After a lady in St Augustine reached into a round clay pot to get her watering hose, she was bitten by a coral snake that was in the pot! After that, my hose goes on the side of the house in a hose hanger. It doesn't hide the hose but these hangers can be decorative garden art. I have had a six-zone irrigation system for the last ten years, better yet.
Copperheads like to rest near the damp area around the water spigot and the garden hose. I intentionally check the area when I get my hose and I keep my garden hose draped on a wrought iron hanger on the side of the house. I am terrified of the hose buckets!
I had sandals on when I was weeding my flower bed earlier this summer. I felt a tickle on my toes and looked down to see a snake slithering over my toes into my lavender bush😳 So I say you are smart wearing boots Linda!
Thank you for watering tips. I have tripped on my water hose, fallen on my nose on a cement patio...didn't break my nose, but blacked both eyes. Everyone thought someone had been mean to me. It was ridiculous...and painful. Prayers over all
My motto has always been ... water their feet , not their head. When you were talking about your new topiary I noticed your old chairs in your neighbors side walkway. I do think this was an intentional gift... hahha. That area was previously an eyesore when you would do your walkabouts. I was wondering if the metal hose gets hot in the high temps. I uses a coil hose in my small garden. And what I did was get one of those shepherds hooks , kind of like the one in your old front garden for your lantern. I am able to just pull the coil off and on when needed, and the hook end holds the sprayer nozzel .
Leaving your hose in direct sunlight is not good on it. But if you do leave it out, remember the water in the hose could be very hot and kill some plants. Thank you Linda for this list.
You’re correct about that! I have a hose on pasture I use to refill horse water buckets in the barn but it’s sooo hot when I pick it up! Solution? Put the setting on jet and aim it at my manure wall, thereby adding moisture and speeding decomposition. The compost doesn’t care if the water is hot. By the time the water is cool, I can refill water buckets and give my mare a cool off shower❤
Your boots are ADORABLE! I’m definitely going to purchase that metal hose great idea on putting it in ground storage 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Nipping instead of cutting back plants in this hot weather 🤦🏽♀️ no way. Your home is BEAUTIFUL ❤️ You’re looking COOL in the heat. You’re teaching/encouraging not being fussy. Thanks for sharing ❤️🙏🏽❤️
You’re garden is looking great for the temps you are having and the pollinator activity is spectacular. Regarding wearing boots in the garden, I always wear some kind of boot or shoe while I am working in the garden. I reserve my sandals for walks only. Too many bites from spiders or ants in the past. 😊
The last triple-digit temperature in Cleveland was in 1988. This week, we may hit 90° for the second time this summer! I have only used a sprinkler once this summer. Hand-watering has otherwise been sufficient. We are about 5" over normal summer rainfall. Everything is very verdant!
EXCELLENT "don'ts" video! Lots of great advice. You have clearly created a pollinator's heaven. It was delightful to see all the butterflies flitting around you. It really was a Snow White moment, lol! It also amazed me that you could look so cool on such a very hot day!
I admire how you look so cool and collected in the brutal heat. Hoping you and Leah do some more clothing episodes, looking forward to fall clothing and styling tips from both of you.
IDEA FOR SHADE ON YOUR FRONT PATIO . . . a Crepe Myrtle tree with white blooms. Here in Tennessee everyone has stopped pruning them into a weeping shape and allowed them to grow as large as they want. We just prune the bottom to keep a single trunk and they grow into enormous blooming shade trees. A big plus is that they grow VERY FAST and I mean VERY VERY FAST. The leaves are brilliant in the fall and as the tree ages the bark gets more and more lovely for winter interest. I don't think I have seen a Crepe Myrtle in any of the youtube garden channels I watch. After the 1960's fad when every yard had one people became tired of them and grew a little "snobish" about how common they are. People loved them when they first got one then they started neglecting them and you can't do that to a Crepe Myrtle. They get so many shoots growing at the base that they start to look unsightly. But here in Tennesse people have abandoned the trend of pruning them into a weeping form and everyone is embracing them as a huge shade tree that blooms all summer. It is a tree that is too wonderful to abandon. --Sheila McDade, Chattanooga, TN
Linda looks always beautiful gardening ❤. I'm allergic to nature 😂 so when I'm gardening, my body is completely covered... I wear thick sweatpants, long sweaters, thick socks, and lots of mosquito repellant. And no, that is not during winter. Ahhh, the struggles of gardening 😊
You are so right about the temptation to overwater plants in the heat! Zone 8b north Texas with triple digit August and NO RAIN until today 30+ days. I recently learned about deep mulch gardening (Ruth Stout) and between using 4-6” of hay (the Bermuda hay my horses rejected). My mostly native plants are looking perky again! By the way, I’m in a rural area so no sprinklers except what I’ve “McGyver’d” with soaker hoses and hose timers. Regular water vs me trying to water every day has my garden looking much healthier. The salvias, grasses and blue mist laugh at triple digits and look beautiful. I’ll be planting more…..buy did I go on! Thanks for your beautiful video!
I’m in zone 8a on the coast of Virginia and I wear boots in my gardens EVERY day! Yes, it is very hot and humid where I live. Depending on what gardening chores I am doing, I wear both tall and low boots. I don’t think any serious gardener is doing any significant work wearing flip flops or tennis shoes!
I just love the idea of putting a pot in the ground for the hose. I'm going to do just that, also I have that hose and just love it. Alice in middle of Illinois.
I told friends about this hose after I bought one. I now know 10 people that have bought it and love it just as much as I do. It also coils into a very small area when you put it away.
Linda, I ve watched a short news update about Lahaina, Maui. There was a multiple trunk tree near the Courthouse in Lahaina. A 147 year old banyan tree. They do attepts to keep the damaged tree alive. Watering, adding extra oxigen to the roots and injections. I hope it will survive. I Hiroshima burned Gingko trees came back to life.
You go girl! I also love wearing my short Barbour boots in the garden, especially if I’m watering the garden. In zone 5B it’s 93 today, all I can bring myself to do is take a few pics of my flowers in bloom and watch you! Thank you, Anne in Illinois.
Brand new garden, anyone just watching the channel for the first time, must be thinking...."BRAND NEW". It's just amazing what it looks like already. If my mom was still with us, and we lived close, I'm on the shore in Maryland...well knowing her, she'd be happy to ride an hr to see this garden come together. I don't if this counts for hose wrangling, many yrs ago Martha Stewart showed using copper pipe with caps to help keep the hose going around corners, not across flowers. I did that and it works great, plus they've a nice patina over the yrs.
I took your recommendation and bought this hose and it has been nothing short of life-changing. No more wrangling a very long, very heavy, very kinked up monster in the heat of a Texas summer. Why did I wait so long? Thanks very much, Linda. ~ Lisa
Hi Linda! I am in the middle of watching this video and you may address this in the coming minutes, but I was wondering if you had drilled any drain holes in the bottom of your hose bucket so any rainwater falling into it would drain out. Just a thought. 😊
Have you ever used a deep root waterer, it is a long wand with a sprayer at the end you push deep in the ground to water the plant at it’s roots. I know it is fully watered when water seeps upward.
Great tips and glad to you told us the reason behind them. We've been extremely fortunate in the mid Atlantic to have not experienced the extreme heat so I have been doing some cutting back, prunning and fertilizing. Your garden still looks amazing despite 100 plus days for weeks. Knowing where you garden is good advice.
Thanks for this video!! I needed to hear all these garden "don'ts". Hear in northern Illinois we are to have a HOT week. Some temps over 100 degree mark, which has been unusual the past 20 yrs.
I cant get those short boots soon enough!!! You mentioned some reasons for them my reasons are fire ants and snakes here in Wilmington,NC. I enjoy watching your informative and entertaining vlogs. Thank
I keep my hose wrapped around a re-purposed tire rim below the faucet. I've had it for about 15 years now and works fine for when the hose isn't in use. The faucet is on the back corner of the house so it's out of sight but very useful.
Hello , if you keep your hose in that planter up front , I’m sure you have thought to make a drainage hole so water doesn’t fill up from rain or sprinklers. It will attract mosquitoes. Just saying….
You showed Superthrive in your discussion about not fertilizing the garden in the heat of August. As per the company that makes it "SUPERthrive Vitamin Solution is not a fertilizer" - I think it is an important distinction to make.
Yes, I agree. It is a vitamin supplement great for using on plants that are stressed. I too use it this time of year. I just didn't want people to be confused about it's use and that it is not a fertilizer.@@traceyreina9501
¨Thank you for your service¨ . . . you crack me up Linda! My sanity was restored with the purchase of a HOSELINK. My frustration level dealing with non kinking hoses that always kinked was 98% aleviated with the hose real. I have 2 brands, Hoselink is a superior brand and quality.
Two of my unusual HOSE WRANGLING methods: I have a hose that has a large diameter and thus puts out a large spray that reaches further. I call it my fire hose! I can stand on my elevated front porch which is in the shade and water everything in my yard . . . ferns and acuba bushes against the house in the shade and four trees that are new to my garden. As for my back garden I have a powerwasher that my husband gave me for my birthday this year and I discovered it is great for spraying a mist over the entire garden to cool it down. Linda, you have amazed me by how fast you pulled your garden together and how closely it resembles your other garden that we all loved so much. Thanks for the videos! --Sheila McDade in Chattanooga, TN
I like the idea of keeping the hose bin lower into the earth. Will you need to have a cover when it rains? Maybe a small garbage lid? This would keep it shaded when it’s not raining too so the water in the hose isn’t hot on sunny days.
I love the hose pot in the ground idea! I would gat a container that had a lid and notch it out to accommodate the hose where it comes into the pot. That will prevent snakes, rodents and rain and will also keep the sun off the hose. The whole idea is great! 👏🇨🇦
Thanks for the tips ! I always learn a lot from you and just recommended your RU-vid channel to my best high school friend who is also a gardener ……we graduated in 1961 !! 🌿🪴🌱🌿🪴🌱
Water hose tip: I use the Gardena Retractable Hose Reel, which comes with a metal spike that you pound into the ground and slip the hose reel unit onto the spike. Easy installation and no attaching to the house. I have three installed around my garden.
I purchased two of these hoses one for my front and one for my back porch. They are so light weight and collapses. Regular hoses are cumbersome and take up a lot of space. I now water all my plants around my porches from the porch. Thank you Linda! Great tips.
I ordered this hose because of your recommendation. It is a game changer!. I place it in one of the baskets you sold on QVC and it has worked out well!! I was going to buy a hose pot, but they were so expensive, and I like the basket better. They drain and stay put when I pull out the hose to use.
I have loved a new hose metal stand that sticks in the ground from Lowes. I also connect a nylon 100’ hose w/ wand to easily pull around my patio pots and garden. Its connected to my heavy rubber hose.
My definite tip for wrangling my hide has been to go with retractable hoses! The Hoselink is for sure the best, but the Giraffes are great in my garden too. I have each attached to posts rather than to my house and it works wonderfully!
We purchased 3 of those hoses and love them. They glide over anything. They are so lightweight. The ones I got from QVC a couple years ago were too heavy and I returned them.
Oh wow. Thanks for the advice. I have fertilized this time of year, but I won’t anymore. Also, I have metal hoses all over my garden and I love them. Great idea setting the hose wrangler in the ground👍
I use a hook on my fence to hang my hose. The hook was meant to hold up a wide flower pot (like a window box) but it’s perfect for the Silver Bullet hose! I also make sure I drain the hose before hanging it up because it’s easier to hang that way and then I don’t have hot water in the hose next time I use it.
I think putting the pot in the ground would result in critters like lizards or small frogs getting in and not being able to get out. I have had problems w that in the past when I put out decorative pots or even just my work buckets.
I have 2 hoselink retractable hoses and installed them onto a pipe we cemented into the ground. Angles aren't an issue for us with that. I love them! Also, I do have a fabric hose and store it in a large glazed ceramic pot, so it's pretty as well as useful. Hope that helps some people. 😊
Pollinators please! Someday when maybe you don’t film it would be great if Stewart could spend a little time to film the pollinators and show us what is in your garden. I see so many around you in all your front garden videos, but this was one of the few times they have been discussed. You did not digress at all, they are the cohost of your whole show. They were a major point of you loving gardens. And I am surprised you aren’t surrounded by hummingbirds at this time of year, they love zinnias!
Zone 8 Florida. Ive been soaking my beds forst with water and then adding a water fertilizer to my annuals so the fertilizer doesn't wash away from dry soil. So far having good success.
We purchased 2 Hoselinks this summer. They are lightweight and retractable. Makes watering much easier for this "old" gardener! We water early in the morning and that works well for us in SW MO.
Love this hose. My hubs thought it would be a bad choice but seriously, I won as usual. LOL. He loves it. Not sure in 100 degrees I can be neat and tidy when I'm thru watering tho.I'm going to mention it to my garden club .DEFINITELY wear the boots.
Your outfit and boots are darling! Great tips, Linda 👋 🌿 I also encourage people to water deeply and infrequently before summer hits, which encourages roots to grow deeply & making them more resilient in summer & drought. This however will not usually work for anything recently planted (aka those clearance plants at the nursery) with immature and often stunted root bound roots.
Those little bugs on milkweed are common and will not hurt anything. The little ones will grow and they are orange and black.i have them every year. Went to extension office and they said do not spray them.
I was admiring your cute garden boots the whole time. I have blackberries as a common weed, so foot protection against thorns is a must, as are garden gloves.
Where I live the temps have been in the 100's since mid June. Today it was 107 with a real feel temp of 125. My major don't is to stay out of direct sunlight. If I have to work in a shade free area I use an umbrella. On Tuesday, it's supposed to be only 98. I am looking forward to that!
On the recommendation of my daughter, I just bought a flat rubber hose at Home Depot, and it has made it through the first season very well. With the water turned off, and when I roll it up on the hose reel, it flattens out and the water drains out as I roll it. It doesn't kink, but you have to roll it all out to use the hose effectively. Love it! I always wear shoes or boots and gloves because of fire ants and snakes!!!
Greetings, Mike! We so enjoy all of your videos. We also have a fabulous fig tree, already around 25 ft tall and boy is it productive. We don't know the name of it, but it is always a constant battle with Mother Nature's critters on WHO will be first to snag the ripe ones. Your daughters are fantastic young ladies. You have taught them/are teaching them well. Daughters need good fathers like you. God Bless you and your family.
Linda I have 2 metal hoses that I purchased from QVC, I had mine before Covid and I will always have one, I also have a container that is made to store hoses it has a hole in the side and drainage hole in the bottom, I am going to find some t-shape metal pin to drive into the ground to stabilize my hose containers.
Hi! Helpful and timely tips! I was just getting ready to 20/20/20 my hanging basket. I think I am going to move it and two other South-facing containers to an East-facing location for a couple weeks. The frequent evening showers here in 7a/7b have saved the day several times this season and the water bill. Thank you for highlighting this make-or-break time. An extra splash of water at the base of my hydrangeas now determines whether I have maroon blooms or brown through the fall. Also gonna invest in a retractable hose. Thanks for all the good info!
I am truly envious of your beautiful home and garden Linda .and only wish I could keep my own plant collection in the best of health and protect them from the harshness of not only the weather but also mans use of chemical Weedkillers , which unfortunately people who don't share the same passion in iny neighbourhood are keen to use ..😢 in adjacent gardens .
Love you Linda I’m working on a new yard here in 7b 8a outside huntsville Alabama we are getting extreamly hot weather this week some triple digits or high 90s high humidity will be 115 some days I just stopped working on it til it cools off but maintain it yess stay safe Mike oconnor❤
I bought a large plastic planter at Sams Club and drilled a large hole on the side. I can then thread my hose from the faucet which makes it lay down easier
I have a large heavy rubber hose, doesn't kink much at all, but at 150 ft, it weighs a TON to drag around. Hope to one day have the plumbing done outside, but for now my husband helps me wrangle it around!
