I fill my terracotta pots with tulips and bury them 3/4 down. Saves space, keeps them safe, and when spring arrives I pull them out and put them wherever I like. Also I find that squirrels are less interested in digging in these buried containers.
wow really surprised you said November + is a great time to transplant. never knew that! always thought the window of transplanting was over by Nov. i'm zone 7b Eastern Long Island. love your videos!
For me November is plant bulbs, cut back things I am not going to leave for winter interest and swap the lawnmower out for the snowblower and then change oil on both and sharpen mower blades for next season. First frost last night for me zone 6, a killing one for sure 26 degrees, cold next few days highs in 40s, then first week of Nov 5 days in the mid 60s. Midwest weather for ya
Using leaves as mulch is a great tip, but they often get swept all over my yard when the wind picks up. My solution has been to use pine straw on top of the leaves, seems to work well to keep them in place. 😎
Great info and good job of trying to talk to other zones' growers. I always wonder why anybody would downvote a video like this, that is entirely correct in details and so very helpful! (I think some people must have very sad and dull lives.) In January I get to put together my garden journal for the year. I'm going all out with washi tape and stickers...lol. You'd think I was 5 and not 65!
Really good list of things to do. I always forget something, and your reviews every month really help me with my list. Thanks again for a great video. 👏🏻💕👏🏻
I love mulch but will not mulch something that requires max chill hours (peonies, siberian irises...) I plant shallow and leave exposed so the soil will freeze.
Monthly checklist is my favorite video on your channel Jim. Our zones are very similar (middle TN) so I feel a lot of what you cover applies. Thanks and hope they continue.
October/November is a really busy month for us, one item we do is wrap our arborvitaes with netting to keep the deer from eating them in the winter. Outside gardening is about done, now a little break.......but next year planning begins. Thanks Jim!
This is the best video for fall gardening and prepping for winter. You brought up so many things I haven't thought of. I think you covered everything. I would like to point out that chickweed is a tasty, healthy green that can be eaten raw or cooked. I never pull it up unless it's to eat it. It is prolific but its not agressive at all and doesn't crowd out other plants.
Thank you thank you for the Direction.. I got a 1/4?acre place in February then the shutdowns.. but I’m ready to prep for next spring.. I will attempt at bulbs.. and shrubs..
Today was my first video watch. Very thorough and informative. You are a keeper. BTW, I’m not far. I live in Elon so your tips will be especially meaningful.
Thanks for the video Jim! I'm having some issues with plants based on zones. I'm in 7a Tulsa OK but my summer heat and humidity is much different than 7a North Carolina for example. Average summer temps are almost 10 degrees hotter in Tulsa. So if I read or hear "this plant is great for full sun in zone 7" I feel like it might not always be true. Wondering if you have any advice on this subject.
We normally mulch and reuse the leaves in our beds. But we have so many large trees in the neighborhood and this year they are all dropping acorns and hickory nuts by the millions! Then when the tropical storm blew through we had a huge mess so we bagged up the first round of cleanup. I am dreading all of the little seedlings from all of the acorns. Not sure what can be done with that. We have a large mulched area so they’re hard to pick up.
That video was so informative, thank you Jim for the information! I have struggled with sharpening my pruning equipment, have you ever done a video on this topic?
Hello Mr Putnam, first time watching you! I have you on silent, my husband is taking a nap 💤 I love the colors and the way you arranged your garden, I'm in Southern California, weather here is getting pretty good now besides the fires around, my soil is rocky, dry and hard, anything I plant dies, what would you recomend? I would love to have a beautiful garden this fall. Thank you in advance.
However, from my experience, there are some things that show fall color in pots that do not show that same beauty in the ground...many times things are "hungry" in a pot and will have great color yet in the ground never show such beauty...Red maples are notorious for this.
Hi Jim. I 💗 Horttube! I am in CHAPEL HILL on a hill and have 7 or 8 huge oaks around our 90 year old home, and every year for over 20 years have blown and raked up all leaves and never use for mulch.....straight to street for leaf-sucking truck, but, i would like to shred them and use for mulch. Can you recommend an electric shredder that is worth purchasing? TY
Thanks for the info on using leaves in the yard. I will run the lawnmower over them as you suggested. My neighbor's oak tree keeps us well supplied in leaves! What's the best fertilizer to use on pansies?
Thanks so much for the information regarding where to find trees in the Raleigh area. I did check with Adcock but they only have the 25 gallon river birch. I need something smaller due to cost. Any thoughts? Thanks as always for all the information you provide.
Would you please address issues with pine trees? What grows well under pine trees? What if pine needles bury plants? Will junipers survive around lots of pine needles? What about grass covered by pine needles?
You don't want grass covered by anything. Personally I mulch pine needles/leaves into the lawn, but I have a good mulching mower. Like he says to do, I don't let anything go to waste, all that chopped up organic matter is free fertilizer, or can be used as mulch elsewhere. If the needles bury plants that are going dormant and dying to the ground, I leave them til spring. Junipers need sun so if they're near pine trees that could be an issue, but pine needles aren't harmful to anything. They don't acidify the soil or cause harm to other plants. Just depends on what you like, a neat and tidy landscape, or a more natural landscape where you don't worry so much about plant debris. I find the latter much easier to maintain.
Hey Jim, I’m in zone 8a, and I installed a row of emerald green Arborvitae (9 of them) in half-whiskey barrels along the top of a retaining wall. I have a very small yard, and they provide some privacy. They are sitting in potting soil that I got from Lowe’s. How do you recommend to care for these, especially in the Summer?
what is the best way to deal with chick weed? Working in the garden yesterday (western NC 6b) and there are millions of seedlings that are most likely chick weed.
Same, I moved to this house in Sept 2017, oodles of acorns. I was expecting that again in 2018 and 2019, I got a few but that is it. This year, the acorns are prolific. I have to hand pick leaves out of my flower and herb beds because a rake or a blower will removed the mulch, sometimes when I am cleaning leaves I feel like I am being assaulted by dropping acorns. I know I am going to have dig out little infant oaks from the beds next spring. They draw squirrels and that amuses my cat.
Hey Jim... Im in zone 8a, and I planted a small Akebia Quinata vine.. either the wind or some animal ate it, and nothing is left except the roots underground and a bit of the stem. Do you think the plant will come back in the Spring or should I replace it?
I don't. I keep mine cool and dry. I store them in a refrigerator if they are in a jar that is moisture proof. The paper packets could definitely absorb moisture. You might put the packets in a ziplock bag, if you want them in the fridge.
