They have the best energy about them. I don’t even garden but loved this video. I loved the “you can’t see the lights at all? It doesn’t look chill?!” 😂
Can you please make a gardening series so that I and others like me can start from the scratch please!!, Great Video and a complete diversification, loved it!!
My "trick" to make basil grow huge: separate it into individual stalks (don't be afraid to rip the roots) and plant it everywhere. Like this you'll find a location that it likes and you can get about as much yield from just one plant as you would get from a store-bought plant. This works with store-bought and home-grown plants. And don't harvest individual leaves, but "branches" then you get new growth from the remaining leaves
Diddling the tomato flowers!!! Your advice has helped us sooo much. I've got to tell you, we have never had this many tomatoes before following your trick. Over the last 3 garden seasons, we have been overwhelmed with tomatoes from 3 plants that we've had to share with friends 😄 . We use 3 bamboo stakes and form into a teepee over each plant. We continue to loosely tie the plants as the plants continue to grow up the stakes.....Knock on wood that has always worked for us. Always looking for the simplest, most efficient way to garden without spending a lot of time. Thank you, now diddle on!!!
I love your garden. That is so cool. I too got my own garden. I live in the tropics so i got tomatoes, zucchinis, napa cabbages, potatoes & peanuts every 3 months. Up to my eyeballs w/ tomatoes every harvest that i can sell 100% natural refined sugar free ketchup. I also grow my own chilies like birds eye chilies, jalapeños, habanero & bell peppers. I can’t grow any berries tho. Not high enough elevation.
Derek,you gotta buy the black oil sunflower seeds from the store for the birds.No waste at all and every bird loves them.Walmart sells big bags for about 20$.Love your videos,by the way.Thank you so much.I think peas will make a comeback in the fall and give you a mini harvest if they survive the heat.Im an amateur gardener too,we are all learning.
Basil is super moody, try growing it by itself, and give it as much sun as you possibly can! For peach tree, you gotta have to prune it in fall when its dormant, and you gotta fertilize it the Spring. Tops of the trees usually die in the winter when it gets too cold, especially trees that weren't supposed to be there in the first place. Awesome Garden!
At the beginning of each spring I always buy a basil plant. At the end of the summer it's the biggest plant I've got. It needs alot of ground so be sure you re-pot it immediately in a deep (not nessicarily wide) pot. Then water it every day. It needs alot of water and alot of sun. There you go! You should be able to grow a crazy big basil.
Awesome garden mate. A tip with the mulch is to water the garden bed before you put in down and after. Pea straw is the most common form of mulch here in NZ. Also peas and beans will keep producing for a while if you continuously pick them. And all mints can be invasive so pays to plant them in their own containers. 🌻
You dont have to kill the thinnings of lettuce. Just pull them gently and relocate them. It helps of the soil is moist. Do it on a cloudy day so the can recover before baking in the sun. Or wait until they are a bit bigger and make a salad with them :)
Derek, I love your channel for all the great knowledge you share, but I have to say one of my favorite things about you is your goofiness. 🤪 You make me giggle every time. Keep spreading that love & positivity! 🤙🏼❤️
Years ago I worked for a really old guy (in his 80s) that would tape a q-tip to the end of a short wooden stick and keep it near his tomatoes. He would pick up the stick and touch the q-tip from one flower to another to encourage production.
Beautiful garden, Derek. I don't have a yard but I've set-up an indoor grow shelf with a year-round harvest of herbs, microgreens, baby greens and sprouts. It's amazing how much food can be grown in little spaces.
If you live in an area that has the distinct seasons like Canada (I’m in Michigan), divide what you grow into two groups, cool season crops and warm season crops. The cool season crops: lettuces, peas, beets, radishes, broccoli, cabbage etc. can be planted as soon as the ground thaws for the first crop. Then can then be planted again at the end of the summer for the second crop. This is why the lettuce bolted and the cabbage suffered as they don’t do as well in the mid summer heat. The warm season crops, tomatoes, peppers, melons, cucumbers (the true fruits) do amazing in the mid summer. You can only get one crop of them and can be planted after last frost of the season. All mints are invasive so ALWAYS plant in a container or you’ll be sorry lol. Great video, plants are LIFE 🙌 inspire gardening, it’s amazing and so rewarding!! 😸
Always such wholesome and beneficial content. Usually when I watch RUclips for a long time I feel like I ought to be doing something else. But never with Derek's channel! Always leave feeling inspired! 💜
I love the positivity, laughter and good vibes you and Crystal spread! 😂 Please show more gardening videos. It shows that healthy & fit vegans do not only buy superfoods and expensive organic produce. Gardening is also a form of exercise 💪 and for some even meditative 🧘♀️. Do you save the seeds of your lettuce, cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. for next year? These are super easy to grow from seed and you can save the 4 bucks for another Savoy cabbage plant 😉. Do you have more perennial plants or trees? Thank you for all the great videos you share! Keep up the good work! 🙏
Hello Derek from Czech Republic! You and Crystal are the nicest people I've ever seen! Thank you for your videos. You are one of the reasons why i tried to go vegan. You are really inspiring! And basil is easy to grow, I tried it and absolutely great result. Try it at home behind the window, buy basil in supermarket, cut some endings, put them in water and wait few days. Then give them in soil and that's it!!
Borage is also a fun plant to grow with tomatoes. They can deter the spread of hornworms and the flowers are also edible and have a slightly zesty cucumber taste. 🥰 I also think they are one of the most beautiful garden flowers.
You can pinch off the top of the lettuce plants when they begin to bolt to stop them from bolting and getting bitter. Works for anything leafy and herbs like basil too!
Drip line would work really well for this area. It will water deeply so your plants will thrive on it and you turn it on when you need to and leave it for 2-3 hours at a time.
Bird feeding tip. Reduces waste a lot if u just feed black oil sunflower seeds. That’s why it ends up all over the ground, they’re digging through for the good stuff.
We started gardening again now that my baby is two. We successfully grew bell peppers, zucchini, carrots, onions and a few little green beans. I even got one random jalapeno which was a nice surprise. I also didn't have the heart to thin out stuff so some of my carrots were small and I only got like 2 radishes. I highly recommend home grown carrots. They are delicious and soft. My two-year-old would pull them out of the ground and wipe them off on her shirt and just start eating them. We have rabbits in our yard and they ate down all of the onion greens so our onions did not get very big but they were still delicious.
Nice Derek. You have shown me the light again. I have to get back into the garden. The satisfaction of it all & the benefits. Crystal your laugh is so adorable. Love you guy's & girl's. 👍🏾💜's🤙🏾😉🔥🔥🔥
The lettuce bolted because it was too stressed. Make sure you find ways to lower the stress for next season. That way you can actually have a good harvest.
Best yielding greens for me in Los Angeles are collard greens. I let them go to seed on their own and now my backyard is covered with them. Oh, yeah, Bok Choy is also phenomenal. They got HUGE.
Do you knows "oyas"? Are buried terracotta jars which slowly diffuse water to your plants. About basil, a good soil for vegetables, direct sun if not too strong and constant water. Keep the small and big leaves, use the medium ones. Do you find some ancient/peasant seeds? They are stronger than what we buy in most stores
I hope I don't jinx it but this is the first RUclips video I've watched in a long long time which did not have any dislikes. It clearly shows what a great community you have here. Lots of love!
One thing I learned this year was not to use dead leaves from my riverbank for mulch...it was full of slug eggs. We also used dry grass clippings, and slugs love hiding in it during the day and come out and eat your veg at night. Straw worked well, similar to hay I guess, and I'm drying out length of brambles to use criss crossed around the plants next year as slug barriers. Definitely netting for next year too! Thanks for this videa and all your tips. Your enthusiasm is infectious, whatever video you make, and is much appreciated. Bright blessings from Wales. UK
So funny about diddling the tomato flowers! Year sago (before going WFPB) I learned how to make pirogies with a friend's grandmother. She used the term diddling to describe how to seal the edge of the pirogies after they were filled. It's a multi-purpose word!
Those freaky tomatoes tend to taste the best. For the basil, I'd plant it in your raised beds, needs some room and plenty of soil. Basil really likes the heat too, so finding the hottest sunniest part of your garden would be good, especially where you live. You can use wood chips as mulch too. The mulch doesn't really need to be broken down as long as you're not incorporating it into the soil. When you incorporate something carbon rich into the soil it can temporarily tie up nitrogen and other nutrients. The purple kale and purple tomatoes look awesome.
It would be awesome to see a video from you on how growing chemical free diverse foods can really boost the positive function of the gut microbiome. Gardening was the first positive step towards completely transforming my health. The microbes in the soil are mentally restorative. I am in zone 7 in Niagara Falls, and am planning on a full-size fall garden with lots of Asian greens that will grow late into the season. So excited for that!!
I love it, everything! The trampoline looks like so much fun. I dabble in gardening. I love the tip about tickling your tomato blossoms. I’m 69 and became a vegan just a little over a year ago. I feel great, lost a lot of weight, I’m diabetic. I have almost reversed my diabetes. Great job. I think you and your girlfriend are a great couple.
I am a new subscriber and i absolutely love your channel! You and your beautiful girlfriend are just amazing and so positive. I find that when i am struggling with my anxiety and depression your channel really helps me feel better. Aaaaaaannnd while im not a vegan i have definitely been eating less meat thanks to your simple and easy to follow recipe ideas. Thank you so much for all that you do! You have really made a positive difference in my life.
Love the garden updates! I’ve been experimenting a ton with mine this year too 🌱 Just a warning though - I think I spotted Japanese Knotweed behind the last box you showed (beside the bird pond). It’s a highly invasive plant that can actually destroy concrete and foundation. It decreases land value and in the UK it’s illegal to sell a property without letting the new owners know it’s there. Would highly recommend getting it removed professionally! If you just cut it, it’ll spread more 😬
Basil loves full sunny spot, they grow very well when pair up with artichokes, they love heat and plenty of water, so can totally water basil in a daily basis they will love it on a sunny spot. Basil is very different than rosemary, rosemary doesn’t like wet feet which means rosemary cannot stand watering daily, so it’s better to not plant basil and rosemary together; rosemary can pair up with lavender they like similar conditions Mint, strawberry and oregano are invasive which means they will take over the whole growing space so it’s better to put them in a small pot and they survive through the winter snow Thank you so much for the tomato tips :)
Also on the island, so this was really helpful. Peppers did great for us one year, not the next. Ditto for tomatoes. But zucchini is pretty easy to grow...... You guys are fun to watch!
Derek the Wildfire Arugula from West Coast seeds grows through winter here. My patch has been growing three years! It's better in winter and very spicy in summer.
Bamboo stakes work far better than cages, especially if you are trimming the suckers for better production. Almost all lettuce bolts at high heat (cilantro too), save those seeds for the fall garden (lettuce self pollinates). Sunflowers are fantastic for doing microgreens through the winter. You gotta start growing bush beans! So easy, super productive. Your basil will do better in full sun with more room. Nasturtium is another edible flower you will love and the greens are edible too. I love the gardening videos!
Basil likes to be planted close together in partial to full sun. We put some in the garden and some in pots. The potted basil did really well all summer, it is loving the fall but losing its color (so taste too) a bit. I also put it in with lettuce and the two helped each other out thru the heat of summer. The basil in the garden were too far apart and got too much shade, were spindly for a long tme. But i notice it had a growth spurt in the last week or so and is taking off again. So note to self, plant it closer together.
I grew loads of potatoes from an old forgotten sprouting one I found in the back of the draw. Just cut it into four and popped them in a bucket, covered up the leaves every time they grew and once the flowers had died and the plants looked all sad and droopy we harvested loads of lovely spuds! And we sliced an organic tomato, covered it with soil, thinned out ( I feel you Crystal x ) the seedlings and got some amazing tomatoes from the plants. I bloomin' love nature! Love your videos, love all the content, recipes, vlogs, gardening..whatever. Love from London x
Excellent video, it's cool that many of us came here for plant-based fitness reasons but our lives keep co-evolving to include related offshoots that are relevant to now. It would be awesome if you made a end of year video detailing your plans of saving, drying herbs, canning etc the last yields. This is something I don't know anything about other than I'll probably make pesto with the huge amount of basil I grew.
Amazing! The first bed has really flourished. Definitely love the idea of the off ground herb box! Pretty neat! You shared allot of great tips as usual! Love you guys content! Keep up the great work! Sharing and learning together! Bless 💪🙌🏾
Rosemary has so many great uses! It's incredible in home baked bread if you're into that, but it's also nice in salad dressings etc. We also lost all our broccoli plants to the caterpillars this year... Little scumbags. Cheers for the video!
Loved this vid! My tomato plants went crazy this year too! Luckily I stocked up on some tall square cages I got at Canadian Tire & they are foldable for easy winter storage. The dollar store sells great garden steaks too. Definitely recommend those! Thanks for sharing about your experience this year. Something I’ve been doing is watering my plants with banana peel “tea”. It’s supposed to help fertilize them, and seems to have worked well. Plus with the amount of bananas I eat I feel like I’m now getting use of the peel, which is sweet. It’s all I have done, and my plants are pretty abundant this year. That’s really cool about the seaweed! I’ll have to try that too, thanks! Please do that tutorial for the hanging veggie/herb grower!! That looks so awesome & crafty!
They have the best energy about them. I don’t even garden but loved this video. I loved the “you can’t see the lights at all? It doesn’t look chill?!” 😂
Can you please make a gardening series so that I and others like me can start from the scratch please!!,
Great Video and a complete diversification, loved it!!
There are literally so many how to gardening videos on RUclips
@@janetrobison2765 Charles Dowding comes to my mind first. Learned SO MUCH from him
@@thomasfuchs9451 Yes! He is excellent.
Main takeaway: don’t forget to diddle your tomatoes 🍅
You got it!
My "trick" to make basil grow huge: separate it into individual stalks (don't be afraid to rip the roots) and plant it everywhere. Like this you'll find a location that it likes and you can get about as much yield from just one plant as you would get from a store-bought plant. This works with store-bought and home-grown plants. And don't harvest individual leaves, but "branches" then you get new growth from the remaining leaves
I'm growing basil and cilantro for the first time so I needed your advice. Thanks
Indeed, do not grow basil too dense (risk of fungal infection spreading is much bigger) and mine grew really well between pepper and tomato plants.
my man and his girl spreading positivity and laughs gotta pick up those gardening skills are try it out. Keep them coming mate👍👍
I grew tomatoes and cucumbers... The deer ate all the tomatoes. I ate the cucumbers. It's good to share.
🤣🤣🤣 thats funny and nice.
No way?! Haha, we have deer around here but not brave enough to come in my crazy backyard. Haha.
Summer is going TOO DAMN QUICK! Also, looking forward to the rest of the vlog! 😆
It feels very much like autumn here already.
Simnett nutrition "look at my garden"... Jon "watch me fantasize about being a hunter"
yes to hanging planter tutorial!
Loving your work, dude! Well done for helping the movement. 🌱
You're the ultimate happy kid, Derek! :)
A life goal of mine is to have a garden like this it’s so cool!
It is so fun! A great goal I think.
Simnett Nutrition no doubt :)
I remember seeing your very 1st garden video and how it inspired me to grow my own food. Now it has become my main hobby. THANK YOU!
Diddling the tomato flowers!!! Your advice has helped us sooo much. I've got to tell you, we have never had this many tomatoes before following your trick. Over the last 3 garden seasons, we have been overwhelmed with tomatoes from 3 plants that we've had to share with friends 😄 . We use 3 bamboo stakes and form into a teepee over each plant. We continue to loosely tie the plants as the plants continue to grow up the stakes.....Knock on wood that has always worked for us. Always looking for the simplest, most efficient way to garden without spending a lot of time. Thank you, now diddle on!!!
I love your garden. That is so cool. I too got my own garden. I live in the tropics so i got tomatoes, zucchinis, napa cabbages, potatoes & peanuts every 3 months. Up to my eyeballs w/ tomatoes every harvest that i can sell 100% natural refined sugar free ketchup. I also grow my own chilies like birds eye chilies, jalapeños, habanero & bell peppers. I can’t grow any berries tho. Not high enough elevation.
Derek,you gotta buy the black oil sunflower seeds from the store for the birds.No waste at all and every bird loves them.Walmart sells big bags for about 20$.Love your videos,by the way.Thank you so much.I think peas will make a comeback in the fall and give you a mini harvest if they survive the heat.Im an amateur gardener too,we are all learning.
Basil is super moody, try growing it by itself, and give it as much sun as you possibly can! For peach tree, you gotta have to prune it in fall when its dormant, and you gotta fertilize it the Spring. Tops of the trees usually die in the winter when it gets too cold, especially trees that weren't supposed to be there in the first place. Awesome Garden!
Crystal's laugh is definitely the best thing in this video! that and diddling the tomatoes! Great video and love from France !
Your garden always crushes it, Derek! I love seeing other vegans get into gardening. Just feels like a match made in heaven.
At the beginning of each spring I always buy a basil plant. At the end of the summer it's the biggest plant I've got. It needs alot of ground so be sure you re-pot it immediately in a deep (not nessicarily wide) pot. Then water it every day. It needs alot of water and alot of sun.
There you go! You should be able to grow a crazy big basil.
Awesome garden mate. A tip with the mulch is to water the garden bed before you put in down and after. Pea straw is the most common form of mulch here in NZ. Also peas and beans will keep producing for a while if you continuously pick them. And all mints can be invasive so pays to plant them in their own containers. 🌻
You dont have to kill the thinnings of lettuce. Just pull them gently and relocate them. It helps of the soil is moist. Do it on a cloudy day so the can recover before baking in the sun. Or wait until they are a bit bigger and make a salad with them :)
You can eat all the sprouts you pull out while you’re thinning. A tasty snack!
Love these ramdom vlogs, Derek you are such a big kid, its lovely to hear Crystal laughing at you xxx
Thank you! Yes Crystal laughing at me brings me life! Haha.
I can’t deny it! I’m definitely a little jealous of your garden 🤏🏽😏
“You can’t see the lights? It doesn’t look chill??” Hahaha you two are awesome! Much love 💕
Lol i came here looking for this comment, hilarious
Derek, I love your channel for all the great knowledge you share, but I have to say one of my favorite things about you is your goofiness. 🤪 You make me giggle every time. Keep spreading that love & positivity! 🤙🏼❤️
I'm not vegan yet...but I literally can't wait for your videos. Your spirit is absolutely beautiful.
This video made me smile the entire time I watched it 😊
Would love to see regular garden updates!
Years ago I worked for a really old guy (in his 80s) that would tape a q-tip to the end of a short wooden stick and keep it near his tomatoes. He would pick up the stick and touch the q-tip from one flower to another to encourage production.
Hey Derek!! What a beautiful garden!! Organic raw plants love it!!! Fresh air and land.. thank you so much for amazing video!! 🙏🏻🍀🙃🙃🌿🎈☘️🍍🍍🌈
Beautiful garden, Derek. I don't have a yard but I've set-up an indoor grow shelf with a year-round harvest of herbs, microgreens, baby greens and sprouts. It's amazing how much food can be grown in little spaces.
We want more of these
End of the story!! 😉😍😎🙌🏿👏🏼👏🏼
If you live in an area that has the distinct seasons like Canada (I’m in Michigan), divide what you grow into two groups, cool season crops and warm season crops. The cool season crops: lettuces, peas, beets, radishes, broccoli, cabbage etc. can be planted as soon as the ground thaws for the first crop. Then can then be planted again at the end of the summer for the second crop. This is why the lettuce bolted and the cabbage suffered as they don’t do as well in the mid summer heat. The warm season crops, tomatoes, peppers, melons, cucumbers (the true fruits) do amazing in the mid summer. You can only get one crop of them and can be planted after last frost of the season. All mints are invasive so ALWAYS plant in a container or you’ll be sorry lol. Great video, plants are LIFE 🙌 inspire gardening, it’s amazing and so rewarding!! 😸
Always such wholesome and beneficial content. Usually when I watch RUclips for a long time I feel like I ought to be doing something else. But never with Derek's channel! Always leave feeling inspired! 💜
That is awesome! Happy to help you waste some time... guilt free! Haha.
I love the positivity, laughter and good vibes you and Crystal spread! 😂 Please show more gardening videos. It shows that healthy & fit vegans do not only buy superfoods and expensive organic produce. Gardening is also a form of exercise 💪 and for some even meditative 🧘♀️. Do you save the seeds of your lettuce, cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. for next year? These are super easy to grow from seed and you can save the 4 bucks for another Savoy cabbage plant 😉. Do you have more perennial plants or trees? Thank you for all the great videos you share! Keep up the good work! 🙏
Hello Derek from Czech Republic! You and Crystal are the nicest people I've ever seen! Thank you for your videos. You are one of the reasons why i tried to go vegan. You are really inspiring! And basil is easy to grow, I tried it and absolutely great result. Try it at home behind the window, buy basil in supermarket, cut some endings, put them in water and wait few days. Then give them in soil and that's it!!
Thanks so much for the information. Do you know if this would work for mint?
@@suepatrick4214 Sure, it works for mint, basil, parsley and other plants.
Those lights look so chill! Oh man!! :))
Borage is also a fun plant to grow with tomatoes. They can deter the spread of hornworms and the flowers are also edible and have a slightly zesty cucumber taste. 🥰 I also think they are one of the most beautiful garden flowers.
Derrick is such a good person. You can feel it!
You can pinch off the top of the lettuce plants when they begin to bolt to stop them from bolting and getting bitter. Works for anything leafy and herbs like basil too!
Basil grows really well when planted between tomatoes. Also you have to be vigilant and pluck the flowers off before they bloom.
Mint grows like weeds. That should be another separate plant too.
Drip line would work really well for this area. It will water deeply so your plants will thrive on it and you turn it on when you need to and leave it for 2-3 hours at a time.
Tip for good tomatoes: Trim the side shoots. It encourages the main stem the produce more flowers, and therefore more fruit :DD
The lights look chill.
I love anything/everything you two do.
Bird feeding tip. Reduces waste a lot if u just feed black oil sunflower seeds. That’s why it ends up all over the ground, they’re digging through for the good stuff.
We started gardening again now that my baby is two. We successfully grew bell peppers, zucchini, carrots, onions and a few little green beans. I even got one random jalapeno which was a nice surprise.
I also didn't have the heart to thin out stuff so some of my carrots were small and I only got like 2 radishes.
I highly recommend home grown carrots. They are delicious and soft. My two-year-old would pull them out of the ground and wipe them off on her shirt and just start eating them.
We have rabbits in our yard and they ate down all of the onion greens so our onions did not get very big but they were still delicious.
It doesn't look chill?! Haha you're the best Derek. Very chill indeed. Thanks for all the gardening tips.
Nice Derek. You have shown me the light again. I have to get back into the garden. The satisfaction of it all & the benefits. Crystal your laugh is so adorable. Love you guy's & girl's. 👍🏾💜's🤙🏾😉🔥🔥🔥
The lettuce bolted because it was too stressed. Make sure you find ways to lower the stress for next season. That way you can actually have a good harvest.
Marley lettuce likes cooler weather. Plant successive plantings to have continuous lettuce.
nothing cooler than growing your own food. good job.
Dude it’s such a great thing to see that I’m not the only one with a few issues in the garden. Love to see what you have done! Great job
The purple kale looks AMAZING! Great video, thanks for sharing!
Thanks Evan!
FYI: All mint is invasive and spreads.
I adore yalls energy and the way you act towards each other..something to strive for
Thank you! We feel lucky to have such good chemistry..... most of the time. ;)
Yes mint is always invasive!!! wherever you plant it, it will take over so I always keep mind in a container on its own
"Oh my god, I just touched a spider web!" 😂 Good job guys! - the veggie gardens look beautiful! That purple kale looks gorgeous on camera 💜
Best yielding greens for me in Los Angeles are collard greens. I let them go to seed on their own and now my backyard is covered with them. Oh, yeah, Bok Choy is also phenomenal. They got HUGE.
Yes tutorial on the hanging planter and!
The garden bed please, looks so good.
Cherry tomatoes worked this summer, good for summer in the UK. Just plant organic tomatoes! Basil worked and makes a delicious salad.
Do you knows "oyas"? Are buried terracotta jars which slowly diffuse water to your plants.
About basil, a good soil for vegetables, direct sun if not too strong and constant water. Keep the small and big leaves, use the medium ones.
Do you find some ancient/peasant seeds? They are stronger than what we buy in most stores
21:22 - 21:27 so good
I hope I don't jinx it but this is the first RUclips video I've watched in a long long time which did not have any dislikes.
It clearly shows what a great community you have here. Lots of love!
Please please more videos like this. I can't seem to grow much. I want the biggest garden ever though.
And more nature bike rides!
One thing I learned this year was not to use dead leaves from my riverbank for mulch...it was full of slug eggs. We also used dry grass clippings, and slugs love hiding in it during the day and come out and eat your veg at night. Straw worked well, similar to hay I guess, and I'm drying out length of brambles to use criss crossed around the plants next year as slug barriers. Definitely netting for next year too! Thanks for this videa and all your tips. Your enthusiasm is infectious, whatever video you make, and is much appreciated. Bright blessings from Wales. UK
So funny about diddling the tomato flowers! Year sago (before going WFPB) I learned how to make pirogies with a friend's grandmother. She used the term diddling to describe how to seal the edge of the pirogies after they were filled. It's a multi-purpose word!
Those freaky tomatoes tend to taste the best. For the basil, I'd plant it in your raised beds, needs some room and plenty of soil. Basil really likes the heat too, so finding the hottest sunniest part of your garden would be good, especially where you live. You can use wood chips as mulch too. The mulch doesn't really need to be broken down as long as you're not incorporating it into the soil. When you incorporate something carbon rich into the soil it can temporarily tie up nitrogen and other nutrients. The purple kale and purple tomatoes look awesome.
It would be awesome to see a video from you on how growing chemical free diverse foods can really boost the positive function of the gut microbiome. Gardening was the first positive step towards completely transforming my health. The microbes in the soil are mentally restorative. I am in zone 7 in Niagara Falls, and am planning on a full-size fall garden with lots of Asian greens that will grow late into the season. So excited for that!!
I love it, everything! The trampoline looks like so much fun. I dabble in gardening. I love the tip about tickling your tomato blossoms. I’m 69 and became a vegan just a little over a year ago. I feel great, lost a lot of weight, I’m diabetic. I have almost reversed my diabetes. Great job. I think you and your girlfriend are a great couple.
Straw is even better than hay. Great video, thanks!!
Oh my goodness what a wonderful video. Fantastic energy :) Lots of love from Berlin Germany
put some compost around the base of the peach tree !
Thanks so much for the inspo Derek and Crystal, best wishes vegan farmers!
I am a new subscriber and i absolutely love your channel! You and your beautiful girlfriend are just amazing and so positive. I find that when i am struggling with my anxiety and depression your channel really helps me feel better. Aaaaaaannnd while im not a vegan i have definitely been eating less meat thanks to your simple and easy to follow recipe ideas. Thank you so much for all that you do! You have really made a positive difference in my life.
TIP FOR BASIL! If you plant basil in the same space as tomatoes it grows really well :)
Love the garden updates! I’ve been experimenting a ton with mine this year too 🌱
Just a warning though - I think I spotted Japanese Knotweed behind the last box you showed (beside the bird pond). It’s a highly invasive plant that can actually destroy concrete and foundation. It decreases land value and in the UK it’s illegal to sell a property without letting the new owners know it’s there.
Would highly recommend getting it removed professionally! If you just cut it, it’ll spread more 😬
I grew heaps of potatoes in a big laundry tub!! Definitely recommend giving it a shot! Thanks for your cheerful vids, Derek!
More gardening videos! And recipes with food you grew!
I really enjoyed your garden tour and your positivity always make me smile and cheers up my day! Keep up the good work!
I live in Montana and the basil does best in morning sun and afternoon shade. Mint in full sun with lots of water.
i love your garden tours, do more of them !
Lettuce are cold weather crops so people usually plant at spring or fall season alone with radishes
Basil loves full sunny spot, they grow very well when pair up with artichokes, they love heat and plenty of water, so can totally water basil in a daily basis they will love it on a sunny spot.
Basil is very different than rosemary, rosemary doesn’t like wet feet which means rosemary cannot stand watering daily, so it’s better to not plant basil and rosemary together; rosemary can pair up with lavender they like similar conditions
Mint, strawberry and oregano are invasive which means they will take over the whole growing space so it’s better to put them in a small pot and they survive through the winter snow
Thank you so much for the tomato tips :)
Love to see the hanging basket tutorial
We’re about to come into spring here in NZ
Never seen those lemon cucumbers! Thanks alot :-))))
So cool! You, my friend, are a TREASURE of knowledge! ;)
Also on the island, so this was really helpful. Peppers did great for us one year, not the next. Ditto for tomatoes. But zucchini is pretty easy to grow...... You guys are fun to watch!
Derek the Wildfire Arugula from West Coast seeds grows through winter here. My patch has been growing three years! It's better in winter and very spicy in summer.
Bamboo stakes work far better than cages, especially if you are trimming the suckers for better production. Almost all lettuce bolts at high heat (cilantro too), save those seeds for the fall garden (lettuce self pollinates). Sunflowers are fantastic for doing microgreens through the winter. You gotta start growing bush beans! So easy, super productive. Your basil will do better in full sun with more room. Nasturtium is another edible flower you will love and the greens are edible too. I love the gardening videos!
Basil likes to be planted close together in partial to full sun. We put some in the garden and some in pots. The potted basil did really well all summer, it is loving the fall but losing its color (so taste too) a bit. I also put it in with lettuce and the two helped each other out thru the heat of summer. The basil in the garden were too far apart and got too much shade, were spindly for a long tme. But i notice it had a growth spurt in the last week or so and is taking off again. So note to self, plant it closer together.
I grew loads of potatoes from an old forgotten sprouting one I found in the back of the draw. Just cut it into four and popped them in a bucket, covered up the leaves every time they grew and once the flowers had died and the plants looked all sad and droopy we harvested loads of lovely spuds! And we sliced an organic tomato, covered it with soil, thinned out ( I feel you Crystal x ) the seedlings and got some amazing tomatoes from the plants. I bloomin' love nature! Love your videos, love all the content, recipes, vlogs, gardening..whatever. Love from London x
Excellent video, it's cool that many of us came here for plant-based fitness reasons but our lives keep co-evolving to include related offshoots that are relevant to now. It would be awesome if you made a end of year video detailing your plans of saving, drying herbs, canning etc the last yields. This is something I don't know anything about other than I'll probably make pesto with the huge amount of basil I grew.
Amazing! The first bed has really flourished. Definitely love the idea of the off ground herb box! Pretty neat! You shared allot of great tips as usual! Love you guys content! Keep up the great work! Sharing and learning together! Bless 💪🙌🏾
Rosemary has so many great uses! It's incredible in home baked bread if you're into that, but it's also nice in salad dressings etc. We also lost all our broccoli plants to the caterpillars this year... Little scumbags. Cheers for the video!
Thats a nice garden. Plus lightings made the place look even better
Basil needs lots of heat brother, that's why it grows better in more tropic areas. They have short lives here. I have trouble with it too.
Purple tomatoes sound so great. Love this video. I also don’t do very well with basil. I think it requires a lot of water.
Loved this vid! My tomato plants went crazy this year too! Luckily I stocked up on some tall square cages I got at Canadian Tire & they are foldable for easy winter storage. The dollar store sells great garden steaks too. Definitely recommend those! Thanks for sharing about your experience this year. Something I’ve been doing is watering my plants with banana peel “tea”. It’s supposed to help fertilize them, and seems to have worked well. Plus with the amount of bananas I eat I feel like I’m now getting use of the peel, which is sweet. It’s all I have done, and my plants are pretty abundant this year. That’s really cool about the seaweed! I’ll have to try that too, thanks! Please do that tutorial for the hanging veggie/herb grower!! That looks so awesome & crafty!