9 Beginner Gardening Mistakes to Avoid 😱 ❌

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0:00 - Intro
0:56 - #1: Inconvenient Location
1:42 - #2: Planting in Poor Light
3:09 - #3: Too Far From Water
4:34 - #4: Not Mulching
6:05 - #5: Not Preparing Soil
8:01 - #6: Planting Things You Hate To Eat
9:09 - #7: Planting Too Close Together
10:24 - #8: Planting At The Wrong Time
12:09 - #9: Not Asking For Help

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[Herintruththelies]

Can absolutely confirm the neighborhood gardener. I was on a walk in my neighborhood and I always noticed this one house had perfectly manicured plants in the front yard. One day the old man (80+ with a thick German accent) was outside and he waved and I said "I love your Clematis!". He immediately started talking about where he got them, how old they were, the name of the cultivar... etc. 5 minutes later he had invited me into his back yard and was showing me literally every plant he had and the history of them. His wife brought us tea and we sat there talking about plants for 40-50 minutes.

Nowadays we chat often and he is always asking me what I'm growing and how the plants are doing. He has also suggested several types of things for my various sun levels and even taught me how to properly trim my Azaleas. His name is Benjamin and we are still friends today. I have a bed of Tulips that are, no joke, the largest Tulip plants I have ever seen anywhere in my 43 years. I am always looking at other people's Tulips and they are never anywhere near the size of my monsters. I credit Benjamin and his soil advice.

Anyway, if you get a chance to, try to say hi to anyone in your neighborhood who looks like they know what they're doing when it comes to plants. As Kevin said, they will be thrilled that someone else noticed all their hard work.

[bellebelle]

My plant journey started when a coworker took a cutting off a plant and stuck it in water and it grew roots.
It wowed me so much that I/we now have 5 plants around the office and 9 cuttings being propagated by the window 😅
It’s really brightened up the department and everyone has “their” plant!

[polarperlen]

"You colder climate gardeners have it easier" *Stares permafrostly

[veronicaalejandra]

I lean on your knowledge so intensely that I'm surprised you haven't fallen over yet 😂💖

[udon]

I wish i got into gardening when my grandpa was still alive cause he was definitely an epic gardener. I remember wondering why he was taping branches on the apple tree and 9 years later i learned thats called grafting lol.

[mephitismephitis]

Rather than planting only veggies I like to eat, I decided on plants I wanted to grow and then learned to like them. That’s how I learned to love radishes and asparagus.

[acrehomesteader]

I can't believe I used to raise decent gardens without mulching. But since I discovered using my grass cuttings as mulch, the world got so much simpler!!! :)

[erickcruz]

This is helpful because I am a 13 all most 14 year old gardener that is kind of a beginner!!

[ohio_gardener]

In my 60+ years of gardening, I've learned more from mistakes than from what I did right! :-) “The only source of knowledge is experience.” Albert Einstein

[OhShootKid]

Just wanna say, as a first time gardener--you're gonna make mistakes. Don't let the fear of doing things wrong keep you from starting. If you're having trouble getting started and it feels overwhelming--just put something in the ground and water it. I've had plenty of plants die or fail to produce in my first year, but I've also had lots of little miracles, including sprouted potatoes and onions that became actual crops in my garden with little effort or knowledge! There are no failures, just opportunities to learn something. You'll overwater, underwater, lose plants to disease and insects, and you'll also have amazing things happen that you didn't expect! Try things and learn as you go, nobody gets it all right the first time :)

[jenniallen]

My biggest mistake last year was taking my plants on a open trailer on a freeway when we moved. They did NOT like that. 🤣

[frasercook]

I feel sorry for people not into gardening being with gardeners, we talk and talk about gardening

[katiehemstreet]

I've always studied what I needed to do, then threw that out the window and did whatever I felt like. 🙄 I'm doing way better this year! I've grown a few things in the past, but this year I'm going for epic! 🎉

[lilliangarza]

My husband and I have been gardening for about five years now. In the last three years, we've turned the tiny postage stamp of hard pack dirt in our front yard into something that resembles and forest garden. We had an incredible peach harvest last year, which was wonderful because our peach tree was nothing but a 4' sick with three leaves on it when we got it, but we definitely struggle with annual food crops. We had an ok carrot and radish harvest, and we pulled in a decent amount of blue corn and yellow squash, but our broccoli, kale, pumpkin, tomatoes, peppers, passion fruit, eggplant, cucumbers, strawberries, and blackberries all failed. I think there were others, but I can't remember. Thanks for the tips, Kevin. Hopefully we do even better this year. We need grow lights to start our seeds, as our last frost isn't until early June.

[tobias-holub]

getting a heavy metal test to find out if it‘s funky? Now that‘s what I call the best of both worlds 🤟🏼🕺🏼

[solootromotociclistageneri]

When i see this video, my bad days as a gardener come back to my mind, its horrible. Me of 9 years old was the most revomit gardener, but now (14) im a little bit better
(i think)

[aielle]

I feel personally attacked with this video. 😂. Last year I did EVERYTHING WRONG. Hoping for better results this year with all I’ve learned from Kevin in the last 10 months. 🤞

[charlieparker]

"A plant isn't going to automatically die because it knows it's the wrong season to be planted in"

My Story of Seasons and Stardew Valley crops:

[fignewton]

"There is a certain limit upon which you can cram things in" sounds so poetic at first and then ends on "cram things"

[spiralnapkin]

I legitimately laughed out loud when he said his brother almost threw up eating his cucumbers.