Fertilizing the Garden
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- Опубліковано 24 лют 2023
- Fertilizer Time - In this video I show the very simple process of how I fertilize the garden. I use very little fertilizer each year and I may mainly rely on the soil and mulch to feed my plants. Soil Temperature - www.greencastonline.com/tools...
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I am a lazy gardener and you answered the question about moving mulch out of the way when fertilizing!!!! I was happy for your answer!!! Much less work!!!
I used to be a lazy gardener….but now I’m “energy efficient” 🤣🤣🤣
Love that ! "energy-efficient", I will need to remember that.
Thank you! Finally someone with a reasonable way of fertilizing. It doesn’t have to be more difficult than this!!! 💚👍
As he lets half the bag fly away in the breeze lol... easy but best to pull the chips back and sprinkle around each plant for best results.. i saw this as comical especially when he says 'just slinging this stuff out' and laughs at his own jokes? Who does that.. def funny vid i got my kicks😅 great start to my morning while sipping my coffee
“The Jim Putnam Method” goes well beyond fertilizer. I think I’ll start using that phrase as well 😂 Thanks for sharing all the valuable knowledge, you’re a true game changer!
I started my garden as a total newbie 7 yrs ago and the one newbie mistake I did not make - and I made almost all of them - was failing to feed the sandy, dry, zone 9a soil I was dealing with. I get crazy excited now when I plant something in my soil that is now dark and fluffy and the home to worms!!
Jim Putman Method rocks! I’m so glad I took your advice about over fertilizing, and waiting for the beneficials to come before panicking. Thanks Man!! ❤
Haha my 🐕 🐩 love this for sure! I have to keep and 👀on them every time the go outside 🤭.
We have been referencing your fertilization wisdom whenever our customers ask how and why we fertilize their gardens this way. Thanks so much Jim!
Correct!! Aaron over at Garden Answer has referred to this multiple times as the "Jim Putman method" in their videos. Very cool.
I watch them religiously and I've never heard him say that. I've never seen him fertilize this way either. He always uses a broadcaster. Strange I've missed this.
@Jennifer Wolford Aaron mentions it on their Garden Answer Highlights Channel. It's every Sunday morning, for about 50 minutes. Laura and Aaron answer questions and discuss every video from the prior week. They have two separate channels. Garden Answer is their main channel. Garden Answer Highlights is their 2nd channel for more in-depth videos. You have to subscribe to them separately.
@@jenniferwolford4646 he uses a broadcast spreader for the grass. He uses the Putnam fling for the arbs.
I appreciate that you don’t sell a variety of garden products like more famous websites do that I don’t really need.
I'm the first one here Jim wow I watch every single video I have a big garden and have tons of questions for you
I use fish blood and bone around the plants and then mulch around the plants in february and that's it done for the growing season.
Definitely the method I’ve used the past to year at Jim’s advice and it’s working wonders on my garden!
A stated flinging Espoma two years ago. It saves so much time. The dog always tries to sneak a munch in. Thus test, in mixing vegetable in with my container flower arrangements. Growing everything organic makes it so easy
My dog does the same and then isn’t pleasant to be around for a day or so!
😂😂😂, I completely understand the glove dilemma. I do the exact same thing!
I appreciate your videos so much! I'm still learning and starting my home garden. You keep the info simple and straight to the point in a way I can understand! I stated last summer which was a little late for me to get much in the ground. But I followed you all fall, winter, to now and did what you recommend at each monthly step. Fall plantings, bed prep, seed starting/bulb jumping. I'm in Oklahoma 7b and we have very similar conditions: clay soil, wind, hail, temperature fluctuations and you have helped me understand everything that is going on and how it affects the garden. THANK YOU!
I enjoy how you’ve taught me to nourish the organisms that make our souls rich!! Great easy care information about healthy soul healthy plants . I agree after a few years of gardening hopefully our eyes will see plants that need a boost of something!
The rain beat me this morning but I will get it done later today.
I love me some of that Espoma! Great stuff👍🏻 Happy to see you are wearing a face mask this year during your “fertilizer fling”. I usually just do the red Solo-Cup-Stroll and scatter my PlantTone a bit closer to the soil. I think you have a great way to describe our living soil and its care. Thank you! I believe you make your plot of land FEEL, and perform, like a much larger ppty. ❤
Thank you for demystifying fertilizing. I’m encouraged now to put organic matter back into the soil (rather than bagging). Please expand on how to use that nifty shredder and more!
I just did my slinging this morning! I learned last year to wear washable clothes so i skipped my coat this year definitely forgot a mask so it's in my nose 😬 but i did pour it into a little bucket and that made it much easier than trying to handle the bag
Alexandra at “Middle Sized garden” posted a perfect post about diversity in the garden- exactly what Jim is a proponent of !!!!!! RHS included!!!! Thx Jim !
Good Morning!
Clairvoyance, I was just thinking 30 minutes ago that it’s time to fertilize, wonder what Jim’s doing? Another popular UA-cam channel cited you with admiration about your no-nonsense fertilizer distribution method!
That’s hilarious Jim! I’m left handed as well but garden, iron, vacuum and just about all else is right handed 😄
Same! I also have a pile of nearly new left gloves☺️
I’ve been using Alfalfa pellets, plant fermented water( comfey tea, or similar bush/plant) chop and drop, wood chips, compost, and experimenting with cover crops.
Does comfrey tea smell as bad as they say?
Yep
Your steady emphasis on feeding the soil not the plant is so helpful. Until I took a few soil tests, I hadn't realized how heavily the previous owner had fertilized. (Nitrogen only is the recommendation!) Or how heavily and inappropriately he had limed. I finally saw why his azaleas look so awful. Or why one of his big white pines looks a bit sick or suddenly dies. He's got my soil in the high 6s, and I read white pines can die at 7. Probably the only thing saving them is most got limed only on one side-some have half their roots in the woods and the others have half their roots in a neighbor's neglected (thank goodness) pasture. As well as using Hollytone, I'm adding some extra sulfur this spring.
The soil pH will fall back over time. It always settles back
One of my favorite videos watched last two years too accumulating my knowledge about fertilizer and soil.
I use the Jim Putnam method as well. Love it.
Loved this!
love the chipper!!!!
Thank you Jim.❄️💚🙃
Great post! I didn't realize I was pushing my plants too hard with my addiction to MiracleGro. I have been switching to organics over the last growing season though. As I've said before, your knowledge is priceless. Thank you!!😊
Thank you for the fertilizing info. Plus, for the soil temp website!
I like the sling method!
Thanks for the tip on soil temperature and for the online resource to check your soil temperature. Great info that I’ve already used!
Hello Mr Jim Putnam and Stephany, yes yes spring 😀 is here.
Did this exact method last year and it worked great! Got my bag of holly-tone yesterday, and plan to do the same thing again next week!
Plant tone is the jam lol. Is good for everything especially because i mix my own soil is what I throw in there. I was doing lime and this or that but this does it all in one and go. Then I use Jobe's tomato and veggie for the edibles and top dress both every other month maybe if im not lazy ahahah
So much good information! ..Sling it out! That's way easier that what I what I've been doing! gonna sling it out right now because it's gonna rain today. Thanks!
Thanks for all the information...not related to this video but thank you for introducing us to the Flamethrower redbuds in a video you did a couple years ago. We were able to finally find them here in Oklahoma last year. Gorgeous foilage! We purchased three and can't wait to see them bloom and leaf out again after the first winter in our garden.
We just planted a Rising Sun redbud which I think is also a another good option.
This was really helpful. I've got several gardens in western NY zone 6b, all created by myself the summer before last (the pandemic made me into a crazy gardener lol). I've now got hundreds of perennials and close to 100 rose bushes. Some gardens do better than others although I treat them all the same. I want to try to fertilize the poorer performing gardens to improve the soil and thus video is exactly what I needed!
I have never seen this method. Very interesting. I think we overthink processes with gardening. I will try this. Thanks!
Thanks!
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for the in-depth advice on using Holly Tone to balance alkaline soil! Here in central Pennsylvania our “soil” is alkaline clay that requires significant amendment with compost/organic matter. I’ve been trying in vain to grow endless summer blue hydrangeas for years here. Despite soil acidification regimens, I invariably end up with pink-purple at best.
Western Washington, zone 8B, with snow on the ground since Wednesday evening ... with a few more inches of snow expected tonight. Spring is not here just yet, but some plants are showing signs of waking up. Average last frost where I am is May 11-20 so you are about a month ahead in the growing season. Thank you for all the information. (Did you play a lot of baseball, but without the difficult to find lefty's glove?)
What’s your opinion on adding worm castings to the garden? Thanks for all your information-packed videos!
I am on board with that technique of fertilizing. Wow, your temp was 85? We are experiencing unprecedented cooler weather here in So. Cal. I am in zone 10a. Even for February, it's the coldest I've seen in years. Our high today was only 45 degrees, I know, that doesn't seem cold to some.
Great advice Jim! I have never seen that electric wood chipper. I assume you recommend that? Does it ever feel low in power?
Yep, I’ve always just thrown it.
Good to see this! I did a light fertilize on my beds on that 85° day too because I knew rain was coming. My Azaleas have chlorosis will the gradual hollytone feeding help or should I go full in with chelated iron? Would the iron be for when the plants are more awake? (Zone 7B N. Alamance Co)
Would you apply Plantone more frequently for slopes. Always concerned that I’m washing away the nutrients every time it rains.
Have you ever NOT fertilized one year just to see what would happen? Since your soil is so good, I'd be curious.
I almost did this year. I pretty much fertilize to show how little I fertilize 🤣
Hi Jim, we live in South FL & have some rocks but lots of mulch spread out. Always wondered if I'm supposed to pull mulch back from our boxwoods & bougainvillea so the fertilizer doesn't sit on the mulch & not get in the soil. Will your method work just as good if soil is not directly exposed to the fertilizer? Is the answer to simply water? Thank you in advance!🌴
I have a problem with keeping my gloves together too. I am right handed, but I use them both. My first gardening day this year, I had four left hand gloves and one right hand. It would not be so bad, but I don't know where the others are. I also lose my hand pruners almost daily. Those are the only things I routinely mislay. Usually I am good at keeping my necessities together.
This method works for me. I can get the job done in about 30mins. In the past I used 10-10-10 several times a year and eventually the pests found my yard and created a headache.
How do you recommend supporting and rebuilding fungi
Would Milorganite be ok to use? I used Plant Tone last year.
Hey Jim, new subscriber. Could you please do a video on growing flowering vines. Im 3 years into a fragrant honeysuckle that is just not thriving on established lattice. Im considering taking it out and replacing with clematis or something.
In need a stick mulcher
Jim, I also feed my soil with leaves, woods chips etc. This fall I had an abundance of the stinky orange octopus looking mushrooms. I remove just the mushroom leaving behind a maze of white spider web roots. What is this? Is this the natural breakdown process?
The "Putman" method certainly is easier than what I have been doing?
I have a lot of native plants. Should I fertilize or not? Another thing, how does one get rid of green onions in a flower garden with out having to try to dig out each onion bulb? I'm destroying my ground cover trying to dig them out.
I have soooo many weeds and keep trying to keep them under control. It is so discouraging. I put down compost each spring and cover with cedar/cypress chips. I am in zone 8b Alabama. I don’t want to revert to roundup but am losing the battle.
Organic fertilizer yes
Got most of the Jim Putnam method of fertilizing done before the rain yesterday! Would fertilizing a large slope be effective? I’ve wondered if it will stay in place or erode to only feed the soil at the bottom.
The granular is tiny. It would stay where it's thrown.
Can I put this down after a rain, when garden is wet?
Can you tell me the brand of chipper that you use for garden waste?
Do you use the same fertilizer for your annuals in cintainers?
What do we think of that SunJoe wood chipper? I got the tiller, dethatcher, and corded mower and they've been great so far.
It works. It's a little slow and it only does small limbs, but it is good for a small lot
So is this the right time to fertilize blueberries? I planted 2 gal plants last fall and fertilized them with azalea food a month later. I protected them during our cold nights because I knew they were still establishing their roots. Now they are beginning to leaf out and are covered with flowers. I was going to apply more azalea food today but was told by an instructor in a NC Extension Office virtual gardening class that we shouldn't fertilize them until our last frost date. I've always been really bad about fertilizing my plants so I'm trying hard to learn the right way to care for them. Your video did answer my question about if I need to fertilize all my landscape plants so I will plant to do that soon as they are also starting to show some growth. Thanks for all your great information.
Thank you! By any chance, do you have a video or pic on what your back yard looked like before you started adding shrubs and various other plants?
Just look at his earlier videos 👍🏻
There is a playlist on the channel called new house that you can see the first video
@@JimPutnam awesome! thank you! Love your videos - so informative and inspirational :)
I am new to fertilizing, I was wondering if there are any plants that would NOT do well with this fertilizer. Thanks
Jim, this was the first winter that I left my leaves out in my planting beds. I want to reapply a fresh layer of fine bark mulch over the top. How thin should the leaf layer be underneath and how thick of a layer of mulch should I place over the top? Zone 8, PNW here.
Hey shout out to a fellow JW in the PNW! 🌲🌲🌲
Just did this Putnam-style fertilizing on Thursday!
Question: how do you plant so heavily when you also have so many bulbs? How do you not constantly dig up existing bulbs?
Most of our yearly planting is done in the next 8 weeks or so and I can still see them.
🤣 Am I the only one who just heard a Korean pop tune in my head. “Garden Putnam Style”? LOL….thanks for the image of dancing around my garden 🤣🤣
@@joannc147 I just love you for that 🤣💗
What’s your opinion on Milorganite?
Jim Putnam, this is perfect. I did your method last year and it worked. My Texas zone 9b garden thank you. Today I’m heading out to do it again. I put in the ground some white Seafoam Camellias in 2021. They didn’t bloom just as the winter freeze of Dec 2022 came they were budding. I trimmed them slightly and today I’m going to put Espoma Land and Sea compost on them. They are not dead I just want to see if this will help them out.
Do you think this will help? Thanks so much for your help.
Yes Ofcourse!, is my opinion. 🪱🦋🐝🐞
@@tlovesgreens8244 thank you.
@@msroro3127 You’re welcome.
How does using sheep manure compare to what you are using?
I live in Colorado with very alkaline soil that is covered with gorilla hair mulch. Would you recommend holly tone for perennial/ spruce/ jumpier beds? The beds are on there second year and the first was not so good with small plants staying the same size the entire season. I know ph effects uptake but man….
Yes, I would definitely use hollytone
Is this similar to Milorganite?
Did I understand you correctly that you recommend waiting for the soil test after a year or two of amending with wood chips and organic fertilizer? I have been contemplating the right way to fill out the forms (lawn vs flowers vs roses vs shrubs) and how many separate tests to pay for or not. It makes sense to see after amending what really is needed but then also makes sense to know what my starting point is. Decisions decisions. Oh, and feel free to send this lefty those left-handed gloves. Hehe just kidding, postage would be ridiculous.
That's what I would do. Your pH is pretty important and I have a video on the channel explaining that. The rest is likely to confuse you and basic soil improvement will take care of lots of problems
Is Plant-tone ok for natives? I fed them last Spring and then read it's best not to feed them.
Most things shouldn't need much regardless if they are native or not. A small amount of organic fertilizer will be fine on everything. You can definitely skip it if things are looking good and growing vigorously
@@JimPutnam , thanks! Even though I am in 9b west coast Florida, your videos are so helpful to me.
So just to clarify…I am in Michigan zone 6a…we should wait til the soil warms to 60degrees before I throw down fertilizer? Thanks, Jim….enjoy your knowledge!
You can do it earlier, but it won't start working until it's warmer. Ideally you would have it down close to the temp reaching 60
@@JimPutnam ..thanks so much!
Hi Jim, love your videos. I too believe in using all my garden cuttings and droppings to improve my soil. When I see my
neighbors cutting their grass or trimming their trees I want to ask for green waste. My question is I also like using
used coffee grounds from the coffee shops on my yard but I worry if I could be using too much. I have been using it
for years and haven't seen any ill effects. I use your fling method and apply coffee about once every 3 or 4 months.
Are there any plants you need to avoid getting fertilizer on their foliage when broadcasting this way?
Sedum. Although the soil around them can take a slight amount, just make sure it is slight if you are flinging the fertilizer around them. They often flop and break easily if the soil around them is too enriched or consistently wet.
Our extension agency said whether organic or not, you should not put any fertilizer on the blooms of plants because it hurts the pollinators. I always apply it around the dripline as indicated.
Hmm…I ’ve never heard this this thru hours of NC Extension education. I wonder if they might be referring to that (ineffective) technique of foliar spraying? This assumes leaves are taking in the nutrients from comfrey/compost tea or other fertilizers. I’m with you on this one….drip line application is the way to go 👍🏻
I'd certainly love to see this study. Hopefully it's not just something someone said and it got passed around.
I've seen some things about some non chemical spray applications possibly making flowers less appealing to pollinators. Also overfeeding plants can make flowers less appealing. Nothing on granular fertilizers and flowers causing issues though.
@@JimPutnam Actually, I found this out when I spoke to them because years ago a beekeeper told me the same thing and I thought it was just non-organic but it's both. I remember reading Epsoma saying not to get it on the leaves. Maybe if it's washed off right away ok? I really don't know but even if it rains flowers (especially tubular) would still have some residue, so maybe that is why they want you to mix with the soil or apply around dripline and specifically say do not apply near the base of the plant in the directions. I have not spoken to Epsoma about it.
Erin - impatient Gardner. Laura - garden answer.
Aaron is Laura's husband. I have videos with Erin the Impatient Gardener. I was up there this summer
Jealous seeing you in shorts and t- shirt
I am in zone 8 in Vancouver BC 🇨🇦, it is 1 Celsius and we are expecting10-30 cm of snow.
I've been fertilizing all wrong 🤣
Is Rose Tone just as good for Hydrangeas as is Holly Tone , or better ?
He hasn’t answered, but I would use Hollytone for roses in alkaline soil, and Rosetone or even Plant tone if you have acidic soil. Espoma has a product finder on their website that suggests the product to use for different plants.
Rose tone for hydrangeas.
Yes it is. I’ve used it before and it seemed to work better than the plant tone. It seemed to produce more flowers.
Are you wearing shorts 🩳? 😮😮😮
Good use of covid masks
If you donot properly arrange your soil or plant your garden youll end up wasting fertilizer like this guy.
Nope, get a soils test to start, not after several years. Simply randomly spreading fertilizer, organic or not, is not a rational idea. Most people don't even know their pH.
Jim has been doing this for YEARS and has worked in the plant trade...obviously this is working for him and many of us who use this method
Plant tone is good for everything!! Period!
It can hurt the pollinators too if it gets on the blooms. The directions say apply around the dripline for established plants or mix with soil for new plantings.
I definitely think you should know your pH and I have a video about it. You're definitely correct about that. The only reason I feel like getting a detailed soil test that tells you your nitrogen is low doesn't help. It changes day to day. Other slightly low micro nutrients don't affect anything generally and people will try and act on the information with little knowledge about it.
Your a fungi Jim!