I know this video is 5 years right now, but thank you for this video. Part technique but mostly just encouragement. I've been suffering from depression most of my life and the last two years I've really neglected my yard. Im paying the price and slowly working on getting out some of the worst kinds of weeds that keep reseeding. I have made a lot of progress but every time i go out there, there is still so much to do and I've had very little time to do it. I really want to get some nice garden beds going but need to get things cleaned up before I can even plant. Its so bad... I think i just needed that extra reminder that what I'm doing is working and is worth it and i just need to keep plugging away.

@andreabradley5837

Ай бұрын

I've neglected mine for the past two years as well to to situational depression. Now I just feel overwhelmed. I did go out and prune my lilac today and planted a couple of flowers that I bought. Keeping the living things alive helps to keep me alive. You take care.

This vid makes me feel better. That I’m not the only one battling my landscaping that I haven’t had time to address . It’s like so overwhelming but your right just start and keep going.

@alohadakine4571

4 жыл бұрын

5/8 update: I cut down 4 20’ trees blocking my sunlight. Cleared a 20x30 section completely overgrown w 4’ tall weeds. Cleared a 15x15 garden bed. Plan to get some veggie seeds started this weekend. At the same time weeded the edges of yard and up keeping my yard. I will keep updating this post. Because this is the vid that inspired me to get off my butt 👍🏽🤙🏽

@ladeedaa1419

4 жыл бұрын

ALOHA DaKine I couldn’t agree more with u. My ex husband did the gardening, as I own a business and do everything in the home (cleaning/cooking/shopping) This’s my first time gardening...ever lol I’ve been so intimidated , so I truly appreciate you sharing💜

@karencrecco2922

3 жыл бұрын

You are my hero!

Weeding is my garden nemesis. Why can't my flowers and vegetables thrive as well as the weeds? =D

This is so encouraging! We moved into a house that once had beautiful landscaping but had not been maintained.

In this little 5min video you don’t know how helpful this was so TY

I know this video Is a year old, but today is day I needed it. Thanks for the pep talk. I going out to rough weed the tear drop bed. Isn’t is funny what we call out flower beds?

I battle the weeds, like you. I did a bed and placed cardboard down, then mulch on top . I got a year plus with no weeds and when they did start to grow back, they were so easy to pull out. I'm trying to do this with each bed but I'm older and slower. Cardboard can be a bit unwieldy and it takes time to pull off all the plastic tape. I'm trying the construction paper painters use to protect floors when they paint. I cut it up in the house and lay it down as I mulch, sometimes throwing topsoil on it before mulching to cover it more fully.

@shuvanidev

5 жыл бұрын

I had really good luck with cardboard in my last garden which I am going to replicate here in my new garden. Yeah, mulching over top every year helps immensely and it becomes less work overall. In small spaces or around plants I use several layers of wet newspaper or packing paper - works the same. Sometimes I will layer compost over the grass and shorn weeds before laying over the cardboard or paper. It all eventually breaks down and is incorporated into the soil so it never gets too thick.

Thank you for sharing this, glad to see it happens to most any garden. You had a big job but its looking good!

I have an area that we have been working on too. When you first look at it it is very overwhelming but it's just a matter of one weed at a time. Then when you finish it is such a good feeling. Thanks for the push to keep going at it.❤️😊❤️

I loved this! Your beds are beautifully planted plus the weed part is such a reality it is great to see how you deal with it. Plus I loved the storm sound!❤

This is a really great illustration of just why it's so important to plant ground-cover plants throughout the garden. While spacing your specimen plants is the traditional way of doing things and looks "right" to our eye, it leaves a ton of open ground for weeds to get a footing. Even with bark mulch on the ground, weeds will find a way to fill that empty space because nature abhors a vacuum. In the back of the property where all that sun's shining, think about planting native grasses like Panicum and Andropogon. Wildflowers like Echinacea and any of the Milkweeds also take up space and are tall enough that they crowd out the weeds. Under the trees where you don't get much light, there are a hundred native Carex species that would not only look great, but would cover the bare ground and help build the environment. Carex woodii and Carex pensylvanica are the top two contenders, but you could also try C.sprangelli or C.plantagenia or C.haydenii if you wanted a powerful statement piece that really sets things off.

@TheImpatientGardener

Жыл бұрын

You have pretty much described exactly what I’ve done throughout the property in the five years since this video was published.

@threeriversforge1997

Жыл бұрын

@@TheImpatientGardener Great minds think alike! 😃

@louisethomas8074

Ай бұрын

Wild ginger does not crowd out dandelion. They’re going to get through no matter what ground cover you put down

@threeriversforge1997

Ай бұрын

@@louisethomas8074 It's not about crowding out dandelion, though. There are a bazillion plants that we don't want growing there, not just dandelions. Seeds need sunlight and soil temperatures to germinate. Putting a decorative plant in the ground will necessarily take up space that the weeds can't use, and they'll also shade/cool the soil so seeds that get blown into the bed are less likely to germinate. It's not a guarantee, but it's better than nothing!

Your garden looks more like our English gardens than the types of garden I saw in the States.

I too was guilty of allowing the weeds to take over. I've spent this whole summer reclaiming, redoing, expanding my beds. They are beautiful, for now.

@TheImpatientGardener

4 жыл бұрын

Once you get the big job done a little bit of maintenance goes a long way but those pesky weeds are always waiting to come back with a vengence.

Facing something very similiar in my own beds - we have had so much rain and with work schedules the weeds have literally taken over . It’s not raining now so I’m inspired . Thank you for being real & always sharing the good, the bad and even the ugly

Love how REAL you are 💕💕💕

I just discovered your channel and this video was right on time for me! Thanks for showing the “not so pretty” part of your garden (which is beautiful btw)...it’s an inspiration for me to get weeding!

What a great video! Thanks for sharing.

i literally just did this today w/ a large bed. although daunting it feels good when you make progress. just subscribed today!

Thank you for this encouraging video. 💫

just found you and loved your channel!! i needed to think garden and focus on something wonderful. I'll enjoy going through your videos!!

I just discovered your channel. I'm from Oregon. I came upon your Hydrangea video and i'm hooked. I couldn't help but notice your beautiful ferns mixed in , i just love the look they give a garden. Nice to know i'm not alone in the battle of the weed!

Weather Forecaster: The only profession where you can be consistently wrong and still keep your job.

Thanks for the encouragement! I have a mess and I am procrastinating because I can’t do all of it at once. I also have bindweed which takes so much effort to fight. I feel a bit motivated now:)

I'm being Lazy using the tractor. Says the Lady who just spent 3 to 4 hours hand pulling weeds. 😂😂😂. My Iris bed is full of Crabgrass. I pulled most of it out yesterday but some won't pull, don't know if it is wrapped around the rhizomes or what. I think I am going to pull up the rhizomes after they bloom, kill the grass and replant.

I just spent all day pulling jewelweed out of a raspberry patch and in my garden borders....good thing they're easy to pull out. Now I'm going to put down layers of wet newspaper and cover with mulch....will last at least a couple years.

That’s a whole lots of work, my back hurts just thinking about that amount of weeding. Hate weeding but in the end the garden looks real work. I’m at the point now removing plants that get carried away 😫

I really needed this video!

@TheImpatientGardener

6 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped! It happens to everyone! Sometimes the garden just gets away from us but it's worth doing even a little bit to help things out.

Thank you so much! You motivated me to just get started by hand on the overgrown weed bed in my garden (not perhaps correct to even call it a flower bed at this stage!) And got a good half hour in with my 7 year old before the heavens opened. Can definitely see the difference even with such a short time, and unhelpful assistant! How would you deal with overgrown brambles with massive spikes? They are taking over the back 6ft of my garden and I don't know how to even start tackling them.

Thank you for this video. Mine is so overwhelming. But I think I could do the “rough” weeding.

Totally agree, and I think like us in IL you have had a ton of rain this spring. The mosquitoes are big enough to saddle and ride, and I have been tackling my many gardens one at a time and laugh when I start one because I know a lesser seasoned gardner would just go let's poison the lot and start again. So, I totally agree when you encourage people to not give up. Weather and life can just create situations from time to time in gardening and if you enjoy it just go with the flow.

Thank you!!

Jewelweed seeds are amusing. I remember as a little kid going around and poking them to watch them pop.

I'm doing the same thing right now. Only my weed is prickers. It will look nice when it's done!

Haha! Looks familiar. Depending on the weeds and if they have gone to seed I sometimes just leave in the lawn and run over them with the mower. That's my lazy confession.

God Bless your gardening heart. I'm impressed! Saving the garden one foot ay a time. :)

Your garden is beautiful and I’d love to know what you use for mulch please and thank you

@TheImpatientGardener

Ай бұрын

I use very little mulch. I like to use groundcover plants wherever possible. Leaves are my favorite mulch (although that’s becoming a problem with jumping worms). Arborist chips (from the tree guys) are amazing mulch, although not the prettiest. For areas right along the patio I use pine bark fines because they look nice.

Lately I've been just bending weeds down, smashing em down & covering with cardboard and laying on high quality screened soil and then mulch (both I get from my local gravel company) - weed free for quite a while afterward. I go right around the perennials. Warmest regards Jennie

Omg it’s overwhelming and back breaking

Weeds have been mad this autumn

Good to know even you have trouble with the crazy weeds. Would ground covers help or not?

@TheImpatientGardener

5 жыл бұрын

Marlene Bowan Yes! Ground covers are the best way to prevent weeds. I need to get more of them!

@marlenebowan2799

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheImpatientGardener thanks for the advice. As we only moved to this house in October 2018, we are looking at rejuvenating the overgrown and neglected landscape. Will be adding ground covers to our bare areas to start.

I notice you mentioned the astringent quality of the jewelweed you had pulled. Also the chickweed you mentioned has healing properties. Even though they're weeds there always seems to be an upside :) It's hard work pulling them. I get the jewelweeds which are brought in by the critters that visit at night. I'm struggling for almost 10 years with poison ivy in one garden bed that came in with a gift plant from a friend. It's been a nightmare and I can't seem to get rid of it.

@TheImpatientGardener

5 жыл бұрын

Oh that's good to know about chickweed! I'll admit, I don't know as much about my weeds as I probably should. Sorry to hear about your poison ivy. I've not battled that one and I hope that continues.

@Katydidit

3 жыл бұрын

Here in the South, Jewelweed is often found growing in areas where poison ivy is also found. The astringent she mentioned, is used to counteract the exposure. Just break the stems and rub it on your hands first, then break more stems and rub it over the skin that was touched by poison ivy.

Your hostas are lovely. Deer eat all my hostas. Do they eat the ferns? Maybe I could do ferns

@TheImpatientGardener

4 жыл бұрын

Generally speaking, deer don't eat ferns so that may be worth a try for you. They are really beautiful.

Does anyone know what the name of the plant is at the 4:35 minute mark below the hosta and to the left of what reminds me of Solomons Seal? The mystery plant in question has a fern/palm feel to it. Would like to learn its name and see if I might be able to incorporate it into my own garden. With regard to the weedy garden itself. Sorry to say, but this is so nice to see and hear! I have focused my energy on one area of my garden and while I wasn't looking the weeds have over run another area. The one thing about gardening, boredom doesn't exist. Their is 'always' something to be done and the mind is ever expanding and 'updating' your flower beds!

@TheImpatientGardener

2 жыл бұрын

I do! 😀 That’s Syneilsis Aconitifolium aka shredded umbrella plant. Very fun plant for the shade garden.

@erinh4184

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheImpatientGardener Thank you! I will be on the look out for that one next Spring!!

You're getting rain? In GR we haven't had rain and none in sight for another week, Argh! Fight the good fight girl😁

Can you show us how you edge

Do you compost those weeds or trash/burn them?

@TheImpatientGardener

2 жыл бұрын

It depends. If they are invasive nasties (garlic mustard weed or creeping bell flower) I will bag them and throw away. Annual weeds that aren’t in flower go to the proper compost and then I have a pile in the woods where I dump other stuff that I don’t want in my managed compost area.

How do you keep dandelions out of your lawn ?

@SweetStuffOnMonarchLane

4 жыл бұрын

We just leave them alone at our house. They are good in that they are one of the few early flowering plants that bees can get nectar from. It's just a different way of looking at them... not a weed, but food for bees! =)

I have nearly the same problem at the backyard of our purchased property. Unfortunately this simple method doesn`t work effectively. I have spent a lot of time and physical effort to take them away using a garden fork to get the soil loose. However, after a couple of rains in about a few weeks - the land is full of weeds again and they`re growing too fast. In a month they could be over 1 metre tall... The problem is- we can`t see what is underneath. But there is a full "roots cities" there. We can do nothing until destroy it. It needs to be dug and all the root system must be removed and destroyed. And would be better to cut all the top soil level and tip it, because there are plenty of capillary style roots which will be growing ones we have them left in a soil... It`s a serious fighting. Not just a one action unfortunately... Or, an appropriate chemicals might be used for weeds controlling...

Here for weed stayed for the garden

👍❤️😊

Extra much might keep them from getting so bad

My idea, cover all plants and apply grass killer.

Why do this? When we had weeds we had bees and other wildlife and fighting nature was a wrong move.

@TheImpatientGardener

Жыл бұрын

1. Not all weeds are good for the environment. Invasive species overrun the native plants that our native bees and wildlife rely on. 2. If you want to garden, you have to manage weeds. So the choice here is garden or don’t. I want to garden here. By doing so I have created a diverse ecosystem full of insects and wildlife. The two are not mutually exclusive.

How about coming over to my place next?

This was useless. I have a flower bed that IS in a terrible state and I was counting on your video delivering what the title said. Go pull out what you can is something I already knew and am unwilling to do. If I was it wouldn't be in this state. I am ripping up the whole flower bed. putting down poison then decorative rocks.