How to Winterize A Garden: 10 Steps Before it Snows!

[@tooshieg2059]

You are hilarious. I love that you shared you'd been lazy in the garden - I do that and always hate that about myself. I love that you shared what you should have done - it makes me feel like maybe I don't have to be perfect and things will still turn out OK. Please share your irrigation system with us so we can begin planning for next year. Even if it's just a diagram on paper so we can see how you divide your area into zones and manage the different areas. Also your fittings and how you put it all together. Thanks in advance.

[@ReSprout]

Oh hello my friend Tooshie! One of the biggest lessons that gardening has taught me is that 1) there's no such thing as "perfect" and 2) there's always next season to try again. Thanks for the +1 on the irrigation! I might do that video in the spring!

[@OpenRoad4Two]

It’s amazing how resilient the plants can be. You were a workhorse!!! Great ingenuity on those covers!

[@ReSprout]

Right?! I know I'm not SUPPOSED to transplant things in December and plant garlic in January, but you never know man. I've learned that plants surprise me every time!

[@prattsmark1]

So I just found your channel. Love that you don't just talk about what you need to do but actually do it and talk about it as you do it! Everything is so detailed. And that you admit that you put it off! On some channels, everything is so perfect all the time that it can be discouraging. Thank you so much!

[@ReSprout]

Oh thank you so much for this comment! You don't know how much I chastise myself for the garden not being "caught up." I'm not sure if other garden KZbinrs feel like this, but I know *I* feel the need to have my garden look "perfect." It's one thing to have a garden, an added thing to have a front yard garden on a busy road and another thing entirely to have your garden seen in a viral video half a million times LOL. I am trying to get over it, but it's hard when commenters have actually berated me for my weeds! :-/ Thank you for making my day today. XOXO

[@HablemosDelHuerto]

Lucky me for living here! But, I know how it feels. Great advice and, as already said, a beautiful, beautiful garden. This is a great tutorial.

[@ReSprout]

Thank you Carlos! Always jealous of people like you in warm spots like Puerto Rico!

[@HablemosDelHuerto]

@@ReSprout it is still beautiful to enjoy the 4 seasons

[@naomi2646]

I hope to see more videos, really enjoy the visit to your garden and all your information. Thank you!

[@ReSprout]

Thank you! More to come!

[@genv2668]

Yes, please do a video on your compost system and another on your irrigation.

[@ReSprout]

Thank you for the feedback!

[@susiepaunan7190]

You are inspiring! Would love to see videos on your irrigation system and compost bins.

[@ReSprout]

Thanks for the vote, Susie! I will add those to my queue!

[@Ryad-uy3nd]

I just found your channel and I am in awe ! I hope you'll start posting again

[@ReSprout]

Thank you, Ryad. I will!

[@maaldrinkita]

To be honest i really it 👍😊💓its so cozy and relaxing Feels the breeze in the air.New friend here Godbless and goodluck to your channel friend

[@RubiaFamilyFOURever]

Very useful tutorial about gardening

[@HablemosDelHuerto]

I am missing your videos very much.

[@ReSprout]

Carlos, you're so kind. This comment is coming at the right time for me. 💕 I'm hoping to have something soon.

[@HablemosDelHuerto]

@@ReSprout 😃

[@ReSprout]

OMG CARLOS I FINALLY FINISHED IT! Just posted. Thank you so much for your support. It really means a lot coming from you. 💕

[@victoriawolfe686]

Yes on the compost sifter video!

[@ReSprout]

I will put that on my list! Thanks Victoria!

[@carolinedenaro866]

Yes, I would love to see a video on how to make the compost sifter!! btw; just found your channel! love it, very informative and fun!

[@ReSprout]

Thank you Caroline! Thanks for the +1 on the compost sifter! It's a great winter project while you wait for the garden to thaw out. :-)

[@rnorth9286]

Looking forward to following your garden through spring and summer.🤗 Imo _like_ a boss? Nope. You're the *real deal* 😎

[@ReSprout]

I'm getting some t-shirts made, I'm telling you! GARDEN BOSS!!! 😂

[@borgboy1000]

Awesome channel...love your labelling system! April you rock!

[@ReSprout]

I try! LOL ;-)

[@donnacochran3335]

I love your videos, I hope you make more!

[@ReSprout]

That's the plan! Thank you for your encouragement. :-)

[@maryloupedreiro4097]

Yes, please, on a video on how you made your compost sifter!

[@ReSprout]

Thanks for the +1!

[@carolechamberlain1766]

Great video! It’s spring so I hope you are going to send out more videos

[@ReSprout]

Yes, very soon! In the middle of some crazy work projects and I have the garden of course that's insane at this time of year. Very soon! Very soon!

[@aleksandramatwiejczuk8087]

I love this video. It's so true, for most of us 😉. And you have done sooo much in just a one day, that's impressive, well done 💪. Can't wait for new season💚💚💚

[@ReSprout]

I am unfortunately one of those people who work best under pressure! Also, there was a certain element of fun in making this, counting down with you guys until my snow-polcalypse. 😉

[@TRAVEL.WITH.JAFARI]

Hello my friend 🙋‍♂️🤝🙋‍♂️🇨🇭 Soper video 💥💥 Soper like 90 🦋🔔🦋

[@WildflowerFarm417]

This is the quality content I come here for. ;)

[@ReSprout]

Thank you! You just made my day Locust Street! 😀

[@PinoySwissabroad]

Watching from New Zealand. Interesting. Informative video. C U

[@ReSprout]

Yay! New Zealand! Always love hearing where everyone's from. Thanks for joining on my crazy journey.

[@elin-ym5tv]

Liking all your videos/information/humor. May I ask how you make your plant labels? They seem to be printer labels? Would love to know how to make my own labels that will last a season! Thansk!

[@ReSprout]

I searched FOREVER to make good garden labels. (I think I've been to too many botanical gardens and got garden marker lust, LOL.) There's some links in my description for the labelmaker and the markers. It's basically the galvanized steel markers with clear labels I make on a label maker and they DO INDEED last all season!

[@elin-ym5tv]

Thanks for the tips! Isnt the goal for everything to last? Haa. Keep up the good work!

[@ReSprout]

Definitely! My first few iterations of markers got bleached out in the sun and even the industrial Sharpie I used faded away. Those labels work awesome!

[@NC_carolinaboy]

Good Job, enjoyed the vid, we got 3-7 inches of snow last night here in eastern NC and thankfully majority of it was gone by 5pm, however we're supposed to get temps down to 19F tonight, no gardening going on here though ;-(

[@ReSprout]

I try to keep myself busy in the workshop in the winter, building new garden stuff. It helps that I have a woodstove in there. ;-)

[@JansenTeam]

I love your boxes and your garden. I am going to make mine similar to yours. Maybe in dark green. What are you doing now that Spring is here? Do you start your plants inside?

[@ReSprout]

Yes, I have two whole shelves in my basement filled with plants! It's craziness down there!

[@minifoodies9448]

Oh good I enjoyed ur videos 👍110 Happy to see u friend and good luck

[@utubemouse]

Would you mind sharing the name of your winter hardy variety of spinach? Thank you!

[@ReSprout]

The link is in the description. I think it's called "Giant Winter" spinach from High Mowing Seeds.

[@lashondacaldwell4432]

Please do a compost video

[@ReSprout]

Good idea! I'll put it on my list!

[@carlafawcett3851]

This was a fun video to watch. What zone are you ?

[@ReSprout]

Hi Carla, I'm in zone 7a. I'm glad it was fun for you. For me, I was about to die at the end of that day 😂

[@canoechick777]

Love how simple those cold frames are.... do you find that the gaps in them don't make much of a difference or do you have a system for covering them more fully when you aren't speed winterizing? :D (says the girl who is actively gambling how long the drip can stay out so she doesn't have to hand water..... haha)

[@ReSprout]

Haha! Yeah, that's me, "active gambler, LOL! I found the gaps don't make much of a difference, at least for my zone (zone 7) and the winter-hardy plants I keep out there. If you're in a colder zone or the plants are more tender, those gaps might be the deal-breaker, though. I've seen some cold frame systems that are DOUBLE systems, a cold frame inside a hoop house, for instance, for extra protection. As with all things gardening, YMMV.

[@onepointofview...524]

I can't find those bed corner things do you have a link so I can find them please

[@ReSprout]

Hey Tina! Sorry about that. It looks like Gardener's Supply isn't stocking them anymore. I hope they come back! I updated the link though. Amazon has them. So just click the same link in my description and it will take you to Amazon now. Thanks for the heads up!

[@cindymeadows6346]

How does the lettuce not freeze if the shower doors do not cover the bed 100%?

[@ReSprout]

Hi Cindy! Depends on the variety and climate. I'm in zone 7a. We do get freezes here, but we rarely go below 15ºF in the winter, so between having a cold tolerant variety and the glass, that's usually enough for my situation.

[@bhalliwell2191]

Just plant the garlic, even if you're putting it into a bed without a cold frame cover. It'll be O.K., one way or another and the worst thing I can think of that might happen to it would be that it yields smaller than usual heads. (I've planted all sorts of stuff later than was fun, like the time I planted my mom's daffodil bulbs---when she finally gave me the go-ahead---after work at the end of November, after dark and in a sleet storm. Light from the patio floodlight, but I was between it and where the bulbs were to go [a muddy slope] so I still couldn't see very well what I was doing. At least you weren't doing *that.*) Good on you for getting all your hoses and other water lines taken up! I'm so loving your garden!

[@ReSprout]

OMG THAT SOUNDS INSANE! I once harvested green beans. In the Dark. By Headlamp. In the rain. All because I was about to go on a two week vacation and knew the more beans I left on the plants, the less likely they'd be productive when I got back. See what us crazy gardeners do for "fun"??!?! 😂

[@bhalliwell2191]

@@ReSprout The daffodils, you mean? Yep, but I loved my mom and she loved daffodils. Not sure why she was dragging her feet on planting the bulbs that year, especially since she didn't have to do the work. Do you have the means to mulch that garlic once you plant it ? Mulch is probably a good idea and if I'm recalling correctly, straw is the material of choice for winter mulch for garlic. Having said that, I don't mulch mine, but the singular collection of structures, three of them heated, surrounding my urban backyard vegetable garden or potager, plus a very tall wall at the "bottom" or back of the yard, create a micro-climate which makes it possible for me to grow soft-neck garlic varieties as well as the hard-necks considered more suitable to Ohio. You're not the first gardener I've encountered who sometimes gardens by headlamp light. A Hoosier friend of mine has been known to mow, to till, to pull weeds, and to harvest beans and cukes and tomatoes by the five-gallon bucket, all made possible by a nifty headlamp found at Harbor Freight Tools. H'mm. Got me to thinking. I was willing to plant daffodils in the dark, in a sleet storm, for my mother, but I don't do much in the garden after three-quarters of the way to full dark for the two of us and I try to wind things up earlier in the evening than that. Do you grow okra?

[@ReSprout]

The first year I did garlic I used leaf mulch and that worked great. I have that huge pile of wood chips in my driveway, so I ended up using that for the garlic. Garlic is so easy to grow, I'm sure it will be good! Headlamps are the best. I use them backpacking and now use them for everything: woodworking, taking the trash out at night, going into the attic... I'm thinking of adding okra to my "to plant" list for this year. We'll see!

[@bhalliwell2191]

@@ReSprout Ooohh, yes: we're going to be putting in okra, too. Clemson spineless, of course (sort of the gold standard for okra in America, it seems), and we have Dwarf Long Pod which I'm hoping will be a success, and one other, maybe "Burmese?" Fans of headlamps are *legion!*

[@davannhuynh4279]

Just subscribed, love your video, and you're funny, too! :)

[@ReSprout]

Just so you know, I told my hubby you are the THIRD PERSON (gasp!) who said I was funny. He just shook his head cuz he just thinks I'm corny. He's convinced KZbin is going to make my head big now I'm sure, LOL! Thanks for watching!

[@shanaw3806]

What zone are you in? Your garden is so organized 👏🏼From Vancouver BC Canada

[@ReSprout]

Hi Shana, I'm in Zone 7A on Long Island in New York.

[@mewmcb]

Your amazing! And hilarious!💕

[@ReSprout]

Aw you made my day Mary Ellen! Thank you! 💕

[@myjunkmail007]

What's your location / grow zone?

[@ReSprout]

I'm in 7A in the U.S.

[@808quake]

what zone you are in?

[@ReSprout]

I'm in zone 7A on Long Island in New York, USA.

[@808quake]

Domo Arigatou. Enjoy your video. I'm in 5b in Colorado.

[@Laurusnobilis3777]

lol, we want more videos

[@ReSprout]

LOL, I'm coming, I'm coming. I'm almost done with one. Stay tuned! Thanks for the encouragement. :-)

[@nhoque...7223]

36 ☕☕nice

[@MagellanandGreyhound]

Shhhhhhhh, we won’t tell the husband - April’s husband

[@ReSprout]

Bad, bad garden wife. 😍