Crucial Summer Garden Maintenance

Crucial Summer Garden Maintenance - In this video we show off some of the garden maintenance that we are doing now to prevent future problems in the garden.
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[@florencia2907]

You are my modern day Bob Ross. Thank you, Jim. And God for your soothing voice and peaceful personality. ❤

[@tg_ny]

I keep the level of cedar mulch in my gardens just thick enough to make weed-pulling easy, the few that appear are easy to remove, even the young dandelions. Too much mulch will never dry out and will start to mold. It is a good learning experience to learn what works in your yard, in your neighborhood, and in your hardiness zone. If you get the balance right, you can spend most of your time admiring your garden instead of having to weed so much. The mulch also keeps the moisture level in the soil pretty consistent, so your plants don’t suffer from extremes.

[@Terry-lh8cn]

And cedar repels bugs.

[@ramgiberson7180]

Hello, Mr. Jim putnam and Stephany Coakley,happy gardening. 😅🙏.

[@janettefisher256]

Luv a good garden cleanup ! Plants look happier and can breath

[@lisahowell3468]

Why is it so satisfying to watch someone else work so hard? Your garden looks amazing!!!

[@joanl9383]

Watching you prune, weed, and clean up your garden makes me feel better. I am a new gardener in SC and the rain, heat, and humidity destroyed many plants and many plants ate up others too. Nice to know Master Gardeners have the same issues in their gardens. ??? You do not plant petunias. Is there a reason you do not?

[@judyluce3141]

The spotted spurge and Virginia creeper...what a pain.

[@Brenda-fp5te]

How true. Though some thing got huge, their so beautiful & your garden is so lush, looks like a fairytale. Thanks for the great info, learned about slug hiding spots, tks.

[@cyhomer]

I do not practice chop and drop exactly for that reason, Jim..we here in Michign have a huge earwig and snail problem…I also rarely water in the evening for that reason. Thanks J & S

[@suzannebartow6390]

The variegated Porcelain berry vine is so beautiful and not invasive like many variegated types. Here in eastern Washington we have to work hard to grow this variegated type, just spectacular in the fall.

[@marshawilliamson8602]

I’m interested in content where Stef does some of the critical pruning, too. Thank you, Jim, for giving me confidence to do what is necessary, even if it goes against how it feels to me. 🌸🐝

[@stephanycoakley7352]

I prune incognito🙂

[@najwaseiya]

Nice share, good job💙💙💙💙

[@charlesoberdorf8478]

Donna here, one of the invasive things we deal with here in N. La. is a thing I know as a popcorn tree. When they first come up as seedlings they look a lot like redbuds with the shape of their leaves. I call them trash trees, they grow so fast and root in deep and have little white berries on them in the fall. They are almost as bad as oak tree seedlings :). I just wondered if you had them up your way. Also, I never knew that Lantana could get that big! I have mine in a med. size pot, and its staying well within that size. Your garden is so lush, beautiful!

[@kjsmulvihill]

I loved learning the names of all the weeds. I keep finding tree saplings emerging in some places in my garden. It happens so fast! Always a great pleasure to watch all your videos, thank you!

[@Checkthefineprint]

Pin oaks growing everywhere at my place also.

[@loriledner6528]

I always learn so much from you. Thank you Jim and Stephanie !!

[@dia9491]

We get a lot of spotted spurge down in SETN. It quickly gets crazy. I keep a small basket to toss the seedy weeds when we’re picking them. Otherwise they’ll be right back in no time.

[@terrivance8750]

Jim, Steph, Porcelain Berry! 😖 Took YEARS to successfully rid one corner of my yard of this!!! To make matters worse, I seem to be allergic to contact w/ it--not as bad as poison ivy, but bad enough. 😒

[@annetteshaver1821]

Jim you always have such great tips. I especially like “Chop and drop.” The weed I am constantly pulling in Arkansas is spotted spurge. That weed is my nemesis. There’s no getting rid of it.

[@Terry-lh8cn]

Yes, it's a pain. It does come up very easily though. I yanked a bunch out of my gravel driveway yesterday.

[@agmin2098]

@@Terry-lh8cnyes you can yank it but you need to get the root..mine need to get a certain length before I can grab enough to pull the entire plant with root😢

[@samanthascott712]

Your tips are gold, Jim. Thank you. I took your advice and heeled in my shrubs and small trees while i had construction in the garden with 100% success after planting back in the new space. My sunny border along the sidewalk is tired, it’s been really dry this year. I normally don’t chop the coneflowers down because the critters love them but right now i want to chop the lot.

[@katiekane5247]

Like Wisteria, there's a better behaved Clematis. Smooth vs lobed leaves. Came out to a giant floppy stand of Rudbeckia triloba this morning. It's an aggressive self seeder that's best kept out of improved soil. All this rain has really made everything jump in north Georgia.

[@florencia2907]

Jim, if I were you, I would have asked Steph if it was okay to ‘prune’ the eggplant before shooting the video. Just a precaution that can keep you out of the dog house. 😅

[@stephanycoakley7352]

I made a big pot of ratatouille!

[@holdthelight6833]

Great job explaining invasive and native! Lots of ppl don’t understand that! 💜💜💜

[@L4sleeko]

Absolutely, and with all the rain my Minorettte Day Lilies have jumped up two feet tall and started blooming.

[@leanderlawrence8312]

Hi Jim! First, I hear you comment in you videos that you use a lot of words to answer questions, and I want you to know how helpful all the extra, sort of background information that you provide is. So please, ramble away! 😂my question is, I'm wondering if your garden is being invaded by these (invasive?) lantern saw flies?? And if so, how are you dealing with them (if you even are) as I have read they can do damage to trees. I know you generally let nature run its course, but are invasive bugs something we should try and contend with? Thank you!

[@agmin2098]

Great question for Sunday’s answer

[@SusanGBell]

I found that Brigadoon St. John's Wort here at a local nursery in PA. Love it so much, I bought three! Thanks for making me love chartreuse plants!

[@GardeningSpirit]

Yup we have sweet autumn clematis, virginia creeper growing over our side, from our neighbor.

[@jonphilpsr8141]

I learn so much!!! Thank you

[@jcrane45585]

I loved this video. Weed ID and removal and prevention video in the future?

[@debweissler7808]

Thanks for the tips on spotted spurge, which has shown up in my garden for the first time. Seems the more I pull the more I see! 🙄

[@agmin2098]

It’s every where on my paved but somewhat cracked driveway😢

[@Chromeostasis]

Bind weed, the ultimate nemesis of prairie land gardening. That and Canadian Thistle

[@RedCoin91]

I have both and also wild raspberry... those plants drive me crazy.

[@frandavis8687]

My most persistent weeds that require daily maintenance came from garden centers: mulberry weed (ugh!!), chamber bitter, and skull cap (which lives with impunity in my thyme border). Horse nettle has such a great underground network that I can only dig it up or Round it Up. About 15 others I could list that I pull up every day. This is the first year I can say I have kept up with them....never conquered!

[@agmin2098]

Chamber bitter😢ugh

[@user-qn9cf5db7z]

Great vlog nice garden😊👌

[@CindyKeane]

Great video!!

[@cynthiaborden4209]

Great job. Jim. It's too hot and I'm too lazy, so I'm taking a week off😊

[@kimgaivin9208]

Seeing you hold Virginia creeper in your hand just kills me since I am so allergic!

[@ibugurudyah]

Hello... ✋ It's so great.. 👌thanks for sharing...💫👍

[@theropesofrenovation9352]

I get so tired of weeding those tiny weeds after these torrential rains here in Florida!

[@dylan8285]

We have had so much rain in Se MI this year I think we’re at like double maybe a touch more the avg for June and July soo many things have disease so bad this year most the crabapples and roses are like 75% defoliation from disease never seen it so bad this early

[@urchinsushi2041]

Send your rain my way!!! 🙏

[@taylorswf23]

My nemesis is stiltgrass. We have acres of it 😮‍💨

[@JimPutnam]

We have some nearby, but this lot is at a high spot which keeps it to dry for it to grow well

[@rachelsgarden]

Great video! During my summer weeding I discovered a very happy rose creek abelia and it’s seeded itself all around the bed. Didn’t find one seedling until it was big, so now I have a new abelia shrub potted on my porch. Does abelia typically spread by seed?

[@jcrane45585]

It is tooooooo hot in south Alabama to deadhead. I am over it. I have salvias overtaking my cannas at back of border. I am thinking of moving cannas and replacing them with a shade loving evergreen that blooms in early spring. Any suggestions? Location is back of border by wooded fence line facing west. Salvias would block all summer sun but would receive 4 hours of winter sun.

[@MrsRachelMason]

I’m in the Raleigh area too and have experienced the same recent rainfall. How the heck do you deal with all the mosquitoes?? Is there a particular time of day that seems best in our area?

[@huytruong2542]

Can you grow the gomphrena from seeds by putting the seeds straight to the grounds?

[@gray_f]

It's been such a bad year that after deadheading some plants, they never rebloomed😩😭

[@myredrose45]

I've been using preen for weed control, but it doesn't help with the bermuda grass. Bermudagrass is a bully.

[@Terry-lh8cn]

I curse it daily. It's in all my flower beds.

[@suzannebartow6390]

Holy Mother of God, 6-10 inches of rain over 2-3 weeks...I can now know why your garden is so so fabulous and my zone 6a in eastern Washington is not. I wish I lived in your zone.....😒

[@Terry-lh8cn]

I'm near Raleigh too. The 5 weeks of scorching drought that preceded it was rough!

[@pd8559]

What hedge clippers are those?

[@user-pw4nf4cn5f]

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[@vickiehogan6387]

Smilax is the worst!! It’s so hard to get rid of it 😭

[@Flower_hoarder]

ENJ✂️YED‼️

[@Prettykittychimi]

My street is called Mulberry so I’ve been wanting to plant a mulberry tree. But after watching your videos I decided not to! 😂

[@lindamurns1245]

I have a sterile weeping one .

[@sterlgirlceline]

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌿🌳💚

[@dianetemple4243]

That lantana would definitely go to the curb.

[@suzannebartow6390]

the lantana needs to GO....