I do need to say I LOVE the Epic Cell Trays, one of the best gardening purchases I’ve ever made. My babies stay healthy for so much longer than they would in the conventional trays, gives me the extra time I need to get room for them in the garden. Roots incredibly robust and easy to remove without damaging.
I have purchased the Epic four and six cell trays and I love how its a hybrid version of soil blocks and seedling trays. The only issue I am running into is that it seems most soil mixes that I use end up washing out the bottom when I bottom water. Do you have any suggestions for soil retention in your EPIC cell trays?? :)
@@Rachel-uj4dg YES! I use Jiffy Natural and Organic Seed Starting Mix, and I’m sure it would wash out if I just dumped it in there. But! I load each cell pack individually with moist mix, and I put my thumb in through the top of each hole and mash it with my fingers from the bottom to pack the bottom half of each planting cell. Then, I tamp down the rest of the mix and smooth over the top. So, it’s very much like blocking. But they stay firm like this, and it is well worth the small extra effort to set it up. Let me know if I did a good enough job explaining the process.
I just use kitchen/toilet rolls and just plant the whole roll. This way I NEVER have to disturb my roots, it costs me nothing and the cardboard composts into your soil.
If you buy young plant plugs from a horticultural wholesaler, you'll get a tool that's especially made to push the seedlings out of a multicell tray. It's very satisfying to use but I must say I really love the fork trick.
Would you ever considering reacting to old videos you’ve made? I’m a long time fan and you have always made great content but of course you are better now!
You are so incredibly honest. INTEGRITY is hard to come by nowadays and you not only commented from your expertise, but even encouraged! We need more of this goin on in social media 🎉
As far as the grocery store basil, just come home and seperate the plant, keeping the roots. Plant each plant in new pots and pop them under a growlight. 8 hours a day full spectrum light. Top leaves will wilt, but leave them until you see new leaf growth. At that point snip off the upper leaves. No need to butcher basil plants like this video😉
I got basil plants in August, but didn't know that they were several ones, so I left them together and just repotted them. Twice up till now (October). So they grew a lot, apart from a few ones in the back that didn't get as much light. But there definitely aren't 60 plants. Maybe around 20. As soon as the temperatures drop too much to keep the basil outside, I want to put it below a grow light. The one I plan to buy only seems to emit red light. Is that a problem? You wrote that one should use full spectrum light.
I suck at growing anything, but basil is so easy I always have it growing out of control even from seed. You can get seeds of whatever variety for cheap and it grows fast. If you have nice weather just plop them in the ground and keep it watered for a few days
@@Cheezitnator Yes, I don't really understand in what way basil is hard to care for. I guess the people that say that put the basil in a too dark spot, didn't repot it after buying it from the store, didn't water it enough or didn't know that basil can't tolerate temperatures below 10˚C. That's all there is to know from my 3 month experience. Even having the individual plants grouped way too closely (see my previous comment) isn't a deal-breaker.
Just a little FYI: This is something you have to be careful with. It's okay if the plants are grown in soil. Many aren't, though. I bought a live basil a few years ago and discovered that it was grown in a sponge (probbly hydroponic grow), which would NOT be good to have in the garden... not even in a pot. IF I had known then what I know now, I would have tons of basil from that pot. My sister buys live basil from her local market and the container actually says that it's NOT for garden use. I checked it and - sure enough! - it was planted in a sponge. (I snipped some stems and rooted them for her.) So when you buy those supermarket live plants... check the grow medium to see if it's soil or sponge. If it is a sponge, DON'T let that stop you... cuz you can still propagate cuttings from it.
Actually I did this sucessufully with no growlight at all. Propably won't work all year round, but for me it worked perfectly to raise my plants on the windowsill... And I bought and repottet my plant in fairly early spring. In my experience it's more important to protect the plants from cold temperatures, than to provide crazy amounts of light.
I work in a major greenhouse nursery that produces for big retailers and we use fork to plant our millions of pots every year. We use two 2 tined forks with v shaped slots for smaller plant plugs (basil, parsil, thymus coccineus, etc.) and quad-tined aka kitchen forks for larger plants like tomatoes, campanula, etc.
The tissue with grass seeds is probably there to keep the birds from eating all of the seeds. I can always tell which yard has new seeds in them because those little birds that fly in cloud formation are all over it.
It's also a copycat of what was a pretty popular expensive lawn product for a few years, but this diy version has to be cheaper. It keeps birds off the seeds and also reminds you where not to walk and trample on new grass.
Do you mean sparrows? The little brown/grey flying pests? Because we absolutely have to work around them all the time, we‘ve got dozens of them living under our roof. They are really sweet and pretty, and are civilization followers like rats, mice, and doves.
I do that basil hack in the winter and grow it in a sunny window, cutting what I need for cooking, until spring when I propagate it. That way I have fresh basil in the winter too. Win/win!
I found your channel last year through your basil video! I always had a brown thumb, and one of my goals for 2021 was to learn how to successfully keep a basil plant alive (I have killed MANY over the years). Between you and one other creator, I learned everything I needed to know, kept that basil plant for the better part of a year, and now have a thriving container garden on my apartment balcony! So thank you for helping me get started on a new path that I never thought I'd succeed in.
This season I was working in a restaurant in the spring, and got to keep the ends of like 100 green onions and regrew them in my garden. They are really good at growing back after cutting.
This was the positive, calming material typical of this channel. I recently introduced a friend to this channel and they commented on how nice it is to just listen to Kevin explain things. Straight forward, matter of fact, no bs, but also no take downs or sass.
I love it when you do these overviews, they are so informative and useful. We watch stuff all the time thinking “does this really work “? Thank You xxx from Devon, England 🤗🤗🤗
I used to do landscaping and we used a hydro seed method, basically the same as the TP slurry. While it takes a bit to completely break down after sprouting, it was effective at keeping birds and other animals from digging the seed out. Also on sloped areas, topsoil easily washed away unless we purchased rolls of straw matting to lay overtop. I personally hate this because of all the plastic strings that held the straw together. The hydro seed mix didn’t require that extra step.
really? honestly I thought that was one of these ...not so good hacks :o how long do you leave the peels in the water? does this work on houseplants too, or is it just something for the garden (because of the smell)?
@@Izzy-fr1zu Yes, it's not a great idea. It's better to just compost peels, where microbes and bugs break them down into accessible nutrients. Just steeping bananas in water doesn't release many nutrients, and the starch and sugar may attract fruit flies or gnats.
Basil, lemon balm and mint are super easy to root and grow. Literally only a few days in the summer and they have roots. My mom planted some sweet potatoes we forgot about that started sprouting this spring and we had a pretty good harvest from them.
The hack with the fork has two advantages: the fork and the plug-sized hole. The hole will decrease or eliminate transplant shock, which means the seedlings will recover quicker.
I work for a lawn fertilization company and I was just so happy to see that they weren't over seeding. like where you just throw grass seed across your lawn. that has a really bad germination rate. But when you said to put compost or mulch on top i was like okay this guy knows what's up
i was gifted some store bought basil, propagated and grew it. let them all go to seed and harvested a billion basil seeds. and now I've just planted a handful for the new growing season. endless basil for life
It’s getting harder and harder to find honest decent content.so happy to have found you by chance. I feel as if I spend hours of my life wading through total nonsense before I hit an honest gardener giving advice.thank you for being out there.
It's actually a good idea to start bulbs in water first especially if you dont have alot of space in your yard, just in case you have one that doesn't sprout, you won't be sitting around waiting for it to pop out of the soil
that's why I did it that way -- before I even saw Kevin's overview of the tiktok hack. I noticed (with frustration) that the garlic bulbs I'd get at the store were almost always on their way to sprouting. So I started to just lean into it, and took around 40 cloves -- at first I tried to open them up to see which one was sprouting, and even slightly damaged (cut open but sprout left in tact and attached to clove) and peeled, they sprouted like crazy in the water --- I was on a sitjob and came home after a few days, and the garlic had gotten CRAZY rooted with the water, it was fairly scary initially. I also didn't want to waste time because there WERE a few (rare) garlic cloves that didn't root, but just rotted from exposure to water...
I think a lot of these videos consider that you live in a tropical zone (around the equator). So things that work for some folks won’t work for me without grow lights and heat. I took over part of my garage with a 10’ by 20’ hoop type style house, and I start seeds, overwinter some tropicals, and of course drink wine with my neighbors. It’s the new winter party spot in lower slower Delaware. My husband is worried the five 0 will show up if they see my grow lights thru the windows 😂. Love your channel, it brings a lot of joy to many people. ***and advertisement - buy their epic seed starting trays, we had a crazy garden and still getting tomatoes off the vine 💕💕 late October ***
I did the trader joe's basil thing. I bought 3 containers and have given at least 3 plants away and every time I go to visit someone or they visit me, they get a sandwich baggie full of basil. The plants are STILL thriving. I have one in my mini greenhouse, like four in my garage, 3 had rooted in ground (I thought the first TJ container completely died, I tossed it on the ground, and then like 3 basil plants popped up. One's currently bent over but FLOWERING. They're unstoppable. Send help /j) But seriously, well worth the 12 dollars in plants to buy 3 of them. I pretty much always smell like basil and confuse/awe my relatives with them
Great video. I Especially like the fork hack. I currently keep/use a large spoon with my garden tools that I use for digging up and separating seedlings that I have direct sown.
Spray bottle of water with clean tap water and a teeny dash of vinegar (just enough to smell it, not enough for the acids to eat away at the leaves), or soak a few oak leaves in the water for 3-4 days, then spritz, if you want to avoid using chemicals.
I take a bag of grass seed, some peatmoss, put it in a container, wet it, cover with a tarp wait a week, and then plant that, its halfway sprouted so you only have to worry about watering half the time
Garlic- you spoke about buying a head at the store and using it . I’ve been told that they are treated so that they do not grow green stems/roots.. I actually got my garlic from a garlic festival 😊. It looks completely different and larger..
@@petenewell9945 I don't know if they call it elephant garlic. but when I looked at the garlic in store, it was definitely smaller. I was also told not to use it b/c the garlic in store has been treated with something for it not to grow. I'm going to be reaching out to a MI grower and get a few mor garlic cloves to plant in some pots for over wintering, as I will be changing up my garden and adding more raised beds. I can't wait. right now IM trying to make my decision on either wood or metal . I have alot of space 25 x 5, 18 x 33x5 , 18 x 3, that is just along either fence line, I haven't even tapped into the middle area..
I put my old Tea bags in a large water can fill it quarter with hot water and let the tea come out. Fill rest with normal water . Take tea bags out plant them in garden /compost whatever. And use the watering can for the plants that need some extra lovviin
I wish that I had seen this before the first hard freeze and lost 2 large pots of several varieties of basil. I have rooted out many cuttings of various plants over the years but just didn’t think of it. Thanks for the reminder.
I just put my onions in water stick them in the refrigerator and let them grow occasionally I'll cut their tops off when I'm tired of that I throw them out into the garden and let them grow.
You should note that garlic needs cold stratification to produce bulbs. Grocery store garlic planted in warm soil won't give you a bulb, just an enlarged clove.
the toilet paper will biodegrade pretty fast so it's not really a negative. What I really like it that the paper keeps the seeds in place. That's by far the biggest plus. When it rains or you water new seeds they tend to float and group together.
I grow watercress from the supermarket salad mixes the same method as the Basil shown here . I grow carrot tops just cut a slice off the very top of each carrot then stand on damp compost and the top grows. I add it to soups salad and rice . I cut the bottom inch off spring onions , green onions and stand them in clean water .They regrow rapidly and I cut them several times and let them regrow and cut again. I also do the lettuce the same as here. Celery also regrows or continues to grow after being cut . Radish tops are tasty too . I think of these as free food . I sit an onion in a glass of clean water root end in the glass of course and wait for the tops to grow .I use the tops in sauces.salads.sanwiches. omelette and stir fry or soup .it grows again and again
I LOVE the epic 6-cell - the popping out with your finger is super satisfying! I own lots of those trays. They are indestructible! Thanks for the super high quality products you sell in your store, Kevin!
so I've done the thing with the onion & I've actually found a way to actually strip it down to the inner bulb. 1)so I keep onions in the fridge [less cry for the eyes😂] also it'll help the roots 2)take off paper skins, 3)make a shallow cut down the 1 side 3½)then another on the opposite side, 4) then make another shallow circular cut around the base where the roots are, 5)slowly put pressure on one side & it should lift removing ½ a side of onion, 6) remove 1 layer at a time down to the desired bulb size, 6½) enjoy your onion in dinner😂 7)you can then place it in a shallow bowl with a little water & roots shall emerge or enlarge!🎉 8) transplant when ready 😊
I tried the basil from the store, and I guess I just trusted that it was some how hardened off already, but now I am pretty positive it wasnt, as only 3 actual plants survived and even then they didnt do so great. I will just grow my own from now on.
Growing up , my grandma always had a garden. At dinner time she’d hand us a bowl and say go outside and get your salad. We’d just pinch off a few leaves if lettuce, pull a carrot and a radish and some cherry tomatoes. Wash them in the house.
Oh the onion hack with green onions is one of my favorites! My family teased me for fishing all the little roots out of the compost and re planting. I now have a lot of green onion that I trim like tasty grass!
2:20 I believe that is paper mush. Basically you shred unused paper and some times mix a bit of powdered fertilizer for a boost, and mix your seeds into the mush and apply. Gives it a firm hold onto the ground.
I love the plants that propagate from cuttings. Tomato, basil, marigold, etc. I had a marigold that got so big it was falling over. It was fun to trim it back and then plant those trimmings to have even more of them. All in all, great video!
I recently bought some cilantro and spinach both with roots at a farmers market. I decided to plant the roots. First, I cut the foliage leaving about 2 inches of stem. I soaked them for about 4 hours then planted then in my raised garden. I hope this works too. 🤞🏼
One cilantro made it and in fact it started to bolt a few days ago, so I grabbed it to go with the guac I was making. Unfortunately, the spinach did not make it.
I have used that method for garlic, and have planted just cloves, and from my experience the pre rooting method gave poor results every time I have tried it. The stress on the young plant seems to handicap the plant to the point I have not have more than 20% to harvest and what was harvestable was pretty pitiful.
Mt experiment this year was to take the bottoms of my cut garlic clove that I used in dinner (so the scrap peice that roots come out of) and i planted them to see if they would grow, and they did so I planted them outdoors this late fall and we will see if they head up. God bless!
Good on you for showing respect to the ideas and not trying to sell your product. Used as an example briefly is completely acceptable behaviour of a gentleman. By the by, your trays look outstanding and…. I can imagine they would last an extremely long time. Well done.
Like the green onion hack. I use many of them in Asian recipes. DOH!! I should have known this years ago. RE: the fork hack--many of us reuse starter packs for years. IT is perfect for those who do.
i think they got the grass slury idea from commercial applications where they use it for putting in areas where its mostly soil like new construction projects, as that would also help to prevent the wind from blowing the seed away, but its not made of TP i think its something that breaks down faster. I bought some once upon a time & it worked great no TP mess
So the thing about what you said with the onion is that most of the green onions sold in grocery stores are actually the over stock of regular onions that they don't have enough room to let bulb out but don't want to waste the seed, so it's really very much the same at that point. If you do happen to have true welsh/green onions those are perennial and will grow back in clumps every year and are a much better option for re-growing than a bulb in its second year. For the greens its great either way but if you do want the bulbs second year onions don't keep so well.
I can't believe how much I learned that I was ignorantly NOT applying over these years. I can now step it up a bit. Thank you. Yes, without watching another video first, I subscribed. 😊
Now is perfect timing to plant garlic outside, it can withstand cold temperatures very well and it needs it to form bulbs. If u plant it in spring u get one big toe.
I have never had success rooting basil or rosemary for that matter. It just rots in the container of water…despite the fact that I keep the water changed and clean and use healthy stems.. I’ve tried it numerous time with always the same outcomes. Beginning to wonder if it’s my water? Any advice?
I planted the parsley that my mum bought for her recipe that I felt bad for throwing away after she was done with it and now I have so much parsley now 😂
The hack with the onion bulb, will that regrow and produce a viable seed stalk? I may try it to see that way I can make use of my "seed onions" instead of letting them go.
Our local radio gardening expert recommends against starting stuff in water because it leads to weaker roots. He recommends starting in a solid medium of some kind(like dirt, honestly) because it leads to roots that are conditioned to support the mass of the plant.
I’ve done the green onions before with older ones I didn’t use. I just cut and reuse. I also got store bought live herb plants. Basil, cilantro (fail, too hot), and mint. Mint was a major success and basil was too. I did have a romaine plant that I let grow as I got busy and forgot technically. But in the fall I had 2 surprise plants lol guess the seeds fell.
With regrowing food from the store you also gotta keep in mind it most likely is an F1 hybrid and the fruit might not turn out the same way again. But i wonder if they turn out healthy and stable and what happens to the second generation of seeds when you plant those.
Not sure if you'll see this, but I grow Cannabis and one thing we do to promote root growth on clones is snip the tips of the leaves off after getting your cuttings. Not sure if my science is correct but I'm assuming since they have no roots and only absorb water through their leaves, cutting the tips causes the plant to drop roots faster? Not sure if it'll apply the same to other plants.
It’s nice to see TikTok being used for good, seeing gardening stuff laid out in such a short format makes it look much more accessible to the average person, it just sucks when people are misled
I wonder what kind of lighting for the garlic starts. Grow lamps? Window light? And the soil? Can I use perlite and vermiculite etc with no soil per se?
I feel like the fork trick was life changing...... This is my first season using those trays and I've struggled so much to get them to come out nicely lol
The fork trick seems pretty bad, you're damaging the roots by doing that. You can use a screwdriver and put it next to the roots to help pull them out of the tray.
Oh my goodness hilarious. We went from fighting over tp to growing with it. 😂 also mushrooms can be grown from the tubes supposedly. Never did it myself
I think I will try the Onoin Guy's method with my favourite variety of onions, just to get the seeds, which have proven to be utterly unobtainable where I live.
I actually bought the basil from the store, separated it and planted it. I would probably do it this way though for MORE basil. But! I planted it as soon as I bought it due to what he’s saying, where it gets used to its environment.
Here's my hack for cherry tomatoes, squirt out the seeds and pulp onto a paper towel and spread with a butter knife until the seeds are a couple inches apart. Let dry. To plant just rip off the seed with the paper towel and plant.
The grass seed mixed in T.P. would be easier on the eyes if it was green paper used or a green vdye added to the mix. Similar to how they spray seeds onto lawns and paint lawns green.lol
I must say that I like the "finger in the hole and plop it in the bottom" method myself as well, always worked well for me. I'm sorry, I tried but couldn't resist commenting that! On a serious note, love your content and keep it up, I learn something from each of your videos 👍
You can grow more than just the green part from the bottom of an onion. You can even use less than the guy used in the video. I did that and I got 4 onions from one and 2 from another. However, I did not know that once the green part bends, the onion will form skin and stop growing, so My onions turned out pretty small but they were very tasty regardless!
These reactions are the best keep them coming! Also I love it when their hacks are dumb and you just roast them like the 5 minute magic has some really dumb ones
Love the office theme song. Also when he said how people went from basically decapitating each other for toilet paper to throwing it in the yard for seeds, hahaha, hilarious 😂
I love this stuff! I’d love to see some houseplant/succulent tips! I’ve got a green thumb but can’t keep echeverias alive for the life of me! I’m obsessed with propagating but it does no good if my babies don’t grow up!
I do need to say I LOVE the Epic Cell Trays, one of the best gardening purchases I’ve ever made. My babies stay healthy for so much longer than they would in the conventional trays, gives me the extra time I need to get room for them in the garden. Roots incredibly robust and easy to remove without damaging.
I have purchased the Epic four and six cell trays and I love how its a hybrid version of soil blocks and seedling trays.
The only issue I am running into is that it seems most soil mixes that I use end up washing out the bottom when I bottom water. Do you have any suggestions for soil retention in your EPIC cell trays?? :)
@@Rachel-uj4dg YES! I use Jiffy Natural and Organic Seed Starting Mix, and I’m sure it would wash out if I just dumped it in there. But! I load each cell pack individually with moist mix, and I put my thumb in through the top of each hole and mash it with my fingers from the bottom to pack the bottom half of each planting cell. Then, I tamp down the rest of the mix and smooth over the top. So, it’s very much like blocking. But they stay firm like this, and it is well worth the small extra effort to set it up. Let me know if I did a good enough job explaining the process.
I just use kitchen/toilet rolls and just plant the whole roll. This way I NEVER have to disturb my roots, it costs me nothing and the cardboard composts into your soil.
If you buy young plant plugs from a horticultural wholesaler, you'll get a tool that's especially made to push the seedlings out of a multicell tray. It's very satisfying to use but I must say I really love the fork trick.
fork trick looks good for those cheap shitty ones though lol
Would you ever considering reacting to old videos you’ve made? I’m a long time fan and you have always made great content but of course you are better now!
Oh for sure!!
I second this!
I'd Love to see that also yes, great idea!
Great idea 👍
@@epicgardening I would love to see that
You are so incredibly honest. INTEGRITY is hard to come by nowadays and you not only commented from your expertise, but even encouraged! We need more of this goin on in social media 🎉
Appreciate you Elizabeth!
As far as the grocery store basil, just come home and seperate the plant, keeping the roots. Plant each plant in new pots and pop them under a growlight. 8 hours a day full spectrum light. Top leaves will wilt, but leave them until you see new leaf growth. At that point snip off the upper leaves. No need to butcher basil plants like this video😉
I got basil plants in August, but didn't know that they were several ones, so I left them together and just repotted them. Twice up till now (October). So they grew a lot, apart from a few ones in the back that didn't get as much light. But there definitely aren't 60 plants. Maybe around 20. As soon as the temperatures drop too much to keep the basil outside, I want to put it below a grow light. The one I plan to buy only seems to emit red light. Is that a problem? You wrote that one should use full spectrum light.
I suck at growing anything, but basil is so easy I always have it growing out of control even from seed. You can get seeds of whatever variety for cheap and it grows fast. If you have nice weather just plop them in the ground and keep it watered for a few days
@@Cheezitnator Yes, I don't really understand in what way basil is hard to care for. I guess the people that say that put the basil in a too dark spot, didn't repot it after buying it from the store, didn't water it enough or didn't know that basil can't tolerate temperatures below 10˚C. That's all there is to know from my 3 month experience. Even having the individual plants grouped way too closely (see my previous comment) isn't a deal-breaker.
Just a little FYI: This is something you have to be careful with.
It's okay if the plants are grown in soil. Many aren't, though. I bought a live basil a few years ago and discovered that it was grown in a sponge (probbly hydroponic grow), which would NOT be good to have in the garden... not even in a pot. IF I had known then what I know now, I would have tons of basil from that pot.
My sister buys live basil from her local market and the container actually says that it's NOT for garden use. I checked it and - sure enough! - it was planted in a sponge. (I snipped some stems and rooted them for her.)
So when you buy those supermarket live plants... check the grow medium to see if it's soil or sponge. If it is a sponge, DON'T let that stop you... cuz you can still propagate cuttings from it.
Actually I did this sucessufully with no growlight at all. Propably won't work all year round, but for me it worked perfectly to raise my plants on the windowsill... And I bought and repottet my plant in fairly early spring. In my experience it's more important to protect the plants from cold temperatures, than to provide crazy amounts of light.
I work in a major greenhouse nursery that produces for big retailers and we use fork to plant our millions of pots every year. We use two 2 tined forks with v shaped slots for smaller plant plugs (basil, parsil, thymus coccineus, etc.) and quad-tined aka kitchen forks for larger plants like tomatoes, campanula, etc.
No way! That's so awesome to hear
The tissue with grass seeds is probably there to keep the birds from eating all of the seeds. I can always tell which yard has new seeds in them because those little birds that fly in cloud formation are all over it.
It's also a copycat of what was a pretty popular expensive lawn product for a few years, but this diy version has to be cheaper. It keeps birds off the seeds and also reminds you where not to walk and trample on new grass.
@@BankruptMonkey good point about the walking.
Exactly what I was thinking
The cloud formation is called a murmuration!!!
Do you mean sparrows? The little brown/grey flying pests? Because we absolutely have to work around them all the time, we‘ve got dozens of them living under our roof. They are really sweet and pretty, and are civilization followers like rats, mice, and doves.
I do that basil hack in the winter and grow it in a sunny window, cutting what I need for cooking, until spring when I propagate it. That way I have fresh basil in the winter too. Win/win!
I found your channel last year through your basil video! I always had a brown thumb, and one of my goals for 2021 was to learn how to successfully keep a basil plant alive (I have killed MANY over the years). Between you and one other creator, I learned everything I needed to know, kept that basil plant for the better part of a year, and now have a thriving container garden on my apartment balcony! So thank you for helping me get started on a new path that I never thought I'd succeed in.
is a brown thumb the opposite of a green thumb?
Yes 😂👍🏾
This season I was working in a restaurant in the spring, and got to keep the ends of like 100 green onions and regrew them in my garden. They are really good at growing back after cutting.
This was the positive, calming material typical of this channel. I recently introduced a friend to this channel and they commented on how nice it is to just listen to Kevin explain things. Straight forward, matter of fact, no bs, but also no take downs or sass.
I love it when you do these overviews, they are so informative and useful. We watch stuff all the time thinking “does this really work “? Thank You xxx from Devon, England 🤗🤗🤗
You're welcome, Sally!
I used to do landscaping and we used a hydro seed method, basically the same as the TP slurry. While it takes a bit to completely break down after sprouting, it was effective at keeping birds and other animals from digging the seed out. Also on sloped areas, topsoil easily washed away unless we purchased rolls of straw matting to lay overtop. I personally hate this because of all the plastic strings that held the straw together. The hydro seed mix didn’t require that extra step.
We just discovered putting banana peels in a glass of water. We then used that water in our plants. They are growing like crazy.
When I began reading this, I was like: You can't grow bananas that way!
Than I finished reading your comment lmao
I bury banana peels all over my plants
@@bambinaforever1402 if i find any leaves around my house they go straight into my potted plants
really? honestly I thought that was one of these ...not so good hacks :o
how long do you leave the peels in the water? does this work on houseplants too, or is it just something for the garden (because of the smell)?
@@Izzy-fr1zu Yes, it's not a great idea. It's better to just compost peels, where microbes and bugs break them down into accessible nutrients. Just steeping bananas in water doesn't release many nutrients, and the starch and sugar may attract fruit flies or gnats.
Basil, lemon balm and mint are super easy to root and grow. Literally only a few days in the summer and they have roots. My mom planted some sweet potatoes we forgot about that started sprouting this spring and we had a pretty good harvest from them.
The hack with the fork has two advantages: the fork and the plug-sized hole. The hole will decrease or eliminate transplant shock, which means the seedlings will recover quicker.
I work for a lawn fertilization company and I was just so happy to see that they weren't over seeding. like where you just throw grass seed across your lawn. that has a really bad germination rate. But when you said to put compost or mulch on top i was like okay this guy knows what's up
i was gifted some store bought basil, propagated and grew it. let them all go to seed and harvested a billion basil seeds. and now I've just planted a handful for the new growing season. endless basil for life
It’s getting harder and harder to find honest decent content.so happy to have found you by chance. I feel as if I spend hours of my life wading through total nonsense before I hit an honest gardener giving advice.thank you for being out there.
It's actually a good idea to start bulbs in water first especially if you dont have alot of space in your yard, just in case you have one that doesn't sprout, you won't be sitting around waiting for it to pop out of the soil
that's why I did it that way -- before I even saw Kevin's overview of the tiktok hack. I noticed (with frustration) that the garlic bulbs I'd get at the store were almost always on their way to sprouting. So I started to just lean into it, and took around 40 cloves -- at first I tried to open them up to see which one was sprouting, and even slightly damaged (cut open but sprout left in tact and attached to clove) and peeled, they sprouted like crazy in the water --- I was on a sitjob and came home after a few days, and the garlic had gotten CRAZY rooted with the water, it was fairly scary initially. I also didn't want to waste time because there WERE a few (rare) garlic cloves that didn't root, but just rotted from exposure to water...
Basil videos = "OG days" XD I was there during those days. Can't believe it's few years ago already.
I think a lot of these videos consider that you live in a tropical zone (around the equator). So things that work for some folks won’t work for me without grow lights and heat. I took over part of my garage with a 10’ by 20’ hoop type style house, and I start seeds, overwinter some tropicals, and of course drink wine with my neighbors. It’s the new winter party spot in lower slower Delaware. My husband is worried the five 0 will show up if they see my grow lights thru the windows 😂. Love your channel, it brings a lot of joy to many people. ***and advertisement - buy their epic seed starting trays, we had a crazy garden and still getting tomatoes off the vine 💕💕 late October ***
Awesome!
Did Kevin move? I thought he lived near San Diego!
Regrow onion from bulb and save seeds...same with beets, carrots, lettuce, celery,..you'll usually just get seeds, but they're free.
I did the trader joe's basil thing. I bought 3 containers and have given at least 3 plants away and every time I go to visit someone or they visit me, they get a sandwich baggie full of basil.
The plants are STILL thriving. I have one in my mini greenhouse, like four in my garage, 3 had rooted in ground (I thought the first TJ container completely died, I tossed it on the ground, and then like 3 basil plants popped up.
One's currently bent over but FLOWERING. They're unstoppable. Send help /j)
But seriously, well worth the 12 dollars in plants to buy 3 of them. I pretty much always smell like basil and confuse/awe my relatives with them
Great video. I Especially like the fork hack. I currently keep/use a large spoon with my garden tools that I use for digging up and separating seedlings that I have direct sown.
If you fork the seedling's roots you risk damaging them. It's best to use a screwdriver to help with pulling the seedlings.
The basil hack is awesome! I have tried to grow it & always end up with bugs eating my plants.
Spray bottle of water with clean tap water and a teeny dash of vinegar (just enough to smell it, not enough for the acids to eat away at the leaves), or soak a few oak leaves in the water for 3-4 days, then spritz, if you want to avoid using chemicals.
@@alexisgrunden1556 ooh I haven’t tried vinegar yet! Thank you for the tip!
I take a bag of grass seed, some peatmoss, put it in a container, wet it, cover with a tarp wait a week, and then plant that, its halfway sprouted so you only have to worry about watering half the time
Garlic- you spoke about buying a head at the store and using it . I’ve been told that they are treated so that they do not grow green stems/roots.. I actually got my garlic from a garlic festival 😊. It looks completely different and larger..
@@petenewell9945 I don't know if they call it elephant garlic. but when I looked at the garlic in store, it was definitely smaller. I was also told not to use it b/c the garlic in store has been treated with something for it not to grow. I'm going to be reaching out to a MI grower and get a few mor garlic cloves to plant in some pots for over wintering, as I will be changing up my garden and adding more raised beds. I can't wait. right now IM trying to make my decision on either wood or metal . I have alot of space 25 x 5, 18 x 33x5 , 18 x 3, that is just along either fence line, I haven't even tapped into the middle area..
Really depends on where you are. I'm in Australia, and our store bought garlic starts growing in the fridge 😂
Love the hacks. Can’t wait to get my own raised bed to start a garden. ❤
I also use a fork to remove purslane from my garden. Doesn't break the leaves that propagates plus I get the roots too.
I put my old Tea bags in a large water can fill it quarter with hot water and let the tea come out. Fill rest with normal water . Take tea bags out plant them in garden /compost whatever. And use the watering can for the plants that need some extra lovviin
I wish that I had seen this before the first hard freeze and lost 2 large pots of several varieties of basil. I have rooted out many cuttings of various plants over the years but just didn’t think of it. Thanks for the reminder.
I just put my onions in water stick them in the refrigerator and let them grow occasionally I'll cut their tops off when I'm tired of that I throw them out into the garden and let them grow.
Saw the toilet paper hack and had flashbacks to 2020 when toilet paper was treated like gold and I'm so glad you referenced that!
You should note that garlic needs cold stratification to produce bulbs. Grocery store garlic planted in warm soil won't give you a bulb, just an enlarged clove.
The alium hacks are also a great way to introduce children to gardening and earth sciences.
the toilet paper will biodegrade pretty fast so it's not really a negative. What I really like it that the paper keeps the seeds in place. That's by far the biggest plus. When it rains or you water new seeds they tend to float and group together.
I grow watercress from the supermarket salad mixes the same method as the Basil shown here .
I grow carrot tops just cut a slice off the very top of each carrot then stand on damp compost and the top grows. I add it to soups salad and rice .
I cut the bottom inch off spring onions , green onions and stand them in clean water .They regrow rapidly and I cut them several times and let them regrow and cut again.
I also do the lettuce the same as here.
Celery also regrows or continues to grow after being cut .
Radish tops are tasty too .
I think of these as free food .
I sit an onion in a glass of clean water root end in the glass of course and wait for the tops to grow .I use the tops in sauces.salads.sanwiches.
omelette and stir fry or soup .it grows again and again
I love when you do these react videos cause it helps people who blindly follow internet tips that might not be right
I LOVE the epic 6-cell - the popping out with your finger is super satisfying! I own lots of those trays. They are indestructible! Thanks for the super high quality products you sell in your store, Kevin!
so I've done the thing with the onion & I've actually found a way to actually strip it down to the inner bulb.
1)so I keep onions in the fridge [less cry for the eyes😂] also it'll help the roots 2)take off paper skins,
3)make a shallow cut down the 1 side 3½)then another on the opposite side,
4) then make another shallow circular cut around the base where the roots are, 5)slowly put pressure on one side & it should lift removing ½ a side of onion,
6) remove 1 layer at a time down to the desired bulb size,
6½) enjoy your onion in dinner😂
7)you can then place it in a shallow bowl with a little water & roots shall emerge or enlarge!🎉
8) transplant when ready 😊
Love that you're highlighting others and helping them grow!🎉
I tried the basil from the store, and I guess I just trusted that it was some how hardened off already, but now I am pretty positive it wasnt, as only 3 actual plants survived and even then they didnt do so great. I will just grow my own from now on.
Growing up , my grandma always had a garden. At dinner time she’d hand us a bowl and say go outside and get your salad. We’d just pinch off a few leaves if lettuce, pull a carrot and a radish and some cherry tomatoes. Wash them in the house.
Oh the onion hack with green onions is one of my favorites! My family teased me for fishing all the little roots out of the compost and re planting. I now have a lot of green onion that I trim like tasty grass!
Allium flowers are also delicious. Onions and garlic. So are basil flowers.
And they’re pretty in salads
2:20 I believe that is paper mush. Basically you shred unused paper and some times mix a bit of powdered fertilizer for a boost, and mix your seeds into the mush and apply. Gives it a firm hold onto the ground.
I love the plants that propagate from cuttings. Tomato, basil, marigold, etc. I had a marigold that got so big it was falling over. It was fun to trim it back and then plant those trimmings to have even more of them. All in all, great video!
I recently bought some cilantro and spinach both with roots at a farmers market. I decided to plant the roots. First, I cut the foliage leaving about 2 inches of stem. I soaked them for about 4 hours then planted then in my raised garden. I hope this works too. 🤞🏼
Been 2 months anything yet?
One cilantro made it and in fact it started to bolt a few days ago, so I grabbed it to go with the guac I was making. Unfortunately, the spinach did not make it.
Thank you so much; love this brief review of gardening hacks. I always find your videos helpful and enjoyable.😊
You are so welcome!
On the basil part.. they're SO easy to grow from seed.. nice one posting this from the 'competition'.. well done to you !!!
I've given up on my garden and this is now my favorite kind of content from this channel 😅
I have used that method for garlic, and have planted just cloves, and from my experience the pre rooting method gave poor results every time I have tried it. The stress on the young plant seems to handicap the plant to the point I have not have more than 20% to harvest and what was harvestable was pretty pitiful.
Mt experiment this year was to take the bottoms of my cut garlic clove that I used in dinner (so the scrap peice that roots come out of) and i planted them to see if they would grow, and they did so I planted them outdoors this late fall and we will see if they head up. God bless!
Good on you for showing respect to the ideas and not trying to sell your product. Used as an example briefly is completely acceptable behaviour of a gentleman. By the by, your trays look outstanding and…. I can imagine they would last an extremely long time. Well done.
I bought one of those basils, really 24 basils. I untangled them and potted 24 and planted out to our garden 24 basils. Yeah we had a lot.
Like the green onion hack. I use many of them in Asian recipes. DOH!! I should have known this years ago. RE: the fork hack--many of us reuse starter packs for years. IT is perfect for those who do.
i think they got the grass slury idea from commercial applications where they use it for putting in areas where its mostly soil like new construction projects, as that would also help to prevent the wind from blowing the seed away, but its not made of TP i think its something that breaks down faster. I bought some once upon a time & it worked great no TP mess
I plant garlic around newly planted shrubs to protect 'em from voles. It works !
So the thing about what you said with the onion is that most of the green onions sold in grocery stores are actually the over stock of regular onions that they don't have enough room to let bulb out but don't want to waste the seed, so it's really very much the same at that point. If you do happen to have true welsh/green onions those are perennial and will grow back in clumps every year and are a much better option for re-growing than a bulb in its second year. For the greens its great either way but if you do want the bulbs second year onions don't keep so well.
I can't believe how much I learned that I was ignorantly NOT applying over these years. I can now step it up a bit. Thank you.
Yes, without watching another video first, I subscribed. 😊
I make a grass-seed mix with compost then spread it like the slurry. Keep it wet 2x a day until it comes up.
Now is perfect timing to plant garlic outside, it can withstand cold temperatures very well and it needs it to form bulbs.
If u plant it in spring u get one big toe.
What kind of winter temperatures are you talking about here?
@@yy-sf1xq Here it gets -10°C
Mid europa.
I really enjoy these. Both where you affirm the hack, and maybe more so, destroy the hack as being utter nonsense! Thanks for all you are doing!
Glad you enjoy it!
Love these videos. I’m glad you chose the majority of these videos that you agree with, rather than just bashing unknowing people HAHA ❤
Dude thanks for being so nice when keeping it real.
The Basil propagation video is what led me to this channel. Been subscribed for some time now.
I have never had success rooting basil or rosemary for that matter. It just rots in the container of water…despite the fact that I keep the water changed and clean and use healthy stems.. I’ve tried it numerous time with always the same outcomes. Beginning to wonder if it’s my water? Any advice?
I planted the parsley that my mum bought for her recipe that I felt bad for throwing away after she was done with it and now I have so much parsley now 😂
The hack with the onion bulb, will that regrow and produce a viable seed stalk? I may try it to see that way I can make use of my "seed onions" instead of letting them go.
Yup!
Our local radio gardening expert recommends against starting stuff in water because it leads to weaker roots. He recommends starting in a solid medium of some kind(like dirt, honestly) because it leads to roots that are conditioned to support the mass of the plant.
Love when you do these! Always so applicable!
I’ve done the green onions before with older ones I didn’t use. I just cut and reuse.
I also got store bought live herb plants. Basil, cilantro (fail, too hot), and mint. Mint was a major success and basil was too.
I did have a romaine plant that I let grow as I got busy and forgot technically. But in the fall I had 2 surprise plants lol guess the seeds fell.
I’m trying the onion hack. Thanks.
You can also separate the little plants and put them right in the soil rather than rooting a plant. I have very little loss. Basil is a survivor.
@3:13 you could bring the shop vac out and suck up all the TP on the grass
That fork transplant technique is great. How did I not think of that?
Just got my 6 cells in. Super excited!
The Office music playing in the garlic clip really sent me on a nostalgia trip.
With regrowing food from the store you also gotta keep in mind it most likely is an F1 hybrid and the fruit might not turn out the same way again. But i wonder if they turn out healthy and stable and what happens to the second generation of seeds when you plant those.
Great video….how about a discussion on rain water collection and the “banana water” hack?
I did one on that a bit ago!
Love my Epic 6 cell. First time using them and they are great!
Glad to hear!
Not sure if you'll see this, but I grow Cannabis and one thing we do to promote root growth on clones is snip the tips of the leaves off after getting your cuttings. Not sure if my science is correct but I'm assuming since they have no roots and only absorb water through their leaves, cutting the tips causes the plant to drop roots faster? Not sure if it'll apply the same to other plants.
It’s nice to see TikTok being used for good, seeing gardening stuff laid out in such a short format makes it look much more accessible to the average person, it just sucks when people are misled
I wonder what kind of lighting for the garlic starts. Grow lamps? Window light? And the soil? Can I use perlite and vermiculite etc with no soil per se?
I feel like the fork trick was life changing...... This is my first season using those trays and I've struggled so much to get them to come out nicely lol
The fork trick seems pretty bad, you're damaging the roots by doing that. You can use a screwdriver and put it next to the roots to help pull them out of the tray.
Oh my goodness hilarious. We went from fighting over tp to growing with it. 😂 also mushrooms can be grown from the tubes supposedly. Never did it myself
I think I will try the Onoin Guy's method with my favourite variety of onions, just to get the seeds, which have proven to be utterly unobtainable where I live.
I actually bought the basil from the store, separated it and planted it. I would probably do it this way though for MORE basil. But! I planted it as soon as I bought it due to what he’s saying, where it gets used to its environment.
Here's my hack for cherry tomatoes, squirt out the seeds and pulp onto a paper towel and spread with a butter knife until the seeds are a couple inches apart. Let dry. To plant just rip off the seed with the paper towel and plant.
The grass seed mixed in T.P. would be easier on the eyes if it was green paper used or a green vdye added to the mix.
Similar to how they spray seeds onto lawns and paint lawns green.lol
These are the only reaction videos I want UA-cam showing me. No exceptions.
I too like that hack with the fork.
I must say that I like the "finger in the hole and plop it in the bottom" method myself as well, always worked well for me.
I'm sorry, I tried but couldn't resist commenting that! On a serious note, love your content and keep it up, I learn something from each of your videos 👍
You can grow more than just the green part from the bottom of an onion. You can even use less than the guy used in the video. I did that and I got 4 onions from one and 2 from another. However, I did not know that once the green part bends, the onion will form skin and stop growing, so My onions turned out pretty small but they were very tasty regardless!
These reactions are the best keep them coming! Also I love it when their hacks are dumb and you just roast them like the 5 minute magic has some really dumb ones
Love the office theme song. Also when he said how people went from basically decapitating each other for toilet paper to throwing it in the yard for seeds, hahaha, hilarious 😂
Can you make a vid on what vegetables grows best in rainy season and dry season pls☹️❤️will appreciate it
I've done that toilet paper slurry but with a mixture of coconut core and dirt instead of toilet paper. It works great without the mess.
Glad to hear it!
Been missing all the awesome content lately due to nursing school. Had to watch this for a good laugh though!!! Keep it up Kevin.
Welcome back!
I love this stuff! I’d love to see some houseplant/succulent tips! I’ve got a green thumb but can’t keep echeverias alive for the life of me! I’m obsessed with propagating but it does no good if my babies don’t grow up!
Good call! Will do more