Mistakes I’ve made as a gardener – not using a crucial item allowed moths to destroy my plants
A GARDENER has revealed the recent mistakes she’s made, including one with a devastating impact on her plants.
She said her failure to use a crucial item allowed for moths to eat her plants alive.
Kia Jade (@kia_urbangardener) shared the video with over 40,000 TikTok followers.
“Recent mistakes I’ve made as a gardener — pulling rosemary from a random hedge on the side of the road,” she said.
She explained she thought the rosemary would grow if submerged in water but it instead, died.
Her second mistake had unfortunate consequences that she learned the hard way.
“Not using a net early enough in the summer season so the cabbage moth came and absolutely destroyed my garden,” she sighed.
“Next summer I’m using a net.”
The gardener also wished that she had made precautions to check the proper growing conditions.
“Also growing radishes in un-fertile soil… just because radishes are easy to grow, they still need nutrition in the soil,” she said, showing off her tiny and unsatisfying radish spoils.
She cringed at a particularly bad mistake: “This one still hurts, planting ranunculus corns because I really wanna grow the flowers even though I don’t have direct sunlight for more than an hour a day,” she said.
“And lastly, planting my potatoes too early in the winter, they don’t look healthy so learn from my mistakes.”
People took to the comments to share their thoughts.
Many offered advice: “For the first one, you need to make sure the rosemary is green not woody,” said one commenter.
“It will grow I promise! It’s how I have so many plants.”
“Live and learn, I’ve tried and tried every year this year, it’s going better but I’ve yet to grow any pumpkins fingers crossed lol,” encouraged another.