Plant your plants this spring fast with these easy 8 planting steps. Here how to get it done on this quick podcast.
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Today’s Topic:
8 Quick Spring Planting Steps
In this podcast, you’ll hear what 8 quick plantings steps you can use to get your plants placed in your garden.
What You’ll Learn:
- 8 quick planting steps in sequential order.
- Planting techniques you might not have heard before.
- Resources and links for more information.
Resources:
Some of the resources and products below may be affiliate links, meaning we might get paid a commission (at no extra cost to you) if you use that link to make a purchase.
- How to Plant Your Garden Bulbs (eBook)
- Garden Tutor soil texture testing kit
- How to Easily Test Your Garden Soil for Texture
- Right Plant, Right Place – DIY Garden Minute podcast ep. 134
- Cold-Hardiness and Why You Should Care – DIY Garden Minute podcast ep. 135
- Power-up Garden Care Challenge
Quick Spring Planting Steps
Planting your plants in the ground beds, raised beds, or in containers can be fast and easy.
The steps listed below can be used in any planting situation, but is especially useful for ground or raised garden beds.
Here are your quick planting steps:
- Using a shovel or trowel clear away debris and mulch to then dig your planting hole down ONLY as deep as your potted plant soil height AND twice as wide as deep.
- Make small mound in the center of the hole and score the hole sides so they aren’t smooth.
- Water the planting hole thoroughly.
- Then, remove your plant from its pot to then break up the soil around the roots so they are looser and aren’t in the shape of the pot.
- Once this is done, set your plant in the hole directly on top of the mound and splay the plant roots out away towards the hole’s sides.
- Then place the soil you removed back into the planting hole over the splayed roots and keep filling the hole, packing the soil lightly with your gloved hands.
- You should have some soil leftover, so make a dike or berm around your plant at the edge of the planting hole and then place mulch over the soil and berm where the mulch is kept 2-inches away from the plant stem.
- The very last thing to do is to always water your new plants.
Want to know more about planting your new plants
If you aren’t sure where to start learning about gardening, go to our Start Here page where you can get find beginning gardener topics by listening, watching, and reading.
Here are supplies, references, and more to help get you started:
- Planting Videos: Coming soon, as part of our “Spring Planting Series”.
- Hand tools and supplies:
And, if you have more questions on how to care for your plants after you’ve planted them, please email us and let us know.
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If you aren’t sure where to start learning about gardening, go to our Start Here page where you can get find beginning gardener topics by listening, watching, and reading.
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