Five Tips for New Gardeners | At Home With P. Allen Smith

New to gardening and need some direction? Today, Allen's got five great tips on common mistakes to avoid, so you can get the most enjoyment out of your garden!

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[ShedsdirectCoUk]

To be patient and perseverant are the best positive factors that a garden beginner must have! This very exciting tips are a big help indeed. Just continue sharing your knowledge. Thank you! 

[PAllenSmith]

"Tip Six" mentioned below is a good one- patience! You'll get there.

[gardenshedkent]

Basically, I found out that it is very necessary to learn these useful steps in growing vegetable garden. Thank you for extending your effort and you really made us learn on this. Just continue doing good deeds! 

[nereidapr]

Patience and learning was your plants like and where they like to be is important. I have strawberries that if I put them in another place they start dying. So I just leave them where they like to live.

[justangvano]

Wow, thanks! I look forward to learning something new.

[aznhmongwink]

I guess you could say I am a new gardener with prior knowledge of what not to do. I feel smart. Thank you!!

[marywatkins]

Walk your garden and check your plants daily. Pay attention to how your plants look and how the soil feels. And use this opportunity to also look for and pull up weeds before they become a bigger issue. Had to learn this the hard way.

[imissmypandacar]

thanks for the tips..really useful to me, oh and yeah your right..start small...i want to try everything..lol..i have neither the space or the knowlege yet.

[FoodswithDeronda]

Thanks for the tomato planting tip...Allen!! I'm planting tomatoes for the first time this year & will be using your advice!! Looking forward to results!! -Deronda :)

[justangvano]

If you have any experience with indoor produce gardening, I would love to see some videos on it. I just moved into an apartment and have very limited space but still want to garden. Any tips would be great. Thanks for the video.

[sandrabeltrao]

Great video, Allen! I am having an existential crisis over some Rose of Sharon 3" bushes I just recently bought and planted here in NJ in late October. Their leaves are withering a little 5 days later but will they survive, and is that normal? Should I have waited to plant them after the frost? Also, as a filmmaker, I think the viewer should always have the pleasure of seeing your blue eyes direct to camera! Cheers! A Wannabe Gardener

[lisarenee]

Thanks for the tips Allen..Also i would love to have a recipe from one if your shows..was something you made with red cabbage and I think your aunts recipe...can ya help me out?

[tammystreib]

how can i get the soil for house plants

[johns]

Bad form Mr Smith....since you were replanting the agave you should have separated the pups from the mother plant. Two reasons....1].it looks better and 2] you get 5/6 new agave plants to pot.

[donnamullins]

Take the baby plants off the agave. More to share.