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Thank you for this video. I find your process to be very clear – I would go nuts trying to identify exactly what cultivar is going where. I need to draw out my beds and determine my square inches for spacing.
Small beds are great for ground cherries too
i think to give one each for your children
4 foot beds It would be nice to see a three sisters garden and/or a tea garden. Love what you do! Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful mind!
Cooking food! Yes! That would be great. I'd love to see more of stuff like that. This video was awesome! Please show us when you do your actual plan? and your kids plan? I loved this!
Idea: Plant young fruit trees between 4×4 Beds. Gives them shelter & time to mature. Continue pruning them to grow short & wide for easier harvesting. At upper corner nearest bees, plant more fruit trees or thornless Blackberries. Your bees will love it. I practice a "rotational reward system" between chores 🙂 Watch Roots & Refuge videos, Go outside to garden, Sip Tea/Coffee, Do Chores, Repeat. Great Planning sketch & video.
Hey Jess, Rhubarb would be good in one of your 4ft beds. Or why don’t you do some berry bushes? Like blueberries etc?
we all lead rather unextrodinary lives. i would enjoy seeing some of the dishes you create using food you grow.
Can you grow sunchokes in one of those square beds? Not sure if they do well in the heat, but they are a lot of fun to grow as long as you can put it in a container. They'll take over your whole garden if you put them in ground. Beautiful small yellow flowers on super tall stems. Lovely all summer long and then a fun little garden task to dig the tubers out around this time of year. So tasty and sweet roasted or cooked anyway you'd cook a potato.
Same I feel like cleaning is often for not with my little ones lol….I do my routine and call it good
One thing I’d like to understand is how you plan for the shade that is created by vertical gardening. Direction/placement of the panels, what to plant in front of what, etc., so that everything gets maximum sun. Could you discuss in an upcoming vid? Thanks!
I use the Territorial Seed Company's digital garden planner. It's not free, it's $29 per year, and there's a free trial. It has so many useful features such as crop rotation. When you plop a plant down if the spot turns red you know it shouldn't be planted there this season. It also gives you plant spacing, drop and drag to plant a whole row. There's a seasonal chart that provides best plant dates, days to harvest, etc. It's to a scale that you set to match your space and the printouts can have a grid to help you measure on the ground. The various layers let you see fixed parts of the garden too, beds, paths, structures, etc. It's really helpful laying out irrigation as it complies a list of parts you need for that plan. I just print it out and I can see if I'm missing any parts and take it to the big box store. You can print any layer or all of it compressed into one nice layout. I hang copies in waterproof sleeves in the greenhouse. The only shortcoming is that the varieties of plants is limited, but there are still all the common plants,herbs, trees, fruits you would grow and you can edit plant tags and make notes, so it's not problem…it's kind of fun customizing and making it just as I like it. I'm working on my plan today. No, I am not associated with Territorial I'm just sharing a useful tool if you are computer savvy…or garden OCD :>)
I love you videos
Gracias
Can be so nice if you always have the camera covering your cute face I noticed the when you recording sometimes cut of your head or something I love the way the you explain things up thank you I love gardening but with you and your family and friends I can't have the joy of planting something in this weird weather I'm in zone 7b too in NC
And I don't know how to deal with
This I'm very thankful for your patience dedication on what you doing it helps a lot
So funny you say chasing squirrels… bc my husband will come home and ask how much did I squirrel when I dedicate a time for cleaning… I definitely understand that struggle
More cooking and baking and showing what your family actually eats with all the produce you've canned, etc.
I just found you on my own raining winter day. I think I’m in love. You are so easy to understand a practical. I’m so happy to have found you.
I think they should be asparagus, artichoke and walking onions!
Totally do the same thing on such indoor days. "After I chop and freeze all that chard, I can sort out my lettuce seeds." "After I fold the laundry, I can mix that new fertilizer like thing I'm obsessing over."
I don't even mind cleaning, it just doesn't engage the mind, or fire excitement.
Enjoy the rain. It's only rained 3 days this winter and it only rains during late fall to late winter.
When you do your scale drawing, do your basic layout, then put it inside a poster frame. You can then use a dry erase market and at the end of the year all you have to do is wipe it off and it’s ready to use again for next year.
I hate when the weather teases you with that false hope of sunshine 🙁
my next bed to add would be a 4 ft strawberry like at my previous house. (small enough to build/use a wire cover) I just put in two 8 ft beds with a trellis connecting thanks to your inspiration! I've never done vertical like this, but have always done tomatoes. I'm so tired of cages that I threw them all out last year! If I could go out to the hardware store in these crazy times I would get the wood to do a strawberry bed.
A very helpful video, thank you!
Just thought I would make a planting suggestion for your square planters though I am probably way too late. I think you should try and grow some Brussel sprouts since you said you have never grown them. They are exciting to grow and watch the growth on them since they are so unique. The taste is delicious also and you have said that you love cabbage and my family all call Brussel Sprouts baby Cabbages…it is May 31st today and we should be planting our bedding plants over the next week but it has been so cold and so darn wet. I hate our weather this year. Best of luck with your garden this year also…and I love your high tower. I sow enjoy your videos Jess, so please keep them up.
turnips and kale would be neat in the 4×4 beds I think. Wow you guys have gotten a lot done to your space since Feb. when Miah posted the row cover vid. Really nice
Get some robot vacuums and floor cleaners. Lol