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Root Awakening: Pots, Dirt, and a Hoe
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items Your plants are rooting for you. This list is too. Start by looking up your zone and go from there!
Before you plant anything outdoors, start by finding your growing zone.
When I started, didn’t do that.
So much money lost on dead plants.
Your zone tells you what to plant outdoors, and when to plant it.
The Growing Zone Guide - Planting Zone Finder, Planting Calendars & More
Has grip, coated fingers to help keep out moisture, and it protects your hands. I have about five pairs on rotation and just drop them in the washing machine when I’m done.
Expert Gardener Green Nitrile Sustainable Gloves Small
Trowel, transplanter, cultivator—nothing fancy.
The trowel digs holes for planting. The transplanter is longer and narrower, so it’s better for digging deeper or moving seedlings without wrecking their roots.
The cultivator breaks up soil and yan...
Anvil 3-Piece Wood Handle Garden Tool Set (Trowel, Transplanter and Cultivator) GD210308
Ocean Forest has never let me down. My plants love it!
It’s good for containers, but I also add a couple handfuls into the hole when planting in the ground. It has a perfect growing ph and all the disgusting goodies plants like to eat.
It’s spend...
FOXFARM Ocean Forest 40 lbs. 6.3-6.8 pH Plant Garden Potting Soil Mix FX14000
Easy and lovely beginner plant: the Raven ZZ. Grows indoors and outdoors, minds its own business, gets water about 2x a month, and can pretty much be neglected
Easy beginner plant: Black Raven ZZ Plant - Zamioculcas Zamiifolia - 4" Pot
She’s a biochemist and subsistence farmer who has great advice on outdoor gardens— plus she’s incredibly fun to watch!
Gardening advice: TheZenHenandTheHoneyBee on TikTok
Remember how our grandparents improved soil with cow 💩? This is better and lighter—worm 💩. Plants LOVE it, especially citrus trees.
Add to soil: Ferry-Morse Vermiculite 8 qt
It saves your knees. I don’t care how old you are— gardeners kneel a *lot* because as it turns out, the ground is on THE GROUND. Try gardening without one and you’ll feel it immediately 😟
Save your knees: Lowe's Essentials Foam Kneeling Pad
A checklist of when to plant what. Just plug in your zip code and BOOM BOP BOW
2025 Planting Calendar by Zip Code - Gardening
No DEET, and it WORKS. It feels and smells like nothing. No oily grossness. Just don’t breathe in while you’re spraying it.
Handle the bug problem: Off! Picaridin Mosquito Bug Spray Fragrance Free
Don’t overthink the watering can! This one’s cheap, it’s great for indoor and outdoor watering, and it comes in several different colors.
Water: 1/2 Gallon Blue Plant Watering Can
These are probably the most beginner indoor/outdoor plant. They need a good drenching 1-2x a month. And they look soooooo good in terra cotta pots.
Easy Beginner Plant: Snake Plant Laurentii, 4"pot Indoor Air Purifiernt
Here’s why it’s great for beginners: almost all plants LOVE it, and it doesn’t give them fertilizer burns. It makes them so green and leafy! A biiiiig con is that it smells horrible. Wear vinyl gloves when you’re diluting it with water and *only* use...
User friendly plant food: Alaska Fish Emulsion Fertilizer Organic Concentrate 5-1-1 1qt
Has shiny, deep green leaves and doesn’t need much attention. Grows indoors and outdoors in warm weather. I’ve had mine 5 years and counting. It even gave me a second plant!
Easy beginner plant: Live Rubber Plant Indoor Houseplant in 6 in. Grower Pot
Plant pot advice: You can’t buy their stuff online, BUT it’s the most inexpensive place I’ve found to gorgeous plant pots and birdbaths.
Least expensive, beautiful plant pots: HomeGoods
I couldn’t afford a big expensive tiller to break up ground for planting, so I got one of these. It does the trick!
Break up ground for planting: Garden Weasel 3 Tine Steel Rotary Hand Cultivator 55 in. Steel Handle
Put some in a spray bottle and drench weeds. It’s a great nontoxic weed killer. Works even better on a hot day.
Nontoxic weed killer: Natural Elements 30% Vinegar 1 Gallon
I use one of these to mix up soil with lots of added goodies. I can snap the lid down, store it outside, and keep the water and critters out.
Best soil mixing cauldron: Sterilite Large Storage Bin, 18 Gallon Plastic Storage Container with Snap-On Lid, Walmart.com
Break down your amazon boxes and use them under mulch as a weed barrier, or as filler for the bottom of a raised bed.
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