5 Easy Tips to Pick the Best Plants from a Greenhouse Alberta Urban Garden
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On one of my most anticipated days of the year I thought I would share some of my tips for picking the best plants at the Greenhouse. 1 Come with a Plan: Planning can help you avoid a lot of troubles when planting your garden. I find planning helps me research what I want to grow and cook with while making sure I get all of the varieties and I have space for them all. Impulse buys can be challenging and fun but having a plan can help curb or direct your buys to fit your garden. 2. Check the Hardiness Zone: This is more important with perennials (plants that will come back year after year) but can have an impact on your annuals (live only one year) as well. If you are unsure what your Hardiness zone is you can search the internet for your Town or City it should be able to tell you which zone you are in. Growing Zones are set using a number of factors including number of frost free days and average coldest temperatures. You can plant plants that are not hardy to your zone but they will take a lot more work and some times not produce at all for you. Making sure your perennials are hardy to your zone will help give you the best possible chance of success. 3. Compare Plants: I garden in Zone 3 and have a short and intense season. In this zone I recommend getting the largest plant possible. This will give you the best chance to out run the fall and get produce. In higher growing zones (warmer climates) the smaller plant will take less transplant shock and do better in the long run. That is if the long run does not include freezing temperatures. 4. Leave Room in your Garden Plan for impulse purchases: I know this is kind of counter intuitive to Tip 1 but it is the reality of most gardeners. We have a weak spot that makes it fun for us to grab that cool plant that we did not know about. This year I picked up a Northland and Northcountry Blueberry plants and an honeydew melon plant. They are lots of fun to grab but make sure if you get perennials you have permanent space for them! 5. Carefully Transport them Home: Now that you have your haul of plants you want to make sure you bring them home carefully. carefully packing them together using containers and flat surfaces will give you the best chance of not damaging them when you move them. I would love to hear your tips for picking plants! Please feel free to post them in the comment section of the YouTube Video or email me through the websites contact me portal! Happy Gardening! Some of my favorite childhood memories are of gardening with my parents and brothers. This channel is about low cost organic urban gardening in zone 3. I am by no means an expert gardener however I love to share my experiments and journey garden year round. Please feel free to join the conversation and if you think you might like this channel subscribe. Have a great day! Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/stephenlegaree14 Webpage: www.albertaurbangarden.ca Google +: google.com/+StephenLegaree Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlbertaUrbanGarden Twitter: https://twitter.com/northern1485 Pintrest: http://www.pinterest.com/ABurbanGarden/
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To bad you don't start from seed in your home or in a greenhouse so you have a wider variety of produce to choose from at a much cheaper price. I understand, some don't have the room. Anyways nice video thank you for sharing. Check out my greenhouse at Back country preps BCP 33
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Impulse buys are the best, they are the magic that you look for. Thanks for the tips.
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Wow great tips sometimes you just wanna go crazy and pick all kinds of interesting things you can't grow and then feel defeat!!!!!!! Perfect!!!!
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We have a row or two of impulse buys in pots. Good advice;-)
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Good tips, Stephen!
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Great tips and presentation, Stephen!
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Great tips Stephen...although I am such an impulse buyer!!! I finally made a list the other day Lol :)
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I am a first time gardener and your advice is so helpful. Thank you so much!
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GReat tips Stephen it is a great idea to have a plant with you when you go toa nursery , impulse buys can get tin the way of what you need lol Also with any nursey when checking aplant you should be able to look at the roots of plants by tapping it out of its pot with permission of the nursery or by their staff.
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What kind of melon did you get? And what was the greenhouse you were at?
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I like to check if it is root bound or not. I look at the drain holes or sometimes pull it right out of the pot. Why are the grafted plants the biggests and most expensive?
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Thanks for the shopping tips. So easy to get carried away with impulse buys! lol
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Oh yes the impulse buys...We actually had to make a rule in my family regarding these...The rule states that impulse buys are fine so long as you have a spot prepared and ready for the plant, this keeps us from impulse projects LOL Anyway great video, :)
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That wasn't a Timmies coffee was it? Thanks for the video. Exciting times for sure. I went and bought a few plants over the weekend. Fun times! I bought a few things I wasn't planing on buying as well! Cheers
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Excellent work Stephen. Is it work or is it fun?
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Great tips! It's funny how they sell zone 5 plants in a zone 2 area! The downside to cold climate gardening, is that there is no guarantee that any perennial will make it through our winters. Yet I have zone 4 peonies that I've have for 8 years now! A tip for saving money is: never buy anything on Victoria Day weekend because everything will be on sale a week after. Buy plants in the fall when they are75% off. Also look for pots with two plants in them!
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Hey Steve, Nice idea, arranging early access... Very professional ;-) Your zone 3 growing always fills me with inspiration... I really must stop hiding behind infrastructure builds and actually grow something! Thanks... Chris
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Hah Plant Addict.
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Great tips Stephen :)
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