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Video Summary
Hi everyone! In this video, I’m sharing my spring gardening day where I’m repotting and organizing my indoor plant starts. I picked up some new supplies including planting containers, stakes, and soil acidifier for my blueberries. The main focus of this video is showing you how I uppot my sugar snap peas and Tom Thumb peas, which were getting really tall and needed more space. I also had to deal with my cat Milo trying to eat my plants throughout the process!
I walk you through my repotting process, including using wooden skewers and elastic string to stake up the pea plants so they can climb properly. I also reorganize my different plant starts – watermelon, cantaloupes, peppers, tomatoes, onions, spinach, and more – into proper trays and containers. It’s the first warm day of spring where I could wear shorts, so it was perfect timing to get these plants ready for the growing season. By the end, all my plants are organized and the peas have proper support to grow tall and strong.
Video Transcript
Good morning everyone, it’s Kari at Keep It Simple DIY. Today I’m going to be repotting my plants and planting a few plants in the garden. I did get a few new supplies for repotting, so let me get them out and show them to you.
All right, here’s a few things that I got. I did get some acidifier for my blueberries outside, and I’m not quite ready to fertilize. It’s supposed to rain later this week, and so I want to fertilize right before it rains, so I won’t do that today. I also got another light. I don’t need it at the moment. And for repotting, I got a few of these little squares so I can repot, or really so I can plant in the beginning. My onions, what I planted them in this year, the drainage isn’t great, and so I’d rather use these.
I got some thicker, I don’t know what you call those, but thicker rectangular containers, and then I got some pots. These should fit in here just fine. There we go. These are not as big as I thought they would be. I was hoping that they would be like a third of the size, but I bought four across, so of course that’s not going to be a third of the size. I also got some more celery because I realized I was out, and then some more stakes so I can label once I repot. So let me go grab some dirt, bring the dirt over, and we’ll start repotting.
All right, I’ve grabbed some soil from outside. I also grabbed a small watering can of water, and I’m ready to get started. That fits in there really nicely. All right, I’ve been having to make sure my cat doesn’t eat these, so I’m gonna try to move a little quickly, or at least watch carefully.
All right, I don’t need these yet. I’m gonna start by repotting these peas. They are growing so big. Milo, no. And yeah, you can lay there, don’t eat them. Don’t touch. No touchy. They’re getting so tall, and so I need a way to make them not just be all over themselves.
I’m going to give them a little bit of water before I add the plants in. It’s also the first day that I’m able to wear shorts this year. It’s supposed to be in the 80s, which is pretty fantastic. Okay, let’s see. Milo, can we get these out?
All right, there’s one. Where are we gonna stick it? Let’s stick it right here. Okay, now I gotta figure out how do I want to stick them. I might get a skewer so that way they’ll like wrap around the skewer. Let me think on that.
Look at that one’s roots. That’s amazing. In my soil I have some compost, some soil, and it’s also, I took it from the beds outside which I already added a little bit more compost and soil to this year. So a little mixture of everything. I haven’t fertilized the soil outside yet, so I will need to add some fertilizer as I water them.
I’m also doing this bright and early in the morning because I do have some things I need to do today. All right, it’s coming along. I like to wear gloves when I garden outside or when I’m doing anything just moving a bunch of dirt. I use gloves to pick up the dirt to bring it inside, and then I use gloves when I was filling this. So anytime I’m doing something intricate, I just find the gloves really hard to deal with, and so I’d rather just use my hands.
One thing I’m thinking about though is how hard is this table going to be to get clean because there’s so many little grooves. When I’m done, usually I use my island when I’m planting and repotting, but I wanted to sit down. I usually just stand at the edge of the island.
All right, we have all of our sugar snap peas planted. I’m going to move this over and I am going to, whoa, whoa Milo. Okay, you can have that piece. I broke it off. I’m gonna go grab some skewers to try to get these propped up, and I’m gonna watch the cats as I do it.
All right, got some skewers. Don’t know if this is a great idea or a terrible one, but we’ll find out. Avoid putting it right in a plant. The idea here is that I’m staking these up, and I have these wooden skewers for cooking. You know, I just realized only one side has a point, so let’s flip them over. I was thinking they’re pointy on both ends. Point side down makes a little more sense.
I put my label in for sugar snap peas. I have one more in this row that isn’t sugar snap peas, but I’ll be able to tell the difference because I’ll have the skewer and because it’s really tall. Okay, now the question is how well these… I mean, I know eventually they’ll swirl against them. Now what could I do? Maybe I’ll use a little string.
All right, I have some elastic string. I like to use this typically for like tomatoes where I hold my grapes up with it, because it’s elasticy, so even if the plant grows it’s not going to restrict. So let’s see.
All right, on to the next piece. And this next one, these are, I believe, Tom Thumb peas from Mi Gardener. I’ve grown these many times and I like them because they stay like small little bushes. They are going upwards, but they don’t get quite as tall. Now the Tom Thumb peas, you can eat them as pea pods if you get them early, or you can harvest them later and get the individual peas. I’ve done both. This one’s roots look good, but the actual plant looks like it’s seen better days. We’ll see if we can bring it back.
All right, we’ve got all of our peas out here. I do have five more slots. I’m gonna see if there’s anything I can stick in these five slots, and then I’m going to leave all the spinach here, and I think that’s good. It’s just still pretty tiny, so I want to leave it and let it grow and get a little bit more strong.
Okay, thinking it through, those cantaloupes would make a lot more sense being in here and the watermelon in a bigger one, so let me just switch that up. I’m running out of room, so I’m going to keep all the plants by me so the cat doesn’t get them.
All right, let’s look. Is that where you’re gonna sit, right there? All right, cantaloupe back out, much better for now.
All right, what I’ve decided to do is I put my one cauliflower here. I’ve got my watermelon here, cantaloupes in both of those other pots, and then now everything in here is a pepper. So I can take these peppers and figure out which ones I want to keep and then make this whole tray just be a tray of peppers.
All right, here they all are. We have our watermelon, carrots, peas, peppers. I have some potatoes that I’m trying to let sprout. I might need to move them. I just put them there and I don’t really like them being in the sun, so I’ll get them moved in a second. I have the cantaloupes. They are feeling some transplant shock. That should get better shortly. The tomatillo that’s barely growing. The leeks that I didn’t transplant, but they’re not even something that can grow in my area anyways, so I’m just trying it. All the tomatoes, all the onions, these are all of the spinach, lettuce, and kohlrabi. These are flowers, and then these are all the starts that really are having a hard time starting. I’m going to water the flowers and then that’s all I need to do.
