus, echinacea / coneflower, and globe thistle.
Seed Collecting Playlist: • Collecting Seeds
Winter Sowing Playlist: • Winter Sowing
Composting Playlist: • Composting
How To Prune Dianthus: • How to Prune Dianthus ...
How to Prune Mums: • How To & Why Prune Mum...
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Great video Vita! Every time I watch your videos I always learn something new. I can tell you must have been an amazing teacher:)
Thank you, Carol! I truly appreciate your support! I love this kind of teaching. And I'm always learning something new myself. I think that's what makes gardening so great. 🥰🌻
I am so glad that I found your channel! I have some coneflower and didn't know that I could collect the seeds! I was just going to cut the flowers off. and I have some peonies that I do believe are diseased, I was going to wait till first frost, which I am told is usually around the middle of this month here in missouri, but on your recommendation, I am going to cut those back tomorrow! thanks so much for sharing! xoxo
Hi there! I'm so glad you found my channel, too! 🥰 I love collecting the seeds from flowers. Almost all of the annuals in yard were grown from seed in fact. It saves so much money that way and it's a lot of fun, too! Happy gardening, friend! 🌸
Hi Vita
Always enjoy watching your videos, so much good information The weather has been so fickle for August so much cold weather has started putting the flowers to sleep. Hardly any rain after spring, we had a couple of rain showers that made the soil damp for about a day. Now fall is here. I had a heavy rain storm before the hurricane, and now in Ohio, I'm by Lake Erie getting the tail end of the storm. I am glad I pulled in my huge pot of the Amaryllis pot and two window planters in the garage. I'm going to let them go to sleep in the pots still spring next year. The deer this year have eaten my Hibiscus they usually don't touch them. I'm a little mad at myself for being seed collecting. my asthma has been horrible this year even wearing a mask outdoors. Finally, since the pollen is low I'm feeling better. I just have 4 plants to bring in, and I have to debug them, for me, I use peroxide 1 part peroxide 3 or 4 parts water. I soak the roots then spray the leaves real good two times rub the leaves and rinse them in the utility sink. two rounds of bug killer that goes through the plant then kills off the bugs two rounds of tea made of those mosquito bits. Then just plain water for the rest of winter. I did that last year and hardly had any fungus nats, or aphids. I only use new potting mix in the house. before I use the soil I make it damp then Microwave the soil 2m 30 seconds.
Hi Michael! Thanks so much! I'm sorry to hear that your gardening season was not so great this year and that your asthma was flaring up. I'm hopeful next year is better for you. 🙏🏼 That's good that you've started bringing tender plants in. It's always better to be ahead of the game than to fall behind I think. You just never know with our weather. Thank you for always sharing your gardening tips! 😊
Your videos are always so inspiring. Sometimes I wonder if I enjoy the process of saving seeds a little more than the actual act of growing the flowers. I love going out to check for new seed pods and bagging up flower heads to save more seeds than I could ever use 😂
Thank you so much! 🥰 It's funny that you say that about seed collecting. I'm right there with you in regards to collecting way more seeds than I could ever use. I always fear that I may collect some seeds that are not viable so I collect more than I really need. And then when it comes time to planting seeds, my hand gets a little heavy when it comes to sowing those seeds... 🤣🌱🌸
Another great video.
Thanks so much, Janice! 🥰🌼
Your Hosta cleaning video came up because I have been searching Hosta care. I looked at your channel and found this gem. I can’t tell you how many issues, questions and concerns you addressed in this one video. Thank you so so much. (I miss those furry little caterpillars)
Hi there! I'm so glad that you found my channel! 🥰 Happy gardening, friend. 🌸
Excellent share
@@DaveCollierCamping Thank you! 😊🌻
@@budgetgardeningvita My pleasure
👍👍 would love to see a winter scene following what your grasses look like during winter. (Eugene Oregon8B)
Hi there! Some years I keep the Miscanthus grass up for the winter but most years I cut it down because our heavy wet snows just make the grass flop to the ground unfortunately. One idea is to cut it back by half and perhaps it may not flop. I think I'll experiment with that this year since grasses make for lovely winter interest. ❄️
I’m in CA 9B but all of your videos still applie to my area. thank you for all of your knowledge
You're very welcome! ☀️🌸
Do the wood shavings in your compost break down readily? I tried some but found they tended to clump together 😕
When I’m turning my compost (I have a 3 bin system) I’ll sometimes take the weed whacker to it to help chop it up a bit finer. Really made a big difference with all the leaves last fall.
When seen close up like that some of those seeds like bugs! 😳
Great overview of autumn garden chores, thanks for your time & diligence 👏👏👏
Hi there. Thank you! I've found that the wood shavings do break down pretty quickly. They are different than wood chips, which I don't use in my compost pile (although I've heard that you can) and I think wood chips would take much longer to break down. That's a great suggestion about using a weed whacker to your leaves. 🍂 I've heard of people doing that or even mowing the leaves over a few times in order to break them up. I use a leaf shredder which is nice as well. Bugs definitely like to crawl into the seedpods. 🐜 Happy gardening, friend! 😊🌺
and encouragement to save money
For sure! Gardening is fun and doesn't have to be an expensive hobby. ☺️🏵️
I am really learning so much from your videos! Do you have a kind of garden "calendar" that you follow or a journal? I'm not a new gardener, but I am transitioning from a mostly vegetable gardener to more of a flower gardener. The winter sowing and fall clean up are new-ish ideas for me. Thanks!
Thanks so much! 💗 I have a spreadsheet that I created for when to sow my seeds (annual flowers & vegetables). The spreadsheet is based off of my average last frost date and looking at when different seeds should be started (i.e. 4, 6, or 8 weeks before my average last frost date). For perennial seeds, I sow those using the winter sowing process since most (but not all) perennial seeds need a cold stratification period. I start winter sowing after the Winter Solstice and end by early April or so. I start my fall cleanup as soon as Fall begins because it takes me so long to clean up all of my different flower beds. Since I've been making UA-cam videos, I'm now using those old videos to help me remember when I did different gardening tasks as well. I hope that helps, friend. 😊🌻
@@budgetgardeningvita I have used a calendar in that way for veggies, but I never thought of a spreadsheet....may have to try that. Thanks!
Wish there was a better way to chop up material for compost-my hands sometimes don’t like it.
Reseeding plants I’m finding to be a bit aggressive-coneflower, catalpa tree, marigolds. Now hibiscus and surprisingly columbine. And you mentioned sea Holly which I just started this year from seed 😳. It’s not so bad if they pull up easy, but some…could mean too much work going forward. I’ve given up on the morning glories as I’ve tried to get rid of them for a decade and never let them seed out. Ugh, I know why they call them forget me nots, those seeds stick to everything and love the flower, but not sure I want to deal with the seeds.
Last year the calendula were my new favorite, but didn’t seem to care for their appearance so much this year. I probably started them later last year and they looked great in the fall.
I usually wait for a frost and some plants I don’t clean up till spring so they are more protected for winter. And it sounds like winter might actually get cold this year Z5a, WI.
There is so much to do right now because I’m realizing some plants need thinning or eventually moved because they are bigger than I thought. Some plants don’t reveal their growth habits until several years.
I’m realizing the birds are scattering seeds and I don’t need to plant them😂 like marigolds. As long as none of them are as hard to get rid of as black walnut trees-thanks to neighbor.
Now that things are grabbing ahold I will probably cut things back earlier as well as it does get a bit cluttered and tired looking.
Two big projects is to redo greenhouse and build a hot compost bin with reclaimed insulated panels and collecting leachate to hopefully eliminate fertilizer cost. Our compost sits on the ground and think we are losing too much to trees and it dries out too fast.
Thanks for the tips!
It sounds like you have a lot of great plans for your garden for both this Fall as well as for next year. I agree with you that some plants that drop their seed readily are easy to pull out while others with a long taproot can be a pain. I feel so good when I get a flower bed cleaned out. Since my yard is surrounded by woods I know that there is enough leaf litter and tree canopy for beneficial insects to live in. That's great that you are working on your compost system. You will definitely save a lot of money by making your own compost! 😊🍁🌻
You're so very welcome! It sounds like you have some great plans for your garden this Fall as well as next year. It's great that you are working on your compost system. You will definitely safe a lot of money by making your own compost / fertilizer. I feel so good every time I clean up a flower bed. Any work that I can do now will save me time next Spring. 😊🍁🌻
Your tutorials are the best!
Do you ever feel nervous about growing plants with 'weed' in their name? 'Sneeze weed' sounds particularly risky.
Awww. Thank you, Maureen! 💞 I think the seeds of plants that have "weed" in their names are usually fine (like Sneezeweed, Butterfly Weed, Joe Pye Weed, etc.). My experience has been that those plants don't seem to be invasive. Great question! 🌻
Hi Vita, do you do another round of fertilizing late fall? I was reading the PlantTone instructions and it suggested it. Wasn’t sure if that would mean before or after first frost
Hi there! I've never fertilized plants in the fall. Honestly I think it depends a bit on where you live. Also, if you were to fertilize anything in fall, I suggest early fall is the best time vs late fall. 😊🌺
Can you also dig up dahlia tubers right now, even if they’re still blooming?
Hi Julie! A general rule of thumb is that it's usually safe to dig up dahlias after they have been in the ground for about 5 months so that they have stored enough energy for next year. The longer the tubers are in the ground curing, the more fully developed the tubers and the better the likelihood of their keeping over the winter. 😊🌸