10 Things to Do Now to Prepare for Spring Gardening

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We're weeks away from spring, but there's much to do before seed sowing truly commences. Here are ten things that you could be doing now to organize yourself and your supplies and to get a head start on the growing season. Enjoy, and let me know what else you're doing in the comments section.
00:00 Introduction
00:46 Organize Seeds
01:34 Bareroot Plants
02:27 Grow Mushrooms
03:00 Move Perennials
03:31 Wood Chip Paths
04:27 Garden Projects
05:18 Clean Garden Storage
06:07 Clean Tools
07:15 Feed Garden Birds
08:09 Clean the Greenhouse
08:43 Sowing the first seeds of spring
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[@thevoicewithin930]

Tanya, you’re the best 🏆🙂🌱

[@rogerfinch4590]

Hi Tanya, plentiful greens and vegetables sewn plus flowers to help pollinate garden. I feel I've known you all my life. I'm 62 and been gardening since around 7 years of age and made lots of mistakes along the way. I love turning soil and planting and watching what happens hope for a bountiful harvest . Plentiful

[@ufoman4468]

Helloo TLG .Wow already days a getting longer . I love Spring. and all the hopefulness it brings .I wish all gardeners happy sowing and much success.

[@Lovelygreens]

The countdown to spring is ON 😁🙌

[@bradcarby3765]

I live at the opposite end of the planet and I can tell you that 9 of the 10 things I'm doing this month involve immersing myself in water and trying not to die of heat stroke. Nice video though, I might rewatch in 6 months.

[@swarah4477]

Where are you? All my thoughts to you guys

[@Lovelygreens]

@swarah4477 I don't think he's really in serious distress. It's high summer down under 🌞

[@thecunningkrugereffect]

Can I just say the reason I clicked on your video was because you showed your country and zone within the first 3 seconds. Often, it's impossible to find where many gardening channels are filming, which is a huge factor in whether I can apply the information. Yours also happens to be my zone so thank you😊

[@Lovelygreens]

Glad to make that clear! I've just started adding that information in the past few videos.

[@BlessingsfromNorthIdaho]

I was eyeballing your potting bench, lol. I watched that video showing how to make it quite awhile ago and have kept it in the back of my mind to make one. I could do that inside the shop here but all the other projects you mentioned I can’t do yet. We still have a couple of feet of snow on the ground and more to come in the next 3 months. It looks like April where you are living, we are still in the frozen dead of winter. But I’m thinking about the upcoming planting and I’ve been buying seeds, and strawberry plants to be delivered when the time is right. I am excited about my asparagus bed because I will be able to start harvesting from that this year❤. I always enjoy looking at your beautiful gardens. TeresaSue.

[@Lovelygreens]

April will be here before you know it...and who knows? You might have found time to make a potting bench by then :)

[@stevendowden2579]

enjoyable video tanya

[@Lovelygreens]

Thank you 😊

[@rbthegardennannyllc4219]

New to your channel. I loved the comment move them now and when they wake up they won’t even know they have been moved. I’ve been doing a lot of cleaning but you gave me more to put on my list. I didn’t know that about wood chips just taking a rake after it’s composted and put it in the beds. Awesome tip!!!

[@Lovelygreens]

Welcome! Yes, tis the season for cleaning and tidying and getting organized before the madness begins. Bring it on! 😍 And yes - woodchip compost is fab!

[@christineh8714]

Some good ideas here. Thank you, from an almost beginner gardener who has much to learn. Can't do much outside yet as it's so wet here in N.Wales. So off to watch your vid on the dead hedge...intriguing.

[@tractorhyatt7044]

Thanks Tanya! Great prep video. Our winter garden is flourishing here in North Florida. We have kale, purple cauliflower, purple broccoli, komatsuna, rutabaga, a variety of lettuces, and carrots. My wife, who eats much healthier than me, has been enjoying fresh produce grown right in our backyard. Your videos keep us garden motivated. Thank you!

[@Lovelygreens]

Wow, so much homegrown veg right now. You and your wife enjoy! (eat your veggies 😂)

[@barbsmyth2697]

tanya...i totally agree with 'blessings from northidaho'...i too am under 3-4 feet of snow but always enjoy looking at your beautiful garden this time of year...thank you for the list of things we could be doing to get ready...my daughter-in-law uses her spare bedroom as a greenhouse with grow lights and fans mimicking nature...hahaha...as much as mother nature holds us back, we craftily create ways to get by...take good care my friend and thank you again for another great video...

[@charlesbale8376]

Wonderful tips.

[@top-gardening]

We are rooting for you from Korea.

[@SunFlower44453]

Very useful tips

[@dn744]

Yes, it's good to get started. 😊

[@2smallplots]

Thanks for the tips.! .I'm excited to see how my Asparagus crowns that i planted bare root style from Marshalls are going to come through this year. Hope your roses do well this year

[@Lovelygreens]

Thank you 🌹My asparagus are in their second year, too, this year. One more year, and it'll be harvest time!

[@2smallplots]

@@Lovelygreens yes I'm waiting for that !

[@lotfilato3792]

Best wishes.

[@SuperKabookie]

Good tips! Thanks! For the ideas! I need free wood chips!

[@KOLLEKZIYA_FASOLI]

💚💚💚Tanya, thank you very much for the video, I always watch your videos with great interest💚💚💚

[@organicgarden12337]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge, you are a wonderful person.

[@Karincl7]

I have a generous gardener myself going in his second year, can t wait for his blooms. The sowing calender is a great tip, thank you

[@Lovelygreens]

It really does start coming into its own in year two! Mine should hopefully cover the arch by the end of this summer 💚

[@FTFAllotment]

A dead hedge looks very interesting! Maybe we'll try to make one as a wind break!

[@radoscwogrodzie8899]

Awesome video like 😊❤🌺👋

[@becky4393]

Always good information,thanks Tanya 👍

[@apearllady6570]

You have so many lush green plants growing in your garden now! US , east of beautiful cold Lake Michigan here.

[@Lovelygreens]

Yes, it's quite mild here. Enjoy your beautiful winter over there 💚🙂

[@potagermalo]

Coucou Merci pour ce partage A bientôt 😊

[@Lovelygreens]

My pleasure 🙂💚

[@potagermalo]

@@Lovelygreens 😊😉

[@plantpotpeople]

Thank you. Very valuable work.

[@duncanrobinson3200]

Hi Tanya, I tend to keep all that stuff about when to sow in my head (memory) rather than having to write it down (but that is just me). I have sown leek, onion and lettuce seed in one of my unheated allotment greenhouses - but nothing is yet planted or sown on the plot and won't be at least until some time in March and just parsnips then.

[@Lovelygreens]

Experience guides the schedule after a while :) Do you find that some of your leeks bolt some years? A cold snap early on is supposed to trigger that, so I tend to sow my leeks in April now.

[@craigbeas6111]

Super video better than gardeners world 🎉🎉🎉

[@ninemoonplanet]

I have down one thing, Ailsa Craig onions. I want some sweet onions that aren't mostly water without flavour because the ones available here are grown either in greenhouses or hydroponics. Neither make good tasting onions. Seeds, my personal name, sorting, looking through the dates for viability. Oh well, I will try.😅

[@nadinetasmania]

Love your channel Tanya - even if we have the seasons in reverse. Do you grow your basil outside in spring? I have this year and the plants/leaves are small and tough - the ones in my glasshouse are fairing much better despite the heat. A friend grows amazing sweet basil outside in a raised bed - her trick..bubble wrap LOL. Her bed is covered with bubble wrap and this is something I am going to try for a second crop as its now later in the season. Let ya know how I go! Cheers N

[@Lovelygreens]

It's a bit too chilly and windy here for growing basil outdoors. I grow it in the greenhouse or Polycrub, where it's warm and protected. That way, the leaves are soft and aromatic and not small and tough as you've experienced. The bubble wrap idea sounds like a good one! You could also make a sturdier cloche or cold frame to put over the plants.

[@dovinhgarden05]

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[@anenograce9434]

😊

[@simonfarmer7587]

One seed you recommend planting now is Loofah. Does this grow well in UK?

[@Lovelygreens]

Only undercover, as far as I'm aware. Perhaps there are people further south that might be able to get a good harvest outdoors, but here, it's strictly a greenhouse/polytunnel crop.

[@NurtureYourJoy]

Hi 👋🏻 I am new to your channel 😃 I was wondering what is hanging behind you at the start of the video? It looks like a wasps nest Xx Great video 👏🏻💚

[@Lovelygreens]

It is a wasps nest :) I let them live there in 2021 and am keeping the nest as a decoration and future wasp deterrent. Wasps only live one season in the nest and are said to not build nests where they can see existing ones.

[@NurtureYourJoy]

Oh that’s fascinating Xx

[@anenograce9434]

Hi

[@dianearnold1604]

How to revive my hydrangeas that I rooted from cuttings, I brought in for winter and placed in front of window, now they lost leaves and look like they're dying, I live in mid Georgia thanks

[@Lovelygreens]

The leaves on hydrangea cuttings should not die, so I'd guess that they haven't made it. Try again this summer? 💚

[@dianearnold1604]

@@Lovelygreens I kept them in sunlight and watering them, they're coming back thanks

[@greatboniwanker]

Look for slug eggs... can you show us what were looking for (again)?

[@Lovelygreens]

They are small, like polystyrene balls, and a shiny opalescent white. You will usually find them in clusters but I'll occasionally find the odd one on its own.