Digging a Hole: Beginner Gardening Tips & Advice for Backyard Gardens

Series Summary

Gardening can be a fun and aesthetically pleasing way to help integrate your home with its surrounding environment. Using native and exotic plants, you can create a landscape that compliments your backyard and adds a sense of new life and freshness to your everyday routine. And no matter what climate you may live in, garden greenery is good for the environment, gets you outside and moving about, and teaches you just a little bit about life.

So everyone get out your green thumbs. In this free beginner gardening video series, get tips, advice, ideas and help for easy planting and fertilizing of your background garden. Learn how to put the right plant in the right spot, how deep to dig the hole and bury the roots, how to water properly, using a stake for plant stem support, what garden tools and equipment to use, and more. Our expert horticulturalist will give you a general course in creating the right environment for your new plants to flourish. Take notes, and then create the garden of your dreams.

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Craig Morrell. I'm with Landscape Restorations in Miami, Florida. We're here at Palm Hammock Orchid Estate and we're talking about planting and fertilizing. This video is about the basics of planting. We'll start off by digging a hole. It's always a good idea to dig the biggest hole that you can, irrespective of the size of the plant. In some cases, this can be a bit problematic. But in this case for this yellow shrimp plant, we've dug a fairly good sized hole. Notice that the hole is quite bigger than the plant. It gives plenty of room for the roots to go in before they hit the native soil. The idea is to give the plant the best dirt possible before it actually hits the native soil, because especially here in Miami, it's almost all pure rock. In this case, we've got a little bit of actual soil that we can work with, and we're going to try and give the plant the best dirt possible, so let's begin with this yellow shrimp plant "