I didn't even bother to look at your garden, just appreciate a young person with some damn common sense that is willing to say the truth shamelessly! Congrats!
I live outside Huntsville area, I’m going to try growing climbing beans around my okra once the okra gets 2’ tall. Every year I do things I’m told has never been done or doesn’t work. Many times I prove theories wrong. The truth is, there’s no wrong way to garden
I love your garden and attitude. I’m in my 50’s and my dad had a small garden. I started with trial and error, learned to never say never and do things my way. Some things work, some things don’t. I’m not sure why people are mean and negative. Jeslous, no life, trying to stir the pot. I hope you inspire more young people and love that you are inspiring creativity.
Don't listen to the haters and the naysayers. It's heartbreaking to hear that people are just so hell bent on bringing others down. I think your garden is beautiful and uniquely yours. If it is feeding your family and bringing you happiness then it is absolutely perfect. ❤
I love your spirit!! I am in my 60's and have only been gardening for 5 years and did not come from a family history of gardeners. You can search a topic on RUclips and get 10 different opinions. But I take some, try it, if it does not work I try another one until I find what works. Common sense is things like this are not exact for everyone (based on soil, zone, weather, etc) and we must be open minded. Keep on doing it how it works for you. We watch you to learn and have fun!!
😊😊😊i have been gardening for around 60yr around 1 1/2 yr ago i had a stroke and lost the use of my right side,but i am getting it back. any way long before, i ran into back to Eden and like you i started experimenting with it then i was curious why it would work and i found the soil food web and through all the creatures in the soil i found something i did not expect i saw the wonder of GODS creation and it changed my life. we all have a different purpose and half to walk are own path i applaud you for taking you're path and don't let anybody be a stumbling block there are many people out there that can not do what you do some will try to make you fail and some you are a inspiration. never give up, like Paul run the good race you're reward is waiting on you GOD BLESS you and may GOD BLESSING on all you're endeavors
I’m proud of you for having the endurance to keep going with gardening, especially after a stroke! That’s very inspiring to me! Thank you so much! 😊 God Bless you as well!
all the galore to GOD. HE showed me every thing i need.HE sent me young people to help me and while they plant seeds in the garden i can plant a seed in them.i am nobody i am nothing but i thank one of my proposes is to plant seeds.whether they grow are not is up to him.
You're my hero. I garden like you, in a small space with as much crammed in there as possible. I'm in a townhouse and deliberately break "the rules" all the time with companion choices, spacing, timing, etc. I do what I want and accept the outcome. You do you and laugh at the haters.
Thanks so much! The smaller the space to grow in, the more you learn to break the rules really quick! Otherwise it really isn’t worth it for such a small harvest, which is why so many are discouraged about gardening. I want a large harvest for all of my hard work lol! 😂 Keep up the good work! Kudos for you gardening in a townhouse! 👏
Just file the troll comments in the compost pile. You're doing great and I get as much enjoyment out of watching you garden as I do digging in my own! Your idea of planting beans around the base of your maters is brilliant. Doesn't matter to me about the nitrogen as much as the shade that keeps the weeds down...which would also keep the soil cool and moisture from wicking out of sun baked soil. Proud of you!
Here’s what I’ve learned since starting to garden in 2019: 1) Try to get as much knowledge as I can, but not so much that I get confused. 2) Follow the channels that inspire me, not bore me. There’s a lot of info on some channels, but they’re boring.🤷♀️ (You’re not.) And the third thing I’ve learned is-3) Don’t garden like someone else because they’ll change their methods and habits like they change their shoes. I’ve seen so many that preach on how to prune tomatoes or how to eradicate pests, then they’ll do another video where they show a different method. I don’t hold that against them, times change, people change. But I just realize that when I’m watching their content, I need to make sure what they’re saying works for me. And we can watch 20 channels and get 20 different pieces of advice. We all have to discern what’s best for us, our time, our weather etc. I’m not sure why some people feel the need to critique everything other people do; it comes from a bad place in their heart I believe. Such a shame. About the beans-every catalog or article says they’re great nitrogen fixers. Whether they fix it asap or after they die, they won’t fix it at all if you don’t plant the seed. Keep on planting those seeds, girlfriend. 👍
Preach! 👏 I said when I first gardened that I was always going to plant eggplant because I thought it was so cool to grow because I had never grown one before. Now I don’t fool with. Next year I might plant rows. 🤷🏻♀️ it’s really all about what you like and what works for you! And yes, I couldn’t get over the beans. Must be doing something right with a 7 inch difference side by side. Thank you!
❤Looks good to me. Great attitude about having fun and growing food. I grew up with grandparents having gardens but I garden because it makes me happy. Encouraging youth to grow is wonderful.
You may want to apply an inoculant to your legume seeds to insure that your soil has a sufficient amount of the right microbes for optimum nitrogen fixing., it's cheap and well worth the cost. Ignore the anti-gardeners and naysayers, you go girl ! Thrilled to see young folks getting out in the garden. More power to ya.
I almost 69 and I started gardening in 2022 during the plandemic. I love to share my knowledge and I really love being in my garden everyday and I love eating what I grow. I started a gardening website just to share my garden with family and friends. I would not even think about wasting my time with youtube. You do you and just block the naysayers. Happy gardening 😊
We love to post on RUclips because it’s a bigger outreach. The more people we can reach, the better. It’s all about showing that anyone can garden and inspiring others.
This is your "neighbor" from WV. I'm 70 yrs old, and you always motivate me to think outside of the box! We don't start planting warm weather crops until May 15, and you have me so excited about intercropping!! I can't wait to get started!! I'm planting a small raised bed of popcorn for our three young grandchildren, and guess what else I am going to plant in that garden! Beans!! I am also going to use lots of lettuce to help control the weeds. I learned how to garden from my grandparents who did have a farm and from my Dad. My sons spent many summers helping me in the garden, and our oldest son loves to garden as much as I do! He's 35! Just keep doing what you are doing! You keep this grandma motivated!!
Hey neighbor! That’s awesome! 👏 I’m going back to the feed store tomorrow to load up on lettuce! 🤣 I’m so happy your son is enjoying it! That’s what we need! Thank you so much! ❤️
I'm giving you your props! Garden the way it works for you now, and believe me, if you stay with this, you will change many things. You will change them at YOUR time and for YOUR reasons. You will learn by doing, as most of us oldsters have done as well. God bless you young lady, and you look great for 32!
I agree with you! I have found myself trying to do what other people say while my husband will just throw caution to the wind and he is always more successful! I did grow up with parents and grandparents gardening! I also try my best to remember what they did. I remember the things I did when I helped in the garden. Just wish I had asked more questions and had taken more notes, since I don’t have them here anymore. This was the first video of yours that I’ve seen and I love your enthusiasm, spunk, and kindness. New subscriber now, too! Also, how amazing that you are now putting 75% of your family’s food on the table! I’m going to try to be more lenient. Just might be hard as old as I am😂😂! Looking forward to exploring your other videos! Happy Gardening!! ~~Lisa 🌞🌸🌼Also, good to see someone my children’s age working hard raising food for her family and doing it successfully! Oh, and I’m right next door to ya in Mississippi!
Hey neighbor! Welcome! Keep after it! 👏 Thank you so much! 😊 and hey, throw a little caution to the wind with your gardening. You’ll have more fun. I promise! ❤️
You have become my favorite channel overnight- really! I just Binge watched! "BECAUSE I WANT TO" keep speaking the truth ma'am. Gardening is fun and a skill everyone should have to learn to grow their food - also provides insight and respect for the process! Just adore you!!!
This is the first time I've ran across your videos, but I just wanted to say you are right. There is no right way to do it and you should be having fun. If I was to recommend anything to people who question inter planting, they should check out permaculture and food forests and syntropic farming. This will give them an idea of what it means to really intensively interplant various food crops or non-food crops. And syntropic farming. Something that I just became aware of will give you an idea of just how rough you can be with certain plants. They chop those things down like crazy just to provide compost for the soil, ground cover and nutrients. If you're interested, I would recommend checking them out, not because it's the right way, but just to give you an idea of how many different ways you can do it. People can be crazy. Have fun.
@@harmonhomestead7434 you are welcome. If you do, for permaculture I highly recommend Andrew Millison's RUclips channel. He teaches a lot of the concepts, but even more interesting is he travels the world and shows examples of people changing the lives of whole villages by bringing water back to the landscape in draught plagued areas. Pretty inspiring. And for the syntropic farming I've been enjoying Byron Grows RUclips channel. His stuff is more focused in tropical areas, but you can modify the concepts for your area. I've been working on a food forest around our house using permaculture concepts, but since I ran across the syntropic stuff, I think if we move soon, I'll go more that direction. Similar concepts, but the latter focuses more on larger scale production using rows which I think long term might be beneficial.
Hun, you just keep doing what you’re doing. I’ve recently found your channel and have enjoyed what I’ve been able to watch. Don’t let anyone get to you. Plant close. Worse case is you learn to spread out a tad more next year. Best case you get more bang for your buck. Times are tough and the more you can get and learn the better off you will be. I’m older and didn’t grow up with gardens, like you I figured it out. Started about your age. Keep at it!!
There's so much contradictory information/opinions out there that I just give it a go. I love breaking garden "rules". I think it's great that you're showing your results. If I'm not sure something will work, I don't try it with all of my plants but rather just a few. That way if it doesn't work, I don't have an entire crop failure. I've had pretty good results when doing things that some people say you shouldn't. And side note, there's a lot of advice out there about pest control that straight up doesn't work. Maybe I have some kind of mutant super pests or something, but I call bs on a lot of it. Btw, this is the first time I've seen any of your videos.
I am in my 5th year of gardening in Oregon and every year I learn another thing that’s not exactly true. My tomatoes ripened just fine after a frost (I’d been told they wouldn’t) My squash plants got frosted HARD last fall. The plants I didn’t get pulled up kept frantically producing until NOVEMBER. So there’s another thing that was not exactly right. “You can only grow carrots in the fall & spring”….i recently remembered that my parents planted them in May and harvested them in October- they were always juuust fine. It’s nice for us to get info off the internet, and there are whole lot of know it alls, but in the long run, we have to figure it out for ourselves. Great channel, I’m binging my way through your videos. 😊
I can’t begin to tell you how much I love this video. Your straight to the heart of the matter truth telling is so refreshing. I can’t imagine producing videos and having folks make condescending and negative comments…what a buzz kill. I’m in my sixties and just beginning to garden and preserve foods. I’m making all the mistakes but am making progress too. My homemade buttermilk biscuits are sooo good with my homemade pear preserves. My only regret is that I didn’t start this gardening chapter long ago…anyway, keep doing what you’re doing. Best of luck.
Thank you so much! Keep after it… gardening is so rewarding, even though it may not seem like it the first couple of years or when you have inclement weather conditions. Those biscuits and preserves sound amazing! 🤩
Experimentation is how we learn! 💯 Thank you for sharing your experiences with us! We can all learn from them. People of our age are incredibly lucky to have this avenue of sharing information. Please don’t let the negativity of a few spoiled apples get to you. You are appreciated. Stay strong fam!
Ok. ❤ So true and I am so glad that you are speaking your truth, which is the truth. I love your raw energy. Plant anything anywhere is my motto. I am 47 and I’ve been gardening for over 20+ years, and I do it because I love doing it. It’s fun,relaxing, and also provides me with fresh fruits and vegetables. I have to subscribe 😊😊😊
I am so glad that I watched you! You are so right about this whole culture. Keep your chin up. Keep giving them heck and keep having fun.!! You are my hero too!! I love it!!!!
Don't let the trolls get you down! I feel like anyone showing what has "worked for them" is helpful. You aren't saying "do it like this or it's wrong". My husband and I talk about this some. We grew up with gardening parents, grandparents and extended family. When we were first married we had a big inground garden because to us that's how it was done. We had kids and life got busy with both of us working and trying to juggle it all so we stopped gardening. Now empty nesters I'm gardening again. This time I'm using raised beds and starting a lot of seeds indoors. We talk about the fact our garden is no worse off either way. Either way. We're growing food that healthier than what we buy at a store. That should be all that's important. Keep showing us your garden and what works for you!!!❤
Love you enthusiasm to gardening and going against the grain,your gardens and vegetables look great maybe you got a few jealous know it all's out there putting you down , keep pissing them off doing what you do have fun ,keep experimenting it makes your channel a good one, hooked in ct
As always a great video, my first garden is this year and I'm 62 LOL. Never worry about keyboard commando's if they're that so smart why don't they write a book or have their own channel!!!!!!! My mom said about advice you can take some of it, all of it or none of it that's up to you. You keep doing what you do, we appreciate you and your view points.
I just got some identical seeds from 3 different companies. I had fast 100% germination on 12 from one company, about 80% from the other 2. That is amazing, but I've had other seeds I believe were stored improperly and had 0 germinate
Hey. Listening from Mississippi. Just found your channel. I hate you’re having to deal with that. I’m just learning, but I think it’s great what you’re doing. Been gardening for 5 years. Keep it up! Doing worry about those folks. You’re doing great. ❤
I think your garden looks great! You make the great point that WHY a person does a thing has to be part of judging WHAT they are doing. If my goal is to enjoy myself, that is the only legitimate way to judge my success. If I am growing for food, that is part of it. The people you are talking about are called internet trolls. They love to talk, but have little to say. It is best to simply scroll past them to good people like me. LOL I am growing a food forest in the desert in the city of Tucson, AZ.
Lol you do you. Thats why its your garden. It does work to mix your garden stuffs together. Bugs wont be able to destroy every plant. I remember elementary social studies about how the indigenous peoples of US "intercropping" for many reasons. They also put a fish in the whole under the corn 🌽 seeds to fertilize and maybe provide some moisture for the rooting seed. People/bots/trolls will do what they do. Majority enjoy all yours and others videos. Much ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤. Keep up the good work.
I'm in my 50s, grew up with a garden, but was never 'taught' to garden. I have my own garden now, after years of moving with the military and being unable to have one, and I'm learning by trial and error. Lots of error..lol What causes successful gardening seems to be half-opinion, anyway, I think. There's science in it, sure, but most of the people giving garden advice are basing that advice on what works for them, in their areas. Everybody doesn't want to spend years studying and documenting before they even plant their first seed. I try; sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, and I usually never find out why either thing happens...lol But I enjoy it, and that's what matters to me. My kids are now gardening on their own and teaching their kids as they go. And all of us are having fun and having some fresh and tasty successes along the way. Keep doing what works for you, and kudos to you for not listening to the naysayers!
Late 50's mechanic in Michigan the orchard and 2 gardens were such fun I built a 24X29 double cattle panel hoop house 2 years ago. Having fresh tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and cantaloupe until end of November is awesome. only problem is giving away all the extra because we are eating so much fresh the canning had to be cut way back.
This video popped up out of the blue... first video of yours I've watched. I absolutely love your personality, your honestly and what you have to say. New subscriber now! I'm looking forward to watching previous and future videos. Just ignore the negativity. I'm just starting my garden. I tried last year and failed and I'm trying harder this year. I'm enjoying do it too. 😊
Hey and welcome! We failed MISERABLY our first year so don’t feel bad! The weather was hot and dry that year too, so weather always plays a factor! Keep after it and keep on growing! Thank you so much! ❤️
When I planted my first garden I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. II was huge! I had a friend helping me a little but neither one of us knew anything about nitrogen or phosphorus etc. I didn’t test my soil or even fertilize. My soil probably wasn’t even great according to the standard of today. We ended up having over 300 ears of corn and so much other produce we were giving it away like crazy! Back in the old days people just plowed, tilled and planted without all the complication you hear today. I moved from there and went years without a garden until a few years ago. Now people make it so complicated! I fertilize with goat manure and other organic things. I add organic compost and do a lot of companion planting, add lots of flowers for pollinators etc. My point is, it doesn’t have to be complicated and sometimes it stresses me out!
Heck I'm learning so much and I'm an ole lady of 57 !! Never been able to grow tomatoes but my tomato bed is gorgeous my first year !!! Been using pine shavings and chicken poop. Some seeds do some seeds don't. Makes me feel like a kid again being in my garden.
First time viewer and a new suber! OMG why people have to be so mean and rude is still mind blowing to me. Love what you said about gardening: it's about having FUN! So true. And of course growing food for you, your fam & friends. This is not a competitive sport and there are no awards given at the end of a growing season. The negative people all need to keep their horrid (and extremely unjustified) opinions to themselves. You're lovely, your garden is lovely and tbh.....I could listen to you talk all damn day. I'm in Jersey and your accent is so delightful!!
Follow your heart do what feels good to YOU, and make YOU happy thats all that matters! If people don't agree they should keep their opinion to themselves. My grand kids love my garden and the chickens. And chicken Poo is good for you soil just do some homework first! Keep on gardening! Aloha 😊
Young lady I'm very happy you are gardening, and however you want to plant what you grow is totally your choice. There's no expert way of gardening, even master gardeners have failures. I'm old and have been gardening since I was a child and I'm still learning something every new season. You'll only get kudos from this old lady! When those young people you spoke briefly about can't buy food they will wish they had developed the skills you are working on now. Legumes do fix nitrogen , however heavy feeders like onions would need a lot of legumes to provide enough for one bulb. Don't let the nay sayers make you upset, just keep gardening honey. Kudos to you 👍🏼
A lot of people think that they are master gardener's. You do it the way you want if it works for you it do it. I have been doing it for over 60 years and I am still learning on my own you keep up doing things the way you want 😊😊
Also, we had a year when squirrels were stealing our tomatoes and cucumbers. They would sit in a oak tree in my front yard eating them. Later that season, I had cucumbers and tomatoes sprout up under that oak. Seeds want to grow. That's what they were designed to do. People complicate gardening too much.
You just keep on doing what you're doing. I'm one that grew up with my grandparents, aunts and uncles and my parents all having gardens, preserving much of their harvest and enjoying and sharing with others. Those in my opinion were the good old days. Today it seems like there are many that want to make a bunch of money telling us that you need this and that in order to be successful in growing anything. I am into doing it more like what you are doing, just in a smaller scale as I do live in a subdivision in a small community, but still manage to have a few raised beds and container gardening and I get wonderful enjoyment out of it watching my efforts grow and give me some good tasting chemical free food and also learned how to compost my leaves and grass clippings and household waste instead of letting the trashman haul them away. I am more than twice your age and I have learned many things that you have shared that I didn't know. Like I had mentioned, I do my tomatoes in 5 gallon buckets but this year I have added some bush beans along with them to see how that works out for me. Also plan on doing that with my cucumber and squash plants. In my opinion, we need more folks your age learning how to grow some of their food as when the day comes that the store may not have it they will really be in bad shape. In the end, do not let those with the negative comments stop you from doing what you're doing, as sharing what you have learned will make for a better society. Happy to have found your channel.
Check out David the Good, he is also a positive and non-dogmatic gardener. Great singer/songwriter too! He recommends to also "Push the zone!" Try growing things that aren't supposed to grow in your zone. Experiment, experiment, experiment! Keep your positive attitude and my advice would be don't feed the trolls.
I’ve heard of him before and watched a few videos! I’ll have to watch some more. He’s more along my speed. I remember him burning trash in a hole before he planted pumpkins. I said this cat is pretty smart! 👍
I absolutely love your garden! Unfortunately we live in a time where people don’t have consideration or kindness for their fellow humans. Keep up the great work and don’t let the hater’s make you feel some kind of way. Momma always said if you can’t say anything nice then don’t say anything at all! Have a wonderful day and garden on
Hey babe ! Greetings from Australia ! I am a lot older and as I think about retiring I have got into gardening over the last 18 months - started with my dad’s old garden that was just 1 foot high with weeds and it just expanded from there. For God’s sake don’t listen to the trolls and morons who just want to disagree to make themselves feel better ! You ARE doing the right thing - and for all the right reasons ! Agree with you totally ! Look at permaculture gardening which is similar to what you are already doing ! Plant anything everywhere ! F*** the straight row BS - anal retentive OCD stuff. You are learning by actually doing stuff ! I have the odd crop failures but it is fun and therapeutic so who gives a damn ! Sunshine, fresh air when my job for the past 50 years was mostly sitting at a desk behind a bloody computer with fluorescent lights instead of the sun - you just get a Vitamin D deficiency ! Go for it girl ! Ignore the idiots !
Hi! I’ve never seen you channel until today but it’s really nice. Makes me want to plant even more things. I’m gonna post videos of my garden and the world can look the other way if they don’t like it :)
You preach it sista!! It doesn’t matter how you do it someone will have a problem with it. We all try different approaches, some things succeed & some don’t but the point is to try & keep trying. The world is heading down the toilet fast so if we can find a little something to give us joy, DO IT!! Who cares what others think.
Love this video and your common sense! We primarily raised bed garden, but also in ground and container. I love to see other folk's gardens that are completely different from what we do or even similar. Have a blessed day!
I'm so sorry you have to deal with so many negative comments lately. I've had similar struggles and I find that managing trolls is the hardest part of being a content creator. It always baffles me why people will go out of their way to ruin someone's day. For the longest time I would get really upset when I saw rude or toxic comments. Now I just shrug my shoulders, give the comment a thumbs-down, and focus more on chatting with my friendly community members. If the comments are really bad I'll just delete them; I don't need that kind of negativity in my life. On a positive note, I think your videos are absolutely wonderful and I love seeing your garden progress! Keep up the great work! 🌾
It really is hard! I have the mindset of “hey I want to show them this”, but in the back of my mind it’s “well, I’m not doing this the way they specified before so I can’t”, so it starts becoming their creation instead of your own. We’ll keep on keeping on. Thanks so much! 😊
Just randomly came across your chanel and love your attitude to gardening, I live in England and alot of us have small gardens, renting allotments is popular but they're hard to get, some of the younger generations don't have the land space that older generations did so what should we do? Unless we can afford or aquire land We have to find new ways or don't bother at all (I want to try vertical gardening) this is going to be my second year, I think what your doing is great, I really enjoyed planting veg and not knowing exactly what I was doing, it was exciting everytime something worked and I fed my family food I grew, and I learned as I grew. I'm going to plant some beans around a few of my tomatoes and see what happens, and with raised bed gardening using all the space I have is important. ❤
England… wow! Thanks for watching! That’s one reason I try to show cramming so many vegetables in a small space, because so many people don’t have land to farm. Keep on doing! You’re doing great! Thank you! 😊
Every year, my husband and our oldest son plant peppers and tomatoes and herbs and whatever they feel like in big pots with potting soil. Nothing fancy. They tend to them together. Every year, the plants do great, and we cook/eat everything they grow. They enjoy it so much. The internet is bittersweet. If you want to know how to do something, you can just look it up. But you'll find a hundred different people making videos telling you their way is best. And for each of those, thousands of people in the comments just nay-saying anything. It's not just in the gardening community. That's just how the internet is most the time. But there's a lot of good people too. A lot of people really just try to share their hobbies, help people, have fun, etc. Don't let the negative people get you down. I think your garden is beautiful. ❤
Good job on them gardening! I agree the internet is like this in general. Just wanted it to be plain that this is a channel for any and all and that anyone can garden. Thanks!
I am trying to develop food that grows without needing to be watered. How to do that? Easy. Plant a thousand seeds, and ignore them. The one that grows is drought proof. Collect seeds and do it again next year.
I planted trail of tears for the first time this year (although my seeds are 7 years old so we'll see what happens). I'm interested to see how well they do on the trellis compared to scarlet runner beans.
Here in the northeast we garden as the queen did. We would never have a slug in our garden and we would never grow a pumkin in our highly elite gardens.
I'd just say that people should be willing to hear criticisms or information that contradicts what they know without feeling discouraged. They should also be willing to challenge info they are given. I have given information that contradicts what people believe and I have challenged information I've been given out in the garden. Like composting weeds. I feel like its fine because I see them germinate and get smothered on a flip. I love my crappy little plants and I am a nerd and I love to learn and to share knowledge so my plants and others plants can be better. I'm not personally bothered if I try to teach someone to fish and they just keep trying to kick the fish for fun instead. If they turn around and yell at me I'll kick em in the water though lol There's only so much we can do in a small home garden in a day before we go and hop on youtube or whatever. I definitely agree on the over-sciencing part. And there is a gross amount of bad (or unwise/inefficient) information given out just to get people to buy affiliate-linked crap they don't need. I like your messaging though. Overall its your garden and have fun with it. All the info online makes it seem like there is a huge barrier to start a garden. I walked into the back yard and ripped out the grass in a spot. I fluffed it up. and I planted seeds. Did pretty darn good considering what that cost to do.
I had a nice growth pole beans trained on a tee pee with many luciious leaves & just getting blooms. When I went out two days ago, the deer had eaten to practically nothing. How do you keep deer out of your beans?
We only grow them in our backyard that has flood lights and dogs. Otherwise, the deer eat everything we grow. 🤦🏻♀️ I wish I knew of some method that works to tell you, but we’ve failed at them all!
It's everywhere. I garden on my terrace. I live in an apartment, and have an extra outside space (blessing because of where our apartment is located.) I showed my garden spot to a neighbor and she was hating. I was like omg, who does that? Mind you I grow strawberries, apples, blackberries, raspberries, greens, kales, herbs and some potatoes. She said she didn't understand why I'd do all this work to harvest a bit of food. 😮 Sorry, but then why did you want to see my garden. Go back down to your 3 Rd floor home.
Exactly! People today think that it’s taboo to grow food when you can buy it. If I had a nickel every time someone said “why do you grow all of that, you can just buy it?”… you keep growing and doing your thing! Especially gardening on a terrace, that’s awesome! 👏
I keep reading that you shouldn’t plant indeterminate tomatoes in a cage because it doesn’t allow them to get big enough. I see you using them, and I’m wondering if you are planting indeterminates in there and how they do for you.
10 feet tall in a cage last year! All I plant are indeterminate varieties. They’ll eventually flop over but you can lay them onto the other cage beside it. We’ve done cattle panels and cages, no problem with either. I’ve never seen anyone hardly use a cattle panel in this area. Everyone goes with cages.
I use regular potting soil to start my seedlings. In the comments I got flooded w people saying I can’t do that, it’s not safe for tender seedlings. My response, if you plant seeds in the ground outdoors are you using seedling mix? A lot of these “famous” gardeners get kickbacks from these companies. They also, give incorrect information. All of my seedlings thrive. Do what works for you. And pass your information along. These people get into your comments to cause people to question you.
Starting plants isn’t a “You can only do this!” type of deal. There are many ways to do things and end up at the same result. I’m a nobody and don’t even have a channel (yet) but the reason many tubers suggest starting mix instead of just starting like you do (congrats on being able to do so; honestly) is very simple…it’s easier for brand new people to get into gardening. I’m former military and an old adage is “K.I.S.S. - Keep It Simple Stupid” and buying seedling mix is an easy way to limit variables and allow for starting either early or indoors where insects aren’t going to kill off seedlings (the newbies are likely enough already to kill them). Starting outdoors and/or making your own mix are more advanced to pull off successfully. Also while you’re right on the kickbacks and sponsorships of some channels, it doesn’t mean the idea of buying mixes to get started is totally biased. Just my $.02 worth.
@@BigWillDogg82 I don’t think I was telling anyone to do it my way, just stating what I do. The cost of seedling mix is why I do it. And even when I did use seedling mix, I would have to boil it as it comes w the risk of fungus. Which attracts fungus gnats. People can do what they want. The internet is full of “suggestions” it’s up to you to research and through trial and era. PS: fungal gnats are an issue no matter what you do for these last 3 years. Thank you for your service 🙏🏻
@@joannevenere3552 I’m sorry if I came off as saying you want people to do it your way, it wasn’t my intention. On my wanted to explain why for some buying seedling mix is a better option. Yes, gnats are an issue that EVERYBODY has to deal with and is 1 of the few things new gardeners need to tackle variables. Do what works for you because you owe me not anybody else an explanation for how you operate your garden. Thanks for the support by the way!
Hey Harmon Homestead, could i respectfully suggest that you stop listening to comments that have no idea about what works and what's best for you guys. Nevermind what anyone else thinks, do your thing with what you got and ignore the distractions.
I agree with you totally!! First time saw your channel!! People like to put other's down for what there doing don't understand if can't do it so want to put people down that can to make them feel better! Think great that trying believe if have fun doing it that's all that matters!! But if get crops in even better!! No garden is perfect ever year!! Hope greatest year for You!! I'm Janell from Calif...
Love your video. Don’t worry about what other people think or say. Gardening is all about learning and having fun. I had a thought about what you were doing with mixing different plants together…. I think it’s called companion planting. My mother had a book on the subject but you could do a little research online. Keep up the good work 😊
Yes 👍 we’ve done one video on companion planting, so I thought, well, why not just jumble it all together? So we did this year, and enjoying it so far! Thank you so much! 😊
@@harmonhomestead7434 I have been gardening with my Dad for atleast 10 years now. He had a garden in our yard since I was a child. We also had a chicken coop. He gardened with his mother and grandparents. I have learned a lot from him, but I also try new things, garden in containers and pots, cracks and crevices across our 3 yards. I agree with everyrhing you said. It is fun and beautiful with me, and I am glad to share it with anyone who appreciates it's beauty and chaos. I have people asking me how to start in their yards and what to do. I tell them some tips, to be not afraid to try and fail, but mostly find what works best for you. Your garden want look like mine, and that's okay. Just garden from your hearr, it doesn't have to be complex and complicated. It will be your own creation.
PS. Just got back from the stables around a nearby racecourse with a car load of horse shit and hay - all free and makes great compost ! My parents were Depression kids and my grandparents all had small vegetable gardens as they were dirt poor. Unfortunately all my kids are computer kids - stuck behind their screens 24/7. - hardly ever go outside !
That’s how my great grandparents were- depression era and very poor. No one around didn’t have a garden. I’m afraid we’re headed for those times again. Either way, it’s fun and nutritious to grow your own food. Awesome for the manure! Works like a charm! And I understand about your kids- everyone we know our age is glued to a phone.
Overall, a person’s garden is a physical representation of the “Gardener” and their wants and wishes. It’s about how the hard work (just planting seeds in dirt doesn’t work) of gardening makes the person feel, not how observers of the garden feel. If someone doesn’t recognize or appreciate the work done they’re free to do things in their own garden or choose not to garden at all! Are there things that you’ve posed that aren’t necessarily 100% right? Yes, but that doesn’t matter either because there are not many things that are correct 100% of the time that people or science agree on. Keep on doing your own thing and let the negative Nancy’s fly right on by!
Yes! Who’s to say what’s right or wrong with gardening, you know? And science is such an unstable thing, we all have to bend on the newest trends because they will turn around and say it’s obsolete or inappropriate in the next 5 years anyways. Thank you! 😁
Girl dont I know it!! People are so rude! People are kill joys anything that brings anyone joy, happiness. I've been rasied my whole life to grow beans up corn! People get on here and have no clue what they are talking about. Keep on keeping on!
It looks good beer garden you do the things it's supposed to do and these are your plants and this is how you raise your garden everybody raises their Garden differently too many people get too much opinions going on I want to act like they're Miss Garden Mr Garden I have raised beds and I Garden the way I want to I use raised bed dirt and that's it how do you use bone meal and blood Mill that's the only thing I use when I first plant 3 months I use it again that's pretty much it can I do the same thing you do plant all different kinds of plants next to them and see how they grow and that's how you experiment that a lot of people don't do that that's where they lose no gardening tips and just before first Frost I cut the ends of my plants hurt it grows more plants because it'll stop growing the plant and grow more vegetables I'm not telling you what to do but it does work more growth on your veggies and you are beautiful when you get angry OK Google congratulations on your garden looks awesome
"The nitrogen isn't available till after the bean plant dies" - Ok..... That is, usually, how nature works. cover crops, nitrogen fixers, biomass builders .... They are investment in future fertility.
I didn't even bother to look at your garden, just appreciate a young person with some damn common sense that is willing to say the truth shamelessly! Congrats!
Thank you! ❤️
I live outside Huntsville area, I’m going to try growing climbing beans around my okra once the okra gets 2’ tall. Every year I do things I’m told has never been done or doesn’t work. Many times I prove theories wrong. The truth is, there’s no wrong way to garden
Hey neighbor! 👋 it worked for us last year so give it a try! 😁 keep on gardening!
I love your garden and attitude. I’m in my 50’s and my dad had a small garden. I started with trial and error, learned to never say never and do things my way. Some things work, some things don’t. I’m not sure why people are mean and negative. Jeslous, no life, trying to stir the pot. I hope you inspire more young people and love that you are inspiring creativity.
Thank you so much! 😊 keep on gardening! 👏
Your garden looks great, and as long as it produces food for your family, who care what it looks like! 🤦♀️ Seriously, some people are so rude!
Amen! ❤️
Don't listen to the haters and the naysayers. It's heartbreaking to hear that people are just so hell bent on bringing others down. I think your garden is beautiful and uniquely yours. If it is feeding your family and bringing you happiness then it is absolutely perfect. ❤
Thank you so much! Amen! 👏
I love your spirit!! I am in my 60's and have only been gardening for 5 years and did not come from a family history of gardeners. You can search a topic on RUclips and get 10 different opinions. But I take some, try it, if it does not work I try another one until I find what works. Common sense is things like this are not exact for everyone (based on soil, zone, weather, etc) and we must be open minded. Keep on doing it how it works for you. We watch you to learn and have fun!!
Thank you so much! ❤️ keep on gardening!
😊😊😊i have been gardening for around 60yr around 1 1/2 yr ago i had a stroke and lost the use of my right side,but i am getting it back. any way long before, i ran into back to Eden and like you i started experimenting with it then i was curious why it would work and i found the soil food web and through all the creatures in the soil i found something i did not expect i saw the wonder of GODS creation and it changed my life. we all have a different purpose and half to walk are own path i applaud you for taking you're path and don't let anybody be a stumbling block there are many people out there that can not do what you do some will try to make you fail and some you are a inspiration. never give up, like Paul run the good race you're reward is waiting on you GOD BLESS you and may GOD BLESSING on all you're endeavors
I’m proud of you for having the endurance to keep going with gardening, especially after a stroke! That’s very inspiring to me! Thank you so much! 😊 God Bless you as well!
all the galore to GOD. HE showed me every thing i need.HE sent me young people to help me and while they plant seeds in the garden i can plant a seed in them.i am nobody i am nothing but i thank one of my proposes is to plant seeds.whether they grow are not is up to him.
Don't listen to other people, especially if you have a successful garden. You are giving us good advice.
Thank you! ❤️
You're my hero. I garden like you, in a small space with as much crammed in there as possible. I'm in a townhouse and deliberately break "the rules" all the time with companion choices, spacing, timing, etc. I do what I want and accept the outcome. You do you and laugh at the haters.
Thanks so much! The smaller the space to grow in, the more you learn to break the rules really quick! Otherwise it really isn’t worth it for such a small harvest, which is why so many are discouraged about gardening. I want a large harvest for all of my hard work lol! 😂
Keep up the good work! Kudos for you gardening in a townhouse! 👏
Just file the troll comments in the compost pile. You're doing great and I get as much enjoyment out of watching you garden as I do digging in my own! Your idea of planting beans around the base of your maters is brilliant. Doesn't matter to me about the nitrogen as much as the shade that keeps the weeds down...which would also keep the soil cool and moisture from wicking out of sun baked soil. Proud of you!
Yes! 👏 the last thing I want to do is constantly weed all of these gardens so I’ll try to find a way around it any way I can! Thank you! 😊
Here’s what I’ve learned since starting to garden in 2019: 1) Try to get as much knowledge as I can, but not so much that I get confused. 2) Follow the channels that inspire me, not bore me. There’s a lot of info on some channels, but they’re boring.🤷♀️ (You’re not.) And the third thing I’ve learned is-3) Don’t garden like someone else because they’ll change their methods and habits like they change their shoes. I’ve seen so many that preach on how to prune tomatoes or how to eradicate pests, then they’ll do another video where they show a different method. I don’t hold that against them, times change, people change. But I just realize that when I’m watching their content, I need to make sure what they’re saying works for me. And we can watch 20 channels and get 20 different pieces of advice. We all have to discern what’s best for us, our time, our weather etc. I’m not sure why some people feel the need to critique everything other people do; it comes from a bad place in their heart I believe. Such a shame.
About the beans-every catalog or article says they’re great nitrogen fixers. Whether they fix it asap or after they die, they won’t fix it at all if you don’t plant the seed. Keep on planting those seeds, girlfriend. 👍
Preach! 👏 I said when I first gardened that I was always going to plant eggplant because I thought it was so cool to grow because I had never grown one before. Now I don’t fool with. Next year I might plant rows. 🤷🏻♀️ it’s really all about what you like and what works for you! And yes, I couldn’t get over the beans. Must be doing something right with a 7 inch difference side by side. Thank you!
❤Looks good to me. Great attitude about having fun and growing food. I grew up with grandparents having gardens but I garden because it makes me happy. Encouraging youth to grow is wonderful.
Thank you so much! Keep after it! 👏 😊
You may want to apply an inoculant to your legume seeds to insure that your soil has a sufficient amount of the right microbes for optimum nitrogen fixing., it's cheap and well worth the cost. Ignore the anti-gardeners and naysayers, you go girl !
Thrilled to see young folks getting out in the garden. More power to ya.
I’ll check into it! Thank you! 😊
Looks good to me thumbs up!
Thank you! 😊
I almost 69 and I started gardening in 2022 during the plandemic. I love to share my knowledge and I really love being in my garden everyday and I love eating what I grow. I started a gardening website just to share my garden with family and friends. I would not even think about wasting my time with youtube. You do you and just block the naysayers. Happy gardening 😊
We love to post on RUclips because it’s a bigger outreach. The more people we can reach, the better. It’s all about showing that anyone can garden and inspiring others.
This is your "neighbor" from WV. I'm 70 yrs old, and you always motivate me to think outside of the box! We don't start planting warm weather crops until May 15, and you have me so excited about intercropping!! I can't wait to get started!! I'm planting a small raised bed of popcorn for our three young grandchildren, and guess what else I am going to plant in that garden! Beans!! I am also going to use lots of lettuce to help control the weeds. I learned how to garden from my grandparents who did have a farm and from my Dad. My sons spent many summers helping me in the garden, and our oldest son loves to garden as much as I do! He's 35! Just keep doing what you are doing! You keep this grandma motivated!!
Hey neighbor! That’s awesome! 👏 I’m going back to the feed store tomorrow to load up on lettuce! 🤣 I’m so happy your son is enjoying it! That’s what we need! Thank you so much! ❤️
I'm giving you your props! Garden the way it works for you now, and believe me, if you stay with this, you will change many things. You will change them at YOUR time and for YOUR reasons. You will learn by doing, as most of us oldsters have done as well. God bless you young lady, and you look great for 32!
Thank you so much! ❤️
I agree with you! I have found myself trying to do what other people say while my husband will just throw caution to the wind and he is always more successful! I did grow up with parents and grandparents gardening! I also try my best to remember what they did. I remember the things I did when I helped in the garden. Just wish I had asked more questions and had taken more notes, since I don’t have them here anymore. This was the first video of yours that I’ve seen and I love your enthusiasm, spunk, and kindness. New subscriber now, too! Also, how amazing that you are now putting 75% of your family’s food on the table! I’m going to try to be more lenient. Just might be hard as old as I am😂😂! Looking forward to exploring your other videos! Happy Gardening!!
~~Lisa
🌞🌸🌼Also, good to see someone my children’s age working hard raising food for her family and doing it successfully! Oh, and I’m right next door to ya in Mississippi!
Hey neighbor! Welcome! Keep after it! 👏 Thank you so much! 😊 and hey, throw a little caution to the wind with your gardening. You’ll have more fun. I promise! ❤️
You have become my favorite channel overnight- really! I just Binge watched! "BECAUSE I WANT TO" keep speaking the truth ma'am. Gardening is fun and a skill everyone should have to learn to grow their food - also provides insight and respect for the process! Just adore you!!!
Thank you so much! I am very humbled by these comments! ❤️😊
This is the first time I've ran across your videos, but I just wanted to say you are right. There is no right way to do it and you should be having fun.
If I was to recommend anything to people who question inter planting, they should check out permaculture and food forests and syntropic farming.
This will give them an idea of what it means to really intensively interplant various food crops or non-food crops.
And syntropic farming. Something that I just became aware of will give you an idea of just how rough you can be with certain plants. They chop those things down like crazy just to provide compost for the soil, ground cover and nutrients.
If you're interested, I would recommend checking them out, not because it's the right way, but just to give you an idea of how many different ways you can do it.
People can be crazy. Have fun.
Thank you! 😊 I’ll have to check those out!
@@harmonhomestead7434 you are welcome.
If you do, for permaculture I highly recommend Andrew Millison's RUclips channel. He teaches a lot of the concepts, but even more interesting is he travels the world and shows examples of people changing the lives of whole villages by bringing water back to the landscape in draught plagued areas.
Pretty inspiring.
And for the syntropic farming I've been enjoying Byron Grows RUclips channel.
His stuff is more focused in tropical areas, but you can modify the concepts for your area.
I've been working on a food forest around our house using permaculture concepts, but since I ran across the syntropic stuff, I think if we move soon, I'll go more that direction.
Similar concepts, but the latter focuses more on larger scale production using rows which I think long term might be beneficial.
This is the first video of yours i have seen and i am loving it! Garden on girl and ignore the haters!
Thank you!! ❤️
Hun, you just keep doing what you’re doing. I’ve recently found your channel and have enjoyed what I’ve been able to watch. Don’t let anyone get to you. Plant close. Worse case is you learn to spread out a tad more next year. Best case you get more bang for your buck. Times are tough and the more you can get and learn the better off you will be.
I’m older and didn’t grow up with gardens, like you I figured it out. Started about your age. Keep at it!!
I intend to! Thank you! 😊
Great message 👍🏾
Thank you! 😊
There's so much contradictory information/opinions out there that I just give it a go. I love breaking garden "rules". I think it's great that you're showing your results. If I'm not sure something will work, I don't try it with all of my plants but rather just a few. That way if it doesn't work, I don't have an entire crop failure. I've had pretty good results when doing things that some people say you shouldn't. And side note, there's a lot of advice out there about pest control that straight up doesn't work. Maybe I have some kind of mutant super pests or something, but I call bs on a lot of it. Btw, this is the first time I've seen any of your videos.
Thank you! Don’t feel bad about your super bugs, they are here too! I believe sometimes it just is what it is, and we have to garden the best we can.
I am in my 5th year of gardening in Oregon and every year I learn another thing that’s not exactly true.
My tomatoes ripened just fine after a frost (I’d been told they wouldn’t)
My squash plants got frosted HARD last fall. The plants I didn’t get pulled up kept frantically producing until NOVEMBER. So there’s another thing that was not exactly right.
“You can only grow carrots in the fall & spring”….i recently remembered that my parents planted them in May and harvested them in October- they were always juuust fine.
It’s nice for us to get info off the internet, and there are whole lot of know it alls, but in the long run, we have to figure it out for ourselves.
Great channel, I’m binging my way through your videos. 😊
You said it all!!! 👏👏👏keep on gardening! Thank you so much! 😊
I can’t begin to tell you how much I love this video. Your straight to the heart of the matter truth telling is so refreshing. I can’t imagine producing videos and having folks make condescending and negative comments…what a buzz kill. I’m in my sixties and just beginning to garden and preserve foods. I’m making all the mistakes but am making progress too. My homemade buttermilk biscuits are sooo good with my homemade pear preserves. My only regret is that I didn’t start this gardening chapter long ago…anyway, keep doing what you’re doing. Best of luck.
Thank you so much! Keep after it… gardening is so rewarding, even though it may not seem like it the first couple of years or when you have inclement weather conditions. Those biscuits and preserves sound amazing! 🤩
Experimentation is how we learn! 💯 Thank you for sharing your experiences with us! We can all learn from them. People of our age are incredibly lucky to have this avenue of sharing information. Please don’t let the negativity of a few spoiled apples get to you. You are appreciated. Stay strong fam!
Thank you!! 😊 ❤️
Keep up the good work! Don’t let the negativity distract what you are doing! Serious gardeners are looking for channels like yours.
Thank you! ❤️
Ok. ❤ So true and I am so glad that you are speaking your truth, which is the truth. I love your raw energy. Plant anything anywhere is my motto. I am 47 and I’ve been gardening for over 20+ years, and I do it because I love doing it. It’s fun,relaxing, and also provides me with fresh fruits and vegetables.
I have to subscribe 😊😊😊
Thank you so much! Welcome! Keep after it! ❤️👏
I am so glad that I watched you! You are so right about this whole culture. Keep your chin up. Keep giving them heck and keep having fun.!! You are my hero too!! I love it!!!!
Thank you so much! ❤️😊
Don't let the trolls get you down! I feel like anyone showing what has "worked for them" is helpful. You aren't saying "do it like this or it's wrong". My husband and I talk about this some. We grew up with gardening parents, grandparents and extended family. When we were first married we had a big inground garden because to us that's how it was done. We had kids and life got busy with both of us working and trying to juggle it all so we stopped gardening. Now empty nesters I'm gardening again. This time I'm using raised beds and starting a lot of seeds indoors. We talk about the fact our garden is no worse off either way. Either way. We're growing food that healthier than what we buy at a store. That should be all that's important. Keep showing us your garden and what works for you!!!❤
Amen! It’s about having fun and growing healthy food, no matter how we get it done. Thank you! So proud you’re gardening again! ❤️
Love you enthusiasm to gardening and going against the grain,your gardens and vegetables look great maybe you got a few jealous know it all's out there putting you down , keep pissing them off doing what you do have fun ,keep experimenting it makes your channel a good one, hooked in ct
Thank you! 😊
As always a great video, my first garden is this year and I'm 62 LOL.
Never worry about keyboard commando's if they're that so smart why don't they write a book or have their own channel!!!!!!!
My mom said about advice you can take some of it, all of it or none of it that's up to you.
You keep doing what you do, we appreciate you and your view points.
Thank you so much! 😊
People never consider the possibility of bad seeds. That is my primary go to!
I know. The more seeds I buy, the more I’m discovering that some seeds are just “duds”, regardless of the variety.
if you grow from seed you will have some loss, goes with the territory
I just got some identical seeds from 3 different companies. I had fast 100% germination on 12 from one company, about 80% from the other 2. That is amazing, but I've had other seeds I believe were stored improperly and had 0 germinate
I agree 100%
@@buckaroobonsaitree7488 Are they old world seed by any chance from the 1800s or 1700s
This is your neighbor, again... I love your gardens! Everything you are doing makes sense to me, and it's obviously working!
Thank you! 😊
Hey. Listening from Mississippi. Just found your channel. I hate you’re having to deal with that. I’m just learning, but I think it’s great what you’re doing. Been gardening for 5 years. Keep it up! Doing worry about those folks. You’re doing great. ❤
Awesome! Welcome neighbor! Congrats on gardening! 👏 we’re going to keep on trucking!
I think your garden looks great! You make the great point that WHY a person does a thing has to be part of judging WHAT they are doing. If my goal is to enjoy myself, that is the only legitimate way to judge my success. If I am growing for food, that is part of it.
The people you are talking about are called internet trolls. They love to talk, but have little to say. It is best to simply scroll past them to good people like me. LOL
I am growing a food forest in the desert in the city of Tucson, AZ.
Thank you! That’s awesome that you’re growing! Especially in the desert! 👏 keep after it!
I think your gardens are wonderful.
Thank you!
Lol you do you. Thats why its your garden. It does work to mix your garden stuffs together. Bugs wont be able to destroy every plant. I remember elementary social studies about how the indigenous peoples of US "intercropping" for many reasons. They also put a fish in the whole under the corn 🌽 seeds to fertilize and maybe provide some moisture for the rooting seed. People/bots/trolls will do what they do. Majority enjoy all yours and others videos. Much ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤. Keep up the good work.
Yes, it is working so far. Thank you! ❤️
I'm in my 50s, grew up with a garden, but was never 'taught' to garden. I have my own garden now, after years of moving with the military and being unable to have one, and I'm learning by trial and error. Lots of error..lol What causes successful gardening seems to be half-opinion, anyway, I think. There's science in it, sure, but most of the people giving garden advice are basing that advice on what works for them, in their areas. Everybody doesn't want to spend years studying and documenting before they even plant their first seed. I try; sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, and I usually never find out why either thing happens...lol But I enjoy it, and that's what matters to me. My kids are now gardening on their own and teaching their kids as they go. And all of us are having fun and having some fresh and tasty successes along the way. Keep doing what works for you, and kudos to you for not listening to the naysayers!
Awesome and thank you! Keep after it! That’s so good about your kids and grandkids! 👏
Late 50's mechanic in Michigan the orchard and 2 gardens were such fun I built a 24X29 double cattle panel hoop house 2 years ago. Having fresh tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and cantaloupe until end of November is awesome. only problem is giving away all the extra because we are eating so much fresh the canning had to be cut way back.
There you go!! 👏 keep after it!
Do you! Your garden looks beautiful and I appreciate someone who makes do with what they have and figures it out- kudos and carry on
Thank you so much! 😊
This video popped up out of the blue... first video of yours I've watched. I absolutely love your personality, your honestly and what you have to say. New subscriber now! I'm looking forward to watching previous and future videos. Just ignore the negativity. I'm just starting my garden. I tried last year and failed and I'm trying harder this year. I'm enjoying do it too. 😊
Hey and welcome! We failed MISERABLY our first year so don’t feel bad! The weather was hot and dry that year too, so weather always plays a factor! Keep after it and keep on growing! Thank you so much! ❤️
When I planted my first garden I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. II was huge! I had a friend helping me a little but neither one of us knew anything about nitrogen or phosphorus etc. I didn’t test my soil or even fertilize. My soil probably wasn’t even great according to the standard of today. We ended up having over 300 ears of corn and so much other produce we were giving it away like crazy! Back in the old days people just plowed, tilled and planted without all the complication you hear today. I moved from there and went years without a garden until a few years ago. Now people make it so complicated! I fertilize with goat manure and other organic things. I add organic compost and do a lot of companion planting, add lots of flowers for pollinators etc. My point is, it doesn’t have to be complicated and sometimes it stresses me out!
Amen! 👏 keep after it and thank you!!
Heck I'm learning so much and I'm an ole lady of 57 !!
Never been able to grow tomatoes but my tomato bed is gorgeous my first year !!! Been using pine shavings and chicken poop. Some seeds do some seeds don't.
Makes me feel like a kid again being in my garden.
There you go! Keep after it! 👏❤️
Patty pans have their first blooms!!! Yay 👏
Awesome!! 👏
You are correct about the peas, beans and legumes. You can dig up a plant and see the nods that hold the nitrogen on the root system.
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I like your attitude good on you get in your garden do what you want to enjoy gardening and grow your own great well done😊
Thank you! 😊
I love watching you ! I love to try new things in my garden! Keep up the good work!
Thank you! ❤️
First time viewer and a new suber! OMG why people have to be so mean and rude is still mind blowing to me. Love what you said about gardening: it's about having FUN! So true. And of course growing food for you, your fam & friends. This is not a competitive sport and there are no awards given at the end of a growing season. The negative people all need to keep their horrid (and extremely unjustified) opinions to themselves. You're lovely, your garden is lovely and tbh.....I could listen to you talk all damn day. I'm in Jersey and your accent is so delightful!!
Jersey! Woohoo! 🎉 I must sound like something else to you guys! 🤣🤣 thank you so very much and welcome! 🤗
Don't listen to the haters. You do you! And you're doing great! Spread love and positivity. Everyone should learn to grow their own food.
Thank you! 😊
Follow your heart do what feels good to YOU, and make YOU happy thats all that matters! If people don't agree they should keep their opinion to themselves. My grand kids love my garden and the chickens. And chicken Poo is good for you soil just do some homework first! Keep on gardening! Aloha 😊
Thank you! Awesome about your grandkids! ❤️
Young lady I'm very happy you are gardening, and however you want to plant what you grow is totally your choice. There's no expert way of gardening, even master gardeners have failures. I'm old and have been gardening since I was a child and I'm still learning something every new season. You'll only get kudos from this old lady! When those young people you spoke briefly about can't buy food they will wish they had developed the skills you are working on now. Legumes do fix nitrogen , however heavy feeders like onions would need a lot of legumes to provide enough for one bulb. Don't let the nay sayers make you upset, just keep gardening honey. Kudos to you 👍🏼
Thank you so much! 😊
A lot of people think that they are master gardener's. You do it the way you want if it works for you it do it. I have been doing it for over 60 years and I am still learning on my own you keep up doing things the way you want 😊😊
Thank you! 😊 it’s all a never-ending learning process. If it wasn’t, there’d be no fun to it!
Girl, stop responding to the trolls. Happy Gardening. Keep being great.🎉
Thank you! ❤️
Also, we had a year when squirrels were stealing our tomatoes and cucumbers. They would sit in a oak tree in my front yard eating them. Later that season, I had cucumbers and tomatoes sprout up under that oak. Seeds want to grow. That's what they were designed to do. People complicate gardening too much.
Amen! 👏
You just keep on doing what you're doing. I'm one that grew up with my grandparents, aunts and uncles and my parents all having gardens, preserving much of their harvest and enjoying and sharing with others. Those in my opinion were the good old days. Today it seems like there are many that want to make a bunch of money telling us that you need this and that in order to be successful in growing anything. I am into doing it more like what you are doing, just in a smaller scale as I do live in a subdivision in a small community, but still manage to have a few raised beds and container gardening and I get wonderful enjoyment out of it watching my efforts grow and give me some good tasting chemical free food and also learned how to compost my leaves and grass clippings and household waste instead of letting the trashman haul them away. I am more than twice your age and I have learned many things that you have shared that I didn't know. Like I had mentioned, I do my tomatoes in 5 gallon buckets but this year I have added some bush beans along with them to see how that works out for me. Also plan on doing that with my cucumber and squash plants. In my opinion, we need more folks your age learning how to grow some of their food as when the day comes that the store may not have it they will really be in bad shape. In the end, do not let those with the negative comments stop you from doing what you're doing, as sharing what you have learned will make for a better society. Happy to have found your channel.
Thank you very much! You keep on doing as well! 👏😊
Check out David the Good, he is also a positive and non-dogmatic gardener. Great singer/songwriter too! He recommends to also "Push the zone!" Try growing things that aren't supposed to grow in your zone. Experiment, experiment, experiment! Keep your positive attitude and my advice would be don't feed the trolls.
I’ve heard of him before and watched a few videos! I’ll have to watch some more. He’s more along my speed. I remember him burning trash in a hole before he planted pumpkins. I said this cat is pretty smart! 👍
I'm 31 I definitely grew up with grandma and granpa gardening, and mom and dad, and now me.
That’s awesome! I know a lot our age that haven’t so that’s great!
I absolutely love your garden! Unfortunately we live in a time where people don’t have consideration or kindness for their fellow humans. Keep up the great work and don’t let the hater’s make you feel some kind of way. Momma always said if you can’t say anything nice then don’t say anything at all! Have a wonderful day and garden on
Thank you! ❤️
Hey babe ! Greetings from Australia ! I am a lot older and as I think about retiring I have got into gardening over the last 18 months - started with my dad’s old garden that was just 1 foot high with weeds and it just expanded from there. For God’s sake don’t listen to the trolls and morons who just want to disagree to make themselves feel better ! You ARE doing the right thing - and for all the right reasons ! Agree with you totally ! Look at permaculture gardening which is similar to what you are already doing ! Plant anything everywhere ! F*** the straight row BS - anal retentive OCD stuff. You are learning by actually doing stuff ! I have the odd crop failures but it is fun and therapeutic so who gives a damn ! Sunshine, fresh air when my job for the past 50 years was mostly sitting at a desk behind a bloody computer with fluorescent lights instead of the sun - you just get a Vitamin D deficiency ! Go for it girl ! Ignore the idiots !
Australia! Wow! 🤩 thank you so much!! So glad you’re gardening as well! Keep it up! 👏
Hey I like your log borders on your garden, I just did the same thing for some of my garden beds. You use what you got!
Thank you! ❤️
Hi! I’ve never seen you channel until today but it’s really nice. Makes me want to plant even more things. I’m gonna post videos of my garden and the world can look the other way if they don’t like it :)
Thank you! ❤️ keep after it! 👏
@@harmonhomestead7434 I sure will, darlin. Thanks for the motivation.
You preach it sista!! It doesn’t matter how you do it someone will have a problem with it. We all try different approaches, some things succeed & some don’t but the point is to try & keep trying. The world is heading down the toilet fast so if we can find a little something to give us joy, DO IT!! Who cares what others think.
👏 yes!!! Thank you!
Love this video and your common sense! We primarily raised bed garden, but also in ground and container. I love to see other folk's gardens that are completely different from what we do or even similar. Have a blessed day!
Thank you! Awesome! Keep on gardening! 👏😊
I'm so sorry you have to deal with so many negative comments lately. I've had similar struggles and I find that managing trolls is the hardest part of being a content creator. It always baffles me why people will go out of their way to ruin someone's day. For the longest time I would get really upset when I saw rude or toxic comments. Now I just shrug my shoulders, give the comment a thumbs-down, and focus more on chatting with my friendly community members. If the comments are really bad I'll just delete them; I don't need that kind of negativity in my life.
On a positive note, I think your videos are absolutely wonderful and I love seeing your garden progress! Keep up the great work! 🌾
It really is hard! I have the mindset of “hey I want to show them this”, but in the back of my mind it’s “well, I’m not doing this the way they specified before so I can’t”, so it starts becoming their creation instead of your own. We’ll keep on keeping on. Thanks so much! 😊
You have one more subscriber...loved the common sense rant. keep doing what you are doing.
Thank you! 😊
Anything that once was alive can be composted and adds nutrients to your soil.
Right, I agree!
Thanks for the kudos. First time I've watched your channel. Very inspiring! God bless yoou.
Thank you! It’s all about encouraging others to get out here and try! God bless you too! ❤️
Just randomly came across your chanel and love your attitude to gardening, I live in England and alot of us have small gardens, renting allotments is popular but they're hard to get, some of the younger generations don't have the land space that older generations did so what should we do? Unless we can afford or aquire land We have to find new ways or don't bother at all (I want to try vertical gardening) this is going to be my second year, I think what your doing is great, I really enjoyed planting veg and not knowing exactly what I was doing, it was exciting everytime something worked and I fed my family food I grew, and I learned as I grew. I'm going to plant some beans around a few of my tomatoes and see what happens, and with raised bed gardening using all the space I have is important. ❤
England… wow! Thanks for watching! That’s one reason I try to show cramming so many vegetables in a small space, because so many people don’t have land to farm. Keep on doing! You’re doing great! Thank you! 😊
Every year, my husband and our oldest son plant peppers and tomatoes and herbs and whatever they feel like in big pots with potting soil. Nothing fancy. They tend to them together. Every year, the plants do great, and we cook/eat everything they grow. They enjoy it so much.
The internet is bittersweet. If you want to know how to do something, you can just look it up. But you'll find a hundred different people making videos telling you their way is best. And for each of those, thousands of people in the comments just nay-saying anything. It's not just in the gardening community. That's just how the internet is most the time.
But there's a lot of good people too. A lot of people really just try to share their hobbies, help people, have fun, etc. Don't let the negative people get you down. I think your garden is beautiful. ❤
Good job on them gardening! I agree the internet is like this in general. Just wanted it to be plain that this is a channel for any and all and that anyone can garden. Thanks!
I agree with you. You do what you do screw everybody else.
Thank you!😊
Well said ! Blessings +++!!!
Thank you!
I’m loving all this!
Thank you! 😊
I am trying to develop food that grows without needing to be watered. How to do that? Easy. Plant a thousand seeds, and ignore them. The one that grows is drought proof. Collect seeds and do it again next year.
Very interesting!! ❤️
I planted trail of tears for the first time this year (although my seeds are 7 years old so we'll see what happens). I'm interested to see how well they do on the trellis compared to scarlet runner beans.
Good job! 👍
Refreshing. Great job! Ty
Thank you! 😊
Keep up the great work!!!!! ❤
Thank you! ❤️
I like the way you think :)
Thank you!
Am new. Watching from NC.
Welcome! Thank you! 😊
THAT IS AWESOMEST!!!
Thank you! 😊
Here in the northeast we garden as the queen did. We would never have a slug in our garden and we would never grow a pumkin in our highly elite gardens.
I’m sure even the Queen had a slug or two! 🤣
It is your garden. Don't concern yourself with or listen to trolls. End of story.
Yes, thank you 😊
I'd just say that people should be willing to hear criticisms or information that contradicts what they know without feeling discouraged. They should also be willing to challenge info they are given. I have given information that contradicts what people believe and I have challenged information I've been given out in the garden. Like composting weeds. I feel like its fine because I see them germinate and get smothered on a flip.
I love my crappy little plants and I am a nerd and I love to learn and to share knowledge so my plants and others plants can be better.
I'm not personally bothered if I try to teach someone to fish and they just keep trying to kick the fish for fun instead. If they turn around and yell at me I'll kick em in the water though lol
There's only so much we can do in a small home garden in a day before we go and hop on youtube or whatever.
I definitely agree on the over-sciencing part. And there is a gross amount of bad (or unwise/inefficient) information given out just to get people to buy affiliate-linked crap they don't need.
I like your messaging though. Overall its your garden and have fun with it.
All the info online makes it seem like there is a huge barrier to start a garden. I walked into the back yard and ripped out the grass in a spot. I fluffed it up. and I planted seeds. Did pretty darn good considering what that cost to do.
Keep on gardening! Awesome!
I had a nice growth pole beans trained on a tee pee with many luciious leaves & just getting blooms. When I went out two days ago, the deer had eaten to practically nothing. How do you keep deer out of your beans?
We only grow them in our backyard that has flood lights and dogs. Otherwise, the deer eat everything we grow. 🤦🏻♀️ I wish I knew of some method that works to tell you, but we’ve failed at them all!
Lol 😆 I'm always right, if you don't believe me just ask me, I'll tell you so. ... for now I'm just trying razed beds and containers
lol 😆 keep up the good work!
It's everywhere. I garden on my terrace. I live in an apartment, and have an extra outside space (blessing because of where our apartment is located.) I showed my garden spot to a neighbor and she was hating. I was like omg, who does that? Mind you I grow strawberries, apples, blackberries, raspberries, greens, kales, herbs and some potatoes. She said she didn't understand why I'd do all this work to harvest a bit of food. 😮 Sorry, but then why did you want to see my garden. Go back down to your 3 Rd floor home.
Exactly! People today think that it’s taboo to grow food when you can buy it. If I had a nickel every time someone said “why do you grow all of that, you can just buy it?”… you keep growing and doing your thing! Especially gardening on a terrace, that’s awesome! 👏
I keep reading that you shouldn’t plant indeterminate tomatoes in a cage because it doesn’t allow them to get big enough. I see you using them, and I’m wondering if you are planting indeterminates in there and how they do for you.
10 feet tall in a cage last year! All I plant are indeterminate varieties. They’ll eventually flop over but you can lay them onto the other cage beside it. We’ve done cattle panels and cages, no problem with either. I’ve never seen anyone hardly use a cattle panel in this area. Everyone goes with cages.
I use regular potting soil to start my seedlings. In the comments I got flooded w people saying I can’t do that, it’s not safe for tender seedlings. My response, if you plant seeds in the ground outdoors are you using seedling mix? A lot of these “famous” gardeners get kickbacks from these companies. They also, give incorrect information.
All of my seedlings thrive.
Do what works for you. And pass your information along.
These people get into your comments to cause people to question you.
Starting plants isn’t a “You can only do this!” type of deal. There are many ways to do things and end up at the same result. I’m a nobody and don’t even have a channel (yet) but the reason many tubers suggest starting mix instead of just starting like you do (congrats on being able to do so; honestly) is very simple…it’s easier for brand new people to get into gardening. I’m former military and an old adage is “K.I.S.S. - Keep It Simple Stupid” and buying seedling mix is an easy way to limit variables and allow for starting either early or indoors where insects aren’t going to kill off seedlings (the newbies are likely enough already to kill them). Starting outdoors and/or making your own mix are more advanced to pull off successfully. Also while you’re right on the kickbacks and sponsorships of some channels, it doesn’t mean the idea of buying mixes to get started is totally biased. Just my $.02 worth.
@@BigWillDogg82 I don’t think I was telling anyone to do it my way, just stating what I do. The cost of seedling mix is why I do it. And even when I did use seedling mix, I would have to boil it as it comes w the risk of fungus. Which attracts fungus gnats. People can do what they want. The internet is full of “suggestions” it’s up to you to research and through trial and era.
PS: fungal gnats are an issue no matter what you do for these last 3 years.
Thank you for your service 🙏🏻
Hey do what works for you! That’s what it’s all about! 😊
@@joannevenere3552 I’m sorry if I came off as saying you want people to do it your way, it wasn’t my intention. On my wanted to explain why for some buying seedling mix is a better option. Yes, gnats are an issue that EVERYBODY has to deal with and is 1 of the few things new gardeners need to tackle variables. Do what works for you because you owe me not anybody else an explanation for how you operate your garden. Thanks for the support by the way!
Amen!!!😂❤
Yes thank you! 😊 👏❤️
Hey Harmon Homestead, could i respectfully suggest that you stop listening to comments that have no idea about what works and what's best for you guys. Nevermind what anyone else thinks, do your thing with what you got and ignore the distractions.
We’re keeping on trucking! Thank you so much! ❤️
Yes 3 sisters
Yes! 👍
I agree with you totally!! First time saw your channel!! People like to put other's down for what there doing don't understand if can't do it so want to put people down that can to make them feel better! Think great that trying believe if have fun doing it that's all that matters!! But if get crops in even better!! No garden is perfect ever year!! Hope greatest year for You!! I'm Janell from Calif...
Welcome! 🤗 and thank you so much! ❤️
Love your video. Don’t worry about what other people think or say. Gardening is all about learning and having fun. I had a thought about what you were doing with mixing different plants together…. I think it’s called companion planting. My mother had a book on the subject but you could do a little research online. Keep up the good work 😊
Yes 👍 we’ve done one video on companion planting, so I thought, well, why not just jumble it all together? So we did this year, and enjoying it so far! Thank you so much! 😊
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@@harmonhomestead7434 I have been gardening with my Dad for atleast 10 years now. He had a garden in our yard since I was a child. We also had a chicken coop. He gardened with his mother and grandparents. I have learned a lot from him, but I also try new things, garden in containers and pots, cracks and crevices across our 3 yards. I agree with everyrhing you said. It is fun and beautiful with me, and I am glad to share it with anyone who appreciates it's beauty and chaos. I have people asking me how to start in their yards and what to do. I tell them some tips, to be not afraid to try and fail, but mostly find what works best for you. Your garden want look like mine, and that's okay. Just garden from your hearr, it doesn't have to be complex and complicated. It will be your own creation.
@tiathompson6674 that is awesome! Congrats to you!! 👏
PS. Just got back from the stables around a nearby racecourse with a car load of horse shit and hay - all free and makes great compost ! My parents were Depression kids and my grandparents all had small vegetable gardens as they were dirt poor. Unfortunately all my kids are computer kids - stuck behind their screens 24/7. - hardly ever go outside !
That’s how my great grandparents were- depression era and very poor. No one around didn’t have a garden. I’m afraid we’re headed for those times again. Either way, it’s fun and nutritious to grow your own food. Awesome for the manure! Works like a charm! And I understand about your kids- everyone we know our age is glued to a phone.
Listening to certain people will kill your soul. If it’s not constructive it’s usually not worth listening to. First year gardener here!
Congrats on being a first time gardener! You will be hooked!! Keep on going! And thank you! 😊
Overall, a person’s garden is a physical representation of the “Gardener” and their wants and wishes. It’s about how the hard work (just planting seeds in dirt doesn’t work) of gardening makes the person feel, not how observers of the garden feel. If someone doesn’t recognize or appreciate the work done they’re free to do things in their own garden or choose not to garden at all! Are there things that you’ve posed that aren’t necessarily 100% right? Yes, but that doesn’t matter either because there are not many things that are correct 100% of the time that people or science agree on. Keep on doing your own thing and let the negative Nancy’s fly right on by!
Yes! Who’s to say what’s right or wrong with gardening, you know? And science is such an unstable thing, we all have to bend on the newest trends because they will turn around and say it’s obsolete or inappropriate in the next 5 years anyways. Thank you! 😁
Girl dont I know it!! People are so rude! People are kill joys anything that brings anyone joy, happiness.
I've been rasied my whole life to grow beans up corn!
People get on here and have no clue what they are talking about.
Keep on keeping on!
Yes same here! Thank you and keep on gardening! ❤️💪
It looks good beer garden you do the things it's supposed to do and these are your plants and this is how you raise your garden everybody raises their Garden differently too many people get too much opinions going on I want to act like they're Miss Garden Mr Garden I have raised beds and I Garden the way I want to I use raised bed dirt and that's it how do you use bone meal and blood Mill that's the only thing I use when I first plant 3 months I use it again that's pretty much it can I do the same thing you do plant all different kinds of plants next to them and see how they grow and that's how you experiment that a lot of people don't do that that's where they lose no gardening tips and just before first Frost I cut the ends of my plants hurt it grows more plants because it'll stop growing the plant and grow more vegetables I'm not telling you what to do but it does work more growth on your veggies and you are beautiful when you get angry OK Google congratulations on your garden looks awesome
Thank you! 😊
"The nitrogen isn't available till after the bean plant dies" - Ok..... That is, usually, how nature works.
cover crops, nitrogen fixers, biomass builders .... They are investment in future fertility.
Exactly. Whether it’s now or later, it “sho don’t hurt” 🤣 I lean on the side of now, but either way I’m having fun.