Do This NOW To Turbocharge Your Container Garden!

In this video, I share everything you need to do to grow an incredible container garden! Growing a container garden successfully is a game of resource management, because container gardens are limited to what you provide them. They cannot survive without us, so we must treat them right. These 5 steps are things you should do now to turbocharge your container garden for the best gardening season ever!

Remember, growing plants in containers is not a natural process. We need to grow container gardens differently than we would grow a garden in soil. I treat my container garden very different than my raised bed garden. When you understand the mindset behind gardening in containers, it makes it a lot easier to achieve fantastic success!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Why Container Gardening Is Different
1:20 Step #1: Weeding
2:32 Step #2: Refreshing
4:08 Step #3: Fertilizing
7:27 Step #4: Composting & Mulching
11:15 Step #5: Watering
15:41 Adventures With Dale

If you have any questions about how to how to grow plants in containers, have questions about growing fruit trees or want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and "how to" garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!

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[TheMillennialGardener]

If you enjoyed this video, please “Like” and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Why Container Gardening Is Different
1:20 Step #1: Weeding
2:32 Step #2: Refreshing
4:08 Step #3: Fertilizing
7:27 Step #4: Composting & Mulching
11:15 Step #5: Watering
15:41 Adventures With Dale

[stevetrivago]

You and James Prigioni are my go to experts… First garden in several years and this time I’m doing research… A lot of it…. I had to narrow it down to a few channels since there’s so many opinions as well as methods . I’m gonna give it my all. Thanks brother..

[theeyesehaveit]

I’ve grown container vegetables x 2 Seasons now and have watched many YouTube “gardeners” for information during that time. This year, I found you here….and let me say you are the best. You are a good presenter: well organized, stay on track, get to the point quickly and give relevant information.

[danielroach]

I live in Durham, NC. I have followed your gardening instructions to the letter. I have done each and everything you said I should do. The result is a garden of such magnificence that I am humbled. My figs and tomatoes are beautiful and loaded with fruit. Everything is. I am honestly grateful. You do a great job and I am a far better gardener because of you. I want to shake your hand and say thank you. Thank you!

[kelliewonch]

You have easily become my favorite garden YouTube channel. I appreciate how straight to the point you are!

[mtaylor]

If you're looking for cheap cedar mulch (In Socal there is little cedar in the ones from home depot/lowes), you can get it much cheaper at walmart in the pet bedding section, it's 5 cubic feet for around $10 and since it's used for lizards and pets it hasn't been treated with anything. The chips are smaller though.

[diannevaldez]

Oh my goodness, what a polite young boy Dale is!! Those crazy eyes when his dad says "ok" is funny!!

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Just love how easily and no nonsense he explains everything. The content here is extremely relevant, no fluff. Really appreciate it. 👍

[debichats]

I always learn so much from you! Thank you for all your educational videos and common sense approach! I’m growing in bags and 2 GreenStalks. I started everything from seed for the first time ever! It got really cool here in central Virginia and everything was stunted……lettuce was only good for micro greens. Things are getting hard to find in the grocery stores so I am planting more beans, tomatoes and other veggies because it’s worrying me that canned items (which I generally hate) aren’t available. I’m learning more from you than the “old time gardeners” and I appreciate all your knowledge! I’m close to 74 years old…..GULP! I’ve never had a successful garden but NOW it’s important to have one!!! I’m growing in 2 GreenStalks and a bunch of bags and praying for plenty to save and store for later. My daughter has NO CLUE about what is going on in the world, and she has 3 kids. So I’m trying to grow enough to feed them too and it’s quite a challenge at my age. Any tips or trips will help me. The recent cool weather in central Virginia stunted all my plants…..didn’t get anything but micro greens from the lettuce. I tore it all out along with the spinach and others. I refuse to give up! Your videos give me hope and that’s what I think we all need now! Thank you…..most sincerely from an old lady in Virginia! I wish I had you as a neighbor! Please keep teaching us! I find your older videos that help me also! God bless you and your family!! ❤

[SistaChic]

Great video! The one thing I like about container gardening is that sometimes we don't have a choice. I am presently living in an apartment with a lovely sunny balcony. Either I don't garden at all (gasp!) or I use containers. It's really amazing how much produce comes from my 6-foot by 4-foot balcony. I use pots but also placed planters vertically to use every single inch of space available to me.

[Frandalicious]

I would love for you to do a fig tree/bush transplant. I’m in Waxhaw NC and these figs have been here since 1955. They have sprawled and I’d love to keep them organized and together.

[deborahc.]

I'm a new subscriber. I just found your channel today and wish I had found it a lot sooner. Great video and information on this subject. Thank you for your hard work that you do.

[shukriyaibrahim]

I am just starting my gardening journey and was blessed to have found your channel. Now I am obsessed with your videos. I take copious notes from every single video. Sleep is a part of history because of the obsession of watching your videos. Thank you, thank you, thank you for truly teaching us actual step by step process. God bless you 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

[teresabrockett]

I learn so much more watching your videos than anyone else. Thank you, sincerely!

[deecooper]

Your fig trees have large healthy trunks 😮
That just amazing to me!! Have a great day. 👵🏻👩‍🌾❣️

[monicarolnickelson]

I don’t think I’ve ever watched a gardening video I didn’t appreciate, but it isn’t a good day without sessions with Tuck and Dale!

[Goldeneyes]

Thank you. This is so clear as what to do with container plants.

[mtaylor]

I live in Long Beach where you only get rain one week a year. If I'm using a drip line and get no real rain, how often should I apply fertilizer to pots? I just watched your 2 min fertilizer video and it's the most helpful fertilizer video I've ever seen.

[JoeBlack]

One thing about setting up drip on containers is that some suck up more water and some suck up less. So the heavy drinkers will either dry up too fast or the slow drinkers will eventually be over watered. I guess you can just close the slow drinkers or hang it outside the pot. Still something that probably should be mentioned for n00bs.
I would also suggest to people to add a couple handfuls of worm castings with the fertilizer, to help break down the fertilizer and add microbial life.

[teresathomley]

Dale looks like a really sweet dog. I bet he loved that dessert. Thanks for the video.👍