I just love your garden layout and how you squeeze food production in every available inch. And you’ve done it in a way that is very pleasing to the eye. It’s really inspiring.
I just saw the spinach start to germinate this week (I sowed them at the end of October). I still need to get to my garlic. If you remember, I'd love to hear how your onions do next year.
Thanks . I placed netting (squirrels) and plastic (cold), so far it has worked. The squirrels got in once but I shut them out. Thanks a lot . Always enjoy your videos.
Hey B, You're getting things done.👍🏾 Oooh, I know those greens are gonna be fabulous!🥬And that volunteer cilantro was nice. Mine I planted didn't come, but the parsley's doing fine.🍀See you on your next one.😊
Heya ReasonsWhy! I'm definitely moving slower and it's taking longer, but I'm trying to get it all done before it gets "cold cold" here in Chicago. P.S. I realized some herbs did just fine in the Fall but I didn't realize/remember how well parsley would do.
Very nice set up your tall white aluminum Ray’s bed under your window do you know what size those are in height and length if you can post them it would be great. I would love to order some thank you keep up the good work Gardening 🍄🌻🪴.
Heya! I just saw your comment. This ks one of those modular beds that can be configured a few different ways. This configuration is set up is 8ft long and sits 32inchs tall. Here is a video of me assembling the Vego bed if you're interested: ruclips.net/video/pMghDJN9ovk/видео.htmlsi=jOawXw7H79-1PG1Y Oh and I'm dropping my affiliate link for the Vego beds in case you're still in the market 😊 glnk.io/vzw5/b-bettagarden
Maybe if you have a little extra money and a place to store them, just buy another couple of tubes and cut them down to minimize the space in the Winter, that way you have the 'taller' ones for things like your Collards & pest control in the Summer??
Thanks Ms.Byrd, I have them on my "Buy List" but I could kick myself for not checking the pricing when I was in HD earlier in the week. I guess I could check online. 🙂
Heya Emily, I got the netting from Amazon. I've mostly been using the 13x50ft and cutting it where I need. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08B5RDNN2?ref=ppx_pt2_mob_b_prod_image
Agreed that good soil is like gold and all soil is precious even if only for its potential to become good or great soil. Have you given any consideration to the possibility of giving plant roots of pulled-up (or pulled-out) plants a good dunk and swish in a bucket of water after you've shaken off as much soil as you can shake off, and then either letting the bucket's water evaporate, or just pouring the water and what will by then be mud onto an existing bed? Use the same bucket of water until there's too much soil or "dirt" in there to leave room for cleaning another plant's roots. Or, even with sunflowers, just chop and drop the entire plant (okay, maybe not the seed head) onto existing beds, or chopping and then trench-composting in a bed which might be left "fallow" over the winter? Not that you asked, but I still have garlic to plant and due to another of my infamous miscalculations I have about four pounds more garlic than I have room for (not to worry; a dear friend with plenty of space has volunteered as much square footage as I need) and I still have to plant the spring-flowering bulbs; the double-dormant ramps which almost certainly ought to have been planted much earlier in the year; some nodding onions, ditto; and...h'mm. I know there are other plants to overwinter.... Protect your spinach seeds. Years ago, I fall-sowed kale seeds, several hundred of them, broadcast on the bed, and of several hundred, only three grew enough to be recognized as kale; all the rest were eaten up by birds, squirrels, chipmunks, and everything else which eats or stores seeds, I suppose. Much gardening love from Ohio! 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
Heya friend! I hadn't thought about dunking the roots into a bucket of water. I think that's a great idea but I don't know if I can be trusted to keep up with the bucket-o-dirt-water :-) :-). Your message is from 12 days ago (again, apologies), have you planted your garlic yet? I still haven't and because I planted the last week of November last year, I'm using that as my deadline so I guess I need to plant it by next weekend (not the one coming up). The squirrels have been hunting in my yard so I'm really glad I put the netting over the bed to prevent them from digging into it (the seeds have since germinated!!). Talk to you soon 💚💚💚💚💚💚
@@BBettaGarden My garlic-planting deadline is X number of weeks before the ground freezes hard. A lot like "Elm Street? That's two stops before mine, watch and see where I get off." Futures investing. Same sort of thing. No, haven't got it planted. All set to go a couple of weeks ago, but my S.O. was complaining of pain between one shoulder blade and the rib cage behind it, was sent twice to the E.R. and finally got diagnosed with Covid. Right about the time he got his diagnosis I was manifesting "flu-like" symptoms and spent the better part of a week pretty much unconscious, only worrying about feeding and medicating the cats. So, both of us are down with Covid. Bah. Meanwhile, certainly no need for apologies. Responding to comments is...well, hard to imagine it's ever urgent, although it *is* much appreciated. Always a pleasure to hear from you. Of course you can be trusted, if it's something you want to try, or something you wish to build into your garden routine. You only need a bucket and a hose to fill it easily while you're in the garden. Dump the water out onto a bed you're going to be watering, anyway. Dump it out straight away if you don't want to be breeding mosquitoes, something I hadn't taken into account when I posted my comment, above, but they are becoming a very serious health threat and standing water is just what they need to proliferate. They don't need much of it, either. The water-dunking is just a suggestion, anyway; just a way, but not the only way, to keep your good garden soil in *your* location, in *your* garden, because no way ought it be going to a landfill! Squirrels, at least in my experience, are crafty wee devils and will learn to chew holes in netting. I favor "lids" like box lids only formed from either poultry wire or, much better in my opinion, hardware cloth because of its smaller mesh and greater rigidity. And of course being the belt-and-suspenders person I am, I secure such things with landscape pins or staples. When I plant drifts of tulips or narcissi, I lay down lengths of poultry mesh after I've back filled the planted area to just a bit below the surface of that part of the garden, and then put the final inch or so of soil over the poultry mesh. The squirrels don't dig past it, for obvious reasons. Very glad you thwarted the squirrels and that your seeds have germinated! Much gardening love from Ohio! 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
I've seen an established Kale plant overwinter (the roots are still alive) and return in the Spring before it bolts. I've not seen a lettuce plant do this, but, if you were to drop lettuce seeds in the soil, a bunch would pop up as new plants (volunteer) in the Spring.
I just love your garden layout and how you squeeze food production in every available inch. And you’ve done it in a way that is very pleasing to the eye. It’s really inspiring.
Thank you so much for such a thoughtful comment!💚
I already planted my Garlic and Onions. Never thought about overwintering Spinach.
I just saw the spinach start to germinate this week (I sowed them at the end of October). I still need to get to my garlic. If you remember, I'd love to hear how your onions do next year.
Ill let ya know...
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Thanks . I placed netting (squirrels) and plastic (cold), so far it has worked. The squirrels got in once but I shut them out. Thanks a lot . Always enjoy your videos.
So glad to hear your setup is working!
Great video!! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Hey B, You're getting things done.👍🏾 Oooh, I know those greens are gonna be fabulous!🥬And that volunteer cilantro was nice. Mine I planted didn't come, but the parsley's doing fine.🍀See you on your next one.😊
Heya ReasonsWhy! I'm definitely moving slower and it's taking longer, but I'm trying to get it all done before it gets "cold cold" here in Chicago. P.S. I realized some herbs did just fine in the Fall but I didn't realize/remember how well parsley would do.
Peace and love
And blessing to you!💚
Garlic sprouts are called scapes! Learned that during my CSA experience a few years back.
Thanks!
Great vid, as usual! 🙌🏾💚
Thanks so much!
Very nice set up your tall white aluminum Ray’s bed under your window do you know what size those are in height and length if you can post them it would be great. I would love to order some thank you keep up the good work Gardening 🍄🌻🪴.
Heya! I just saw your comment. This ks one of those modular beds that can be configured a few different ways. This configuration is set up is 8ft long and sits 32inchs tall. Here is a video of me assembling the Vego bed if you're interested: ruclips.net/video/pMghDJN9ovk/видео.htmlsi=jOawXw7H79-1PG1Y
Oh and I'm dropping my affiliate link for the Vego beds in case you're still in the market 😊 glnk.io/vzw5/b-bettagarden
Maybe if you have a little extra money and a place to store them, just buy another couple of tubes and cut them down to minimize the space in the Winter, that way you have the 'taller' ones for things like your Collards & pest control in the Summer??
Thanks Ms.Byrd, I have them on my "Buy List" but I could kick myself for not checking the pricing when I was in HD earlier in the week. I guess I could check online. 🙂
@@BBettaGarden Don't kick yourself, Sister, just keep checking, you'll find a 'sale'. Be blessed!
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Where do u get ur netting??
Heya Emily, I got the netting from Amazon. I've mostly been using the 13x50ft and cutting it where I need. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08B5RDNN2?ref=ppx_pt2_mob_b_prod_image
Agreed that good soil is like gold and all soil is precious even if only for its potential to become good or great soil. Have you given any consideration to the possibility of giving plant roots of pulled-up (or pulled-out) plants a good dunk and swish in a bucket of water after you've shaken off as much soil as you can shake off, and then either letting the bucket's water evaporate, or just pouring the water and what will by then be mud onto an existing bed? Use the same bucket of water until there's too much soil or "dirt" in there to leave room for cleaning another plant's roots. Or, even with sunflowers, just chop and drop the entire plant (okay, maybe not the seed head) onto existing beds, or chopping and then trench-composting in a bed which might be left "fallow" over the winter?
Not that you asked, but I still have garlic to plant and due to another of my infamous miscalculations I have about four pounds more garlic than I have room for (not to worry; a dear friend with plenty of space has volunteered as much square footage as I need) and I still have to plant the spring-flowering bulbs; the double-dormant ramps which almost certainly ought to have been planted much earlier in the year; some nodding onions, ditto; and...h'mm. I know there are other plants to overwinter....
Protect your spinach seeds. Years ago, I fall-sowed kale seeds, several hundred of them, broadcast on the bed, and of several hundred, only three grew enough to be recognized as kale; all the rest were eaten up by birds, squirrels, chipmunks, and everything else which eats or stores seeds, I suppose.
Much gardening love from Ohio! 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
Heya friend! I hadn't thought about dunking the roots into a bucket of water. I think that's a great idea but I don't know if I can be trusted to keep up with the bucket-o-dirt-water :-) :-).
Your message is from 12 days ago (again, apologies), have you planted your garlic yet? I still haven't and because I planted the last week of November last year, I'm using that as my deadline so I guess I need to plant it by next weekend (not the one coming up).
The squirrels have been hunting in my yard so I'm really glad I put the netting over the bed to prevent them from digging into it (the seeds have since germinated!!).
Talk to you soon 💚💚💚💚💚💚
@@BBettaGarden My garlic-planting deadline is X number of weeks before the ground freezes hard. A lot like "Elm Street? That's two stops before mine, watch and see where I get off." Futures investing. Same sort of thing.
No, haven't got it planted. All set to go a couple of weeks ago, but my S.O. was complaining of pain between one shoulder blade and the rib cage behind it, was sent twice to the E.R. and finally got diagnosed with Covid. Right about the time he got his diagnosis I was manifesting "flu-like" symptoms and spent the better part of a week pretty much unconscious, only worrying about feeding and medicating the cats. So, both of us are down with Covid. Bah.
Meanwhile, certainly no need for apologies. Responding to comments is...well, hard to imagine it's ever urgent, although it *is* much appreciated. Always a pleasure to hear from you.
Of course you can be trusted, if it's something you want to try, or something you wish to build into your garden routine. You only need a bucket and a hose to fill it easily while you're in the garden. Dump the water out onto a bed you're going to be watering, anyway. Dump it out straight away if you don't want to be breeding mosquitoes, something I hadn't taken into account when I posted my comment, above, but they are becoming a very serious health threat and standing water is just what they need to proliferate. They don't need much of it, either.
The water-dunking is just a suggestion, anyway; just a way, but not the only way, to keep your good garden soil in *your* location, in *your* garden, because no way ought it be going to a landfill!
Squirrels, at least in my experience, are crafty wee devils and will learn to chew holes in netting. I favor "lids" like box lids only formed from either poultry wire or, much better in my opinion, hardware cloth because of its smaller mesh and greater rigidity. And of course being the belt-and-suspenders person I am, I secure such things with landscape pins or staples.
When I plant drifts of tulips or narcissi, I lay down lengths of poultry mesh after I've back filled the planted area to just a bit below the surface of that part of the garden, and then put the final inch or so of soil over the poultry mesh. The squirrels don't dig past it, for obvious reasons.
Very glad you thwarted the squirrels and that your seeds have germinated!
Much gardening love from Ohio! 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
Are those beds sitting on concrete?
Heya Anne! Yes, those beds are sitting on concrete (the wood frames don't have a bottom either).
Can you over winter lettuce and kale?
I've seen an established Kale plant overwinter (the roots are still alive) and return in the Spring before it bolts. I've not seen a lettuce plant do this, but, if you were to drop lettuce seeds in the soil, a bunch would pop up as new plants (volunteer) in the Spring.