Gophers are the bane of our existence in northern AZ. We have to enclose our beds, on the bottom and sides with hardware cloth to keep them out. They have also destroyed about a dozen trees in our orchard. Kitty did manage to get one the other day. I was soooo proud of her! Thank you for the tour! Your garden is awesome! I aspire to having a great herb and perennial garden. We are getting there. Have a safe week!
Thank you for the cottage garden tour Carolyn. What a delightful way to start my day! It is just after 7:00 here in southern Kentucky. The temperature is 73 degrees and the humidity is 95%. Gardening is a real challenge this year but I find it absolutely necessary for my mental and physical health. My dream is to one day have acreage to grow the many vegetable, fruit, herbs and flowers I would love to have. That may seem like a strange goal to many people for an almost 77 year old widow but that’s what keeps me going. Thank you for sharing your journey with all of your subscribers.
HerHealthyHome Your reply was one of those acts of kindness that makes these difficult times easier to bear. You touched my heart. May God bless you and yours.
Flowers like cosmos, zinnias, marigolds, strawflower and many many more are great "cut and come again" flowers that actually like being cut and it encourages more growth. Great for you because you don't have to feel bad about cutting them knowing you're encouraging more to bloom!
I was thinking you use to be a school teacher for children. Now you are a life teacher. Thank you for passing the knowledge along. The need is great. Love your no stress keep politics and world stuff out and just keep to the subject at hand. Raising strong families.
Love that the gophers are going for a little valerian "relax" - so funny. Would particularly like to hear what you do with your valerian. Learned something new about monarda, which I love, but was not aware of antiviral aspects. Excellent video.
THANK YOU CAROLYN FOR SHARING YOUR BEAUTIFUL AND PRACTICAL COTTAGE GARDEN. I HOPE YOU AND JOSH HAD A WONDERFULLY RELAXING VACATION. I LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR NEXT VIDEO, HAVE A BLESSED DAY.
Absolutely lovely as usual!Yes most herbs and vegetables come at the same time..true ..But as you know..all year round is busy for us homesteaders !Take care over there and much love from Australia!
Love this video! I started my herb garden and depended on your channel and Rain Country to guide me. I am new at this, but see so much value in it! I did not have a clue where to begin. Love your knowledge and thanks for sharing with all of us newbies! I know I could not have started without people like you!
If the cats don't get those gophers under control you can put some chicken wire down below where you are planting things they are loving to eat. The roots will get down through the wire and it keeps the gophers from being able to eat the roots completely off. Also keeps them from tunneling in the area!!
Thanks for the tour. You live in such a beautiful place. I have been growing herbs for over 35 years. I love to inter-plant herbs, flowers, and veggies. It does really work to keep the insects at bay. I found that leaving a few broccoli plants in the garden after the harvest attracts the larva that feed on my tomato plants. What I like about herbs is that during the hot humid summer here in south Texas the herbs really take off and grow well when everything else is declining. I’m enjoying your videos😁
Thank you for all the great info and ideas. I really appreciate it and I love what you are doing with your homestead. The garden looks great! Good work, Team!
I love this garden and seeing it mature through the videos. Interesting that you don’t have irrigation in there, I’m building a kitchen/cottage garden and I’m debating the drip/soaking irrigation or just deep hose watering.. I’m a new gardener and worry about the water. Love to see how youve done it here.
We recently moved from the NE to Florida and oh my is gardening a different thing down here!! I planted a big chunk of peppermint which normally tries to take over the world and it just couldn’t grow down here. I was able to harvest for about two weeks until it just couldn’t take the strong sun. In fact I gave up and will try again in November when the temps are lower and it’s cooler at night. My zinnias all cooked in the sun and couldn’t even make it in the shade!! I MISS my veggie garden and my herb garden and all my beautiful flowers for cutting and my fruit bushes and vines! I really hope the late fall and winter into early spring will let me have my garden!!
So so beautiful and you are all so encouraging. Thank you! I'm curious what kind of hardiness zone you are in. I don't generally like the cold, but you make this look very doable. Also curious if you get snowed in for the winter and how you deal with that. I think I need to do a marathon of your videos to learn more of what's possible. Thank you so much for sharing this information with us!
I have a lot of herbs but not a lot of herb plants. My kids use my herbal flu tea which ive also geared toward mrsa and we have a jacaranda tree i harvest a lot from. Im going to be watching this vid over with a note pad lol thank you fir the great info. I dont cut my flowers either
How do you use the yarrow? Blooms? Greens? Roots? Also love elecampane! It was our second year and the flowers shot up 8 feet tall on one of our plants! It's covered in butterflies and bumble bees 💙
Your cottage garden is wonderful! I live just a bit south of you and I'm working on my own cottage garden, so I was wondering how you keep the deer out? The fence seems a bit short to be a deterrent.
Thank you for the garden tour! You mentioned the garden tour in a pantry chat so I had to come and visit. Could you tell us what your using your hops for? I grew up in the Willamette valley in Oregon and we grow hops like crazy but it is always for beer production....what do you use them for? Thanks in advance. May the Lord continue to bless you all. Love from Ohio.
Wow that catnip is huge my cats would love this 😊 my catnip plants never get this big! Beautiful garden and although I'm very far away in scotland I have many of the same things growing, lemon balm is one of my favourites and lots of mint plants! Do you have a recipe for bag balm?
I have so enjoyed watching your "Cottage Garden" series! It has inspired me to start one of my own. My question is about the "Good King Henry" plant. When I ordered the seeds( very hard to find) the plant description says to eat very little. Is this just a medicine plant and/or food plant? Do you have any problems eating it?
Love this tour. I'm in Northern FL and havent gotten into gardening (renter) but I want to. Do you know of any good books that may help me with all the regions amd learning what I can grow and when?
Your cottage garden is beautiful!! I love how you have the hops growing up the string ! Are hops hard to grow? Did you start them yourself? Do you fertilize them ? Do they come back every year ?
Such a wonderful tour! Thank you so much! Here in SC we are dealing with temps in the high 90s. Could you tell me what type of wood you used for the arbor that you used for the arbor that your husband and children walked through at the beginning of your video. I absolutely love it and would love to make one. I am betting willow since it is easy to bend. And approximately what size is yours.....Just loved all the information you give in your videos. Especially the Lemon Balm as I deal with shingles. Thanks for all you do. Hugs from SC.
Thanks for the tour. Love seeing all your plants and flowers. I have a question about elecampane. I did 3 different plantings of seeds but got nothing. What is your secret for growing elecampane from seed?
I just love your cottage garden. Just some questions about Yarrow and Lemon Balm. I have battled with nose bleeds all my life, how would you use the Yarrow for that? Stick leaves into your nose or make a tea and dip some cotton wool into it? Then the Lemon Balm. I am just done with Chemo for breast cancer but one bad side effect is that it affects the nerve endings in your fingers and toes, constant pins and needles/numbness and even pain and am also battling with mouth ulcers. To me the Lemon Balm sounds like a perfect solution but how do I process and apply it, or drink it?
Thank you for the tour of the cotrage garden. I have a question about hollyhocks and borage. Do you make tea with them and which parts of the plants do you use?
I so enjoyed the tour, can you tell me where you get some of the more edible or medicinal varieties of plants /seeds? I am having a hard time finding calendula, the poppies you mentioned, and several others that would be perennial in my zone 4 b transitional alpine meadow environment. I have alkaline clay soil in western Montana but have been amending with compost and mulching with woodchips or straw. I really want to develop a medicinal herb garden.
Thanks for the tour! I had picked some pretty looking plants from our neighbor's cow field to transplant into my flower garden. Turns out they are the wild yarrow that you identified in your garden! I am wondering though, if anyone can tell me uses for Mountain Rose Agastache? My mom gifted me some plants but I don't know what they are for other than dried flower arrangements. I am also having a terrible time with those small white butterflies eating everything. They lay hoards of tiny green caterpillars that eat everything. I'm reluctant to put out insecticide because I don't want to kill pollinators.
Sounds like whitefly. I am a brand new gardener and found these on my eggplant. I dissolved ivory soap in some water and sprayed it on. I read you need to do this every other day for a while. Get on top of it, the whitefly leaves nectar on your plants that draws other bugs!
Do you have - or will you have - lessons or a course on all these herbs you grow, what they’re good for, how to grow/harvest/store? I’d love to learn all the things-
Yes! We have an Herbal Medicine Cabinet course that focuses on Colds. It incorporates all of these things! And, we're getting ready to add a Flu section! Eventually hoping to maybe add a First Aid section too! :)
I am wanting to start a cottage garden by my back patio and kitchen window is there anything I can start late this summer or early fall ? I have. More shade than sun . I think I’m zone 6 . I’m in St. Louis .
I ordered the organic dried lemon balm that you linked to and I have a question? It doesn't smell like lemon or have a lemon taste. Is that right? It's just kinda bland and herby tasting and smelling. Thank you so much and really enjoy your video's.
Hello Caren, is there somewhere a written list of the herbs? For a non native speaker it would be great, because it is really hard to understand the names, because i don't have a brought knowledge of the english names of the herbs. Thank you for considering my comment.
do you have a favorite way to apply yarrow for nose bleeds? My daughter gets them really really bad, almost to the point of hemorrhaging. We usually use salt on top of the head and that works about 80% of the time but I would like to implement yarrow for it.
Once it stops, I do a nasal rinse of noniodized salt and baking soda. Washes a big blob of snot mixed with dried blood out. Gross, I know, but it helps to keep it from starting again. (I use that same rinse whenever I have a cold and sinuses are full... rarely get nose bleeds now).
@@kmw4359 awesome about the rinse, our current problem this year is getting it to stop though. Since yarrow stops bleeding, im wondering if It would be better to make a salve and kinda swab it up in there when its bleeding or for lack of a better example, having her snort yarrow powder. I'm leaning towards the salve but would love other opinions on it
We can’t get plants now here in Georgia. When we could, we were in lockdown! I do have a few seeds. But isn’t it too late to plant them in the hot summer?
In a poly culture, are there some things you can’t plant with other plants. This is dumb but when I was a kid I planted a purple pant with a green plant. The green plant ended up with purple polka dots. As a young girl, I was thrilled to have a polka dot plant. Now as an adult, I don’t really want any plants to cross with each other.
Gophers are the bane of our existence in northern AZ. We have to enclose our beds, on the bottom and sides with hardware cloth to keep them out. They have also destroyed about a dozen trees in our orchard. Kitty did manage to get one the other day. I was soooo proud of her! Thank you for the tour! Your garden is awesome! I aspire to having a great herb and perennial garden. We are getting there. Have a safe week!
Thank you for the cottage garden tour Carolyn. What a delightful way to start my day! It is just after 7:00 here in southern Kentucky. The temperature is 73 degrees and the humidity is 95%. Gardening is a real challenge this year but I find it absolutely necessary for my mental and physical health. My dream is to one day have acreage to grow the many vegetable, fruit, herbs and flowers I would love to have. That may seem like a strange goal to many people for an almost 77 year old widow but that’s what keeps me going. Thank you for sharing your journey with all of your subscribers.
God bless you, I hope your dream comes to fruition!
HerHealthyHome Your reply was one of those acts of kindness that makes these difficult times easier to bear. You touched my heart. May God bless you and yours.
@@karenwelton3207 Thank you, Blessings to you and your family as well.
Precious. I hope this night finds you well. God bless you in a special way.
Catnip and Lemon balm makes a delicious iced tea to have in the fridge for a cool drink on hot days.
The view behind you at the end of the video 😍
I love the herb garden tours! Love learning about what the different medicinal herbs help with!
I would love your bag balm recipe! I would also like to see more herb harvesting and how you use them too. Thank you for sharing with us!
Flowers like cosmos, zinnias, marigolds, strawflower and many many more are great "cut and come again" flowers that actually like being cut and it encourages more growth. Great for you because you don't have to feel bad about cutting them knowing you're encouraging more to bloom!
I was thinking you use to be a school teacher for children. Now you are a life teacher. Thank you for passing the knowledge along. The need is great. Love your no stress keep politics and world stuff out and just keep to the subject at hand. Raising strong families.
Love that the gophers are going for a little valerian "relax" - so funny. Would particularly like to hear what you do with your valerian. Learned something new about monarda, which I love, but was not aware of antiviral aspects. Excellent video.
You need horseradish. 😃 Just a lovely garden! Thank you for sharing it!
These garden tours give me life! Thank you for all the knowledge and inspiration
Enjoyed the garden tour
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing, not only your lovely garden, but also your knowledge. I really appreciate you!
THANK YOU CAROLYN FOR SHARING YOUR BEAUTIFUL AND PRACTICAL COTTAGE GARDEN. I HOPE YOU AND JOSH HAD A WONDERFULLY RELAXING VACATION. I LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR NEXT VIDEO, HAVE A BLESSED DAY.
Absolutely lovely as usual!Yes most herbs and vegetables come at the same time..true ..But as you know..all year round is busy for us homesteaders !Take care over there and much love from Australia!
WOW! We have been having 90+ degree weather all July. I am jealous of your weather.
Carolyn your cottage garden is beautiful!! I hope to eventually get one going here in Montana.
Gorgeous garden 😍😍
Lovely garden! I wish we had more rain here in southern Colorado! Love how happy the cats are ❤️
Yes! These few rain days give me hope, then it passes right by us.
Love this video! I started my herb garden and depended on your channel and Rain Country to guide me. I am new at this, but see so much value in it! I did not have a clue where to begin. Love your knowledge and thanks for sharing with all of us newbies! I know I could not have started without people like you!
You have a wonderful herb garden, can't wait to see what you do with the bounty.
If the cats don't get those gophers under control you can put some chicken wire down below where you are planting things they are loving to eat. The roots will get down through the wire and it keeps the gophers from being able to eat the roots completely off. Also keeps them from tunneling in the area!!
Thanks for the tour. You live in such a beautiful place. I have been growing herbs for over 35 years. I love to inter-plant herbs, flowers, and veggies. It does really work to keep the insects at bay. I found that leaving a few broccoli plants in the garden after the harvest attracts the larva that feed on my tomato plants. What I like about herbs is that during the hot humid summer here in south Texas the herbs really take off and grow well when everything else is declining. I’m enjoying your videos😁
Beautiful cottage garden
Will you show us how you harvest these and what you do with them?! I've gotten most of the herbs on your list!
Yay Bob! 🙌🏻
Beautiful cottage garden! I think this is my favorite version of a cottage herb garden I have seen so far. Thank you for the inspiration!
Could you please do a video on preserving the herbs. Do you crush them, etc
Beautiful skirt!
Yay Bob kitty! Good job 👍🏻
Thank you for taking us along!
That is a fantastic looking garden.
Way to go Bob!
Beautiful way to start my day with a walk through your garden. Thank you
Thank you for all the great info and ideas. I really appreciate it and I love what you are doing with your homestead. The garden looks great! Good work, Team!
I love this garden and seeing it mature through the videos. Interesting that you don’t have irrigation in there, I’m building a kitchen/cottage garden and I’m debating the drip/soaking irrigation or just deep hose watering.. I’m a new gardener and worry about the water. Love to see how youve done it here.
I would love to see how you harvest and use your herbs for your bag balm!
I’m a new subscriber. I love your Beautiful homestead, beautiful family!
Love your gardens. God bless.
Love your content!! This channel has been inspirational in me starting my channel and sharing what I know!!! Bless you guys. 🥰🥰🥰
We recently moved from the NE to Florida and oh my is gardening a different thing down here!! I planted a big chunk of peppermint which normally tries to take over the world and it just couldn’t grow down here. I was able to harvest for about two weeks until it just couldn’t take the strong sun. In fact I gave up and will try again in November when the temps are lower and it’s cooler at night. My zinnias all cooked in the sun and couldn’t even make it in the shade!! I MISS my veggie garden and my herb garden and all my beautiful flowers for cutting and my fruit bushes and vines! I really hope the late fall and winter into early spring will let me have my garden!!
Hi Elizabeth Lane, check out this guy > Pete Kanaris GreenDreamsFL > ruclips.net/user/PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL. Great resource for Florida gardeners.
Pamela Martin thanks so much! I will!👍🏻
Yup. I watch Pete kanaris as well. He specializes in Florida and the tropics. Very informative.
Amalia Rehman thanks!!
@@elizabethlane4617 you're welcome. Happy gardening!
Nice
So so beautiful and you are all so encouraging. Thank you!
I'm curious what kind of hardiness zone you are in. I don't generally like the cold, but you make this look very doable. Also curious if you get snowed in for the winter and how you deal with that. I think I need to do a marathon of your videos to learn more of what's possible. Thank you so much for sharing this information with us!
I love your cottage garden. Nice design too. Would love to see it on paper! Did use companion garden ideas for this garden?
Thank you for the list of what is in your garden. Could you also post where you get your seeds and the actual name or version of each plant.
I have a lot of herbs but not a lot of herb plants. My kids use my herbal flu tea which ive also geared toward mrsa and we have a jacaranda tree i harvest a lot from. Im going to be watching this vid over with a note pad lol thank you fir the great info. I dont cut my flowers either
How do you use the yarrow? Blooms? Greens? Roots? Also love elecampane! It was our second year and the flowers shot up 8 feet tall on one of our plants! It's covered in butterflies and bumble bees 💙
Your cottage garden is wonderful! I live just a bit south of you and I'm working on my own cottage garden, so I was wondering how you keep the deer out? The fence seems a bit short to be a deterrent.
Thank you for the garden tour! You mentioned the garden tour in a pantry chat so I had to come and visit. Could you tell us what your using your hops for? I grew up in the Willamette valley in Oregon and we grow hops like crazy but it is always for beer production....what do you use them for? Thanks in advance. May the Lord continue to bless you all. Love from Ohio.
Wow that catnip is huge my cats would love this 😊 my catnip plants never get this big! Beautiful garden and although I'm very far away in scotland I have many of the same things growing, lemon balm is one of my favourites and lots of mint plants! Do you have a recipe for bag balm?
I have so enjoyed watching your "Cottage Garden" series! It has inspired me to start one of my own. My question is about the "Good King Henry" plant. When I ordered the seeds( very hard to find) the plant description says to eat very little. Is this just a medicine plant and/or food plant? Do you have any problems eating it?
Love this tour. I'm in Northern FL and havent gotten into gardening (renter) but I want to. Do you know of any good books that may help me with all the regions amd learning what I can grow and when?
Your cottage garden is beautiful!! I love how you have the hops growing up the string ! Are hops hard to grow? Did you start them yourself? Do you fertilize them ? Do they come back every year ?
Such a wonderful tour! Thank you so much! Here in SC we are dealing with temps in the high 90s. Could you tell me what type of wood you used for the arbor that you used for the arbor that your husband and children walked through at the beginning of your video. I absolutely love it and would love to make one. I am betting willow since it is easy to bend. And approximately what size is yours.....Just loved all the information you give in your videos. Especially the Lemon Balm as I deal with shingles. Thanks for all you do. Hugs from SC.
Thank you Carole can you tell us how you can use Yarrow in nose bleeds.
Thanks for the tour. Love seeing all your plants and flowers. I have a question about elecampane. I did 3 different plantings of seeds but got nothing. What is your secret for growing elecampane from seed?
what do you do with hops i want to grow some to climb on my porch but i want to be able to use also
I just planted camomile this year. Should I wait till next year to harvest?
I just love your cottage garden. Just some questions about Yarrow and Lemon Balm. I have battled with nose bleeds all my life, how would you use the Yarrow for that? Stick leaves into your nose or make a tea and dip some cotton wool into it? Then the Lemon Balm. I am just done with Chemo for breast cancer but one bad side effect is that it affects the nerve endings in your fingers and toes, constant pins and needles/numbness and even pain and am also battling with mouth ulcers. To me the Lemon Balm sounds like a perfect solution but how do I process and apply it, or drink it?
Maybe try a sage tea for mouth sores
How do you use the one that you said was for nose bleeds and also the one that’s used for asthma?
Do you have a distiller to extract the oils from the herbs? How do you add them to balms and ointments ?
Can you share how and when to harvest and perserve.
Excellent idea!!
❤❤❤❤
Wow- we have record above average temperatures for most of June and July.
Where do you buy these plants in general or do you forage them? Doyou buy the seeds?
Please give an example of how to use the yarrow to stop bleeding- the flower head, the leaves? How much? Thanks so much
Thank you for the tour of the cotrage garden. I have a question about hollyhocks and borage. Do you make tea with them and which parts of the plants do you use?
I so enjoyed the tour, can you tell me where you get some of the more edible or medicinal varieties of plants /seeds? I am having a hard time finding calendula, the poppies you mentioned, and several others that would be perennial in my zone 4 b transitional alpine meadow environment. I have alkaline clay soil in western Montana but have been amending with compost and mulching with woodchips or straw. I really want to develop a medicinal herb garden.
Try strictlymedicinalseeds.com
@@HomesteadingFamily Thanks! You're doing a great job and valuable service for the rest of us.
Thanks for the tour! I had picked some pretty looking plants from our neighbor's cow field to transplant into my flower garden. Turns out they are the wild yarrow that you identified in your garden! I am wondering though, if anyone can tell me uses for Mountain Rose Agastache? My mom gifted me some plants but I don't know what they are for other than dried flower arrangements. I am also having a terrible time with those small white butterflies eating everything. They lay hoards of tiny green caterpillars that eat everything. I'm reluctant to put out insecticide because I don't want to kill pollinators.
Sounds like whitefly. I am a brand new gardener and found these on my eggplant. I dissolved ivory soap in some water and sprayed it on. I read you need to do this every other day for a while. Get on top of it, the whitefly leaves nectar on your plants that draws other bugs!
Where did you find the Korean Hyssop? What drinks do you use it in? How else is it used?
I was wondering the same
I have a yarrow that isn't white, it's multiple colors. Is it still useful medicinally?
Thank you From Ontario Canadacan I make tea from the Bee balm?
Can anyone tell me how to use lemon balm for coldsores? My dad gets coldsores so it might be helpful for him 😊
Do you have - or will you have - lessons or a course on all these herbs you grow, what they’re good for, how to grow/harvest/store? I’d love to learn all the things-
Yes! We have an Herbal Medicine Cabinet course that focuses on Colds. It incorporates all of these things! And, we're getting ready to add a Flu section! Eventually hoping to maybe add a First Aid section too! :)
I didn’t see any comfrey, do you grow it?
I am wanting to start a cottage garden by my back patio and kitchen window is there anything I can start late this summer or early fall ? I have. More shade than sun . I think I’m zone 6 . I’m in St. Louis .
I ordered the organic dried lemon balm that you linked to and I have a question? It doesn't smell like lemon or have a lemon taste. Is that right? It's just kinda bland and herby tasting and smelling. Thank you so much and really enjoy your video's.
Hello Caren, is there somewhere a written list of the herbs? For a non native speaker it would be great, because it is really hard to understand the names, because i don't have a brought knowledge of the english names of the herbs. Thank you for considering my comment.
do you have a favorite way to apply yarrow for nose bleeds? My daughter gets them really really bad, almost to the point of hemorrhaging. We usually use salt on top of the head and that works about 80% of the time but I would like to implement yarrow for it.
Once it stops, I do a nasal rinse of noniodized salt and baking soda. Washes a big blob of snot mixed with dried blood out. Gross, I know, but it helps to keep it from starting again. (I use that same rinse whenever I have a cold and sinuses are full... rarely get nose bleeds now).
@@kmw4359 awesome about the rinse, our current problem this year is getting it to stop though. Since yarrow stops bleeding, im wondering if It would be better to make a salve and kinda swab it up in there when its bleeding or for lack of a better example, having her snort yarrow powder. I'm leaning towards the salve but would love other opinions on it
We can’t get plants now here in Georgia. When we could, we were in lockdown! I do have a few seeds. But isn’t it too late to plant them in the hot summer?
If you dehydrate the hollyhock leaves, does than change how mucilagenous it is?
In a poly culture, are there some things you can’t plant with other plants. This is dumb but when I was a kid I planted a purple pant with a green plant. The green plant ended up with purple polka dots. As a young girl, I was thrilled to have a polka dot plant. Now as an adult, I don’t really want any plants to cross with each other.
Bob looks like our cat
👍👍👍👌♥️☺️
How do you deal with insects like aphids and mealybugs? It would be a shame to grow all these beautiful herbs and harvest them full of aphids.
Where in Idaho are u? We have had the hottest last couple weeks ever. In the 100°s. We are in northern Idaho. Im wondering if you're up by Canada
We are way up north
Jealous of your weather. We have been over 90 every day in July and almost no rain. 😔