7 August Mistakes Quietly Killing Your Perennials (STOP #4 Tonight)

🔗 Get a beautiful perennial garden with less watering, fewer costly mistake from Henry’s Garden Blueprint: https://henrysgardensecrets.com/ Watering. Feeding. Mulching. Tidying up. Four things you do because you care about that bed - and in August, every one of them turns on you. None of it is your fault. Every one of these is standard advice that is either out of date or was never true to begin with. Two of them, the reason you have been given is wrong, and I give you the real one instead. One is a watering rule every video on this subject repeats and no university actually says - and I will show you the sentence that explains why. One is a number you have been told your whole life is seven years, and the real figure is forty. Number four takes five minutes, your bare hands, and nothing you have to buy. If you only do one thing after this video, do that one, tonight, before it gets dark. Number one is a bottle you picked up back in July. It did not just fail. It left you worse off than doing nothing at all - and there is a university pest program that measured exactly that. There are also three jobs I take off your list entirely, because the month for them has already gone and I would rather say so than have you waste a Saturday. TELL ME WHAT YOU SPRAYED What did you spray this summer, and roughly when? Just the month and what it was for. I am asking for a reason - number one on this list depends on it, and I want to know whether what I describe matches what is happening in your yard. I read every one. SUBSCRIBE I have kept a notebook for thirty-five years. This channel is mostly what is in it: the jobs that turned out to be worth doing, and the ones that cost me a Saturday for nothing. Sources referenced: Clemson HGIC, University of Maryland Extension, University of Minnesota Extension, University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension, Iowa State University Extension, Penn State Extension, Illinois Extension, North Carolina State Extension, Colorado State University Extension, Mississippi State University Extension, Washington State University Extension, K-State Research and Extension, Virginia Tech, University of Vermont, University of New Hampshire Extension, University of Missouri Extension IPM, UC Integrated Pest Management, Missouri Botanical Garden. #perennials #augustgardening #gardenmistakes #gardeningtips #perennialcare #wateringplants #gardeningforseniors #americangardening #fallgardenprep