All Great Gardeners Have ONE Thing In Common… 

That’s100% how we learn! We forget this as adults, but as children the world is full of failed experiments that we’re constantly learning from! Haha, so true - and houseplants are very deceiving - they seem like they should be easier because they’re all packaged up but in my experience they’re so much harder to keep alive than plants in the ground!

It's pretty amazing how fast they move in! There are some interesting methods to kill off the seed bank that I've been considering for larger plantings like a meadow - been curious to try them but a little afraid that the weeds will outsmart me (again)! 😅 Thank you, and thank you for watching! 💓

I’m pretty new and still getting my sea legs, but having fun doing it! Thank you so much, means a lot - truly! 🥹💓

Thank you so much! And thanks for watching! 💓

😂 Totally! It is hard to be patient but the pay off is grand! I felt this extra when I saw the price of one of my big hostas at the garden center - almost $30! I divided it earlier this year and was feeling good to have saved the money!

Haha, my husband thought he’d killed them and felt so bad - I added that bit into the video partly for his emotional healing 😂 But they’re fine! 😅

It’s amazing what some plants can survive! 😅 Sound advice!! Minimize disturbance is a hard one, but you’re totally right! I feel like even just weeding is often enough disturbance to cause an influx of weeds!

@@gardenforbirds In my main flowerbed I stopped pulling weeds because I figured it loosened the soil. Instead I cut the weed off at the base and pile mulch over it. That bed has very little weed pressure so it seems to work (or maybe the thick layer of mulch overall should get the credit, I don’t know).

👀 Aha! I’ll definitely give that a try!

Haha, love it! That’s great advice, I definitely threw these little babies to the wolves! I had decent luck planting directly in the past, but this particular soil is compacted and has a lot of granite from when they added the pad for the shed to sit on! I think you’re right that some more time in friendlier soil could have helped!

Haha, I forgot about that one! 😅

Thanks so much for watching!

Haha, working diligently on the next one! It's definitely slow going, but I work about 9 nights out of 10 to try to keep things moving! Interesting - my bamboo didn't rot so far, but it is getting sun-damaged and brittle. And it is otherwise proving somewhat useless against my hungry groundhog friend, so I had to switch to something sturdier that I could drive further into the ground. Hopefully when these plants are more established, they'll be able to hold their own against all the mammals - we'll see!