How I Prepare My Garden For Spring! No Lawn, Composting, and Native Plant Seed Starting!

In this video I'll show you how I prepare my garden for Spring! I'll be seed starting, propagating ground cover, and decorating the yard!
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[@michellepollino4986]

Can’t wait to see all the wild flower seeds when they bloom. Love the new pots, great idea to repurpose and reuse.

[@MagicalZach]

Thank you for planting native! Now start making random native beds around town !

[@jonsinclair1727]

i wish everyone loved wildflowers.. if we all had a 5x5 patch.. it would do so much for nature and life

[@nicolebergelin6200]

Frogfruit is such a banger of a plant! Glad to see that you are propping and spreading it 🔥

[@delightfuldesignsbydenise9710]

Not sure why I didn’t think so but…never realized we could use the dog 💩💩 to compost. Nice score at the Estate sale & garage sale!! I am impressed by your willingness to grab neighbors leaves to use as mulch. I didn’t realize that either. I used some of mine to dump around my fig tree this yr.

[@victorevans6639]

Doing the good work

[@matt.endlesscourage]

💚

[@ericstrees]

You are a constant inspo Paul. Much love from Toronto

[@Trav_Can]

6:27 Cool rocks! That's the thing about plants and creating these spaces, they only get better with time. I look forward to seeing your progress. Very cool! It's going to be so cool in two to three years. Just imagine five years from now! Just imagine a decade!

[@paulplantu]

I know I’m approaching my fourth year of gardening so I’m excited. Things are about to start taking off!

[@Trav_Can]

@@paulplantu It's going to be good!

[@AryanaandtheUniverse]

I'm not sure if you have tried this already but the pine needles will promote a more acidic soil and this is great for things like blueberries. This could be a fun multipurposed understory. Excited for spring your space will look amazing!

[@orthodox_gentleman]

The design build landscape architecture firm I work for uses pine straw mulch a lot

[@OPDrags]

Ayy riff raff lol. Known coast to coast

[@MJArt13]

So jealous of all the southern gardeners right now. Its still freezing bootay in Michigan.

[@paulplantu]

I really am so blessed. I’m about to start planting stuff this week

[@MJArt13]

​@paulplantu I've got 4.5 weeks until starting seeds indoors. And 15 weeks until planting. I'll be living vicariously through your youtube channel until then and tending my orchids. 😊

[@rickyt3961]

thrifting for pots! great idea. never considered that. i'll be looking around this summer.👍🏽

[@comic9868ds]

You could try perennial geraniums and ajuga. We’re in zone 5 so I’m not sure if that works in TX. We love your content.

[@christiridley1009]

Hey! Thanks for the awesome update! I got the frog fruit idea from you, and i am loving it as a ground cover! I found mine griwing next to a side walk, and boy does that stuff love to root!

[@paulplantu]

It really does take off. I saw some at the park the other day and was like where was happy to see it growing there! I hope I have a full native lawn by the end of the year.

[@Fabdanc]

Oenothera speciosa can be a bit of a brute because it is stoloniferous and also a good reseeder. So once it really gets going on you, it might be a bit much. You need to get into yarrow (achilea) and asters, my dude. You may have more success seeding in the fall with some of your wildflowers. Some need cold stratification or are cool growers. Many wildflowers native to our region can handle temps down into the 20s when they are young -- like bluebonnets or violas. Our pollinators seem to go bananas for anything in lamiaceae. Our native Texas salvias are beasts.

[@mglouise97]

Wow your soil looks so dark and rich. Incredible

[@allenslater9234]

Love your videos!

[@JoJoJohnston]

Thank you Sir!

[@AuTheFuture]

Aweeesome man! Been waiting on this

[@HCV2962]

Another post 🌱 yay!

[@leelulady2010]

I can give you lots of bluebonnet seeds!

[@jonblaze333]

Diablo paolo I haven't been around here in a while. Glad u still at it on the plant side. Gotta check ur other channel too while I'm at it. Hope all is well on ur plaaannneetttt

[@user-tucsonsw]

Nice video Paul. I've started a lot more SW wild flower seeds this year. I'm even putting wild flower seeds in pots. That has worked really well for me in years past. I'm looking forward to see how your yard does this year. You and the family take care and be safe. Gary, Tucson AZ

[@paulplantu]

Thanks as always!! I hope we get more rain than last year! I think most of my trees and shrubs are going to hit their stride this year. It’ll be their third year in the ground

[@caranwysong3065]

Wow, I didn't know you just kind of throw the wildflower seeds toward the ground. I can't wait to see how it looks later!

[@paulplantu]

That’s the cheapest and easiest way to have a meadow like look

[@deedeekong7161]

Does your municipality offer rebates for ripping out turf and replacing it with native plants? I'm getting close to $9k from mine for ripping out 1,700 square feet of grass.

[@Misohouse612]

you should start with affiliate link so we can support your channel!

[@drb996]

Worm bin and a portable greenhouse my guy

[@paulplantu]

I do need a greenhouse for sure

[@santaanaroadwildman3614]

Dawg try Japanese Fiber Banana or Musa Basjoo. It can handle freezes. Leaves might get crispy but comes back each spring. Brah idk if dogshit breaks down into useable compost but let us kno! "Urth es ma plont!"

[@paulplantu]

I need some banana suggestions. I’m not going to use the dog crap as compost I’m just going to let it sit there and let it degrade.

[@nippolitica]

@@paulplantu Musa basjoo is native to my area, and we share a climate, so I absolutely agree with this. When we do get a freeze, it may die to the ground, but then it springs. Been in the 70sF here this past week, and I've so far been able to keep a *monstera* alive outside since December. Does drop to 50s tomorrow though, so I put it in bubble wrap.

[@DatKrazyKook]

I’ve got a big shepherd that likes to trample and stomp over and through everything on top of targeting my delicate plants (of course not my salt tolerant ones). How well do your wild flower seeds and plants hold up against yours? I’m in San Antonio and want to mix in wild flowers with my perennials.

[@Tealbicycle]

How does the frog fruit handle foot traffic from kids and dogs?

[@AhmadAsrafHashim]

If Color Me Bad did gardening 🤭

[@ZE308AC]

Try adding biochard to absorb the dog 💩 🍦 in he trash can with holes

[@darklighter2838]

You chopped the banana 😲 The core was perfectly fine, would have grown bigger, you should have trimmed a bit of the top part only.... oh well.....😅

[@paulplantu]

The whole thing was brown on the inside with bugs in it. But yeah if I messed up thennnnn whoooops

[@darklighter2838]

@@paulplantu it will grow back if you leave that little stem thats left. Love all your video's!

[@MonoiLuv]

Erfff is mah plah-nit

[@zwicknagel]

Your banana is coming back....

[@jonny_mazerati9410]

Just keep in mind the birds (bird feeders) will eat all the butterflies and caterpillars when they do come 🦋

[@paulplantu]

That’s the circle of life papa! Hopefully there’s so much food for em some caterpillars can survive.

[@nippolitica]

Note to self: do not watch Paul's videos while eating.

[@brett2595]

cut that banana back to chest height and it will come out at that level and maybe make bananas

[@Bluesage2024]

Epic use turning old to new. I am heading out to garage sale this weekend. Thanks🪴🌴🌳🥀🌻

[@katiecannon8186]

We want a slow walk around showing your very cool 1980s ????? house. Whatever era, it’s great. But we need a better video that focuses on it.

[@paulplantu]

It was built in 1971 but I might in one of these vids

[@Hayley-sl9lm]

Wait are you like composting dog shit like for manure? I was checking out the EPA/USDA Fact Sheet on composting dog waste, it seems pretty interesting but it seems like they don't have that much data yet on minimum compost times for the pathogens of concern from dog waste. The publication says " It should not be used on crops grown for human consumption" so I wouldn't use it on veggies.

[@BeautifulEarthJa]

He actually doesn't want it to go into the food that's why he has it over by that tree.

[@Hayley-sl9lm]

@@BeautifulEarthJa That makes sense

[@paulplantu]

Yeah, I’m just trying to put it somewhere so it can break down over time without it being close to my fruit trees and veggies.

[@MrNvful]

I’m curious to know if you have any indoor plants? 🪴