This is a fabulous video. I love that you've also included contributions from other channels as well. Well done indeed :)

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Hi Alexandria. I'm a professional gardener myself. I love your channel. It's so informative. An additional way I've found to be the best way to decrease my weeds and/or weeding by least 75% is by using a cheap serrated steak knife and cutting the top of the weed just below the soil surface then cover with mulch or compost. I don't leave any foliar growth above soil level so my weeds can't photosynthesize and dont grow back. I never pull out weeds. There are billions of dormant weed seeds underground and around weed roots. If you bring the soil up and disturb it you've just exposed all these weed seeds to the sun and now they will germinate. Disturbed or bare soil=weeds. This approach works wonderfully. 😊 Thank you!! 💖

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

Ай бұрын

Very good tip, Will try it.

@vallang4832

3 күн бұрын

That’s the way I weed.

Love the intro and the distinction between weeding and wedding 😂😂

I am a new gardener at the age of 53, trying to make up for lost time. I find your videos a tremendous source of information and very pleasant to watch

I just love Alexandria and her humour and practical no nonsense approach! Incidentally her advice is sterling!

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

I just LOVE how gardening KZreadrs just see each other as resources and colleagues rather than competition! Such a positive collaborative online space 😁😁

I live in a city, and this year I decided not to remove the weeds growing in the sidewalk cracks. Until last year, the house across the street had been empty for years, and untended, and the back yard was a paradise for little birds. Now that they don't have that resource, the seeds of the little sidewalk weeds are important to them. Lately, there have been PSAs warning against feeding bread crumbs to birds of all sorts, because their appropriate food is seeds. And it's a delight to see the tiny birds hopping around their inches-high "farm."

Thank you. I love how you promote other experts ( maybe other influencers wouldn’t do it fearing losing followers). I think your confidence comes from your experience, knowledge, love gardens and over all, you are aware how much the way you choose topics and edit them are helping many people around the world. I’m from Japan, even though the climate is different I learn a lot from your site, thank you.

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Japanese gardens are so interesting and have quite an impact on our gardening style

I randomly searched for a video on weeds and stumbled upon this. I have a love-hate relationship with my garden. The humorous opening is classic. Who would think the subject of weeds could be such a pleasure? I'm a bit more motivated to go outside and try to tackle this! A sincere thank you!

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Chockablock full of useful info again Alexandra, thank you so much for inviting me to participate.

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, really good tip of yours about focussing the weeding where it really needs to be.

Thanks for your informative videos. Tip for weeding. I bought very cheap hand forks & leave 1 in every bed so that if I see a weed when I'm passing by I can remove it quickly without getting my hands dirty.

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

That's an interesting tip!

For those times when a weed killer is necessary, I have had great success applying it with a paintbrush, which spares the surrounding plants from overspray damage. Thank you for very enjoyable content!

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

That's a good tip.

Yes to native plants (aka weeds)and especially those that feed pollinators and us. You are blessed if you have dandelion, chickweed, and clover. Just say no to chemicals and plastic. So much better (in my experience) to use newspaper and cardboard in place of landscape plastic with applied composted leaf mulch on top, or any mulch. Fabulous video.

Im alone in my place since march 8, that intro on googling weeding was epic. I laughed so hard thanks. What serious research you do, i love your attitude! Thanks

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I hope we all get some better news soon and are able to move more freely but safely.

So many of my favourite KZreadrs in one video!!! 🌿👍

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Really nice. Love how much you collaborate with others and introduce us to new people to follow. Im newish to gardening and I’m trying to go for the reclassify/give nature a space in my garden. Would never trust my children to weed- my daughter has a habit of tipping plant pots upside down on the raised beds and announcing “Sand Castle!” Shes two and loves getting her hands dirty.

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Sweet!

Loved your intro! Had me smiling! Sometimes it's hard to find the topic you're looking for on the internet. Also found the therapy information interesting with the microbes assisting in our serotonin production. Nature has such a beneficial way of providing for everyone!

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I love how you so generously shared all those great KZread gardening channels and books. Thank you.

Well put together, great resources! Thank you so much!

Love you videos and all the links to other sources of information. Double help. Thank you.

Just watched this, and instantly subscribed! Entertaining, and full of great tips, thank you!

Thank you for your videos. They are very helpful and I watch them often. I have learned much from you and appreciate your work.

Thank you sooo much for such a practical and well informed advice on all things weeding.

Excellent video. Thank you so much. ❤

This was absolutely fantastic! I love the way you share other gardeners. Will watch this again. So happy I found you. ❤️

Excellent video. Easy to understand and well planned. Thanks!

Another very informative video .thank you for including other comments

Also, love other gardeners sharing their ideas🌷

Absolutely fabulous! Thank you so much for the varied, entertaining and extremely informative content. Hello from New Zealand.

Great video, lots of information and helpful advice from experienced gardeners! Loved your intro! Thank you for all your effort and for sharing!!

Thank you so much very informative xx

👌👍❤ I am 80 yrs old Just retired from work but now courting the garden. Gardening is enjoyable but it is like dealing with a difficult partner. needing to keep with all difficulties in this partnership buy hoping for the happy ending. Happy ending does happen. Loved all the tips. Thank you.

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you and I agree!

Excellent video…a really thorough and broad approach to the subject. Well done and thank you.

I just subscribed. You did such a fabulous job with this video! Looking forward to seeing more of you 😊. Greetings from Wilmington, Delaware USA

Excellent tips. Thanks so much. 👌🌹❤️😘

Your voice is so soothing💕☺

This was extremely helpful, thank you! It's given me the moral boost I needed to continue tackling the Crown vetch in my yard and garden.

Love your posts Really informative and all aspects of the problem considered. Subscribed and looking forward to watching more 😊. A weed is just a flower in the wrong place🌼🌻🌾🍀

I love your packed-full useful vlogs!

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

Thank you well done I enjoyed watching

Loved this video! I agree that my garden has mead my Corona time very manageable! I have loved the time outside in the sun and fresh air and am so grateful for the birds and their songs! What a gift to me and a wonderful therapy during the stress of this pandemic😎

This is the best gardening advice channel on KZread, well done 👏

I just LOVE your videos and advice. Loved the guest tips, too. Nice work ☺️

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! 😊

I’m so happy to find you Thankyou

I’m so glad I’m watching this! I wish I would’ve watched this a few months ago before my garden was overrun by weeds! I have a lot of work to do now

Thank you from Canada❤️🇨🇦 I have a small perennial garden and I really enjoyed this video❤️🇨🇦

I love Charles Dowding!! He is the most brilliant gardener ever!!

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

He is, indeed.

So much information and tips in this video it’s one to rewatch. Thank you for sharing! This is my favorite video you’ve posted

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great video! Very informative! I really like your reference videos as well. Thank you again🙋🏾‍♀️

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

You always put a smile on my face, I appreciate your humour

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thanks Alexandra this such a great channel, you always bring the community together & I love connecting with the other youtubers. Your videos are always very timely

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I learned lots from this excellent video on weeding. Thanks for all the tips and links Alexandra

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

What a selfless, noble heart !!!! No words to appreciate yr deed . Love and gratitude from Sri Lanka !!! 🇱🇰

What a lovely video. Not just great information, but very uplifting!

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

You're totally wonderful! Thank you so much for all those magnificent tips. Richard from South Africa

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I’ll watch this video again!

What a wonderful video! Just when I think I know all about weeding I realize there is so much more to learn! 😊

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm just trying to make myself do some every day....not quite succeeding at the moment, though.

I am SO glad I came upon these videos! So informative & practical &delivered in such a delightful, friendly way! Thank you Alexandra.

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

You're so well spoken. You get right to the point. You're so informative. Thank you!

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

Thank you for compiling this video, it has all the information in one place and saved a lot of searching about for me.

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you so much for this video- it was packed full of advice and useful practices. I love your selection of 'weapons' as well!

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

So many great tips in ONE VIDEO. Just perfect! Thank you very very much. It's is intensely helpful. Love it❤️

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

You're so welcome!

Love your videos thank you 🙏 😇🙏❤️

What a great post, thank you so much🌱

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Greetings from Cleveland, Ohio. I just found this video and it's so helpful. I feel like I can go back out there and conquer the world, or at least the weeds in my garden. Thank you 🌱

So useful! Thank you

Thank you 🙏 I love pulling bind weed up, I also love the plant so It makes me smile both ways 🤗

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

It's very satisfying to get a really long root out.

Thank you! I appreciate your way of teaching, assuming we are brand new to gardening and providing us with enough info to "catch us up" if we are behind on other instruction or videos. I also appreciate you sharing other good informative videos and books! Wonderful content!!

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

I’m American but I just love Monty Don and his advice! Thanks for a great video!

Thank you for your informative channel. As well as your own input, I really enjoy the different approaches on a subject by your guest speakers. It makes it interesting and informative. I like your "no waffle" style. Succinct, great. thanks again.

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that!

thank you for all the useful information, and thank you to the commenters with additional insight and inspiration ~ sometimes i say to myself (regarding weeding or mowing) ~ today i'm going to make my garden pretty! it's a mindset. greetings from Raleigh, North Carolina.

Wonderful - really enjoyed this 💐

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Thanks for this great video and introducing me to other channels as well.🐝

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome

Haha, just thought you might like to know that I Googled "weeding your garden" (this is Apr 2021) and THERE YOU WERE! I'm still trawling through your older stuff, love it! Cheers from Oz! 🦘

I always find it's easier to weed after a good rain...especially in harder clay soils like mine😊

This is nice. Thank you for sharing.

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Fantastic and useful video !

Oh well put together - very useful advise for gardeners of all experiences, take care, Hugh 😊👍🏼🌿

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, hope you're well!

Exceptional presentation on variety of wedding (🥴) hints, tricks, habits or alternate views! I love that you spent a good amount of the video showcasing other gardeners styles or hints. Plus you interspersed their clips! It provided a thorough cover of the topic that saves the reader tons of time, plus all gardeners enjoy more gardening channels! I subscribed for your willingness to share other channels you follow!!

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! 😊 It's great to hear that people appreciate hearing about other channels.

Thank you for all the homework you did for us. This is perhaps the most useful video about weeding I have stumbled upon to date.

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

You’ve inspired me. I have a new perspective toward the daunting task…even toward bindweed.

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

Жыл бұрын

Bindweed! The worst...

WOW this is a great video! So informative with lots of resources to check out. Well done with all the effort you put into it! Thanx so much!

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

This video took so much organizing. I really appreciate it. What you were getting at in the end reminded me of something the American garden designer Tracy DiSabato-Aust wrote. I originally read Tracy years ago for her amazing work on perennial pruning, but the line I'm thinking of is to do with weeding. She said, "instead of calling it weeding, how about we just call it gardening." That stuck with me and shifted my attitude. If you really love working in the garden, weeding is simply another part of being out there.

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent point. I will remind myself every time I feel grouchy about weeding.

My 80 year old father tended our 50 year mature garden until his recent ill health, I have since taken up the baton and didn't have much of a clue about what I was doing, I'm a new subscriber I've learnt so much from you, thank you so much you are amazing and very inspirational xx

Great video! My parents always thought me that a "weed" is just a plant we haven't found a use for yet.... That mind set saves you a lot of time and energy, and makes you appreciate nature on an all new level.

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

So true!

@bingersinger1517

4 жыл бұрын

My Mom loved dandelions as they were so nutritious. My neighbors frown on my growth but they are such cheerful reminders of finding value in what others dismiss as worthless. We ate them regularly growing up. My neighbor treat their yards with chemicals s I d not trust mine are not impacted by ground waters and over spray😥

great idea and tip , i just weed my garden by hand and removing them when they are small , it is a lots of work but is fun and excllent meditation

Just discovered your channel and happily subscribed. Grateful for the treasure trove of information in the videos! The video format is excellent. Your voice is so soothing! As I was watching this video in my novice garden, a bird took its time splashing about in the birdbath. It is a credit to your calm way of speaking. Thank you!

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

Жыл бұрын

How lovely, thank you.

Thank you for sharing your tips. What would be best tool to weed in a very clay soil please and a with lots of large weeds?

Very informative as always. It can be fun to miss a weed and find out that it is a plant that you like. I had this happen with wild Ageratum. I had been pulling it up for years and one time I missed some. That's when I discovered it has a lovely blue blossom that blooms late in the season. Since then I have spread it around the garden for late season color. Durham, NC, USA

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Another great video! Loved the funny introduction. I’m the wild-about-weeds sort because many weeds have pretty flowers or berries, so I even collect seeds from weeds I find growing in the street, haha.

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

There are weeds I love, like toadflax, and ones I hate like winter heliotrope...

Great intro! I'm a there and then gardener for weeds. But then I have a small garden so it's quite easy. I have no bindweed in my new garden - I had it in my previous garden. I found it an on-going problem. A weed and a plant🤗

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great advice. Thank you very much indeed! 🇺🇸😊

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

i am grateful for all your tipa...thwy make gardening wasier and more enjoyable.

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Very interesting video, what a marvellous chance discovery- I’m now a subscriber. Keep up the good work.

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome! Thank you.

Thank you and the contributing you tubers. I'm really not a middle sized gardener because i have 6 acres, but some of it is wooded so I have to live with weeds. I usually get out the gas powered equipment and go to town chopping. In the cultivated areas i pull them out, but now I'm going to look for the hand tool you use. Our garden centers will be opening next weekend in Michigan and I can hardly wait. Thank you again and I'll be looking up the guests you tubers.

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Hi Alexandra, thanks for this video and all your tips, and also for recommending other good KZread gardening channels ... have subscribed to them all. My preferred method for weeding is to dig them all out by the roots, but I don't have a huge garden so it's less daunting, and because I've been persistent over the years it now is so much quicker, and now I actually enjoy weeding.

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

It's a pleasure to watch to learn about gardening which I started recently. Your channel is encouraging more flowers to plant using garden tools. There's a super easy tool I've been using is a " homi" for gardening, weeding, planting, and harvesting not even using shovels. You can buy at amazon or Asian market. I want anybody can try out they will be surprised and never get disappointed. Thank you always*¿*

Excellent! Thank you

Thank you so much for this video. I am a novice gardener and I’ve been wondering how to tackle the plethora of weeds in the garden.Lovely to hear from other contributors as well.

@TheMiddlesizedGarden

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

This is a wonderful video! I’ve adopted the philosophy of declassifying weeds into really pretty plants I want to keep. They come up first in the spring in my lawn and feed the pollinators until other plants are available. But I also let the various weeds come up over the seasons, there are different varieties, to live their lives with pollinators and wildlife. Occasionally, the celandine bully the oxalis, so I dig clumps of those out. But I love the “wild” lamium and let it run rampant through the lawn. The only thing I try to keep in line are the dandelions. They really want to take over. The clover keeps to itself. There are so many plants with minute but complicated flowers and I enjoy them as much as things I plant. I watched your video on making your front garden into a meadow, and I thought it was lovely even without large clumps of daffodils - which will come later. I think it’s natural that things come along slowly. A bird drops a seed that then becomes a single plant and then multiplies. Any real gardener will see what you’re doing, and anyone who thinks your front garden is unkempt? Who cares about them?!