5 Tips How to THIN Out a TON of SEEDLINGS 

Sir, you’re truly inspirational and have saved my life, I went from being an alcoholic to a gardener. Thank you for giving me the knowledge necessary to grow my garden to what it is today. I’ve regained family and happiness and I owe it all to you. Thank you x1,000,000

I just wanted to say, I'm from England and love watching your videos. Your smile and joy is infectious. Thank you

These videos always put me in a better mood. Thank you

So your camera angle is putting the viewer looking down on you which makes it so comfortable. You are a humble man and good company !!!! Shalom

I see your videos with so much green everywhere and such large plants. I have to remind myself you are in the southern hemisphere so I don't get too jealous. Edit: "I was a huge baby" Absolutely hilarious. Cheers from Canada

I’ve been watching lots from Nova Scotia 🇨🇦. You’re videos/light humour are awesome and very helpful...especially in the world we are living in these days. Thanks and stay safe!

You know you're good in the garden when you need a little thinning around the midsection!

Dude I'm loving these top tier dad jokes! Freaking love your videos. We just recently planted salad greens pretty heavily and they all germinated which we did not expect. Perfect timing on your video. Thank you!

Gotta say. Your channel is pumping a TON of great content. Been watching you for months. I binge watch your videos over and over and I even rewatch the ones I’ve seen. You’re my gardening hero!!!

Every year I space out my beet seeds, and when they grow in clusters I think ‘I guess the seeds moved around when I watered.’ Learned something new!

Your the king of dad jokes 😂

This is the most entertaining gardening video I've watched since I started 3 months ago. I was cracking up. You're so funny! 😂😂

Bloody pom here living in Germany. This guy is great. I have learnt so much from him. I would give my right nut just to be able to garden with him

I really appreciate your content, and that friendly, funny and loving energy that beams out of you. 😄

This is excellent, when I started gardening last year I didn't understand "thinning out". Great explanation!

Everyone keeps saying not to transplant carrots, but I started my seeds indoors then transplanted outside and they’re doing great! Lost a few to root rot from a lot of rain about 2 weeks ago, but otherwise great! Despite trying to place the root straight down, some curled a little in the soil so I can’t wait to see what funky shapes of carrot I pull up 😆

My hair has been thinning out in recent years do you have any tips on replacing it? Lol thanks for sharing your knowledge and wisdom

The vegetables in your garden are beautiful. So healthy. I love it!!

Oh my god! I just started my garden recently and all my seeds recently sprouted and they got quite crowded, so this video was timed perfectly :) Thank you for everything you do mate

Hi Mark! I learned to clip the thinnings at the base. The roots remain in the ground, break down and feed the soil. And the remaining plants are undisturbed. (But I don’t use this method for carrots.) Works great for me😊💕🌱🌿

Ohmygod I swear you are the most wholesome and helpful gardening channel on the entire internet!!!!!!! No fluff, no politics, no clickbait, just a regular, wholesome guy teaching about regular, real gardening. I tip my hat to you, Sir!!!

I'm in Melbourne trying my hardest to get winter veg growing in this freezing weather and then I see you in shorts and your garden literally leaping out of the ground. Man, did I pick the wrong state. All my raised beds came after I started watching your videos. I now have 13. All self made and they work a treat. Last summer was my best season ever. Keep up the good work Mark.

Thanks for the video I enjoy watching them and because yours sense of humor and how relaxing they are

I always love your sense of humor, Mark! You've gained so many new subscribers this year. Out of all the gardening channels, yours may be the first to reach 1M (unless there's one I haven't found yet). Excellent work, mate!

Great tips. I shocked my husband after watching your video about eating carrot tops. I've been thinning my carrots out a little each week and gave him one and told him to eat it. His face was priceless when he realized what it was.

Good morning from Yukon, Oklahoma. Have a great day. God Bless.

We need your top tips for being a great bloke and legend like you. Love your channel.

This video has my name all over it! Thanks to you I am now a serial over sower! Love the dad jokes- keep it coming!!! 🤣🤣

Not thinning out was my BIGGEST mistake with my pot garden. Every plant, grew small. No matter what it was. Makes complete sense to me though! I haven't made that mistake this season, thanks to your videos!!! And im growing my first purple basil, because of how much you seem to like growing it! Super excited!

Little side story: I was so big at birth that they had to test me and my mom for diabetes, even though she was sure she wasn't. And we aren't diabetic thankfully, but still, big baby.

This show is what got me hooked on gardening. I live in north Florida and have been experimenting with plants and seeds since. Share share share this page yall. Sharing is caring.

Oregon here. Love your vids and raised beds. Great tips. Thanks.

Hi Mike, I’d like to tell you a story about my experiments.🌱 for almost a year I have been growing these 3 really old heirloom carnival carrot seeds. I started them from seed but the container they were in was too small for them. So I took them out, thought about eating them, then I put them right back in the soil. They started growing again like nothing happened! Next I took the end of a carrot from the store and put it in water. It started growing leaves. It passed away because there was too much moister in my bathroom windowsill (where I was experimenting). I tried it on unpeeled and peeled carrots. They both grew leaves but didn’t last long. I thought I might try that experiment because I traveled to Europe last winter and the Carrots there are the best tasting carrots I have ever eaten. I didn’t take one home though(I didn’t want to get in trouble with customs, I already was worried about the cheese in my luggage).😅 I wanted to see if I could get them to seed because I know they won’t grow roots again(maybe). I do believe they would do better just planted in well watered soil. Then later I took the 3 heirloom carrots out of their container(one white, one purple, one orangish). The white one and the orangish one hadn’t grown(root) but continue to produce leaves. ‘Continues’ meaning, I put them back in the soil again.😅 The purple one had grown a little more on its root though. Then one day recently it got supper hot on my balcony and the orangish one completely wilted. I took it out, cut off all the leafs, replanted it on my lower(shady) balcony AND IT STARED GROWING LEAVES AGAIN!!!🌱🌱🌱😱 I think carrots may be a little more interesting veggies than we all initially might have thought.🤗 P.S. I’ve been taking green onions from the store and growing them in my garden. Just snip and eat until they grown back.🤣 And watermelon compost makes for a sweet and rose-tasting lettuce crop.😎👌🏼

Mark your a wizard in the garden! Learning every day from both your channels. I find myself going back to older video to help recollect what you said about certain fruit... AWESOME ADVICE! Keep getting started Garden wizard!

Sir i am from Argentina, south America and it's really good to hear how to grow and improve the garden, I really love your way to explain, simple and accurate.

Thanks Mark! We learn SO MUCH from you! We recently planted beet, radish and carrot seeds and this video is so helpful right about now! We SO appreciate your straightforward advice and wonderful sense of humor! Tomorrow we'll be ordering a couple of shirts so we can tout our self-sufficiency too!

I love your stuff Mark! this is where we all need to be - growing our own, sharing and trading. Well done!

You are talking about eating babies in front of their mothers! Good thing plants don't understand English! That was excellent information, thanks SSM. How can we find out which leaves are edible? I didn't know that tomato leaves are poisonous!

Never seen a Rugby player playing in the garden ! I guess that means the rest of us blokes ! Absolutely love your channel learning the does and don'ts of everyday gardening !! Best Gary

I really love how with all the info u keep it fun!! Ty I have been using most of what I’ve learned from u with great success. Also congrats on working with the epic gardener!

Learned so much...planted collards and now I have a pot of greens that needs thinning out. Keep up the great work!👌🏾

i don't know how not to not give a thumps after seeing that pun.. good old dad jokes.. well-done keep up the good work

Great info! You’re so fun and inspiring to watch. Thank you for being so cheerful in a time we all need a smile….Now I’m going to get to thinning!

You make me feel good, Mark. You have a lot of innate Life to give. Thank you for sharing your garden and love for food growing with us. Hi to your wife :)

When I thin plants like the lettuce, parsley, tomatoes, or beets, I just cut them off at soil level and let the roots decompose to feed the soil. Then we eat the beet greens, lettuce, or parsley tops that were thinned out.

I hate thinning. It somehow almost feels like plant murder.

I love your attitude, wish more people were more like you. Keep up the good work

I've experimented with not thinning various plants and honestly I'm torn on how necessary it is for some stuff. I did a ton of tomatoes in a small space last year and harvested thousands of tomatoes over the season. I'd be terrified if I thinned them and got even more from stronger plants! This year I planted fewer tomatoes, but I let my corn grow close and my carrots as well. Plan on thinning carrots when they are about as big as yours are.

You are AWSOME their Sir! I’m watching, utilizing your knowledge in applications to my garden, realizing I’m got more than I can utilize on my lot, and sharing out with those that are in need to learn. Great stuff!

G'day Mark. Here's a mad question. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BURY OLD VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS IN THE GARDEN?

Thank you for the tips Mark and thank you for your golden sense of humour. I found myself cracking up way too many times for a gardening video.

This video explains a lot about my beets. Like why they are over crowded and why they transplanted so poorly. The baby greens are so delicious- it was worth the learning curve

Dude, you are the Steve Irwin of gardening. He was basically my hero as a kid, I absolutely love it!

Another great video my garden genius friend and don’t argue you are a genius to me, thank you Mark! Stay safe and God bless you and your family!!

You are such a dag. Love your sense of humour. Thanks for all your wonderful information.

Have always known I was too impatient and rough when thinning out. Even though I hate thinning out I will try to do better.

I like the square foot gardening technique where you just plant the seeds at their final spacing to begin with. You can also save a lot of seeds that way and they can be used for up to five years if you keep them in refrigeration again per the square foot garden system. Of course, having young plants to eat is nice too. You probably know this but beet greens are also edible. They're very good in salads.

I always hated thinning out seedlings until I decided to eat them as I go.😊 Except tomatoes. Didn't know they were toxic. Always enjoy your cheerful attitude and excellent info. Thanks, Pat from southern Indiana USA

Watching your videos is the absolute best. Such a great personality and spot on tips 💯😀

ive learned heaps from you mate, thanks for spreading your knowledge and helping me begin a new hobby, always heart warming to hear the ol “gooday!!” ahaha hope all is well.

Hi...... Mark nice to see you nice growing vegetables I love watching your video I really enjoy, thank you for sharing your video homestead chicken farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐥🐕🌱🐴🎥👍👍👍

Thank you for following your passion for you're taught me how to grow my favorites foods. Will definitely keep you posted on my progress as an amateur grower.

Love your channel. This is my 2nd yr growing veggies in my mini NYC garden. I can always come to your channel for guidance. Thank you 🙂

SOS video we need this it can be a matter of living or dying .need a video on how to collect ( dry let them sit for some time and when it's the time that you should collect them meaning should I let the corn plant die and then get there cob to sow ?)and sow( when how) the seeds from plants . in a famine this will be needed

This year I have grown plants that aren't to grow this time of year. Loving it ,just tell people you are big boned .I a'm 6ft 8 in 340 pounds

from Eugene Oregon we love you you do such a great job we think you should have your own show on tv network

First attempt at growing dwarf sunflowers, and now I’m running out of flower pots for the 3rd time. The seedlings grow so fast they need constant upgrade to larger pots, and I’m planning to give some away to friends with the space to grow them in the ground.

I don't mean to be inappropriate, but you sir need no thinning out. You're dreamy just the way you are. Thank you for so many wonderful videos. I look forward to viewing each one, and I've put many of your tips to use in my garden. Cheers!

Another channel I watch transplants the lettuces that are thinned by scooping under it with a finger then takes half of the top off so the plant focuses on growing roots in the new local. Love the hair cut.

Your videos are always my favorites. Your corny jokes make me actually laugh out loud =) Thank you for taking the time to explain tips and tricks.

That's what I've been doing to my hair for years. At least that's what I keep telling myself. I get a little excited with my planting sometimes so this is a great video. Thanks Mark 👍

People should just watch this channel instead of meditating or going to therapy. Keep up the amazing work!

You need to do a podcast man. We would all love it.

love your channel! very good content and great editing. thank you for the time and effort you put into it.

As usual great content! Thanks to vids like yours and Huw i have started turning my non productive garden into something that can sustain myself and my family going forward. Cheers from South Africa and keep up the vids! Good on ya!

Lol you’re perfect just the way you are! Gorgeous garden too!

Always impressed by the variety of plants you grow.Purple okra, purple corn, varieties of basil... Love it!

My family and I love watching your videos. Very well communicated. Great presence too.

You are such a good man. Blessings to you and yours.

Thank you for all the info and for always making me laugh. You are such a pleasant fellow. We all need a few laughs and to know that there are wonderful people like you in this big ole world. Thanks again from Alabama! PEACE and LOVE to all of you. 💜💜💜💜💜

Thanx so much. Every little trick to the trade adds up to big results over time.

Thank you so much, from North Carolina. I always feel more confident after watching you.

Loving these really informative videos! with two kids been in lockdown for 13 weeks now have veggies and chickens thanks to your vids ,from Wales UK

I love the sort of sneak peeks I get at what I should grow during the winter since I live in the northern hemisphere. Definitely gonna have a massive wall of peas as well!

Your video's are so helpful and pleasant. I have little time for YT but thoroughly enjoy taking the time here. After your video about veg that grow like weeds. I tried pea leaves, turnip and beet baby plants when thinning, and fell in love lol. Ty! I am so thankful about it! I oversowed alot and cannot wait to have baby carrots. 😊

He asked us to thin our fingers out for a big thumbs up 😂 How could I resist?!

Imma start farming

With root vegetables, parsnips like carrots don’t transplant due to their taproots. However, swedes or rutabagas transplant very well ss they don’t have a taproot. ‘Use two hands’: why didn’t I think of that!! Will make thinning carrots so much more effective by anchoring all the surrounding carrots rather than loosening them so they stop growing. Great video thank you.

Mark, your content is superb. As is your veggie set up.

How are you mate? I have to say, I am inspired by your videos! I have a little bit of back yard, with the house on one side, and trees in the neighbors next door the other. I started with a smallish containe garden on one side, now I have expanded it to the containers plus three raised beds (1m x 1.7m each) with latticed back to catch as much sun as possible. The beds and containers (most containers are 750mm x 450mm x 500 mm deep) have all been started with Hugel culture method, and your explanations were a great help with that, thanks mate! The upshot is I'm kind of growing in a cone to catch the avaliable sunlight, with trellis around the edges, tiered containers in the middle. This is my first spring onward season, so I'm looking forward to my crops and learnings this year. Thanks mate, and keep it up. Yours is the only channel I let the ads run so you make maximum income from them.

Good video Mark! Your gardens are beautiful and lush! Thanks for the good tips. Always a pleasure to watch your videos; looks like you've lost weight. Take care.👵😊🌷🌱🍃

Thanks so much for inspiring me to make the most of my tiny garden.

I’m watching your videos every day. I only subscribed this year, so I have a Ton of videos to enjoy a bit each day. Hoping the more I watch, the better I get at gardening - by diffusion lol! Just harvested my first crop of Bok Choy. Thank you Mark!

Very helpful as I had over sown my lettuce and so I thinned and transplanted and now was wondering if I should have.

Thanks for another awesome, soul filling video visit to your garden! 💚

Great advice. I've been doing this with lettuce and kale with great results.

Ah good stuff mate! Thanks for the video. I’ll certainly use this when I start growing next year. I’ve only just moved to my house with land so gonna spend rest of this year doing prep work

Perfect timing and wonderful video, as always!! Thanks!

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. You always share a tip that I learn from. Thanks

I planted my seeds according to the pkg this year and there were a lot of holes. Now I over sow and get to thin and enjoy small veggies. Way better!