You’ve seen Chris on the channel, but you’ve never seen her ENTIRE garden…and it’s GORGEOUS. Come along as Chris tours you through her suburban garden in Vancouver, BC, including her experiment growing her own cereal grains.
00:00 – Intro
00:34 – Front Pollinator Patch
02:17 – South Side Of The Greenhouse
06:54 – North Side
09:47 – Thyme Patch/Apple Tree Bed
11:27 – Green Ground Cover
12:44 – Wooden Beds
13:51 – Tomato Bed
17:13 – Cereal Patch
20:40 – Path To The Back Garden
23:49 – Back Garden
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Great video. My goal is to still become the southeast branch of EG in the next few years
Wow! Nice!
Love Chris!
She's such an inspirational gardener! Look how beautiful that garden is!!!! I love it!
What an amazing garden. It makes me motivated to keep going! What a dream to be working with you guys, I'm jealous! Keep up the amazing content!
Curious on what her hedge is? Amazing gardens.
I love to know how you overwinter. I live in the same zone but I never cab get them to come back.
Wow, amazing tour, Chris! Gorgeous garden and produces food, too? And involves your family? Brava!
Love that it is a bit colder climate garden its cool to look at gardens that have no snow or hardly any frost at middle of freezing winter (-30 C at zone 6a ) but its not so informative or copyable.
I’m no expert, but I learned from another YouTuber ( https://youtube.com/c/Robbieandgarygardeningeasy ) that tulle is a great fabric you could wrap around your plants to prevent pests like rats, squirrels, and such. I garden in totes on my porch as well. Good bless
Canadian living in Western Australia, always ake for granted how easy things grow here. Great to see how innovative you are to grow a large varieties of plant in a challenging climate. Enjoy your presentation and the result of your toil. Thank you
At what age did you introduce your son to gardening? I've got a 4 year old and a 2 year old and they're sort of interested but not that into it.
Chris’s garden is beautiful I would love my backyard to get like that. I have a pineapple guava plant as well. Glad to know yours has not flowered yet. I’m disappointed that my fig tree didn’t flower in the first year.
Thanks for the tour, Chris! Love your garden!
Yay! I was wondering if we'd get to see more of her. Love her energy and knowledge. Looking forward to her videos!
Chris needs a garden cat or two!
Excellent work, Chris! Can’t wait to see more. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Love getting to see Chris's garden! I love watching everything on this channel, but it can be disheartening seeing everything the warmer zones can do. I'm in 8b like Chris and I suddenly feel way more on track!
The peppers were the best part. I was getting flowers but seeing them drop every single night. That warm week hit and I now actually have some fruit growing!
Wow! Absolutely stunning.
I value Chris’ knowledge on EG, especially since I, too, am from the PNW.
I really love Chris's garden and her explanation of things. We love experiments too.
My step mother in law gave us some bitter gourd seeds to grow. Not knowing anything about it i researched it. Very hard to find a comprehensive guide, let alone what it tastes like and how to cook it. Not sure if it was the seeds, time of year but i found that i germinated better the same time as the butter nut squash, so after courgettes. Wet kitchen towel paper meth was also better than in a cell tray. The vines are also thinner than courgettes and cucumbers. We are growing this in London, UK, i think a zone 9? Our new neighbours are originally from India and was surprised and excited to hear that we were growing it. We have 2 plants that are thriving and we gave them one. It has been a busy stressful year (2 parents -death and a stroke) so felt bad giving extra plants away later than planned. Our overstock seedlings this year were tomatoes (3 var), courgettes, bell peppers, basil, butternut squash and bitter gourd off the top of my head.
Regarding bitter gourd research, i have now found out that a lot of hotter countries grow this and has many names. Some let it ripen and use the fruits as teas and some of countries cut and cook the fruit just before the fruit starts turning yellow. It is like an extreme pickle cucumber and has what i would call dragon like scaly skin but the pointy bits are soft. When it ripens it turns a yellow/ orange and the seeds become swollen red fruits. The pod then bursts open like something from Strange things, exposing the lovely red fruit seeds. These are not bitter. We haven't tasted ripened bitter gourd pods yet.
Having now tasted it and made a Pinkabet meal, it is as the name suggests very bitter. We scooped out the white pith and seeds and sliced it about 1cm. Don't do what we done and use two for a family meal! It is a very strong, almost like an overly strong oniony bitter herb.
My step mother in law was born in China before moving to the Philippines as a kid. As i understand a not very nice person married her and brought her back to the UK. So glad that she has found love and safety now. She now has someone that calls her Lola and Grandma. She is in her 70's now and i just got to see some of the photos of when she was younger. Hubby side of the family is a lot smaller and less complicated but more private about their pasts. What i would say, is if she had the same freedom as we do in the west, whilst she could get the opportunity more of what she wanted to do in life, she would have been a great model. Yes, she wasn't 6' or how ever tall models are but she captured the look and style of the times. I was very upset about it when i found out about her uprbringing and coming here. I only bring this up as i was sobbing the other day. We brought her the first bitter gourd and some other things like tomatoes and runner beans. All the boys went off and she told me how glad she was of bringing up our kid and how respectful they were towards her. I was confused as first as far i was concerned she was nanny/lola, hubby's step mum. My step mum physically and mentally abused me so i ended up in care and educated and worked my way out to uni and a career in IT. Hubby didn't mention any of that when visiting them, other than that they held the same religion and was as strong as my grandparents and their religion when i had to stay there as a kid. Before that i grew up on an estate where every Tom, Dick or Harry was from somewhere on the globe and learned a lot about geography growing up.
You want to know what made me cry all night? The fact that my brother in law and his estranged kid was being racially not nice to her.
With a small world very separate paths, same opportunities in the system, old best friend from primary school/bad influence on me, never to see again after that school was in fact the baby mother. Apparently, after not choosing the same educational path, not joining in with family trips. They both got the same money from their grandad to get a cheap flat apartment. You don't get everyday and need to apprieciate what you are given in life to help you out. Apparently there was trouble, when he knocked her up from the previous daddies idk 3 different dads previous. They all had to move out and be re housed. Hubby got left with a christmas present. Our then fur daughter dog. As a rescue dog lover, we became a family before we had our miracle non medical intervention child.
I had CIN3 cervical treatment, just after the emergency c section. I had just finished tiling the new kitchen of our renovation house project. 5 layers of wallpaper, plus the ceiling! So glad that we had booked the plumbers and electricians in when we moved in 32 weeks pregnant as there was a gas leak in a fire place no longer needed.
If i don't think about it then i don't cry that we haven't got pregnant yet. I got made redundant from my IT Specialist job in Soho Square. You can state that you already have PTSD and Dylexcia. I came out with much more, even after building the core systems. Yes, they didn't like people getting pregnant! So sorry that the doctors told us that we couldn't after all these years and then we did! Then you can breave.
Again, open about my mum being sexually abused by my grandad and the pedo ring, why she committed suicide when i was 10 . My grandad's brother was killed in the forest for the same thing.
The whole thing was awkward. The new relationship, i had built with my mums family over 20 years, My toxic sister in another country asking for her dues via me! My PTSD going off. I am sure that didn't help.
The new way of getting therapy in this borough, as opposite to where i grew up, is like off you go. I got a v young trainee councellor. The location from me was very far, let alone anywhere near to work in c London. I was told to make up my hours but my main deal was about not seeing my son enough because of breastfeeding still. I wouldn't get back until 7 – 7.30pm for the last feed.
I could go on. Going to delete this tomorrow.
My mother in law passed away in Feb. Her partner passed away in 2018. We have travelled to the Isle to clear out the house. It is very hard. Been a month since my dad had his stroke. We were given the all clear to return the cat that i am allergic to back. That happened when my niece visited the UK from the Netherlands the first time solo and brought her bf who hasn't been here before. We had heatwaves and train strikes. Opening windows with a cat here into London is dangerous as too busy and temporary. Trying to keep the house and kids cool was difficult.
Driving times are different in other countries. I f drive from London to North West Wales, i could drive to the Netherlands in the same time pre brexit. Driving to my dads out of london is the same time driving into london to see my father in law, plus more petrol.
That's one amazing garden! Every space has its purpose and plant. Love it!
I'm definitely interested to see how that Petit Moineau tomato turns out! I've heard about this heirloom variety by reputation and its amazing flavour, it's supposed to be one of the strongest and sweetest of any of the currant tomato varieties.
Am I overlooking a link to her channel?
I'm in Oregon, and love Chris' garden and Instagram pages so much – thanks for showcasing her!!
And now a Youtube channel? Woo hoo!!
This is awesome!! Hi from Richmond, BC 🙂 It's really great getting insight into the somewhat odd climate we have in the lower mainland – extremely wet winter/fall/spring but typically very dry summers. Very nice to be able to compare some of the oddities in my own garden and know that it's not just me.
Beautiful and fun garden.