April Garden Checklist

[@christinachase5419]

"If a plant is not making you happy, sometimes it's just time for that plant to go." Thank you for this! It's nice to hear a pro say it.

[@gw1652]

I love your videos. Gardening is a beautiful and pure thing. It’s the Lord who causes everything to return and bloom. The beauty of the plant reminds me of the goodness of God towards us.

[@ElizabethM824]

Thanks for continuing to do these monthly checklists. They are so helpful!

[@tricia8727]

I second that!

[@SheriShea1]

Exactly 💯

[@christinakatzenstein6412]

I’m enjoying the wealth of knowledge I’m getting from you. Thank you, please keep these going!!!

[@leecorrigan8394]

Lol yes that's why I go to the garden center every week, to make sure I have things that bloom all season... Not because I have a plant buying problem:)

[@dw6363]

I have started ducking out of sight from the plant vendors. They don’t need to know I’m stalking them 🤣

[@passepartoot]

I also maintain a database of the things I planted in the ground. I also keep a 'Dearly Departed' database of plants that I removed or died. This includes the reason they're gone and the year they were shovel-pruned. This helps me avoid repeating a garden mistake. I've been gardening so long, and my brain so addled, I need to rely on these tools to augment my memory. These databases are on my smartphone, so I can whip them out at the garden center before I make a purchase. BTW there are more than several on the "Dearly Departed' list that met their fate becuase they were boring.

[@JimPutnam]

Good ideas!

[@dianehatley691]

I agree, if plants don’t make me happy it’s time for them to go🌸

[@passepartoot]

Ok, I forgot one... I have a spreadsheet for all my flowering plants. I record the date they flower, by year. Yes, I am a plant nerd.

[@learningasigo1269]

@@passepartoot thank you for the tip. I will start doing that!

[@AliciaS57]

Thanks, Jim. Such a helpful video! I appreciate how thorough and knowledgeable you are and that you freely share your gift with us.

[@darh888]

That basket tip is 100% on point. Great tips as always.

[@laura2842]

thank you. love your guidance

[@mburke1211]

Your videos are jam-packed with good info. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.

[@mimimd9652]

Wow! The practical information that you jam into each of your videos is unreal! Sellers sell us their products, but they don't tell us what to do with them once we get them in our gardens - you do and it's greatly appreciated!

[@Tibetan2]

Excellent list with incredibly thorough details. Thank you!

[@highlandlakecottage4276]

Thanks! Good to-do reminders. This is my first year to keep a garden journal and I already find it helpful, especially noting plant names and when they bud and/or bloom. I’m sure it will help even more next year.

[@baljeet50]

tons of great information in one breath...bravo !! thank you, thank you, thank you

[@trace9657]

These checklists are the best. I doesn't hurt that I am in the same state / zone.

[@trvlswitrv]

Thanks so much for this checklist. It really helps to hear it broken down so clearly! Thanks for the time you take to explain things so that we can be successful.

[@impressivesarasarabrown466]

So glad I found this ! Thank you so much. Really enjoyed it! Watching back videos next 💖

[@sherryj2]

I thought of asking this on your video with Jenny, what are your favorite plants for each season? You talk about visiting the garden center at different seasons. What are your favorite for each season? Also probably a silly question but what is the different in dahlia tubers verses seeds? Really enjoying these videos as I am really learning so much.

[@Tofog22000]

If a plant isn't making you happy...take it out of the ground! Sound advice. I have a bed of Miss Kim Lilacs; they bloom for 1 week and then they're done, time for them to go!

[@kaylac3367]

Jim, Thank you so much for the checklist/tips. Very helpful. 🌼🌷🌾

[@Tayteetay]

I love these monthly checklists! I thank you, my plants thank you and my soil thanks you!

[@brianwashington3518]

Thanks for the video! I really like your shed. It would be nice to see how you organize it.

[@candacewilson6939]

I need to get a map/drawing of my property and plants. I always forget names of plants and that would be so helpful. Added to my to-do list 👍

[@rubenrobles1162]

Hey Jim, always enjoy watching your videos, yours and Linda Vaters. Do you think you could possibly show a Cassia Tree/ Cassia surattensis in the near future? I do most of my plant buying based off of what you show and talk about versus what I actually see thriving in my Zone 9a area. T.I.A

[@barbarawalker9403]

Thanks again, Jim for a very informative video. You are just a wealth of information for us newer gardeners.

[@patteegee9506]

Thank you so much for all of your informative helpful videos! I greatly appreciate each and every one of them. The education and step by step demonstrations you provide have given me confidence to tackle the do-over of my backyard! I like what you said in this video about if a plant doesn't make you happy, for whatever reason, take it out! Replace it with something that makes you happy!

[@crystalchunn6925]

Thanks for doing these monthly checklists, it really helps keep me on track with garden chores!

[@carmenbailey1560]

Since sometime in the garden for the first time today. Felt so good to get out there. Just spent time picking up odds and ends from the winter months. Always a treat seeing your garden. Thanks for sharing your updates and checklist 👍❤️😊

[@nevar23]

Every year, I tell myself not to start my flower seeds too early because there's ALWAYS that last gasp of freezing temps. Well, tonight I'll be making room for a bunch of seedlings in my house because the freezing temps are back for a couple of nights here in Georgia. You think I'd learn, but I get early spring fever or something and my sense goes right out the window, lol.

[@jennifermcduffie6629]

Really enjoy your monthly checklists. Always find helpful reminders!

[@barbarapareti7706]

Love these monthly to do lists. Really appreciate them. Thanks

[@richnam3188]

This is so helpful and complete. Great video.

[@tomtwiss8506]

Many good points, the ground temperature over air temperature really had me thinking. Thanks for making this!

[@SheriShea1]

Super great information! Moved to NC from Florida and WOW, I needed schooling on this clay, heat and types of plant material that works. YOU have a fantastic source of knowledge. Thank you, Sheri from Matthews, NC.

[@lindaga820]

So glad I FOUND YOU!!! LOVE ALL THE GREAT INFORMATION. THANK YOU!

[@lindylou3519]

Good advice Jim! I’m in zone 8a, still waiting to plant veggies mid April.

[@JimPutnam]

It is best but difficult to wait🤣

[@karenmason4912]

Thank you , So Wonderful to watch and learn 🌱

[@learningasigo1269]

Once again you have posted a terrific video with all very useful information. Two thumbs up 👍🏽

[@zt2820]

Thank you! Love the monthly checklists.

[@dulceportillo4061]

New on your channel and I’m glad I found you great video and very helpfull

[@lenelletanner4332]

Thank you Jim for all the reminders and suggestions! Loved your visit to Creekside Nursery.

[@gray_f]

Great checklist!😊👍🌱

[@debbiesampath1179]

Excellent video! Thankyou!!!

[@viviz.4157]

I'm happy to discover your videos.!!It would be very interesting to tell us how you find your buld the next year.

[@troywiggins4318]

Great episode Jim. Excitement is in the air for the season!

[@carolinamoonslilenglishgar8580]

The exact same thing is happening here in the uk with plants Jim. Also compost is going to be in short supply too. Although on a positive note we gardeners were a bit more ready for it this year than last

[@xiomaramartinez3212]

Welcome Spring Blessings

[@gigizaino8805]

Thank you!!! So much essential information!!!

[@karenschwartz5209]

Yep, if you don't like it, get rid of it. Thanks for the information.

[@marythomson3229]

Love the monthly checklist. So helpful!! Happy Easter, Jim.

[@katiekane5247]

The violas & pansies look to good to think about replacing them. It's what keeps me from getting over anxious about summer flowers. I've bought a Vermillionaire cuphea & orange calibracoa for my hummingbird basket but they're still in nursery pots & can come inside. Waiting on opening weekend at my local greenhouse!

[@loriledner6528]

Great video !!! Thank you Jim !!

[@janetsandgran2062]

Thank you for sharing.

[@janiefunk5144]

My butterfly bushes look horrible every summer--some kind of bug--but they do end up flowering and the bees love it. So, I do have a really hard time with the thought of kicking them out of the garden.

[@Graycat1735]

Maybe a different variety of butterfly bush would do better?

[@alexandriamihalcik9202]

So helpful! Thank you!

[@rustynailmendlesohn8710]

Good info Jim. I tend to plant things too early that don't like an early outside date here in central IL. I have been zapped more than a few times by planting Margarita sweet potato vines in a container arrangement that meet an early death even at 39/40 degrees. Angelonia and annual vinca also hate planted early outdoors. TY for the reminder that I need to be patient and wait. Hi to Holly. :)

[@MrChangeordie]

I'm looking forward to a drought tolerant show case of shrubs 😁 I live out in Arizona...love the videos thumbs up 😁👍

[@janethurlbrink4753]

Good suggestions, however, it's tough visiting the garden center in July and expecting them to survive in my zone 6b. It's a tough time to plant in the middle of summer.

[@joyanderson2051]

Awesome 👏 thanks 🙏 a lot.

[@RoseTorn411]

FANTASTIC VIDEO! MUCH APPRECIATED!

[@millguy]

I am a new gardener as of 2020...out here buying out your local garden center (mostly natives though, which are largely at specialty nurseries around here)

[@MFgr8]

I had to chop my poor rosemary bush to a stump because of the frost damage. I do see some green coming out at the base though.

[@katherinec7698]

Happy April! I really want to get tomatoes in the ground but know it’s a little early for zone 8. Thanks for the to-do list, it’s very helpful and motivating. 😀🌸

[@lesliekendall2206]

That shrub you were pruning reminded me of the syringa that was planted next to the driveway 100 years ago that I have to shave that side off of every Spring.

[@litaforlong1923]

Well done!

[@rosiethurman7900]

QUESTION, I’m in zone 7b very northeast OK and I have a flower bed mainly of black eyes Susan’s and echinacea and 2 rose of Sharon’s and I need to add a lot of soil bc it seems to have sank and I’m afraid I’ll lose them due to water sitting there too long....should I do it now? All I want to do is take them out add more soil and amendments of course then put them right back in the same place. Thank you for all your videos and knowledge. You have been a blessing!

[@pozzee2809]

Can you do the Ruth Stout method in the grow bags?

[@scottlauer5200]

Jim - Great videos...needing a fast growing screening tree in a deeply shaded area with root competition (in Charlotte), would you recommend Ligustrum, Elaegnus, or Osmanthus? Thank you very much.

[@deborahpellerito6117]

So helpful thankyou so much

[@jcw2892]

Thank you!! Happy Easter.

[@mariafolch8067]

Thanks for the monthly checklist. I can follow much of the recommendations as I am in zone 8b. Question...Is it too late to trim a knock-out-rose bush? It has suddenly sprout with leafs and I want to keep it small.

[@merryhaveman353]

Could you show your garden maps. Any tips on making them?

[@databang]

6:28 I wish I could cut that fast! 😋

[@donnahazlett6676]

Great info. Thanks.

[@Suburbanoasis]

Yay! Garden checklist video! 🙂🙃

[@camirichardson7485]

I see the Farmer's Almanac moved our last frost date up to April 7 in zone 7. Last year, it was April 17. Why is that? Do you know?

[@JimPutnam]

Those are average dates. That means half the time it is probably later

[@sandraroberts3433]

Hello, is it to late to move a Euonymus, sprinter boxwood and orange rocket burberry? I live in Philadelphia zone 7. I would like to move it to the front of my yard. Thanks

[@deborahparr6127]

What kind of lighting is it you use for starting seeds? It looks very flat. I use shop lights but they take up so much room.

[@cindyrubin2606]

Hi! My bulbs have become patchy throughout the yard. When & how can I dig up the tubers and move them closer together more as a ‘statement’ area? Thanks!

[@kristycannon7923]

9:09-I told him not to show my weed bed darn it! 😉

[@HandcraftedintheFoothills]

Thank you! Super informative

[@bambihouse9050]

We had a frost in Georgia and my roses got frost bite. Should I trim them? They have buds.

[@joshg9143]

Zone 5, too late to cut sand cherry and twig dogwood for hardwood prop? Thx!

[@MrsHandyRU]

Hi Jim! Saw you on Creekside Nursery with Jenny. 2017 we planted a (northern grown) Carlecephalum Fragrant Viburnum. Was in sun till 2000...then moved to receive a bit more shade. Barely grown and never bloomed (till now, one tiny bud). I fed it with Plant Tone only recently. And pruned a tiny bit, but it kills me as it's not very big. Any ideas or should I just toss it? Happy to find your channel!!

[@MrsHandyRU]

PS We are in Southern New Hampshire zone 5B... no leaves or bulbs blooming yet.

[@angelapolly1]

Here we are getting a dang frost tonight and tomorrow. 😭

[@MimiB15]

I bought 3 hydrangeas and 3 rose bushes from Lowe’s that were crazy cheap that were in bad shape and overwintering them, is it safe to plant them out or should I be waiting? I’m in zone 6A

[@sarahgeyer2899]

I’m in 7b (upstate SC) and have an established crepe myrtle that has outgrown its location. Can I move it now or should I have done it last year?

[@MichaelOssen]

First, Happy April!

[@deborahgosse1186]

I saw the video when you placed your dahlia s in pots but do you place them under growing lights or leave them inside on table .I noticed everyone is showing how to put them in pots but not showing what to do after that,

[@katiekane5247]

It's to start the tubers growing roots, top growth won't happen right away.

[@patrickmerlo4450]

👍👍

[@dorindajenkins7825]

👋😃

[@judymiddleswart9350]

👍👏👏🌺🌳😃

[@lesliekendall2206]

With the sun being so intense nowadays, my tomatoes get fried if I don't place them in a late afternoon shade spot.

[@shiqingcui8639]

he can really use his foot burrying plants😬

[@007more7]

3 minutes of information in 20 minutes just another bla bla repeat repeatedly the same dgudgjggvjijhcb

[@jgwood10]

That’s rude!

[@katiekane5247]

So watch something else, lots of channels out there.

[@baggetja1234]

Well then, don’t watch the video. Try reading, it is more concise.

[@deborahpellerito6117]

Jim explains things so wonderful I appreciate him LIGHTEN UP