No cost..reduced cost .. Controlled cost .. Choose your own comfort level and enjoy your garden. I have learned and used Many of the gardening methods from gardener scott and other gardening sites. Thanks to all for sharing these concepts with us. 🙂🙃🙂😉😊
Great refresher tips Gardener Scott! I have been blessed to be gifted garden plants and slips this year from friends and family! Last year a neighbor had just started gardening and I left her a basket of veg plants and flowers I grew from seed! They were very happy and thankful! I am a re-purpose fanatic! Everything I see, I always try to think of how it can be used in the garden! Be blessed
Great video. I use all the cardboard and newspaper that comes into the house for mulch. Years ago when we swapped out our bathtub, I turned the bathtub into a planter - tacky I know, but it is one of the best planters (I leave the drain open). It is pretty well camouflaged with perennials around the perimeter. This year I'm using some extra reusable grocery bags as grow bags. Someone gave me some very large plastic tubs and they've been great planters for tomatoes over the years. I agree that gardeners are generous and I have often swapped plants with other gardeners.
I got my new house with great open lots of gravel about the same time you did Gardener Scott. I was house poor but had lots of muscle and imagination. So I dug out the hardpan by a few inches, and put in local dirt (limestone) mixed with leaves and other vegetable matter I could gather from neighbors and parks. Range friends brought me salt lick buckets from their work. I drilled holes in those and used them for planters. A tree was cut down at the convention center and a friend volunteered her truck to haul the rounds and limbs back here. Landscaping and boarders! And so much other fun stuff became garden soil amendments, boarders or planters. If it's free- It's for me!
Budget gardening, a subject I focus on being in my 4th year gar4dening. I do mainly container gardening because of a burred petroleum pipe in my back yard. But I use a lot of free tidy cat buckets from friends who do cat rescue. My whole garden area is wood chipped, with free wood chips from a chip drop. I do have some beds, they are kiddie pools (only food safe plastic) that were rescued out of the trash. I save seeds, make my own compost, and leaf mold. I have invested in some infrastructure like cattle panel trellises and tools, for them I buy quality that will last. I hope to get to free gardening by my 5th or 6th year gardening.
After watching your comfrey tea fertilizer video last year I started making my own using rhubarb leaves, weeds and various cuttings. It seemed to work really well and this year I've been doing my own experiment to compare this method vs fish fertilizer. I started to containers of mixed lettuce with the same soil mix and seeds. I've fed one container with the rhubarb/weed tea concoction and the other with the fish fertilizer and so far I've noticed no difference at all in the growth or production between the two. Not the most scientific study but I've learned that leafy greens require more feeding when I am doing the cut and come again method of growing/harvesting. I also found some comfrey starts and started them a few weeks ago. They just popped up this week and are already taking off. Thanks for sharing the knowledge!
One big thing you forgot to mention is worm bins. I am actually starting some native worms in beds, they are a bit different in that they prefer a wetter environment, they scoot when things dry out... less than 50% moisture. Another great video Gardener Scott.
In larger cities, there are gardening groups that host a seed-swap event a few times a year. Sometimes as part of a seed library event. So there are plenty of places you can seed swap. Moreover, the /r/seedswap subreddit is full of folks that'd be happy to mail you some seeds. Sure, it's not free; it'll cost you a postage stamp. But you can get seeds from anywhere your country allows imports from. I've done this many times between Canada and US. Happy seed-swapping!
I just ordered my free mulch from the power company. When they trim trees away from the power lines they mulch that wood and deliver it in full truck loads for free upon request. I’ve heard a lot of people say negative things like I’ll get termites and I could get poison Ivy from it. It honestly almost made me cancel my order. I’m expanding and trying to be not only thrifty but also try new things. I’ll be using the mulch primarily to get rid of the grass and add to my compost to help it breakdown faster.
Chives! I found chives growing in my drainage ditch this week. They're about the height of yours here, but they are in huge clusters. I suspect they've been growing there for years. Nobody near me grows them. I think they jumped ship from someone's municipal compost bin that gets wheeled out to the roadside every two weeks. Raccoons sometimes get in them and scatter stuff they don't want.
Thanks for your tips and tricks. We just received 2 of the forever garden raised beds, one of each. The initial cost was a bit but we feel it will be so beneficial for our gardening needs. TFS 👍🌱🥰
Low-cost gardening is very rewarding. I enjoy taking something like kudzu (one of the few plants that I don't like) and using it to make my own liquid fertilizer! I also love passing on plants and seeds to new gardeners and friends in my area. Strengthening our gardening community is more and more important these days. Thank you for another wonderful video, Gardener Scott!
Please do a quick video on what to do for a late Spring frost. Here in Colorado we're expecting snow and extended deep cold. What should I do with my one year old fruit trees or perennials?
i keep seeds from things i buy at the supermarket. buy a punnet of roma tomatoes, i cut a few up and scoop the seeds onto kitchen paper towel. then just plant bits of the paper towel that have seeds stuck to it and i'll get a roma plant. have done it with cherry tomatoes, pumpkins, and a few other things.
I ran out of soil and just collected. 2 full bags of leaves, dirt, rotting tree stuff,and fungus. All from a foresty part with a mix of big trees right next to a lake. Grabbed a bunch of what looked like swamp cabbage. When I dug through the leaves and dirt there looked to be what I can only imagine is mycelium (white stringy / feathery fungus). Filled a handful of pots halfway and mulched others. Will be going back tomorrow for more.
Fantastic points and ideas Gardener Scott! I’ve been trying to incorporate some of these concepts into my garden as well- very rewarding! Have a great weekend- Eric
Just a quick point about garlic. I'm a big 'experimental' gardener. I like to stick random things in the ground and see what happens. I have a hugelkultur bed, though smaller than yours, about 4x4'. My wife always buys these 'pre-peeled garlic cloves' in a bag for eating. Since they're peeled, they tend to go moldy before we eat them all. I took about half of them, stuck them in the ground. I thought, they sprout in the fridge, they might sprout here. Worst case, I've buried some organic material for the next thing I plant to use. Every single clove sprouted, and they're all healthy looking and getting almost as tall as yours here, despite it still being a few days until our average last frost date. Same with potatoes. I've often stuck eating potatoes in the soil once they start to go soft. Loads of plants and potatoes come the fall. It's a huge contrast to the prices garden centers are asking for 'seed potatoes' and such.
Thanks, always enjoy your videos. Seems like it does take some money or resources to garden. You need tools at the least. Also, in macro the world created soil all across the US from the herds of buffalo and other herbivores that doesn't really work without fertilizers in the small scale. I have 7 cherry trees in a very small backyard, and this year not a single cherry because of the birds and squirrels that ate them all. I'd love to learn how to put a net or cage over my fruit trees, just watching my trees flower and getting from them is getting old.
I live in a small farming community in Oklahoma. I could not find one strawberry plant anywhere with 60 miles of me this year. My strawberry bed collapsed two years ago and I didn’t save any. It’s frustrating. I haven’t grown them from seed successfully.
Hi Scott, I have a question about stinging nettle. Can I dig some up and transplant it? I have some that grows wild in the forest near my home. When would be the best time to dig it up and transplant it? Thanks
MG Scott, I should have asked this during Monday’s live event but I had a question on comfrey. A few years ago I listened to your video on growing comfrey and then ordered comfrey roots. Last year, the (plant) leaves grew like crazy. This year, the plant is still growing but differently. It has a lot of flowers. Is there anything that I should be doing at this point or is this just for the natural process? Finally, is there a particular good time of year to dig down to the roots and take cuttings to propagate in other locations? I would presume it would be in the late fall early winter. Thank you as always. Next I will start stinging nettles from seed.
High heat, wind, or other weird weather can stress the plant and it will flower early. You can cut the flowers off. Springs is a good time to pot up root cuttings. They'll grow soon after and the potted plant should be big enough in fall to put in the garden.
@@GardenerScott thật tuyệt vời,tôi người phụ nữ Việt Nam 43 tuổi tôi rất thích món ăn măng tây, và tôi rất thích trồng măng tây ở Việt Nam khó trồng cây măng tây.
This may sound strange but can you use vitamins dissolved in water as a fertilizer? I had a violet plant and couldn't find any fertilizer for it so I tried putting a vitamin in the water reservoir and the plant took off growing and blooming.
I bought some comfrey seeds and the plant looks completely different from what you have. 🤔😩 its super tall and skinny, small leaves. Thats what I get from ordering from Amazon.
@@GardenerScott il have to go and see. I looked it up and found out they had a seed donation event 2 months ago that I missed. Thank you for all your videos and information!
I get the message but the word free seems a clickbait to me that might not be your intention. Even if you want to build your future garden by collecting free stuff the cost would be you can’t be gardening this year. There is always a cost to something but you can minimize it.
No cost..reduced cost ..
Controlled cost ..
Choose your own comfort level and enjoy your garden.
I have learned and used
Many of the gardening methods from gardener scott and other gardening sites. Thanks to all for sharing these concepts with us. 🙂🙃🙂😉😊
Great refresher tips Gardener Scott! I have been blessed to be gifted garden plants and slips this year from friends and family! Last year a neighbor had just started gardening and I left her a basket of veg plants and flowers I grew from seed! They were very happy and thankful! I am a re-purpose fanatic! Everything I see, I always try to think of how it can be used in the garden! Be blessed
I also started hugelkulture in my raised beds and saved me a ton of money. I did have to buy some soil but not much.
I love this video! One of my favorites so far from Gardener Scott and Gardener Scott is my favorite.
All that money spent on soil and seeds adds up. I'm definitely going to save seeds this year. One of the packets, I bought only had 11 tomato seeds!
Great video. I use all the cardboard and newspaper that comes into the house for mulch. Years ago when we swapped out our bathtub, I turned the bathtub into a planter - tacky I know, but it is one of the best planters (I leave the drain open). It is pretty well camouflaged with perennials around the perimeter. This year I'm using some extra reusable grocery bags as grow bags. Someone gave me some very large plastic tubs and they've been great planters for tomatoes over the years. I agree that gardeners are generous and I have often swapped plants with other gardeners.
Lateral observation: you have such neat little sculptures etc in your space. Do you make this art yourself? It’s cool, regardless. 👍👍🇨🇦❤️
I got my new house with great open lots of gravel about the same time you did Gardener Scott. I was house poor but had lots of muscle and imagination. So I dug out the hardpan by a few inches, and put in local dirt (limestone) mixed with leaves and other vegetable matter I could gather from neighbors and parks. Range friends brought me salt lick buckets from their work. I drilled holes in those and used them for planters. A tree was cut down at the convention center and a friend volunteered her truck to haul the rounds and limbs back here. Landscaping and boarders! And so much other fun stuff became garden soil amendments, boarders or planters. If it's free- It's for me!
This is one of your best videos ever! This is a great beginner video and introduces a lot of other great garden topics in a simple way!
I picked up some heat treated wooden crates that a shipping company was discarding. Perfect raised garden beds!
Budget gardening, a subject I focus on being in my 4th year gar4dening. I do mainly container gardening because of a burred petroleum pipe in my back yard. But I use a lot of free tidy cat buckets from friends who do cat rescue. My whole garden area is wood chipped, with free wood chips from a chip drop. I do have some beds, they are kiddie pools (only food safe plastic) that were rescued out of the trash. I save seeds, make my own compost, and leaf mold. I have invested in some infrastructure like cattle panel trellises and tools, for them I buy quality that will last. I hope to get to free gardening by my 5th or 6th year gardening.
I wish I lived by you. Would love some of those raspberries.
As a total newbie this was so incredibly helpful, thank you!!
This is perfect because I've already set my goal for next year's garden to cost me nothing at all.
After watching your comfrey tea fertilizer video last year I started making my own using rhubarb leaves, weeds and various cuttings. It seemed to work really well and this year I've been doing my own experiment to compare this method vs fish fertilizer. I started to containers of mixed lettuce with the same soil mix and seeds. I've fed one container with the rhubarb/weed tea concoction and the other with the fish fertilizer and so far I've noticed no difference at all in the growth or production between the two. Not the most scientific study but I've learned that leafy greens require more feeding when I am doing the cut and come again method of growing/harvesting. I also found some comfrey starts and started them a few weeks ago. They just popped up this week and are already taking off. Thanks for sharing the knowledge!
One big thing you forgot to mention is worm bins. I am actually starting some native worms in beds, they are a bit different in that they prefer a wetter environment, they scoot when things dry out... less than 50% moisture.
Another great video Gardener Scott.
In larger cities, there are gardening groups that host a seed-swap event a few times a year. Sometimes as part of a seed library event. So there are plenty of places you can seed swap. Moreover, the /r/seedswap subreddit is full of folks that'd be happy to mail you some seeds. Sure, it's not free; it'll cost you a postage stamp. But you can get seeds from anywhere your country allows imports from. I've done this many times between Canada and US. Happy seed-swapping!
I just ordered my free mulch from the power company. When they trim trees away from the power lines they mulch that wood and deliver it in full truck loads for free upon request. I’ve heard a lot of people say negative things like I’ll get termites and I could get poison Ivy from it. It honestly almost made me cancel my order. I’m expanding and trying to be not only thrifty but also try new things. I’ll be using the mulch primarily to get rid of the grass and add to my compost to help it breakdown faster.
I am in the upfront cost gardening as well. Forever home so I want to do it right!
Same.
Same here
Excellent video, much needed these days.
Chives! I found chives growing in my drainage ditch this week. They're about the height of yours here, but they are in huge clusters. I suspect they've been growing there for years. Nobody near me grows them. I think they jumped ship from someone's municipal compost bin that gets wheeled out to the roadside every two weeks. Raccoons sometimes get in them and scatter stuff they don't want.
You can eat the flowers, great way to make a salad look great too.
Thanks for your tips and tricks. We just received 2 of the forever garden raised beds, one of each. The initial cost was a bit but we feel it will be so beneficial for our gardening needs. TFS 👍🌱🥰
Hey Gardener Scott! Hope you got everything covered for this storm coming this weekend. Wish us all luck here in the front range! Happy growing!
Great advice! Giving away seed or plants can really help someone. I am about to share with my neighbors. I love it!
Thank you, Gardener Scott.
Just yesterday at Summit Point Library, WV., there were two free seed notebooks with seeds on the left inside the front door!!!
Excellent video! Just starting with gardening and you gave me a couple ideas. First time I see a video of you 😬😊
That garlic looks terrific!
Seed swaps help you to acquire additional seed varieties, too! Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 5/19/2922
Seeds expire and often they are given away after the expiration date. I have drawers full of those packets. They still germinate.
Low-cost gardening is very rewarding. I enjoy taking something like kudzu (one of the few plants that I don't like) and using it to make my own liquid fertilizer! I also love passing on plants and seeds to new gardeners and friends in my area. Strengthening our gardening community is more and more important these days. Thank you for another wonderful video, Gardener Scott!
Please do a quick video on what to do for a late Spring frost. Here in Colorado we're expecting snow and extended deep cold. What should I do with my one year old fruit trees or perennials?
Covering with sheets, tarps, or plastic sheets can help. Though it's for fall, here's a video that might help: ua-cam.com/video/Y1c4looe6UQ/v-deo.html
i keep seeds from things i buy at the supermarket. buy a punnet of roma tomatoes, i cut a few up and scoop the seeds onto kitchen paper towel. then just plant bits of the paper towel that have seeds stuck to it and i'll get a roma plant.
have done it with cherry tomatoes, pumpkins, and a few other things.
Great video, thanks for sharing these ideas.
I ran out of soil and just collected. 2 full bags of leaves, dirt, rotting tree stuff,and fungus.
All from a foresty part with a mix of big trees right next to a lake. Grabbed a bunch of what looked like swamp cabbage.
When I dug through the leaves and dirt there looked to be what I can only imagine is mycelium (white stringy / feathery fungus). Filled a handful of pots halfway and mulched others.
Will be going back tomorrow for more.
That is a great addition for healthy soil.
Thanks!
Thank you very much!
Fantastic points and ideas Gardener Scott! I’ve been trying to incorporate some of these concepts into my garden as well- very rewarding! Have a great weekend- Eric
Just a quick point about garlic. I'm a big 'experimental' gardener. I like to stick random things in the ground and see what happens. I have a hugelkultur bed, though smaller than yours, about 4x4'. My wife always buys these 'pre-peeled garlic cloves' in a bag for eating. Since they're peeled, they tend to go moldy before we eat them all. I took about half of them, stuck them in the ground. I thought, they sprout in the fridge, they might sprout here. Worst case, I've buried some organic material for the next thing I plant to use. Every single clove sprouted, and they're all healthy looking and getting almost as tall as yours here, despite it still being a few days until our average last frost date. Same with potatoes. I've often stuck eating potatoes in the soil once they start to go soft. Loads of plants and potatoes come the fall. It's a huge contrast to the prices garden centers are asking for 'seed potatoes' and such.
Great way to experiment with garlic and potatoes.
Thanks, always enjoy your videos.
Seems like it does take some money or resources to garden. You need tools at the least.
Also, in macro the world created soil all across the US from the herds of buffalo and other herbivores that doesn't really work without fertilizers in the small scale. I have 7 cherry trees in a very small backyard, and this year not a single cherry because of the birds and squirrels that ate them all. I'd love to learn how to put a net or cage over my fruit trees, just watching my trees flower and getting from them is getting old.
Free and repurposed items are the best gardening tools😀
Nope, not blessed with good soil but very bless with a wonderful family and resources to learn gardening such as this great videos 😁
Good morning
Worth sharing...so, I did. 🌱
Thanks!
I'd like to gave the money invested in fencing at your garden. Even with a full back yard 42" fence, had three deer in backyard!!
I live in a small farming community in Oklahoma. I could not find one strawberry plant anywhere with 60 miles of me this year. My strawberry bed collapsed two years ago and I didn’t save any. It’s frustrating. I haven’t grown them from seed successfully.
Thank You
Mint is better than grass, I've accepted it.
Very good video as always. BTW I like your garlic, mine doesn't look that good.
💨💨👍👍
Thanks....once again !
How is the water situation in Colorado? Any plans to collect rainwater?
We are limited in how much we can collect and the drought situation is not good.
Chúc bạn ngày mới vui vẻ và nhiều sức khỏe và may mắn.
Gard: Scott. Can you eat the bulb part of society garlic? I know you can eat the stems and the flowers right?
It's not a garlic, but is related to onions. The rhizome, leaves and flowers are edible.
Hi Scott, I have a question about stinging nettle. Can I dig some up and transplant it? I have some that grows wild in the forest near my home. When would be the best time to dig it up and transplant it? Thanks
Yes, you can transplant it. Definitely wear gloves. Spring is a good time as they send up new growth.
MG Scott, I should have asked this during Monday’s live event but I had a question on comfrey. A few years ago I listened to your video on growing comfrey and then ordered comfrey roots. Last year, the (plant) leaves grew like crazy. This year, the plant is still growing but differently. It has a lot of flowers. Is there anything that I should be doing at this point or is this just for the natural process? Finally, is there a particular good time of year to dig down to the roots and take cuttings to propagate in other locations? I would presume it would be in the late fall early winter. Thank you as always. Next I will start stinging nettles from seed.
High heat, wind, or other weird weather can stress the plant and it will flower early. You can cut the flowers off. Springs is a good time to pot up root cuttings. They'll grow soon after and the potted plant should be big enough in fall to put in the garden.
What’s the best time to propagate raspberry cuttings or ones you dig,?
Early spring is usually a good time.
@@GardenerScott thank you sir !
If you spray your blue grass how long would you have to wait before you could it for compost?
It depends on what you spray it with. For herbicides, check the half-life of the chemicals.
Tôi đã nhìn thấy cây măng tây bạn trồng trong vườn có phải không?
Đúng. Cây măng tây hiện đang phát triển cao.
@@GardenerScott thật tuyệt vời,tôi người phụ nữ Việt Nam 43 tuổi tôi rất thích món ăn măng tây, và tôi rất thích trồng măng tây ở Việt Nam khó trồng cây măng tây.
This may sound strange but can you use vitamins dissolved in water as a fertilizer? I had a violet plant and couldn't find any fertilizer for it so I tried putting a vitamin in the water reservoir and the plant took off growing and blooming.
Maybe. Generally they're made for human consumption and it depends on the vitamin and how it was made. Some synthetic B-1 can harm small roots.
I bought some comfrey seeds and the plant looks completely different from what you have. 🤔😩 its super tall and skinny, small leaves. Thats what I get from ordering from Amazon.
People donate seed to the library?
Yes, if the library has a seed section.
@@GardenerScott il have to go and see. I looked it up and found out they had a seed donation event 2 months ago that I missed. Thank you for all your videos and information!
How much to hook me up with comfrey?
You can get them at survivalgardenseeds.com
? Speaking of checking seeds out from the library. How do you return them? 😁😂😂😂
Similar to a book. You bring the new seeds back for the next year.
commercials are off the charts :D
💪😎🇺🇲
I get the message but the word free seems a clickbait to me that might not be your intention. Even if you want to build your future garden by collecting free stuff the cost would be you can’t be gardening this year. There is always a cost to something but you can minimize it.