Is It SAFE to Plant Yet? An Amish Farmer Taught Me an AMAZING Way of Telling

Here's a sure fire way to tell when it's time to plant; Every time I try to get my plants in early I get nailed with a heavy frost 100% of the time! Then when I do the second go around all is OK. I'll just notify everyone when I'm doing my second planting and you'll know it's OK to procede😄

Where I am in Canada, we use the rule of thumb: cold-weather plants can go in when the maple trees blossom, and warm-weather plants can go in when the peonies bloom. It's never failed me.

YES! I trust the people who have been doing this for generations. We need more Amish tips, please.

I learned dandelion planting a couple years ago. SO far it seems pretty good, and it is site specific which I like. Cold crops when the greens appear, brassicas and shoulder crop when you see the yellow flowers and warm season when the flowers have gone white.

4:40 in Ukraine we have an old tradition - plant tomatoes and pepper when cherry(Prunus cerasus|вишня) tree starts to bloom

I have 2 plum trees. They both bloom at different times, so my guess is you need to use native plums for this to be accurate. Considering the record breaking temps lately, I think you're safe. I'd love to see a compilation episode of Amish hacks you've learned along with other old time hacks viewers have learned from their elders. Here's one I learned. Open the top and bottom of a cardboard box and put it around young rhubarb sprouts to make them reach for the light and get longer stems. Cheers!

Great video Luke, we use the dandelion , when the green shoot comes up we plant the cold hardy radish , lettuce , when it blooms the yellow flower , we plant beets , carrots etc… and when it goes white , we plant the warm weather crops like tomatoes , thanks

In the community I live in, the Amish don’t mind being filmed. They just can’t have any photos. They’ve asked me to film them baling hay and whatnot to advertise their business. Each Amish community is different. Thanks, Luke!😊

I don't have any such generational knowledge to go on, just that I've been living around the same area my whole life. We have a tree that people call "post oak," that for my money, is worth watching. Other than the one that leans against the house, and one that gets outdoor lights, I have never seen miss. The general rule of thumb in this area is the week after Easter, and the almanac generally agrees. Watch the trees and you can usually gain a week or two. Moreover, once we had a freak snow storm the first week in May. The trees waited a month late to bud out that year. So many people had their gardens destroyed, but I waited. My seedlings looked like an indoor jungle, and I was nervous, but my tree friends did not fail

Colorado doesn’t follow the rules. The front range is sassy. 5 inches of snow last year May 20th followed by the hail storms. Shade cloths, frost cover and seek cover all in one day. Good luck this spring to all of the gardeners!

I love hearing about what the Amish do. The older I get and the more I learn, the more I realize that the Amish right on so many things!

Dogwoods! In the Southeast especially dogwoods will tell you when it's time. When the dogwood blooms, no more heavy Frost. That was told to me by an ex-amish many many years ago. I've only seen it not be true one time in maybe 30 something years. Last year the buds got ready to bloom but didn't quite do it and stayed there for approximately 2 weeks, we had a very heavy Frost, and then the next day the dogwood started blooming. No more frosts after that.

I wait until the night time temperatures are consistently above 50 degrees to plant warm season crops particularly pepper plants.

I love these tips ! Start a list of all the Amish tips.

In TN they say mother's day. I always tell people about our little winters, wait until after the wild blackberries flower then there will be the last frost of the season. Our wild plums flower out well before our little winters are over, I wanna say two or three winters before the end, and we have four: redbud, dogwood, locust, and blackberry. We have a decently long growing season, so well after the threat of frost we planted out our first garden because we had never heard of the little winters. Now, whenever we do plant a garden (if we do) we will wait until the blackberries flower and the frost that follows. Because some plants need frosts to set fruit.

The ground is warm enough to plant when the dandelions bloom. Three frosts after the forsythia bloom.

Thats a new one for me. I love this king of thing. Technology fails, mother nature rarely does.

I LOVE these oldschool lost tips!!!! Thank you so much for this 😁

I’ve been fighting the spring fever of gardening for a few weeks. Our last expected frost date is May 4th and it’s snowing today the 27th of April

Farmers almanac also has that 30% chance of being wrong. Thanks Isaiah for bringing us more wisdom! Love the growing up stories and Amish knowledge, Luke!