The home gardener boom of 2020 is awesome. Hope it turns into a habit for all the first time home gardeners. Grade schools need to instruct more of it in the curriculum

1) rototillers, 2) lumbar/wood for gardens/raised beds, 3) seeds, 4) canning materials 5) potting mix 6) garden tools Here’s the list!

I started saving seeds last year. Just let a few go to seed and you’ll get 10 times the amount that come in a seed packs!

I work at Home Depot and we just put out our spring gardening section!! So many seeds I’m in heaven!!!!!

To all the new gardeners out there. Take a look around your neighborhood, and see if you can find someone who has been gardening for years. Us experienced gardeners usually live to share their love of gardening. We can help with local growing conditions, soil conditions, and maybe have a few.seeds from our packet to share. Consider finding a local seed sharing group. Make your seed starting mix. Rent a tiller. Please do not give up gardening because of everything going on. You just have to get creative.

My local library has a seed bank with donations from locally grown crops. Don’t always get what you want but there’s something.

If ye are prepared, ye shall not fear. And, be a blessing to others.

Possible video: Tool care to complement the shortages we will be facing. Make what we have last longer so we can grow bigger.

The US needs to start making our own garden supplies 😨

Luke that kale is impressive. I would dehydrate it for kale powder, chips, salads. I imagine the flavor is much better with the cold.

Luke, sage advice - on all fronts - seeds, soil, and supplies! When seeds sold out in 2020, members of the GARDEN CLUB OF OLYMPIA pulled together like never before. We pooled our resources. We may not have had the specific VARIETY of tomato, pepper, or onion that we wanted, but we each had a garden with tomatoes, peppers, and onions! Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 12/22/2020.

Concerning the seed, use heirloom plants and You´ll have seed for centuries!

My suggestion: Look for and buy products from USA and other US-friendly countries.

Get your seed starting mix NOW. Forget the tiller and just mulch, mulch, mulch

This video was not only helpful for gardening, but helpful for life! ❣️

Could you do a series on how you save the crops you grow? I absolutely love gardening and it brings me so much peace but I don’t know exactly the best way to save what I’ve grown.

Always impressed with your Kale Patch. Procrastination is not a gardener's best friend! Great tips. Thanks for sharing.

I plan my gardens in the fall because my failures from the year are still fresh in my mind.

Home Depot just got Spring seeds in. Yes I bought more! Already ordered from Baker Creek and MIGardner. I can’t control myself.

Not scared but motivated. Started my first garden and learning. Thanks

Something else which sold out last summer was chest freezers. The one my daughter ordered for me on Amazon was stolen out of the warehouse in CA. She eventually got a refund, but, no freezer. Winter sowing season starts right now. That might be why potting soil is being sold now.

🙌 i have been gathering since February!! Just got 5 acres we are so excited!!

You warned us months ago about supply chain shock...some of us were listening

You didn’t mention dehydration as a form of food preservation. A very easy way to keep many things. Definitely worth a mention and a try 😊

Great advice!!! Now is the time to get everything ready and prepped. It makes planting so much more enjoyable when the soil is rich and ready, and a plan is already set.

The lumber cost is also high because there have been outbreaks in the mills and down here in the pine belt we had some record tornados that took out some timber lots.

Saving seeds from favorite plants is great. Also sometimes the different dollar stores carry basic veggie and flower seed packets. Not as many seeds, but it can get a basic small patch going. They can sell out fast.

Thanks for the timely reminder! Yes, I work in a plant store and we’ve had trouble getting certain things. Canna products, nitrile gloves, and especially terra cotta, much of which is produced in Italy. The advice to get gardens started now is really good, especially if you’re going to be digging up sod and putting it at the bottom of raised beds. I moved in August and got a whole ornamental garden planned, dug and mulched, and moved the plants from the old place, so I’ve taken a bit of a breather, but this was a great reminder to get my raised beds set up so that the sod can die and start composting so that things will grow better in the spring. Those beds are gonna go out there in the next week or so. Also that kale behind you looks amazing!

A video I would like to see is how you replace the boards on your raised beds.

While the seed shortage was tough it is encouraging that so many people finally get it and are starting to do this. I've already ordered all my seeds. The only thing I need are seed potatoes and I have a good source. Get your seeds NOW.

I can tell you in Alabama when it comes to the gardening tools the general rakes shovels and all the hand tools and you mentioned gloves. Well our Walmart here had clearance all the Walmarts I went around collecting clearance items in the garden center everything was like a dollar or cheaper that regular big shovels and rakes h stompers and I actually got axes hand access for $3 a piece and then the little trowels and forks and pruners all like a dollar $1.50 75 cents. So believe me I stocked up I got triples and quadruples of everything. It was wonderful I must have got $400 worth of stuff for maybe $100

the mrs. here... the mr's is really new to "what if" prepping. more often than not, i get the "eye roll" at some of my plans so i've had to get, um, creative with how i present things. i got 2 lg bags of soil so i could "repot all the house plants over the winter"... i hid the bags and ain't touched a single houseplant.

Very, very good info. If it weren't for the blizzard currently going on, I'd love to build my raised beds! But....I think getting my materials and setting them aside will be just fine 🙂

Also deep freezers! All of the stores around us sold out in the spring and summer, but luckily we found one on Facebook 🙌🏽

Merry Christmas, wishing everyone a great harvest in the new year.

Get things now keeps you excited for Spring, too!

Luke, in my opinion you have one of the best channels on youtube! I hit some tough times back in the summer but watching your videos always put me in a positive mindset and motivated me to get out and do things with my garden I would have never thought possible. Thank you so much!

Thank you for the reminder! I would add a couple more: irrigation components; fertilizers, pesticides. Happy gardening to everyone!

Wonderful advice! Everyone thought I was nuts buying seeds and tools this fall. Well, Luke here says it's NOT nuts, it's thinking ahead! Especially this year. Oy vey, what a year.

Great list! Taking heed now. Also, don't forget freezers. I've tried since August to get a freezer. Was told first time November, told in November try January, nada. Have to pay in advance, and "wait and see when it comes in". Big box stores have no idea when they will be in.

1. Rototillers 2. Lumber 3. Seeds 4. Preservation methods 5. Potting mix 6. Garden tools

Thanks for all the great information. This was confirmation for me to stop my procrastination! 👍

Bad news. I started seed hoarding years ago. Now I need to plant them all. 😍🌱🌾🌹🌽🥬🥕🥒🍅

I have everything for my 5 8’x4’x11” raised beds except the soil. My greenhouse is built, I’ve got my raised bed materials and all my seeds, starter cells and starter soil. I’ve been buying a little at a time since March. In my area I can only get soil from Walmart during garden season or our wonderful garden center anytime. I can get enough soil for all 5 beds for $1000! 😳 My son friended a nearby rancher/petting farm and they will give me all the Llama/Alpaca manure that I want.

Stopped in the middle and ordered two bags of the same potting mix from my local Lowe's. Feel better already.

Couldn't agree more.

Thank you, Luke! Great advice as we start planning for the new year. I’d better get myself that lumber sooner than I was thinking.

Luke I’m going to replay this video and make my list. All great suggestions! Thank you!

Thank you! Cause I was waiting for spring 😁😁😳😳 it already difficult to find perlite and straw here!

Thanks for the heads up! That happened to me earlier this year so I've been making plans to get ahead of things

Invest in some really good, hand forged gardening tools instead of machinery. Double dig your garden plot instead of roto tilling it. Gardening done right, the old-fashioned way is hard work and will give you a fit body as well as tasty, low-cost food. Choose a location for your garden that NEVER had a lawn treated with pesticides and herbicides if you want good results. Start a composting bin using trimmings from landscape plants and wild plants that have not been "treated" with pesticides and herbicides. Invest in a good rabbit-proof, wire mesh fence around your garden. Interplant different types of vegetable plants and herbs in your garden instead of planting blocks/rows of all the same kind of plant. You want to make it more difficult for insect pests to follow the scent of the plants they love to eat or to lay their eggs on. Invest in some water barrels to collect rain water or run a removable plastic pipe from your roof's downspout to the garden. Raised beds are fine if you get too much rainfall or have soggy soil but not so good in arid regions or places that have very hot summers and periods of drought. Use flattened cardboard boxes or homemade, chemical-free mulch as weed barriers and to hold in moisture during droughts. Learn what types of food plants do best in your region and focus on growing those instead of nursing along plant types that will never do very well. And don't forget to plant some dwarf fruit trees, fruit bushes and fruiting vines, varieties suitable to your region, in locations where they will not shade your vegetable plants too many hours during the growing season or where their roots will compete with your vegetable plants for water and soil nutrients. Plant heirloom varieties of food plants suitable to your region and save some seeds from your best plants each year. Do this so you will not be dependent upon what seed merchants are selling each planting season. Have a plan for preserving an abundant harvest by home canning, freezing or dehydrating your surplus produce. Remember to rotate each year where you plant certain vegetables in your garden so you do not get a build-up of soil pests and fungal diseases in your garden soil. And let your garden plot go fallow and get choked with weeds one year out of every five or so years because this will greatly improve the fertility of the soil and reduce soil-borne pests and diseases.

I'm picking up jars and lids when I see them. I asked for a pressure canner for CHristmas. I canned all summer from my little garden and the farmers market. Bought my Bakers Creek seed catalog and have my wish list marked. Gonna order right after the new year. Good tips!

Thank you! I’m happy that I ordered my seeds from you early! Merry Christmas 🎄

A great public service message! Thank you! 🌸

Thats right though on shortages. Its a fact does not ever hurt to be aware and prepared .I received my book and my seeds ! Very nice.I love the fact that younger people are gardening ! Your book was done very well .I like it my gardening library. Great job !

I got around a few of those problems. I do no till gardening, so there is the tiller issue solved. I used big rocks for raised beds. They should last longer than wood. I am getting better at seed saving. Plus, I already bought most of my seeds. Thanks for the tip about potting mix at Home Depot. I agree with you, that this is really good that so many people are getting in to gardening

I am waiting patiently for my seeds from MI Gardener which are on the way. After watching many of your educational videos I also saved seeds for this spring to also share with family & friends. Thank you Luke & staff you are all a joy to deal with. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you all. Please stay safe & well. 💖

Got my seeds from you already Luke! Thanks so much!

You are telling the truth. We have to pre plan as gardeners. I have bought my seeds already and I am buying my potting mixes and stuff now. Thanks for the tips, I want one of the heat mats from one of your older videos on amazon, on my Christmas list.

Thank you Like and family! Merry Christmas 🎄

Thank you Luke! Merry Christmas to you and your family! 💜🤗

Thank you for the great advice! Did not realize all the shortages.

Great honest pints Luke! Merry Christmas to you and family!

Thank you. this is my number 1 channel to learn from... How to harvest seeds? MI gardener knows!! I got my seeds last fall.yay! I also harvested way more than I can use...Year one of my garden was awesome and year 2 will be even better.. found clear plastic super cheap at a thrift store and am about to make a removable greenhouse. Got me wood already. Yay for Spring! God is good all the time! Happy New year! 59 days til March.😀

This is why I cleaned up on end of season seeds last fall, and put in a seed order a few days ago to fill in the holes. I've also stocked up on canning jar lids. I was in pretty decent shape last spring using what seeds were leftover from the year before, but that only lasts so long. Also if you haven't thought about it, get a dehydrator. The things that I couldn't can, or freeze got dehydrated. I dehydrated things I don't normally like onions and garlic. I'm sure glad that I did. My dehydrating tasted so much better than what I got from the store. I will be doing it again next year. I'm glad you mentioned potting mix and gloves. I wouldn't have thought of that. I'll see about getting some next time I'm at the store. That gets me to thinking that seed starting pots might be a good idea too.

Thank you ...we always learn something new!!! I am going to start putting onions up in the freezer. I don't know how much longer the organic veggie service that we have delivered will be available and I have a few that are getting soft. Things are crazy...we need to prepare for the worse and pray for the best.

Thanks for this episode on the top 5 things to do. Excellent things to keep is thinking about next year. I would like to make one suggestion for an episode. Can you do one one your favorite tools and why you like that tool over others. i.e hand pruners. There’s a million styles of them !! Thanks...

Love that you talked about shortages and UPS truck drives by in the background 🤣😂🤣 I am always to late at the garden center, not this year! I just did my hopefully last pick up. Seeds are also ordered. I also planted carrot seeds as you recommend. Like your cannel and energy. 👍🏻👍🏻

What a fantastic, informative video. This is stuff we have always taken for granted as far as availability goes. Thanks for the timely reminder Luke!

Been planning on buying the Honda mini 4 stroke tiller for myself for Christmas lol but because of this video I bought it and $50 worth of organic seeds today!

Heck, I feel so lucky that here in NZ we dont have any community based Covid19 and so there aren't really any shortages. All the best to those of you who do and its great that Luke is helping gardeners to plan with this in mind. May covid be controlled and diminished in your country quickly.

I'm very happy to be ready well in advance I'm ready in February I get all my seeds then I still pick up new things to try. I switched to no dig 3 years ago. The seed kits now available are great options for first time gardening or getting a big garden with lots of options on a budget.

I got literally everything early August because I anticipated this to happen. I spent $300, got materials to make my own soil, lumber for 2 raised bed 4*8, 4 different kind of organic fertilizer and 214 packs of seeds and mulch 😁 P.S my garden is about 600 square feet

I agree whole heartedly. Prep in fall & have those seeds, trees & bushes. Trees & bushes can be healed in work the winter.

This was an excellent reminder. There are a few things that I need that I am going to go get right now!

Already working on some of your suggestions. Thanks for all you do!

Thank you for the tips!

Merry christmas to you, your family, and your friends😁🙂😉👊.

Your kale plants are awesome!!

thanks for the heads up!!

I'm hoping to order seeds after Christmas 🎄!

I know there is no reason to wait, but sometimes people are in a financial bind. I have to wait because my stimulus check went to a closed account so I’m going to have to wait until income tax time. Luckily I built 3 raised beds last year, planned in the winter, and had already bought everything before shut downs. Even if I can’t get my front yard garden going like I want I have my 3 raised beds. Good luck on your gardens this year everyone!

Excellent stuff brother.. love ya thanks!

Try joining or starting a local seed exchange on Nextdoor App. I plan to share seeds next year and will be relying on this app to find people who need some.

Happy Holidays to you and yours.

Thanks to you I got some potting soil. I also got some seed starting soil, coir & liquid fertilizers - at least I won't run out!! :)

Just received my seeds from y'all. Yaaaaay! Thank you - can't wait 'til planting time.

Merry Christmas!

So helpful Luke! Thank you!

Thanks for the inspiration to plan my garden for 2021. My garden was beautiful for 2020. I want to plant more vegetables from seeds. Have a great holiday season. 🌲

Thanks for the video I agree and feel that you are right on about thinking ahead about these things! I need to quit procrastinating and get out there and get what I need.

Thanks for the info!

Just picked up 3 pair of very nice brand new gardening/ mechanic gloves for $1 (for 3) at a thrift store. Check alternative places for what you need. Not only are they cheaper but they also support your local community as opposed to big box stores who only help the 1%. Love your channel! Long time subscriber.

Just got some seeds yesterday from you thank you 😊

Good advice about preparing early for this coming spring. I think there will at some point be a shortage and/or longer wait times for the stores to restock their inventory or even receive this year's shipment of inventory for the yard and garden work.

Such great advice. We have more raised beds built but need to get our soil started. Think we will plan it earlier now

My local blue store already has it's seed displays and summer-flowering bulbs and tubers up, so I definitely grabbed some when I was there the other day. Good call on grabbing more soil, though. I will have at least two new raised beds to fill this year and it might be worth it to go ahead and have the fill dirt handy!

my gardening plans had to be done later last year because we bought our house in november 2019, we moved early pandemic april 2020, then the first 14 days of our quarantine I set about getting what I could started. My plan was to get a big garden going before pandemic. I love gardening, just hard to in a town house that lacks space. Summer 2020 I got chickens. I've got my seeds, ordered berry bushes, potato seed and all that already. I got a food saver for christmas, that came with canning jar vacuum sealer attachment - great for dry gooods. I'm hunting for a pressure canner. I won't bother with a rotor tiller as I've gone no dig - chicken tilling. I've seen all these short supply issues. heck even buying seeds at the moment, so many varieties are already sold out!

There are 2 huge 4000+ sq ft new homes being built on a former 10 acre farm (split into 5 acres each) next door to my farm. At the price of lumber and new construction right now the cost has to be ridiculous. Already got all my seeds and supplies for 2021 garden and making lots of compost. Finally bought a broad fork so should save me time loosening soil in the spring. Outdoor planting time will be here soon! Happy gardening!

Thanks so much Luke!!