There's two ways to garden, One which seems to be your way, is very meticulous and specific. You spend quite a bit of money to maintain your garden as a hobby. It's not a wrong way to do it, I can see the appeal getting really healthy and perfect plants, but I feel like gardening should be about saving money for me. Gardening in a way where you're spending the least that you need to, to maintain. Compost and care, vs fertilizer and soil ammendments.
In spring I'll start for the first time a garden. I find this type of gardening maddening. Buying so many things wrapped in plastic just to grow some vegetables seems completely unsustainable. I don't want perfect looking onions or peppers.
@@louisdepointedulac3072 Never seen an issue with some fertilizer. It's cheap and abundant. Check your local liquid fertilizer suppliers and you can get 10 years supply for like less than 40 bucks. But as soon as you start adding all these other fancy things in, it really starts adding up. I've legit used the same soil with some compost and grass clippings for 7 years now and I still grow hundreds of pounds of tomatoes each year. I'll fertilize a bit, but that's it. They're all in raised beds. I don't do anything else to them aside from some fertilizer every 3 weeks or so.
How can I stop slugs eating 😫 my chili peppers 🌶 plants I am leaving in Washington State and having so much rain and I am just being garden for my retirement 🙃 Please Help thank you so much!!!
I live in Washington state and I don't have that problem. I have planted both in ground and in pots,however I like to target slugs with small cups of cheap beer amongst my plants and surround the area outside of my beds or pots with basic slugs and snail killer but not directly on my plants or soil. This should help.
I'm using the fish emulsion 5-1-1 for the first time and I agree it is magical. My peppers are actually fruiting already here in TN and so I switched to a mix of the 0-10-10 fish emulsion along with the 5-1-1. Mixing 2:1. Seems to work. I also do a Epson salt watering treatment on the leaves after they start to blossom. I realize that some say this doesn't work but last year it did help keep the leaves green over the season...
I used a folier fish emulsion last year, I had extra so used some on my roses. Not only did the roses bloom beautifully, but the deer didn't try to eat the leaves, or blossoms. Worked well for the rest of the plants, too.
Fish emulsion is magic! Where I used to live in NJ growing up, we always sprayed stinky stuff to keep the deer off. I guess they have very sensitive noses. It's good to hear the stinky fish kept them away.
I feel your pain. We were falling into the mid-30's an entire month after our average last frost and 3 weeks past our 90% frost date. Luckily, we never had a ground frost. These winters have been dragging on later and later the past several years. I'm hoping the trend reverses and we get a few early springs to break even soon!
I saved the shrimp shell and eggshell from my kitchen waste for my plants . It's free. Also, I saved shrimp stock for my soup or noodle. Thanks for your tips
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Hey I’m not sure about that watering can but all of my watering cans hold 2 gallons of water. I also use 1/2 strength miracle gro but no need to add a partial scoop of using a full watering can. (Also it could be that you can is smaller, it’s just that I also thought mine were 1 gallon until I tested it)
@@dawnsharples1920 I do not recommend using 10-10-10 pellets, ever. They are poorly made and tend to shed the nitrogen immediately. For a slow release fertilizer, I only recommend organic fertilizers, because they will feed the microbiome and improve your soil overtime. If you need to boost your plants with synthesized fertilizers, I recommend using the soluble crystals, because they're immediately bioavailable. You'll never see me use 10-10-10 pellets.
@@finesseemfishing2631 different watering cans will be different sizes. You'll have to read the bottom of the can to find the amount. Different brands of soluble fertilizers will have different recommended dosages. Always read the package for the proper concentration.
My hubby & son love to go fishing. I bury my plants in the spring with fish heads & tails in the hole & water with banana peel tea. I add compost in a few weeks after I see growth. If growth is stunted because of shock or weather I make Willow tea (willow cuttings/ branches soaked in warm water for two days). I finsh with straw mulch and water once a week if no rain or twice a week if above 90°.
I won't touch chelated chems. The video is great by the way, but why go through all the work staying organic just to ruin it with chems. If I remember correctly you can drive away mycorrhizae if there is too much potassium (could be phosphorus, from Jeff Lowenfel's books). Chems just put more in the soil than the plants can use at once, and this can create an imbalance with microbe symbiosis, along with run-off into the water table. Big agriculture is why we have algae blooms and fish die offs in some areas too. The nitrogen is too water soluble. I like teas, and making fertilizer stakes withe a half inch dowel. Jus push the stick into the soil and fill it up with your dry organic fertilizer. This actually works great for many reasons. Thanks for the video.
If you mix the miracle grow with all those organic fertilizers doesn't that defeat the purpose? I thought fertilizers that aren't organic have lots of salts that kill the microbes and all the things you are promoting with everything else you are doing. Let me know if I'm wrong as that's my understanding.
You can do either. It was really just for a good video shot. Both are fine. The bone meal is inert in its condition right out of the bag. It’ll take awhile to break down, so however you apply it is fine as long as you work it into the soil to break down. Don’t just dump it on top of the soil.
Great work! I have an onion cluster that was native when I bought my new house. It is unfortunately mixed with a particularly nasty local invasive species. Since watching your video I will bee uprooting the whole cluster and intermixing them with my peppers for pest control. hopefully they arent too mad at me for completely uprooting them in a short Canadian growing season.
This is my first year gardening. It makes me nervous to use so many fertilizers. Is it necessary to use so many types at one time? Cant using too much cause issues as well? I have used a small amount of compost, mulch and a good soil. I also added a small scoop of Vigro time released tomato and vegetable fertilizer. Should I still add the bone meal, fish fertilizer, etc?
It's not a lot of fertilizer at all. When you actually do the math, you're talking about using a tablespoon's worth of fertilizer per plant over a season. It's hardly any. The truth is that the vegetables we grow today are not products of natural evolution. They are the product of generations of seed-saving and selective breeding by humans, and these plants in no way resemble their old wild ancestors. Nature breeds plants to have high seed content and low sugar content, because that leads to more reproduction and more pest resistance. Humans breed plants for low seed content and high sugar production, which makes them magnets for pests and diseases, because we preserve and proliferate the recessive genes. If you want these plants to do well, you need to care for them, because they're not sustainable on their own. You'll never find nice, neat rows of these selectively bred plants thriving in nature. They require more food and pest control than soil and nature can provide in many cases.
@@TheMillennialGardener Thank you for your very knowledgeable and in depth answer. Definitely make sense now. I will give them all of those goodies you suggested. Thank you!!!
@canadiangemstones7636 matches are made up of potassium and phosphorus Phosphorus is good for root development, and potassium is good for the vascular system of plants.
New to your videos and really enjoying them. I’ve just got my first bottle of fish emulsion and looking forward to trying it. I’ve totally stopped using any inorganic products as my soil microbiology was very poor. Do you use a lot of them?
my bell peppers always seem to produce better as we get closer to fall. I noticed that yellow bag of promix in the background. just started using it too and love it so far.
@@lisakukla459 probably because Bell peppers are longer season than a lot of other smaller peppers, and it takes some time to recover from being pruned
@@jonking7345 Interesting. I've always pinched them and had good results. Of course, I do it when it's still a seedling under the grow light; Like 3-4 nodes. It doesn't feel like such a setback when you're not chopping a big plant in half. But even the ones I purchase get topped if they're not doing side shoots when I get them. 🤷🏼♀️ Idk, something I learned early on and have never heard not to. If you don't, it could be a foot tall before it decides to branch, and you'd get cheated out of so much production.
I don't think I have 6 hours of full sun. The way my house and trees are arranged, I might get 5 hours. I'm in central Illinois. I do have a long growing season, though.
It's probably $20 worth of products, maybe? And it'll last awhile depending on the size of your garden. These items aren't particularly expensive, especially when you buy them on clearance in the fall when they're clearing out the shelves. My methods are all about optimization. Fruiting plants give what gets put into them, and giving them ample food gives you more food in return, so it pays for itself.
@@TheMillennialGardener Makes sense - sometimes my plants struggle with just homemade compost and some store bought organic fertilizer at planting time. It's good to know what other people are having success with. Do you test your soil before you apply all this - or is it generally what pepper plants like regardless of what you are starting with?
I wanna warn of over fertilizing. Not to YOU sir. You have Clay Sand Soil so Nitrogen is needed. But here in Washington even though our soil is mostly clay as well - there's enough Peat and mulch on top there's usually ENOUGH nitrogen already if it's not super grey or clay lookin on top. So throw nitrogen on clay and sand and all that - and put more other stuff on the Peat Mulchy soil
It's very easy to tell when nitrogen is needed and when you're getting too much nitrogen. If nitrogen content is too high, the leaves will be an excessively deep green. If that's the case, you can back off nitrogen. However, if your leaves are a "normal" shade of green, you clearly are not overfertilizing with nitrogen. If it's a light green, you're probably underfertilizing. As you mentioned, my location requires more fertilizing than most, because my soil is sandy and we get torrential rainfall, which depletes the soil. Gardeners growing in heavier soils retain fertilizers better, so less is usually needed.
You can if you wish, but MiracleGro is only beneficial to your plants when used as directed. All the myths that it somehow harms the plants or soil is completely false. It is only harmful when used “too much,” but “too much” of anything is bad, including sunshine and water. If you don’t want to support the brand, I suggest similar products made by JR Peters/Jack’s or Jobe’s. In reality, I use Jack’s in my garden. I use MiracleGro in the videos, because that’s what the general public can source easily, and I don’t want to tell people to go out and buy 25lb bags of fertilizer 😂
Hello, my name is Sharon zone 5B Indiana. I’d like to know if I can train my veggie plants to esphalier because I have a small space plus I like the way it looks and the fruit is accessible. thanks.
Because they both do different things. Organic fertilizers don't actually feed your plants. They are inert to your plants at the time of application. Organic fertilizers feed your soil microbiome. The worms, bacteria and fungi in the soil eat the fertilizers and then excrete them back out. It's the byproducts - the excretions - that your plants can then use. The soil biology has to process them to be usable. Products like MiracleGro are naturally derived fertilizers that are processed by laboratories, so they are immediately bioavailable to your plants. Your plants can begin using the nutrients the second they uptake water from the soil, so the benefits are immediate. Modern vegetables are not products of natural evolution. They are heavily bred through generations of selective breeding and seed-savings. Modern tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, cucumbers and the like do not resemble their native ancestors, and their fruits require dramatically more nutrients than their wild ancestors. You'll also *never* see anything resembling a vegetable garden in nature. These are unnatural fruits grown in unnatural patterns, and they benefit greatly from additional soluble fertilizers. You will get much better production with, literally, no downside. All the bad talk about products like MiracleGro are myths. They are harmless when used as directed and only produce more food for you.
I used bone meal and blood meal. Can you over use it? Lol. You're awesome for these videos!!! I have fly maggots in all of my plants though. I've never had this before. It's in every bucket and pot I have from basil to tomatoes to peppers. I don't know what to do about that. Yuck
I was wondering if I can add crushed oyster shell instead of the other that you recommended for the chiten? I have a big bag of oyster shell for my chickens.
dude you got enough fertilizer for many plants lol in that water can wow and if your MG blue or red is hard throw it away its alrdy lost half of its benefits and will not benefit you like it should just my advise i grow everything from flower to veggies and smokable garden also i use MG with there potting mix in containers and ya small end in a 4 litre can of water every week and your good for inside plants unless they are under lights then they might need more or less depending on what your growing i found my pepper plants dont like MG at all so it just gets the mixxed up compost and what not outside just my opinion like the vids and happy 420
I have 3 plant peppers in this summer but and till now in june no ☀️ shows in uk and 17 tomato 🍅 they grow well but im worrying will that give hervest becouse is not ☀️
I assume that's for sulfur? If so, epsom salts do the same thing. If you need a soil acidifier since nightshades love mildly acidic soil, I recommend purchasing some natural sulfur prills if you need to acidify soil a little bit.
I think it's ridiculously overpriced. I can get locally made stuff for less than half the price. Also, because it's a national brand, I also find they often rush it out too soon. You'll get that stench, because the compost isn't finished yet. The best thing is always to get locally made stuff if you can. My local Lowes stores have contracts with a place in-town called Seaside Mulch, so I get the locally made stuff for
You'd be better off with mycorrhizae than the miracle grow crap. Worm castings would be a huge improvement. And Recharge would crank up the microbial life. I don't use chemicals.
No. Soluble fertilizers are not synthetic. That is a misnomer. They are "synthesized" - processed in a laboratory, but out of natural ingredients. You'd be shocked how many things you eat every day are synthesized. They will not harm your soil microbes when used as directed, meaning use the proper concentration at the proper intervals. To put things in perspective, it takes 2 watering cans to fertilize my entire raised garden bed at a frequency of every other week. Applying it on the manufacturer-recommended schedule, that means I'm using a total of 6 tablespoons of fertilizer over the course of one month over 40 square feet. That's not much at all.
@@TheMillennialGardener From Organic Gardening Magazine, July/August 2000 Issue. Miracle-Gro is a synthetic fertilizer that contains ammonium phosphate and several other chemicals that can be toxic to your soil and plants. either way we all grow differently and have diff opinions. I enjoy your videos thank you
You have the one of the best gardening channels on You Tube. Useful information presented in a professional manner. I always learn something from your videos. Thanks.
Try the red bottle of Neptune's Harvest fish fertilizer. You wont go back to just the Alaska fish emulsion as good as it is, the Neptunes fish emulsion is by far a greater product
Very useful and timely recommendations as always. I have adopted much of your advice and boy it is a delight to watch those plants thrive beyond my wildest explanation. For example, we started using Fish emulsion as part of the natural fertilizer/nutrient source last year, and our Okra, eggplants, and peppers were just GIANT sized as well as very healthy until early November as we also live in NC. I never miss your content as they are very informative and actionable for healthy gardening
Make your own fish fertilizer for so much cheaper. Check into FAA (fish amino acid). I bought 20 pounds of fish "chum" from a local fish store, everything left after filleting. Equal parts by weight brown sugar, mix it up, seal it airtight in a five gallon bucket for six months and it's done. After three it can be used but six is best. It ferments anaerobically (air tight) over time and you're left with a great liquid fish fertilizer that doesn't cost $40.00/gallon. I have mine in the kitchen because of winter outside and it doesn't stink one bit, it'll go out in warmer weather though and the ferment will go quicker. Dilution is about one tbsp/gallon so it goes a really long way. I'll get at least three gallons from a five gallon bucket. I bought 20 pounds of fish parts (heads and all) and added 20 pounds of brown sugar. The sugar draws out all the moisture and the bucket is full of liquid even now. Great stuff.
This will actually deter ppl from gardening. No need for all this guys just get some compost and use that. Find some stones a lot at the bottom of a bucket with holes. Then find some small fine stones to mix wit your soil. This will provide minerals over time
Compost is not fertilizer. Fertilizer is fertilizer. While there are NPK components to compost, it is very weak. Trying to fertilize your garden with compost is the absolute most expensive way to do anything.
What are your thoughts on planting single plants vs. clumping them, with 2-3 plants in the same space? I used to separate my seedlings to get more, but this year (October), I am going to plant them however they come up in the cups; either 2 or 3. On a dense dwarf like a habanada, this would not work, but on bigger varieties like Cubanelles, Big Bertha and Chocolate Beauty, I'm thinking I can get a bigger bang for my buck (space) this way. Feedback?
I grow hot peppers. From my several years experience, multiple plants per container(I use 15 gallon pots, 3 plants per) works very well. I also have 2 sets of habaneros, that grew together in their seed pods, growing next to each other in the ground( 4 plants growing out of what would normally be for 2 single plants). They work out great as well. They really seem to like being planted closely together(companions)...instead of the usual 18" apart spacing. I live in Oregon zone 8b. Cheers!
Since I am vegan, can you please suggest alternative fertilizer. I try to make my own compost. I read calcium and aspirin would help. Thanks and Bless you 🙏
That's good to hear. I generally don't prune pepper plants, except to cut them back mid-summer if they're diseased and need a refresh or if I'm going to overwinter the plant. If it is growing well and the plant is balanced and symmetrical, you don't necessarily need to prune. If it's out of balance and favoring one side to grow, you may want to even it out some.
@@TheMillennialGardener Thank you!!! ♥️ Hopefully it will do well this summer, I grew it from seed from peppers from the store last year and only got a few small peppers, we'll see what happens!
Thanks for sharing this. I love growing and eating peppers, but I rarely harvest more than a few peppers. Miraculaously, this year I bought a Tobasco Pepper plant and it is currently full of little peppers. Is it possible to save my pepper plant? It was difficult to find this little bush, and I'd like to keep it. I have a spot in my kitchen corner where I can bring it and set up a 'grow light'. It would be warm and well lit. Is this okay? Or is there more to saving that pepper plant? Thanks for your suggestions, and thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Love ❤ 😍 your channel, follow religiously. One question, how tall do the Jade cucumbers, and Alpha beit cucumbers grow? Thanks for all you do, coming from a old timer gardener.
Thank you! I appreciate that! The answer to your question will depend on how many runners you let grow. If you don't prune them at all, the cucumbers will probably grow to be around 6-8 feet tall before disease and pests start to kill the vines, at least where I live. Cucumbers can only survive around 3 months in my very oppressive, pest-ridden climate. If you prune your cucumbers so there are limited vines, and you have friendlier weather, they can grow longer. It also depends on how frequently you pick them. If you pick your cucumbers frequently, the plants will live longer. If you let the fruits become large and turn yellow, the vines will believe they've completed their lifecycle and die off.
Can you please do a video about TRIcotyledon pepper seedlings? There is very little info out there about this. I have a few of these babies right now. Mine are carolina reapers. Thanks in advance.
I feel like your using to much fertilizer. You put down bone meal, crab meal and compost. Really all you need. The Alaska and miracle is not needed. Maybe later in the grow but not at the beginning. Just my 2 cents.
Great information as always. Thank you. Can you recommend something else instead of bone meal and fish emulsion? I try not to use animal products. Thanks from Long Beach CA.
Thanks! Just planted several pepper plants! Used the fish fertilizer you recommended and compost. Going to need to get the other items and use them as well!
I don't understand your position. Gardening is an investment. It's like investing for retirement. You get what you put into it. If you don't want to invest, you won't get much of a return.
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This is very good info, especially the part about the crab shells. I've never heard of them before. Thanks for the share. You are awesome. 🦩🌻🌴👍😀🦩🦩🌻🌴👍😀🦩 - Liz
Thank you! I’m glad it was helpful. Meal from crab shells, lobster shells and other crustaceans are awesome for southern gardeners with RKN problems, but they’re so nutritious they’re good for everyone, really!
If it was stored in a cool, dry place, it should last for a really long time. I mean, it's rotten, fermented fish juice, so it was already bad before you bought it 😂
@@TheMillennialGardener Its just more that I tire of wanting good advice but needing to sit through ten (sometimes twenty!) minutes of video for each topic. The tips are good, but imagine someone starting a garden and needing videos like this for each of a dozen different plants for care guides. I have watched a tremendous amount lately, and sometimes I just want something more digestible. I think the same information here, even with context, could be condensed if you wanted to, or perhaps that's not your style. I make long videos myself so I understand it, but maybe there's a place for shorter content
Related to your fig videos Thanks for your very informative videos, I have three of questions and I would appreciate your guidance . How long after the transplanting your figs cuttings do you keep them inside the house ? Are there any steps for taking your fig trees from indoor to outdoor? Do you recommend keeping newly planted fig trees inside the house for a year or two to avoid dormancy And extra growth? Thanks again
I bring my rooted fig cuttings outside as soon as they put on a few true leaves. I acclimate them to sunshine in the winter when it's weaker. It's much easier than acclimating in summer. Once it's time to transplant, they stay outside all day every day. I don't overwinter my figs indoors. They stay outside all year once planted. If you bring them from indoors to outdoors, you will need to acclimate them to sunshine. I have a video on that here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LKCfmqPkstQ.html I'm not sure how to answer your third question. In the case of my fig seedlings that I started in the fall, I had to overwinter them indoors. Any cutting started in spring will have lignified enough that they can tolerate frost and freeze the next winter. I'm in Zone 8, so I don't overwinter figs at all. Whether you'd have to would depend on your zone. Usually, people Zone 7 and colder overwinter them indoors or in a controlled environment.
No, not at all. These herbicides have half-lives of a month or less. If you’re concerned, buy all your manure 30-60 days before use and let it sit out in the rain and sun.
