Dave The Hillside Gardener
Dave The Hillside Gardener
Thanks for checking out my channel! I'm all about showing tips and tricks on new ways to grow plants, veggie and we'll anything else that will grow. ZONE 7A, hillside garden located in West Central WV. I have the typical backyard garden but also experiment with gardening in the woods and other semi-wild methods. Join me for this awesome journey.
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good stuff. very helpful info , well spoken. fun facts too!
Thanks a bunch!
Thank you!!!
@@letygerber2546 glad I could help
I left mine grow insanely long stems because I didn't know how to care for it. It seems happy like that but it's ugly as f* 😂, especially because when it's let loose like this, it looses all its leaves at the bottom and only keeps a dozen or so at the end of the branch lmao
My favorite flowers by far. Amazing country smell and attraction of pollinators. I could have a yard full of them
Yessir. Wonderful for many reasons
I love how they attract so many pollinators!!
Definitely! So many pollinators
Getting seeds for the next year im impressed how they look
Thank you. One of my favorites for sure
🤔I walk past my Rue plants and run my hands up the branches to get a Big Hit (smell) of its leaves. I have a Love affair with Rue and it loves me back. It's No brag just fact. It effects people differently. James in El Paso, Tx.😁😉👍
It’s the sap that causes the irritation
I'm ready for the 2 year update on the mother plant!
Long story short. I gave the plant to one of my family members who eventually killed it. Word of advice. Do NOT overwater kalanchoe. I do have many other varieties of kalanchoe if you’d be interested on a video of them?
After 2 yrs how did they turn out?
They grew just fine. But the deer ate them to the ground and they never recovered. My new apple trees are behind a fence now.
Did these cuttings root? Where is the video.
They all rooted and when they were big enough I gave them away to a friend since I have no room for a giant tree in my yard.
Thank you!
You’re welcome
I have sometjing similar the leaves are meaty and the flowers come in all colors. It looks exqctly the same except the bottom. Mine are called livingstone daisy i think
Are you talking about Lithops? I think they’re related in some way?
@@DaveTheHillsideGardener their latin name is Dorotheanthus bellidiformis They look almost identical to your plant. The flower that is and the bottom part is different
@emelgiefro wow those are cool thanks for the suggestions
That is so cool!
It’s one of my new favorites. The flower is beautiful
Those are huge. I grow mine near other varieties, same conditions and bulb sizes are vastly different. Do you find the roja have other needs from varieties like music or red Russian?
Every garlic has conditions it likes. I grew about 10 varieties over the years. Some did horrible some much better. I’d just try a bunch and find the one that likes your conditions and stick with it tbh.
How did you get them to grow that tall?
Moist highly fertile soil with compost for many years
Nip that bud when it's 6 stems up it'll make more flowers then more seed to plant next year
.. Wow.. I think it is a plant like this that I rescued only days ago, or, I'm trying to rescue the poor thing.. I found it in the garden trash where I live, and brought it home with me.. Only I had no idea what kind of plant it is, and since it's no bigger than one of your cuttings with leaves half the size and completely dehydrated.. But looking at your plant and cuttings, I can recognise the leaves as the same plant that I found.. If it's family to succulents then maybe I should give it the same soil mix??.. Thank you so very much for sharing this, you just gave me a little work to do 🤗
I use potting mix and add perlite and coco coir to keep it light and loose
Beautiful, outstanding and an awesome helpful video 😊 thank you !Dave the Hillside Gardener for sharing. I just purchased a thatcher rake and love its performance… your KZread video is very encouraging and makes me proud to continue to work with hand tools for the yard I
Thanks 🙏. I try to use hand tools as often as possible. It’s not practical if you have an acre yard but for a small lot you can’t beat it.
And how do you treat them at the end of the season?? Thank you for any info
I’m in Ohio zone 6. My cannas look great, huge actually but no flowers yet?
I’m in wv zone 7 and weee had flowers for a few weeks now. Did you have a cold wet spring?
Watch out! This stuff can take over your garden and the blooms don't even last all that long.
That’s why I plant it on a steep slope where nothing else will grow as a groundcover
When you layer a stem with success and cut the "donor" stem and move the new growth to another location, you lose the "donor" stem's growth is that correct? I have a healthy vine but with only two long vine stems so if I layer one it will be sacrificed from the process and overall set the main plant back - is this correct? Could the "donor" vine be layered a second time or at the cut tip?
Once you cut the donor stem as you refer to it. The mother plant will generally put on new growing buds. Unless you cut it back in a way that damages the mother plant you should be fine
@@DaveTheHillsideGardener Thanks!
One of my barrel cacti just bloomed for the first time. The flower is 2x the size of the cactus. So beautiful 😍
I agree. People don’t realize succulents and cacti have awesome blooms
Do the seed require stratification ?
Not exactly, but stratification does improve the germination and better plants in my experience
Awesome! What a pretty flower!
Definitely 👍 it’s bigger than the actual plant
Can we germinate from store bought dehydrated blueberries aswell?
Possibly but much easier with fresh seeds. If they dry out too much I think they will lose viability
@@DaveTheHillsideGardener Thanks. I am from Nepal and unfortunately we don't get fresh blueberries here.
Beautiful garden helper
I’ve seen a bunch this year. Everywhere
Majestic
It’s pretty awesome you need to go experience it in person
So helpful! I have a snake plant that needs to be propagated soon, it's been the one plan that never quits on me which I love. It's overgrowing its little pot, but more than that, I'm wondering how to get it to be strong enough to stay standing upright verses flopping over. Any ideas?
Don’t over water. And give plenty of light. Sometimes people think they can grow in the dark and water every week. This usually is not a good idea overall.
@@DaveTheHillsideGardener Thank you - I water 'her' once every couple of weeks, and she sits next to the window, but has gotten really tall and slender, making the leaves bend down. Maybe it will be better once I re-pot!
@HardinRH mine are in shallow pots and I let them stay pretty crowded I think that helps keep them more stabilized
what zone are you in?
6b/7a
Frankly the 70 plus year old peonies inherited from my mother have never been pruned except just before snow for less waste on the ground in spring. In far north of Idaho. Love them dearly. They are spring angels of the garden.
In northern climates can you do fall cuttings and start indoors?
Yes. Wait until late winter and take hardwood cuttings keep damp not wet and humid. When you see new growth gradually decrease humidity and start to water a bit
@@DaveTheHillsideGardener Thanks.
Update?
There will be one probably in August or September. I’m gonna let it grow all summer first
Those plants are so cool looking!
It’s getting sooo big now
Good video but the lighting is not good can barely see what you’re showing
Yeah I understand. That’s a pretty old video when I was just starting out. Live and learn. The. New stuff is much better. Thanks for watching
this is the best dahlia pruning video on all of the internet.........thanks.
I appreciate that. Glad you enjoyed it
Grown from seed!!!!!!!!!!!!! ***** Street Cred ! ******
Yep! I grow most of everything ornamentals and veggies from seed. Saves big money
I would welcome him into my garden...
Awesome collection!!
Thanks. Which was your fave
@@DaveTheHillsideGardener the Christmas carol ones look really cool!
Funny you chose these varieties. Redwoods make forests and juniper turn forests into deserts.
Eh they were both growing in my neighborhood it wasn’t really planned or deliberate. I was growing them to try bonsai projects
Yeheah! I love those flowers and man, growing up, my mom had one, my dad used to run it over with the lawnmower scalping it to the ground, it was a bush again in 2 months with flowers all over again!
Dang! Why would you mow it down? Glad it came back
Great video! - thanks for making it.
No prob at all. I’m about to make one of my aloes so check that out
By the way they do grow from seed. Really easily, I have soooo many
I’ve planted a bunch of the seeds and only ever had 1 germinate. It could be the seeds are a hybrid and sterile?
Thanks so much now i know! Have a wonderful day 😊
Glad I could help
Realized half way through doing this that I didn’t let the pieces callus… but I see you didn’t either so hopefully it’s all good! 🥹
Yea if not callused just don’t water them for a week. I used just barely damp soil just so something is there. Once I notice new growth I start to slowly increase the watering
Thank you for this video! It has helped answer so many questions. I was gifted a Kalenchoe a few years ago and she was teeny tiny and now she’s just sprawled out everywhere. Thanks to your video I can now (with confidence) 🤭 propagate and tidy her up. Thank you! ☺️
Thank you! I hope you have success
Thank you so much! 😊
Excellent, thank you
Save yourself some time. Grab your hedge trimmer go at it. Just watch where you’re going. You’ll be done in half the time. It’s worked for me for years. Peonies are tough and can take it
Why
@@DaveTheHillsideGardenerYour method is great if you’re pruning a bush or two. I have a peony “hedge” approximately 50’ feet long. So, this works quickly and the hedge thrives. The first bush I ever got was a transplant from my Grandmother’s garden, which now makes the bush almost 100 years old and still growing strong
i know i'm late to this but do you have an update on this? -N
It was a healthy plant but every time it set fruit they never ripened and fell off. I think the ants were eating them? It was a fun experiment nonetheless
@@DaveTheHillsideGardener right on...thanks for gettng back to me. Im going to give this a go soon! -N
Nice video, I have a pepper plant ( I think) that has beautiful blooms that are quite large and half of the flower is yellow and half is red. Would you have any idea what it could be
Possibly capsicum rhombodium. But that’s extremely rare so unlikely. I’d need more details to be sure.