Never apologize for being 'too excited' for something. We all need to share joy

I purchased a 30 foot deicing cable immediately after watching your video. I used it in my raised bed. I live in northern South Carolina so we do not get an exceeding amount of freezing weather but we get enough to inhibit plant growth. I thought maybe by using the deicing cable and covering it with 5 mil plastic I would have significant growth on my plants and be able to germinate seeds outside during the winter. Both of these things occurred. Since this time I've purchased three more deicing cables. What I did was purchase a thermostat that allows the cable to go on and off between certain temperatures. That way it didn't constantly stay on. You really had a brilliant idea my friend.

Luke, growing a seed and garden empire yet still giving us frugal tips and ways to cut out the middle man. God bless you, sir!

My Great Uncle John had heating lines, that were meant for around pipes under your house, in his garden to extend our growing season in Mid Michigan. I had forgot about it till now Luke, thanks. He did it for years.

"I watch MacGyver" This right here is the best line ever!

I have never seen a grown man have this much fun playing in dirt 😃

your always excited Luke... never change.

That's awesome! I totally agree that it's better. I had a soil warming cable but it didn't last long and was expensive. It broke apart on a bend. Yours looks much thicker and more robust. I had kind of given up on the idea, but now I'm as excited as you are! Thanks Luke! I LOVE your gardening enthusiasm, it's what keeps us all going! Never change!

I bought my deicing cable when you first talked about this... a few months ago? I was just thinking that I need to lay this down in the next few weeks to wake up my soil. I’m so happy to see that this is working so well! When you mentioned it - I was sooooo excited! We, in Colorado, are having a heavy snowfall right now and I can’t wait to garden! My hail cloth is on order and my supplies are waiting in the yard to build my greenhouse. I expanded my garden by about 50% so I have a lot of work to do this season to catch everything up. Thanks for your enthusiasm- I LOVE it!

Hi Luke, when it comes to gardening, you can never be TOO excited. I'm so excited for this concept. I'd love to try this!

I love your enthusiasm, it's what make you, you! Keep being genuine.

I love it that you are always learning not just for your self but for others as well stay warm

I love your excitement! Brings a smile to my face! It's always great to hear and see positive energy! I can actually feel the positive energy when you talk about this! Keep up the amazing positive attitude!

Your enthusiasm is one of the reasons I watch your videos. I don't live in snow and enjoyed watching this.

Love your enthusiasm as always.Found à Nova Scotian who wrote to you. This Canadian grew up in Ontario but lives now in New Brunswick where soils are very much of the clay variety. Can get rather hard when the summer doesn’t see much rain like last year’s. I hope that , as you’ve mentioned before, over time, my home composting will in a few years or so change the structure of this soil so as to make things more ideal for vegetable gardening. Will fill you in on how things go.

I’m just getting over Covid and your enthusiasm made me smile (for a change)! Thanks

I did this in December in Colorado - with a light tarp when it gets really cold the buried cable keeps it jusssst warm enough for the napa cabbage, mizuna and spinach to be thriving through the winter. They even did just fine through the -9 cold patch last week with a second sheet of plastic over it (which it probably didn't need but I did it anyways out of paranoia)

Luke, I am with you... No such thing as being OVERLY excited about growing things!!! Proof is in the WORKABLE soil for the heated raised bed! Thanks for the tip about the de-icing cable. Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA

WOW ! I'm going to try this. Really want some spring green's soon. Thanks so much for sharing this. Stay safe, warm and healthy. God bless

I am so excited by the possibilities of this! You can use it to grow things that you really shouldn't be able to grow in your zone!!! Thank you Luke! You are always trying to think outside the box and I love that you are thrifty and share that with us as well!!!

I personally love how much joy you have! Living in Colorado we get brutal winters so I will absolutely be trying this! Thanks so much for the brilliant idea!

Ok I am excited about this!! I am planning 3 new raised beds right now, and will plan to add this next fall with a cold frame! 🥳🌞 THANK YOU!! 🌞 (Was laughing because you went right to the spot I wanted when you were looking for a spot to dig! 😄) Happy Saturday! 🌞

Your enthusiasm is wonderful ! Thanks for all of your videos. Utah gardener.

Thank you! This is such invaluable information for those of us who live in cold areas. We are in the same grow zone and you, and I am ordering one of this RIGHT NOW! I have been struggling to get things going in our short grow season, and this is awesome. :) Hello from Vermont!

I saw your first video on the cable bought one but didn't get it buried this season. But I plan on using it real soon. I'll let you know how it works. Thanks for the idea. So happy to worked so well.

Hey! I tried your de-icing cable idea in my cold frame. Greens are still super happy. We hit -23°F in Omaha. Just looped cable on top of soil with thermostat inside the bed. Thank you so much for such a clever solution!

Thanks for the idea! Looking forward to seeing you use it😍

Been waiting for this udate. Way cool Luke.

Make sure it’s hooked up to a GFI outlet or GFI protected circuit. If it not a break, or damage, in the cable will likely not trip a breaker because dirt is a poor conductor of electricity. This could result in an shock from working near the damaged conductor. The GFCI measures the electricity being put out from the circuit and trips if there is an irregularity. Modern homes have GFCIs on the outdoor receptacles but older homes maybe not. Thanks for the videos. We’re excited to start a garden on a new property this year and watch the advice, and videos, you put out. Cheers!

Great stuff. I hope you make a follow-up vid with practical info on sprouting and growing.

Wow! Loved this video! Who would have thought. Great price on the roof de-icing cable. It’s twice the price in Virginia at Home Depot & Lowe’s. Still checking other places. Even at $60 for 80ft it’s still affordable. Ty for all the time & work you put in to showing the best practices & easiest ways to grow.

Now that is pretty cool...err...warm...lol Possibly the best thing for gardening I've seen so far this year!

That’s fantastic, Luke!!!! We normally don’t need this in south Texas but after this freak snow fall last week, this is something I’d definitely invest in because you just never know! Wondering if it would be needed in the winter anyway for better germination and/ or just growing? Would it be too warm? Anyway, thanks for this because I’ve learned we can’t depend on anyone in emergencies. Luckily, I had prepared for the pandemic but many, many people had no food or water. We still don’t have water because our pipes burst in our panel. Blessings to everyone who had to go through this.

Agreed... AMAZING! I will DEFINITELY be trying this combined with a plastic dome to keep... brussel sprouts, collards, kale, spinach, etc. next winter. Great information. ... and look at you, 7min video. 😉👍

Thanks this is an awesome tip and $$$ saver. As a fellow midwesterner, I'd be that excited to have warm workable soil outside right now.

I have yet to see you unexcited. It's refreshing!

....interesting. I became a hobby grower 2-3 years ago (Im still a rookie) and I have learn alot of MiDude. I still have a ton of seeds left from ordering from thier seedbank last year. I got 11-12 foot tomatoes from Migardener "Big Boy" tomatoes (and that was in the fall season). I can't wait to see how we do with them this year. Keep up the cool grows MiDude. 💪👍🏼

Hello from #rsumlife ....Luke that's how we gardener are 😂😂 always gets super excited when we talk about anything related to plants .... thanks Luke for doing all the research and bringing us the best information ...have been following for almost a decade I think and your passion towards plant is awesome !

Love your energy and your excitement

Love your energy...don’t change!

Dude, thank you for that update. I honest to god thought that would never work. Well done, very well done.

"I watch McGyver" LMBO 🤣 Best line

I have been thinking about a drip-line solar heat setup to keep my row cover warm. this is the solution. Thanks Luke.

My straw berries came out of dormancy due to about 10 days of warm weather in early March, two weeks later had 16 degree forecast three nights in a row. Buried 60 ft. Cable in a 20 foot bed 3 inches deep, covered with row cover and didn’t loose a single leaf. Got the idea from your video last year. Good work.

Luke, I am so very sorry that you cannot find something to be excited about....LOL. I think this is an awesome idea. Thanks for doing the research and then sharing with us. I am sure it will be of benefit for many. I am one of the many. You are definitely passionate about what you do and I for one, appreciate it. You bring it My Friend!!!! Over and Over again.

Awesome!!!! I love your excitement, Luke!♥️🌱♥️

If my husband would be as Enthusiastic about gardening as Luke is, I would be in heaven

I was wondering just a couple days ago (when we had almost a foot of snow) How your warming cables were holding up So glad you updated us on it Almost thought you were going to skip out on it

God bless u luke, im prolly overexcited about this too haha. Dont worry about that, ur a garden legend. I learn so much with every post, and this gets me so excited for the growing season here! Also, I have been stunned by spinach. I never planted much, if any, but they will survive snow, lack of light, drought, etc. Might just be better in my area, this is my new go-to though.

I’m excited to give this a try. I’m in zone 6a. Thank you for this information. You rock.

I love that you investigated ways to do things cheaper. Why pay twice the price for the same outcome. Thank you for bringing us money savings garden ideas.

That is an interesting concept for possible early straight seed planting into the soil.

I’ve been waiting for this update!! 😄😄😃

Wish you did really long videos, like to listen while I do garden things, hate having to keep reloading videos, end up only watching videos lol🤣🌻💯😃👍🌱🥀

Liking this idea for in the greenhouse or even hoophouse for the potential to do more than like the Nebraska Orange/Citrus farmer design and my Dad did with his greenhouse. Also, have thought about using radiant heating PEX or other maybe like HDPE tubing with a solar concentrating heater either box design or trough design to still have grow-able area under the trough/box towers/masts that'd be at least 7ft tall I'm thinking to be able to get under two sides with enough truss frame on the walk through side underground and above ground so would have that underground area to work. Thinking can even grow on the towers/masts two sides also to increase the production surface area and volume enough so like maybe under that area shaded like spinach or lettuces or what would benefit from a little more shade. Awesome to see Michigan gardeners/farmers utility. Thanks for sharing!

Love the update!! I’m so glad it worked. What was your schedule for having the cable powered on? Just wondering from an electric bill standpoint if it would be feasible for us to try next year. Thanks!

It would be great to have soil temps taken at different times during the day. Then compare with a low tunnel added. Recommend trying and making a follow up video since so many of us are u set feet of snow right now 🥰

Something to check into, thank you sharing this.

I did not know it could be so easy to heat a garden🤩 thank you so much for the information🌞. I am guessing that because you had 5-6" of unfrozen soil you set your heating line at 7". Wish me luck🇺🇲🌞

Awesome....I've been waiting for this update

I love this idea!!!!!!!

We built a low tunnel from bamboo stakes, twine and greenhouse plastic and grew veggies. We live in Chicago and used a heater to take the chill out, usually at night. My cool weather crops inside our low tunnel survived the very freezing temps we've had the last 3 weeks! The soil in the containers never froze and the grass that was growing right at the edge of the edging....is still green!!! We were supposed to put up our heated raised bed (under greenhouse plastic) with soil heating cables this winter, but didn't get around to it. We'll be putting it in for our 2nd round of cool weather crops in a couple of weeks.

When I built my 2 raised beds out of garage door panels 4ftx16ftx21in deep ( soil about 15” deep) I ran a loop of 3” plastic tile in the bottom. It was solid tubing and I drilled drainage holes in the bottom. I brought both ends of the tube out the top at one end. My plan is to run a fan in it during the warm daytime in spring or fall to warm the soil during the day. I could also put a large funnel in the tube and set to collect wind instead of using a fan. I have never tried it, but it should work. Duane. Mid Ohio.

I love this idea!

Listening when you say excited, I'm excited, too! Lol!

Thank you!!! I live in the mountains of Idaho, this is epic!

I use a similar soil cable to heat my temporary spring greenhouse 6x6x6 to protect from late frosts. The thermostat is on the outside in very early spring and inside when warmer. It has a 20 centigrade thermostat

I live on the border of 7A - 6B , tired of the long wait to harvest peppers then I saw about wintering pepper plants but I don't have a great place for that, got studying cold frames and ran across your two videos and wondering it this would work for wintering over pepper plants if I followed the guide lines like pruning the tops and roots . thank you for your great content

Can't wait to see what you grow in it!

The cable and a hinged double hoop on the bed would be great! I will have to try adding the heat tap to my hinged double hoop on my raised bed.

I looked everywhere for this product and ended up purchasing a soil heating cable because it wasn't clear that it would work when buried. Im glad to know that the de icing cable will work. I can't wait to put mine in .

So as you may have heard Texas had the longest and coldest freeze of at least my life time a few weeks ago. Total learning experience for me when I went out a day after temps had risen just above freezing that my raised garden bed soil was frozen!! That has NEVER happened here and it was a pain to pull out plants that were done. So if I had this problem every year, you bet I would be getting that cable.

Living in a northern climate (Nova Scotia) I've never thought about this as an option for the garden Any idea of the electricity it uses over something like a 3 month time span?

Success! This is so cool!

I can honestly say I've never seen you over excited about something, you have just the right level of excitement!

I live in SE Missouri which normally is not a deep freeze area but when I went out to plant my onions the other day I found that my soil in my raised beds was frozen. Unusually cold for a few weeks here.

Very cool! I want to see you grow something in it! Get out those clear totes and make some mini green house lettuce beds. 👏👏👏

Super useful! Thanks a ton!

defiently just made my diy list here in the u.p.!

This is brilliant!!!

Make sure you have the proper EPD protection for this! We install miles of snow melt and most of it does NOT have EPD protection (similar to GFCI). Maybe the stuff you buy preassembled from the hardware store has the protection built in, but definitely make certain of this before using it in this manner. Without the proper protection it could be dangerous.

That’s wicked cool! Had no idea you could do this 👍🏻

actually Victorian England grew pineapple in raised beds at manor houses using raw horse manure under soil and then covered by glass. The beds themselves were made of brick to provide a heat mass. Like the gardening excitement , it's motivating

Looks like fresh soil. Picking up soil like that is just therapeutic. 🌱-🐍 Thanks 🙂

Is there an updated video of the plants you grew in it successfully? Would love to see one if so but couldn’t find it. Love this idea and will be trying it in my new unheated greenhouse. My question is do the plants actually grow or does it just keep them alive until better growing conditions arrive?

I just ordered some heating cables from Amazon. I was planning on using them to start my peppers outside earlier. Here in zone 6A the cold weather can linger and I've always had a hard time getting my peppers to take off.

So when will you plant? Are you keeping the soil heated all winter or did you “turn on” for this video?

Hi Luke. Great job. COVID has me tied up a little bit, though I got "fresh horse" manure and straw, and rebuilt one bed with that and mature compost to try for the same effect. Never got the frames on, but it certainly melted the snow faster than the other beds. (Have a second bed with lettuce all winter under plastic covers). High or low tunnels when I get the time and materials together. Any experience?

Great idea!!!!

Yay LLBEAN, from Maine! Maybe I’ll try this out.

this made me smile

This is something I've never thought about using. I have raised beds with low tunnels on top for starting broc and cauliflower late winter. I've been using 2-150 watt lights in each bed and it keeps the temp inside about 4° above the outside temp. Looks like this might be a much better option. I wonder how warm it would be with a plastic covered hoop frame on top of the bed? I mean the air temp in the low tunnel.? Thanks Luke!

This is really cool! Thats means mich can have a longer season! Mabey we won't strive with the weather getting colder year after year!

Are both soil warming cables and de icing cables actually made from the same material? If so, no one would need to worry about chemicals leeching into the soil. I tried digging up horseradish in the middle of winter in south Idaho, with negative ten out. The garden soil was a hard as cement! So thanks very much for this information!

i did this organically by cleaning out wasted goat hay and droppings! i dug out a shovels depth of bed soil. insertered hay etc put soil back in. boom warm bed to plant in. tho disclaimer!!! where i live 9A we rarely get snow and 28 is the lowest. still. the warm beds put me ahead of the spring game!

Thanks Luke

This is amazing!! I am def going to try this in my fall garden. Thanks for sharing. I’ve learned so much from your videos 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Great video! About what is the soil temperature? Thanks!

So what are you going to plant in the bed? When are you going to plant it?

Luke, did you leave the heat tape on all winter? If not, how long after you turned it on was the soil workable? Was there a notable difference in your electric bill? Did you cover the soil with cardboard or fabric? This Yooper Girl has SO MANY questions!