8 GIGANTIC MISTAKES I'd NEVER Make In My Garden Again

If you enjoyed this video, please “Like” and share it to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS here: 0:00 My Experimental Gardening Journey 2:31 Mistake #1: Raised Bed Depth 4:01 Mistake #2: Raised Bed Material 5:12 Mistake #3: Enclosed Garden 7:03 Mistake #4: 4X4 Post Length 8:12 Mistake #5: Asaparagus Problem 9:44 Mistake #6: Banana Problem 12:00 Mistake #7: Permaculture 14:10 Mistake #8: Container Gardening 18:43 Adventures With Dal

bro is a HOA's nightmare. I love it lol

It's not a do-over it's a do better! I love your videos. I've learned so much.

I appreciate your honesty and humility in discussing your mistakes and how you learned from them. Great info!! Good Boy, Dale loving the cantaloupe!!!

First year container grower, here. I can already tell you that if you start out growing anything plant spices first. You're going to keep shopping and foray into gardening, so be basil and chive ready. Second, plant potatoes. They're easy and are THE stepping stone to growing food IMHO. So when things frustrate you as you learn more, at least you have your foundation.

I love my 2 foot raised cinderblock beds with sitting edges in the back yard. They will never need maintenance and I am about to glue down the cap stones with landscaping glue. I built a superstructure around those beds that hold shade cloth at 8 foot up. Consider not putting the wood in the cement but bolt to top with threaded rod and post mount. I had to dismantle my superstructure to get a hour tree removed and was able to in less than 20 minutes. Great for maintenance, very simple. I do like the roof idea. When you get moved down here it rains a LOT! You'll love having that roof, I'm sure! We're in Destin. I used only 4x6s and wouldn't go back to 4x4s. Very sturdy!

So you are telling me I made a mistake by acquiring dozens citrus trees, 2 banana plants, 4 avocado trees for Portland Oregon? Glad to hear that others are making mistakes as well and not some super human who makes no mistakes on Youtube. You made my day. I needed the cheering up. thanks.

One thing I learned this year is the importance of planting things in designated garden beds. I haphazardly planted things in my back yard. Now I have to watch everywhere I step so I don't accidentally kill anything.

We learn by our mistakes, but gardening is a continuing learning experience. I'm 75, been gardening for 10 years and I'm still learning!

This is my third season and you and Tuckers dad have inspired me. I have 68 containers between on the side of my house next to the neighbors property line. Good thing for nice neighbors and no HOA.

One thing I learned later was to put in more flowers and a variety of them. I finally get enough bees and other beneficial insects that I rarely need to deal with insect pest outbreaks. The outbreaks still happen, but tend to be small and momentary.

Yep, 🎉 Jame Prigioni is the man Amazing garden!! Both of you are my favorite garden gurus🎉!!!

More and more I've become a fan of paying a neighborhood kid to do stuff while we are on vacation. They have great rates, and the younger they are (early teens, with no job), the more seriously they seem to take it.

Containers work really well with a drip irrigation system on a timer. You can adjust every dripper to give the right amount of water to that container if you want, and really minimise water waste and nutrient leaching, but even without that, it's really easy to make sure your containers get watered every day on schedule. Bonus, the water is released at the soil surface or even under the mulch, so you don't have to worry about wet leaves developing diseases. Paying a neighbouring teen to come by and check on everything once a day isn't expensive and isn't a burden - just make sure the teen's parents are in favour, and they'll make sure their kid does the job you're paying them for. You're giving a kid a chance to do useful work and get paid for it, and that's a life experience that will do them good for the rest of their life.

Really appreciate your mea culpa about mistakes you have made. I have a ton of them and glad to see someone else is human 😂

Good information! I have a solution for your banana plant problem... plant a hot tub and some tiki torches. Make your newlywed selves a romantic little tropical oasis in that corner. A little pergola... some string lights... a wifi speaker... a floating plank wakway. Then you won't need to go on vacation! I see them for free on marketplace all the time.

One of my favorite videos I've seen you make! I've been gardening for 13 years, and I so look forward to buying a new home in 3 years and starting from scratch so I can take all I've learned and do it bigger, better, and easier from day 1. I plant to start a Youtube channel for my journey. My biggest mistake was making my rows between beds only 2' and my beds only 2'. I'm going to switch to 4' rows and 3' beds. Sooo many other things. Live, learn, grow, and teach others!

95 degrees in So Cal, and my garden is protected by shade cloth due to your videos

Do not be afraid of watering with a timer. I have 9 sprinklers on hoses attached to timers. I can be away for a month at a time and do not worry about the yard and garden not getting watered.

for the sagging shade cloth. Take a telescoping rod or similar pole, afix a closed foam 3 inch ball on the end and use it to push up the center of your shade cloth