My grandpa who always had the most amazing garden ever used to fill old coffee cups with soy sauce & oil then cover with plastic wrap & a rubber band. He cut small slits into the plastic wrap and buried them in his garden just up to the cups rim to treat for earwigs. He was one of those old school gardeners who never used pesticides long before organic gardening was a thing. He also used to keep little ponds made from old kitchen mixing bowls throughout the garden to attract toads who feast on earwigs. I remember going with him when I was little to catch toads at the lake to bring back home & release in the garden. He made it all seem so easy although now that I have my own good sized garden I know it's absolutely not! I've recently been making the switch to self watering grow bags which has been a fun addition.
I love seeing these casual, pretty, almost messy gardens because it’s really encouraging that you don’t have to have it be all perfect looking. Just keep the plants and pollinators happy, and it’s actually so pretty and enjoyable. Love it!
Totally agree! He is so down to earth. I’m so glad I found his channel last month. I am slowly catching up on all his videos. Thanks to his tips, my garlic is doing great
Earwig control: - shallow dish or small cup (like the size of the plastic ones hotels give you on your room) - bury as much of the dish or cup under soil without burying the lip of the dish/cup - pour equal parts oil and soy sauce in your container (I didn't fill mine all the way.. Maybe halfway.. And I used olive oil) - the trap will lure earwigs. They'll fall in and will be unable to escape. -discard after. It's worked for me!! They chewed up all my Swiss chard, flowerbed, cabbage leaves, cauliflower...terrible pests 😭
Nice idea. I only suffer them on my artichoke 'flowers', can ruin the harvest, but I've had a lot of ladybugs in recent yrs which seems to control them via consuming their eggs.
Sunflowers as companion plants. I noticed the sunflower planted with the corn and elsewhere near vegetable plants. I recently read that they are alleopathic (sp) and actually hinder nearby plants through a chemical they put off. Do you have any ideas or experience with them being a hindrance in the garden?
This is the technique we use too. We live in the San Diego area and the dishes are completely full in the morning! We moved our artichokes to a dryer area that doesn't have as many earwigs and we have 20 artichokes per plant this year.
I have three terrible looking tomato plants crawling across the carrots and root parsley. I feel the tomatoes went through the trouble of sowing themselves there. Can't just pull them out and I do pick tomatoes from them eventhough the plants aren't in as good shape as those I planted myself. I do, however, pull out bonus potato plants as they attract and feed potato bugs.
As someone from Brazil (who doesn't speak English natively), it would be nice to see the name of the plants on the screen as you talk about them. I didn't understand the name of that beautiful purple flower covered in bees.
@@epicgardening oh damn, lol. I completely forgot about those. But I stand by the suggestion I made earlier, Kevin. If you put the cientific name it makes easier for non Americans find the local name of the same plant. For instance, pride of Madeira is Massaroco in Brazil.
@@AngelCosta The other thing about common names is, often the same common names are used for entirely different species, leading to much confusion... so the scientific name is the only name that you can be sure of what plant it is
@@TheRealHonestInquiry Very good point. I was trying to find out the name of a pest in English and had to use the scientific name cause there were too many bugs with the same common name.
A fellow pandemic gardener i see! I went to get some herbs, "accidentally" left with peppers and tomatos. Now i'm planning to slowly turn my garden into a permaculture, since i already had a bunch of neglected fruit trees and berries. Though this summer will be spent battling the raspberry i stupidly planted years ago 🙃.
We are completely new to gardening. We planted our first seeds February 13th 2021. It is inspiring to see what Jacque has created in such a short time.
We started last spring and set up about forty square feet every week or two throughout the growing season, and the last areas planted came up strongly in the spring, so my advice for a new garden is to make a little progress every week, nothing over exerting, dig a narrow trench the first day, and fill it with organic matter on the second day, and plant out the new space as soon as the dirt is in place, and in a week or two start again in the next spot, by the end of summer everything will be in place, and don't worry about it being too late in the season, every prepared space is fair game next spring.
@@NashvilleMonkey1000 Thank you for the great advice. It’s easy to want a full garden on day one but we are enjoying building our small space. Unfortunately our ground is far more rock than soil so we have everything in planters and fabric pots. Hopefully one day we can get better land to grow on.
😯🌱🤩 Jacques, that is a bad-ass 3 part garden!! So damn impressive for only 14-months, WOW! Amazing tour and Kevin, you’re a great garden interviewer 🌱💫
Love this. Also a Pandemic Gardener. Since starting last April, I can see my growth. I can also see how I sort of dove in headfirst into the gardening world. I went from killing 3 trees and all plants to now a 18x23 ft area FULL and overflowing. The garden has not only given me food, but hope and delight. I would love to see more Covid Gardeners Like Garden Hermit!!!!
This was really cool to see. I loved that Jacques's garden has areas for pollinators, seed saving, experiments, and still lots of food. These are all things I want to do in my eventual garden. So cool to see. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Same, I would love to do this eventually! I'm going to study this winter and plan, and start with an herb potted plants. Then if I stick with it, I'll start growing food crops. :) but this whole concept is beautiful
I love this episode. I’m very slowly (deliberate) expanding my garden. My husband loves his lawn so I’m sneaking plants here and there. It will happen in due time. I love the concept of poly culture. I have plants that are unusual - from trades/swaps or just gifts from loving people. It brings an unconventional look that I find very natural
I can so relate! My husband also loves his lawn. I slowly...ever so slowly... widen my garden beds when "weeding" the perimeters to sneak in more plants.
28:00 I use a teepee in my garden as well. I'm up in zone 5 (Indiana). I plug in lettuces under the teepee in the spring and have pole beans grown up the teepee. The lettuce survives nearly all summer without bolting.
Keep up with what Jacques aka Garden Hermit is up to at his garden, and drop ANY QUESTIONS you have for him down below this comment: instagram.com/jacquesinthegarden/
"To grow food that tastes great" I just had my first harvest of cucumbers and yep it's way more delicious than store bought. Thank you sir for inspiring me to grow my own food
First time I gardened I put cucumbers every 6 inches and didn't know how many cucumbers came off a plant 😂 coulda been a cucumber warehouse you shoulda seen the cucumber jungle coming across the lawn taking over it was in sane. Than we planted watermelon and same thing planted so many it was a snake den of watermelons and snakes 😂
Ahhh...Zone 3 in Prince George, British Columbia too. Love your channel, and super enjoyed this tour...especially the remarks from Mr.Rooster throughout ;)
When I 1st started homesteading I could only afford to buy 1 chicken a week. I would go to the flea market and buy whatever looked cool. I built my 1st chicken pin out of wooden pallets and chicken wire. It looked like crap but it was the beginning of my homestead. I built that homestead up for around 7 or 8 years until I moved. I started over in 2019. It’s starting to become predictive again. Just keep working at it and do what you can afford. It will continue growing.
My late father was always famous for his sunflowers, and thanks to his casual approach to fall cleanup he had volunteers of all kinds, and ended up making his own sunflower, tall, multibranched with large heads.
Brussels Sprouts became an immediate favorite when I grew them at home! Store bought ones always tasted like straight chemicals, but homegrown…amazing!
A lovely tour. thank you to both of you. Jacques has a lovely gentle approach. hope for return visits and keeping up with his progress too. best wishes from Ireland
I love how everyone has their own ways of getting their patch done in how they see fit like this. It gives me that much more confidence in myself. Bc I really need an assistant lol. I'm just glad I got turned on to some major compost making to amend this Carolina red clay in the past year. Can't wait to see more from you guys this season 💚
Love how people take into gardening just like that. It looked effortless, but it’s hard work. It is easy if you love doing it. We’re renting our place but I love to grow things. This year I got a table grape variety growing in a big pot. It’s my first time, building a little trellis, pruning and training its vines. Now it has produced 12 bunches of fruits…can’t wait to taste them in a few months. I enjoyed watching the tour of his garden ❤️
This is so inspiring! I was just blessed to get permission from my landlord to have a 16' by 32' area for my new garden (I currently only have three 4' by 4' beds). This is such good inspiration for what to do, I'll definitely be following!
@@katespencer4038 My lord is very generous (considering that we own privately from a family member helps out a lot!). Container gardening is what I did before doing in ground, and it works great. I even tried potatoes and they work wonderfully in buckets!
LOVE this! Those aren't cippolini, they're cippolone! Giants. I love to see gardens done on a budget and built with love and great creativity. Jacques is also doing the most important thing, which is growing what you love. I'm surprised you don't get a ton of pest pressure here, but I guess this is nature at her best, policing herself with the good guy bugs.
Everything you see on my channel was done from scratch this year too! Took me more like $1500 because wood is EXPENSIVE right now but next year will cost me next to nothing! :D And I will have tons of for this year!
Absolutely love Callistemon - native to Australia - and it's well named. The name comes from 2 Greek words: 'callis' meaning beauty and 'stemon' referring to the stamen of the plant. (According to my daughters I'm a mine of basically useless information, lol.)
@@shinsanhughes629 We have these lining our street where I live and they can be beautiful, but I prefer the look (not the mess) of Jacarandas that line the footpath around the corner from my street.
Garden goals!!! I literally pulled out my garden notebook to write down several of his plants that I now must also have 😂💗✌ the tip for putting a pipe in the ground to hold the gate post was A++ thank you!! Would love an update later in the season!
Hey guys I live in Australia I did my own little lockdown garden too last year. I don’t usually watch gardening videos over 4-8mins long (depending on the topic) but this was really great. Loved walking through all the different veggies and herbs your friend is growing and what’s even better is you let him do the talking. Loved to see your passion Jacques. I’m subscribing hoping to see more walk throughs of peoples gardens and your tips, thanks guys!
Strawberries and asparagus grow amazingly together. Also, basil and tomatoes next to one another also work wonderful. Your canes look like blackberries. We use lemon and creeping thyme as ground cover around our flower gardens, keeps the weeds out phenomenally, and just got a lawn chamomile which smells like green apples its so beautiful
Awesome walk through. Very inspiring to see what can be done in a short amount of time. Kevin, we just found your channel recently, and have learned a lot from you already. Thank you for your work and sharing your knowledge.
Jacques it was pretty cool to see your garden, like the idea of you leaving your volunteers grow 🌻🌻 and wow the tomatoes growing for so long yay! than you !!
That seed addiction comment is so relatable, I just received two orders of seeds two days ago that I haven't started yet and just put in another order for more 😫
I love that you guys are in San Diego like myself. Maybe someday you all can come to my property and help me out with your wisdom. It would be a cool clip.
I love the detail you go into in this video in looking at and describing all the plants. In a lot of videos I've watched on other channels they skip over describing a lot of the plants and it really frustrates me, as I want to know what I'm looking at. Great video and very inspiring, thanks Kevin and Jacques!
I love this video, Kevin!! Great to know Jacques a little bit and see other styles of gardening. Double the inspiration!! Also agree that seeds never count in the garden budget, I mean the cost is so minimal!! I seem to have quite the addiction myself!!
Awesome job! :) i honestly can't wait till my garden takes off this year. We just got our seeds+ seedling in. I put in my potatoes last month and they just started to sprout up, with in a week they have grown about 8 inches. Im wanting to do a "before and after" video of my garden. Its been a lot of work, but totally worth it in the end. :) food is so much better when its home grown.
I'm north of you guys and my major pests are earwigs and aphids/white Flys. I have tried so many things and it's like the earwigs come at me with reinforcements. Love the Garden BTW!
OK this is one of the most inspiring things I've seen in a MINUTE. What I love about it is the flow and form, I appreciate curves and arcs and circles in bed shape and the functionality of a row for things like trellising and florida weaving. It feels like this garden has a mix of both, possibly due in part to the herb borders? I would love to see an overhead drone shot or a simple sketch giving an idea of basic layout and bed shape. new to channel so will peruse but if something like that exists pon the webs could you point me towards? thank you so much for sharing!
fabulous! making me wish I had more space to grow!!! I live in Baltimore city, and trust me, when I tell you, I have utilized every space in my 2x4 patio garden!!!
You guys are quite an inspiration. I last year made a 12x16 foot garden, neighbors had a garden there some years ago - I dug the whole thing added some healthy dirt from garden center and finally planted ,- cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, medium tomatoes, Roma tomatoes, basil, parsley, cilantro, sage, peppers, squash green and yellow, peas, beans....it was an experience my conditions are different since I live in Connecticut but I still love to see and learn and get ideas from others that mayb I can incorporate in my space. The garden is all cleaned up now and covered up for winter so a good time for research. I call it the farm and surprised myself at how great it grew! Shared with all my neighbors and learned about growing food. Flowers are still my favorite but now I have both!!
Absolutely loved seeing all the over-wintered plants! This last winter was the first time I tried it, because I'm in Texas, and have mild winters...until now! Neg 7 degree for 2 days, and almost 2ft of snow. Needless to say, I'll have to try again, this time in large pots I can move to the barn if we have another freak winter. Thank you, btw, for all the info you offer, and thanks to Jacques for sharing his garden.
I started last summer. By fall I had 3 4x16 beds. Over winter I layed out 9 - 22 foot no dig rows, built a chicken wire fence around it and 3 compost bins made from pallets. One row for tomatoes with cattle panel a t post trellises. One row for green beans and the same trellis system. Also for cucumbers. I’ve also got comfrey growing and perennials around the fence and at the ends of rows and beds. I think I’ve unloaded 13 pickup loads of wood mulch and 6 -8 loads of composted garden soil as well as composting every bit of grass clippings and shredded leaves I could handle from our place. It’s really coming together. I’ve enjoyed your videos and learned so much from you, Charles Dowding, MIGardener, and Jessica from Roots and Refuge. Also Huw Richards. You guys are great! Thank you so much!
I wish I had the space to do it. But I live in a small apartment and I have 5 plants And I watched Kevin as he had a small space and then moved to a larger place and started his farm in a larger place. This is what gives me hope that one day I will have my farm
Started watching you when I started a garden, with my kids, during Covid. We absolutely love it and have gotten so much motivation from you and a few others on youtube. Look forward to seeing your channels evolve and grow.
@@let_uslunch8884 He uploaded two videos in the last week. James never uploaded anything in his winters the past three years. He does this without announcement, which kind of sucks because people start to get worried.
Seriously ???!!!! Guuuurl??😑 you need Jesus and some sex in your life. There is no way watching ROOTS gave you shivers. And if it did, that s soooo sad.
Stahhhhp it!!! That's amazing. The cowpeas around the corn are interesting Such a nice space Jacques! We switched from container gardening to our large garden in March of 2020 also!
Great garden! Last year my raised bed looked the same way, sort of unruly, full of zinnias and nasturtiums in between the veggie, yet everything grew so well. The bad part was that it really became a hiding place for rats and mice at night. So this year I am keeping it tidy. I’ve done the same with grocery store Pearl onions in the past, recently though I just use the bottom of green onions that you cut off and still have the roots on it. Those grow fast and huge!
I love garden tours! I also love all the volunteer plants. Question for Jacques...what depth did you sow the asparagus seeds? Thank you for showing us your transformed space...it’s beautiful.
I, also live in San Diego, I moved here from Northern California, about 8 years ago and I love what a difference in planting!! I can grow more and grow at different times of year, starting my garden a few months earlier then the norm.
Thank you Kevin and Jacques. I admire the beautiful garden from the excellent knowledgable tour. The No Dig concept is really amazing. I am from Canada. God bless!
This was so awesome to watch, I have a little pallet garden right now at my rental place but I am hoping to one day have my own yard and fill it with all the many vegetables and flowers I enjoy!
This garden is utter organized chaos and I'm living for it! Very naturalistic. I love how he kind of lets the plants do what they want (to an extent) and he gets good results.
Earwigs!! So that’s what’s been eating all my plant leaves! I could not figure it out; I’ve been looking for snails and haven’t seen any...but I’ve seen countless earwigs. I had no idea...like Jacques, I’m a pandemic gardener and I have a lot to learn. Thank you for all the information on your channel. 💚💚🌱🌱
I started my garden about 2 months into quarentiene, i had never gardened before but now i got a mini garden in my roof (i dont have a yard) and it all started from one cotton seed.
I live in Kelowna, BC, Canada. We are in a hot dry arid valley in the summer, but cold in the winter. There is a lot of difference from one year to the next. I have had New Zealand spinach and tomatillas overwinter, but other years not so much. I love how you allow the volunteers to live. My son used to say I planted things under the oak tree and let them all fight it out to see who survived.
You've got to love the start of this video. Kevin will always be there somewhere, popping up when you least suspect it, ready to teach you something new about gardening and horticulture.
It's good to see Jacque's adventure in gardening, I also started learning and trying gardening because of the pandemic and already have a larger property ready for retirement next year. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and wisdom
Kiwi plants actually need to be couple (male female) to give fruit. And with where you live, how much sun you have, you can make a sort of Pergola, so the vines attach to it, to create shade spot for you to drink beer in the hot days.
Here in Oregon we put pine saw dust around the blueberry plant base to keep the soil moist as well as add acidity to the soil from the pine dust. Try that as well as having multiple plants for cross pollination
How amazing, I love this video, it really shows what you can do if you put your mind to it. Kudos to Jacque, you are an amazing gardener and an inspiration to me personally.
My grandpa who always had the most amazing garden ever used to fill old coffee cups with soy sauce & oil then cover with plastic wrap & a rubber band. He cut small slits into the plastic wrap and buried them in his garden just up to the cups rim to treat for earwigs. He was one of those old school gardeners who never used pesticides long before organic gardening was a thing. He also used to keep little ponds made from old kitchen mixing bowls throughout the garden to attract toads who feast on earwigs. I remember going with him when I was little to catch toads at the lake to bring back home & release in the garden. He made it all seem so easy although now that I have my own good sized garden I know it's absolutely not! I've recently been making the switch to self watering grow bags which has been a fun addition.
Cool!
I'm going to need you to make videos of his old school style of gardening 🥺 please
@@Lex-pp7lt I second that.. would love to know more of the old ways.
I third that
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I love seeing these casual, pretty, almost messy gardens because it’s really encouraging that you don’t have to have it be all perfect looking. Just keep the plants and pollinators happy, and it’s actually so pretty and enjoyable. Love it!
Watch Anne of all trades, you will love her gardens, Not your normal gardens. You will love her videos
I'll never understand people giving thumbs down on wholesome videos like this, much love from your I.E. gardening peeps
Yep, they thumbs down as tho they have something better to offer.
Totally agree! He is so down to earth. I’m so glad I found his channel last month. I am slowly catching up on all his videos. Thanks to his tips, my garlic is doing great
Envy, maybe?
@@SKOLAH It has to be
Language has gotten weird in the last year. Maybe, they are saying that they are "down" with his methods 🤷♀️
"Girlfriend bought 7 tomatoes - now I own a farm" - realest story ever lol
LMAO
9
Gave away 200 tomato plants. Longest bad idea I've had to date
@@obiwantzcanolisandmomgarde8490 wait, wait, wait...keep the tomatoes and give the plants away lol.
2
Garden Hermit sounds like a fantastic RUclips channel name. I'm learning so much from you guys.
It might become one...
@@epicgardening you guys need to do more shows together!
Earwig control:
- shallow dish or small cup (like the size of the plastic ones hotels give you on your room)
- bury as much of the dish or cup under soil without burying the lip of the dish/cup
- pour equal parts oil and soy sauce in your container (I didn't fill mine all the way.. Maybe halfway.. And I used olive oil)
- the trap will lure earwigs. They'll fall in and will be unable to escape.
-discard after. It's worked for me!! They chewed up all my Swiss chard, flowerbed, cabbage leaves, cauliflower...terrible pests 😭
Nice idea. I only suffer them on my artichoke 'flowers', can ruin the harvest, but I've had a lot of ladybugs in recent yrs which seems to control them via consuming their eggs.
Thanks for the tip.
Sunflowers as companion plants. I noticed the sunflower planted with the corn and elsewhere near vegetable plants. I recently read that they are alleopathic (sp) and actually hinder nearby plants through a chemical they put off. Do you have any ideas or experience with them being a hindrance in the garden?
This is the technique we use too. We live in the San Diego area and the dishes are completely full in the morning! We moved our artichokes to a dryer area that doesn't have as many earwigs and we have 20 artichokes per plant this year.
@@TheSpottedBoot Allelopathy, and I learned today that I need to dig out the ferns around my Grandmother's bleeding hearts. 💕
What a gorgeous garden! (And not having the heart to pull out volunteers is *so* relatable…)
I have three terrible looking tomato plants crawling across the carrots and root parsley. I feel the tomatoes went through the trouble of sowing themselves there. Can't just pull them out and I do pick tomatoes from them eventhough the plants aren't in as good shape as those I planted myself. I do, however, pull out bonus potato plants as they attract and feed potato bugs.
Too relatable.
As someone from Brazil (who doesn't speak English natively), it would be nice to see the name of the plants on the screen as you talk about them. I didn't understand the name of that beautiful purple flower covered in bees.
Turn on captions!
Had to Google & replay 😅 but the purple plant is Pride of Madeira (Echium candicans or Echium fastuosum)! +1 too on the plant IDs suggestion
@@epicgardening oh damn, lol. I completely forgot about those. But I stand by the suggestion I made earlier, Kevin.
If you put the cientific name it makes easier for non Americans find the local name of the same plant. For instance, pride of Madeira is Massaroco in Brazil.
@@AngelCosta The other thing about common names is, often the same common names are used for entirely different species, leading to much confusion... so the scientific name is the only name that you can be sure of what plant it is
@@TheRealHonestInquiry Very good point. I was trying to find out the name of a pest in English and had to use the scientific name cause there were too many bugs with the same common name.
A fellow pandemic gardener i see! I went to get some herbs, "accidentally" left with peppers and tomatos. Now i'm planning to slowly turn my garden into a permaculture, since i already had a bunch of neglected fruit trees and berries. Though this summer will be spent battling the raspberry i stupidly planted years ago 🙃.
Incredible!
That's a good problem to have, so much raspberry pie!
@@lemonyskunkketts7781 Or maybe, even better, a lot of raspberry pi
Wild raspberries are more invasive than domesticated ones, and thorny to boot!
Birds "planted" my raspberry patch. 😁
"I didn't have the heart to take it out"--that is definitely my gardening philosophy. If it finds itself growing somewhere, who am I to say it can't?
This is why half my garden is poppies and I'm a month late getting my squash in.
@@elisabetk2595 the good kind? 🙃
We are completely new to gardening. We planted our first seeds February 13th 2021. It is inspiring to see what Jacque has created in such a short time.
Yes this is wonderful and inspiring for sure. 😍😍😍😍😍
Love a lush garden 🪴
We started last spring and set up about forty square feet every week or two throughout the growing season, and the last areas planted came up strongly in the spring, so my advice for a new garden is to make a little progress every week, nothing over exerting, dig a narrow trench the first day, and fill it with organic matter on the second day, and plant out the new space as soon as the dirt is in place, and in a week or two start again in the next spot, by the end of summer everything will be in place, and don't worry about it being too late in the season, every prepared space is fair game next spring.
@@NashvilleMonkey1000 Thank you for the great advice. It’s easy to want a full garden on day one but we are enjoying building our small space. Unfortunately our ground is far more rock than soil so we have everything in planters and fabric pots. Hopefully one day we can get better land to grow on.
😯🌱🤩 Jacques, that is a bad-ass 3 part garden!! So damn impressive for only 14-months, WOW! Amazing tour and Kevin, you’re a great garden interviewer 🌱💫
Thank you!
Love this. Also a Pandemic Gardener. Since starting last April, I can see my growth. I can also see how I sort of dove in headfirst into the gardening world. I went from killing 3 trees and all plants to now a 18x23 ft area FULL and overflowing. The garden has not only given me food, but hope and delight. I would love to see more Covid Gardeners Like Garden Hermit!!!!
This was really cool to see. I loved that Jacques's garden has areas for pollinators, seed saving, experiments, and still lots of food. These are all things I want to do in my eventual garden. So cool to see. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Same, I would love to do this eventually! I'm going to study this winter and plan, and start with an herb potted plants. Then if I stick with it, I'll start growing food crops. :) but this whole concept is beautiful
I love this episode. I’m very slowly (deliberate) expanding my garden. My husband loves his lawn so I’m sneaking plants here and there. It will happen in due time. I love the concept of poly culture. I have plants that are unusual - from trades/swaps or just gifts from loving people. It brings an unconventional look that I find very natural
I hear the silent evil laugh 😂
I can so relate! My husband also loves his lawn. I slowly...ever so slowly... widen my garden beds when "weeding" the perimeters to sneak in more plants.
@@mosideas520 why do the like their lawns?? is just grass. why not a garden that can feed the fam?
@@zairabandy8695 Mine likes to mow, and hates to weed.
This was lovely to read, good luck😂👍
28:00
I use a teepee in my garden as well. I'm up in zone 5 (Indiana). I plug in lettuces under the teepee in the spring and have pole beans grown up the teepee. The lettuce survives nearly all summer without bolting.
Keep up with what Jacques aka Garden Hermit is up to at his garden, and drop ANY QUESTIONS you have for him down below this comment: instagram.com/jacquesinthegarden/
Amazing progress in a little over a year!
Dude…Jacque’s a frugal-garden-pimp!
is he only on instagram?
Amazing garden! Where did you get your straw mulch?
What do you do with you extra seedling cus i have alot 😂
“Seed addiction doesn’t count.” Had me rolling. Darn right it doesn’t.
I love Jacque cameos! Its pretty neat to see his own garden.
Yes sure Jacque's garden very beautiful , happy gardening
"To grow food that tastes great" I just had my first harvest of cucumbers and yep it's way more delicious than store bought. Thank you sir for inspiring me to grow my own food
fresh cucumbers from the garden are amazing. Definitely one of my "must-garden" plants alongside tomatoes and herbs
First time I gardened I put cucumbers every 6 inches and didn't know how many cucumbers came off a plant 😂 coulda been a cucumber warehouse you shoulda seen the cucumber jungle coming across the lawn taking over it was in sane. Than we planted watermelon and same thing planted so many it was a snake den of watermelons and snakes 😂
Man this is sweet. Jacques, you're the coolest! Saying hello from zone 3 in Canada
😃
I am in Canada 🇨🇦 too. Gardening is great. 😍😍😍 lovely ☺️ hobby for this lockdown junk.
Zone 3 here in Canada too - Edmonton, Alberta
Zone 3 in Canada here too. Sudbury, Ontario.
Ahhh...Zone 3 in Prince George, British Columbia too. Love your channel, and super enjoyed this tour...especially the remarks from Mr.Rooster throughout ;)
When I 1st started homesteading I could only afford to buy 1 chicken a week. I would go to the flea market and buy whatever looked cool. I built my 1st chicken pin out of wooden pallets and chicken wire. It looked like crap but it was the beginning of my homestead. I built that homestead up for around 7 or 8 years until I moved. I started over in 2019. It’s starting to become predictive again. Just keep working at it and do what you can afford. It will continue growing.
My late father was always famous for his sunflowers, and thanks to his casual approach to fall cleanup he had volunteers of all kinds, and ended up making his own sunflower, tall, multibranched with large heads.
Brussels Sprouts became an immediate favorite when I grew them at home! Store bought ones always tasted like straight chemicals, but homegrown…amazing!
Found cucumbers to be the same!
Looking cool, well done Jacques 👊🏼
I love Jacques' approach to gardening! It's so "organic" in its process and philosophy. It's innovative and purposeful.
A lovely tour. thank you to both of you. Jacques has a lovely gentle approach. hope for return visits and keeping up with his progress too. best wishes from Ireland
I love how everyone has their own ways of getting their patch done in how they see fit like this. It gives me that much more confidence in myself. Bc I really need an assistant lol. I'm just glad I got turned on to some major compost making to amend this Carolina red clay in the past year. Can't wait to see more from you guys this season 💚
I just love his garden story , he has done so awesome and he looks so proud of it and he should !!! 😍
Love how people take into gardening just like that. It looked effortless, but it’s hard work. It is easy if you love doing it. We’re renting our place but I love to grow things. This year I got a table grape variety growing in a big pot. It’s my first time, building a little trellis, pruning and training its vines. Now it has produced 12 bunches of fruits…can’t wait to taste them in a few months. I enjoyed watching the tour of his garden ❤️
This is so inspiring! I was just blessed to get permission from my landlord to have a 16' by 32' area for my new garden (I currently only have three 4' by 4' beds). This is such good inspiration for what to do, I'll definitely be following!
Great Nick!
Congratulations!👏👏👏👏
Congratulations u must have a nice landlord I am just trying to have a few pots
@@katespencer4038 My lord is very generous (considering that we own privately from a family member helps out a lot!).
Container gardening is what I did before doing in ground, and it works great. I even tried potatoes and they work wonderfully in buckets!
I love how I _thought_ I was actually hiding at the beginning 😂😂😂😂
Makes me laugh every time you pop up at the beginning of your videos!
@@katiehowell1712 haha right! Like where's Kevin gonna pop up next?
@@sunnyday_lemonbars Yep! And then he just starts talking all serious. Lol
Looks at the land must be the land or is it the mulch ? Nice use of space
Made me laugh out loud as I watch your video by myself. 🤣😂
LOVE this! Those aren't cippolini, they're cippolone! Giants. I love to see gardens done on a budget and built with love and great creativity. Jacques is also doing the most important thing, which is growing what you love. I'm surprised you don't get a ton of pest pressure here, but I guess this is nature at her best, policing herself with the good guy bugs.
Everything you see on my channel was done from scratch this year too! Took me more like $1500 because wood is EXPENSIVE right now but next year will cost me next to nothing! :D And I will have tons of for this year!
For anyone looking for plants to encourage bees: Bottlebrush bushes (Callistemon; zones 8-11) are also bee and hummingbird magnets.
Absolutely love Callistemon - native to Australia - and it's well named.
The name comes from 2 Greek words: 'callis' meaning beauty and 'stemon' referring to the stamen of the plant.
(According to my daughters I'm a mine of basically useless information, lol.)
@@shinsanhughes629 We have these lining our street where I live and they can be beautiful, but I prefer the look (not the mess) of Jacarandas that line the footpath around the corner from my street.
I too started mine in covid and seed prepped and have a nice lil lush salsa garden alongside with zucchini, squash and lettuces! I love this !
My garden started as a salad garden and progressed into a salsa garden now its like a grocery store ❤
Garden goals!!! I literally pulled out my garden notebook to write down several of his plants that I now must also have 😂💗✌ the tip for putting a pipe in the ground to hold the gate post was A++ thank you!! Would love an update later in the season!
26:13 a great follow up video would be to go to a grocery store and identify all the produce you could successfully plant in your garden
I like how Kevin can't stop himself from touching the produce, I'm the same way 😁
Gardener's temptation LOL
Hey guys I live in Australia I did my own little lockdown garden too last year. I don’t usually watch gardening videos over 4-8mins long (depending on the topic) but this was really great. Loved walking through all the different veggies and herbs your friend is growing and what’s even better is you let him do the talking. Loved to see your passion Jacques. I’m subscribing hoping to see more walk throughs of peoples gardens and your tips, thanks guys!
Strawberries and asparagus grow amazingly together. Also, basil and tomatoes next to one another also work wonderful.
Your canes look like blackberries.
We use lemon and creeping thyme as ground cover around our flower gardens, keeps the weeds out phenomenally, and just got a lawn chamomile which smells like green apples its so beautiful
Awesome walk through. Very inspiring to see what can be done in a short amount of time.
Kevin, we just found your channel recently, and have learned a lot from you already. Thank you for your work and sharing your knowledge.
Jacques it was pretty cool to see your garden, like the idea of you leaving your volunteers grow 🌻🌻 and wow the tomatoes growing for so long yay! than you !!
That seed addiction comment is so relatable, I just received two orders of seeds two days ago that I haven't started yet and just put in another order for more 😫
I love that you guys are in San Diego like myself. Maybe someday you all can come to my property and help me out with your wisdom. It would be a cool clip.
I love the detail you go into in this video in looking at and describing all the plants. In a lot of videos I've watched on other channels they skip over describing a lot of the plants and it really frustrates me, as I want to know what I'm looking at. Great video and very inspiring, thanks Kevin and Jacques!
I love this video, Kevin!! Great to know Jacques a little bit and see other styles of gardening. Double the inspiration!! Also agree that seeds never count in the garden budget, I mean the cost is so minimal!! I seem to have quite the addiction myself!!
Awesome job! :) i honestly can't wait till my garden takes off this year. We just got our seeds+ seedling in. I put in my potatoes last month and they just started to sprout up, with in a week they have grown about 8 inches.
Im wanting to do a "before and after" video of my garden. Its been a lot of work, but totally worth it in the end. :) food is so much better when its home grown.
I'm north of you guys and my major pests are earwigs and aphids/white Flys. I have tried so many things and it's like the earwigs come at me with reinforcements. Love the Garden BTW!
OK this is one of the most inspiring things I've seen in a MINUTE. What I love about it is the flow and form, I appreciate curves and arcs and circles in bed shape and the functionality of a row for things like trellising and florida weaving. It feels like this garden has a mix of both, possibly due in part to the herb borders? I would love to see an overhead drone shot or a simple sketch giving an idea of basic layout and bed shape. new to channel so will peruse but if something like that exists pon the webs could you point me towards? thank you so much for sharing!
fabulous! making me wish I had more space to grow!!! I live in Baltimore city, and trust me, when I tell you, I have utilized every space in my 2x4 patio garden!!!
Oh man! The part where you guys said that the seed purchases are not apart of the garden budget is hilarious! Great video style
Enjoyed this a lot! Love seeing other people's gardens, their ideas, and how they make things work. Yay!
You guys are quite an inspiration. I last year made a 12x16 foot garden, neighbors had a garden there some years ago - I dug the whole thing added some healthy dirt from garden center and finally planted ,- cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, medium tomatoes, Roma tomatoes, basil, parsley, cilantro, sage, peppers, squash green and yellow, peas, beans....it was an experience my conditions are different since I live in Connecticut but I still love to see and learn and get ideas from others that mayb I can incorporate in my space. The garden is all cleaned up now and covered up for winter so a good time for research. I call it the farm and surprised myself at how great it grew! Shared with all my neighbors and learned about growing food. Flowers are still my favorite but now I have both!!
Absolutely loved seeing all the over-wintered plants! This last winter was the first time I tried it, because I'm in Texas, and have mild winters...until now! Neg 7 degree for 2 days, and almost 2ft of snow. Needless to say, I'll have to try again, this time in large pots I can move to the barn if we have another freak winter.
Thank you, btw, for all the info you offer, and thanks to Jacques for sharing his garden.
Thanks!
Oh my gosh!!! I’m not the only one with a seed addition 😁
I started last summer. By fall I had 3 4x16 beds. Over winter I layed out 9 - 22 foot no dig rows, built a chicken wire fence around it and 3 compost bins made from pallets. One row for tomatoes with cattle panel a t post trellises. One row for green beans and the same trellis system. Also for cucumbers. I’ve also got comfrey growing and perennials around the fence and at the ends of rows and beds. I think I’ve unloaded 13 pickup loads of wood mulch and 6 -8 loads of composted garden soil as well as composting every bit of grass clippings and shredded leaves I could handle from our place.
It’s really coming together. I’ve enjoyed your videos and learned so much from you, Charles Dowding, MIGardener, and Jessica from Roots and Refuge. Also Huw Richards. You guys are great! Thank you so much!
I wish I had the space to do it. But I live in a small apartment and I have 5 plants And I watched Kevin as he had a small space and then moved to a larger place and started his farm in a larger place. This is what gives me hope that one day I will have my farm
Started watching you when I started a garden, with my kids, during Covid. We absolutely love it and have gotten so much motivation from you and a few others on youtube. Look forward to seeing your channels evolve and grow.
We've got James Prigioni jumping out from behind trees, Kevin jumping up behind raised beds... I'm digging gardener's video styles and energy!
I have been wondering what happened to him. I haven't seen a new video in awhile.
We like to keep it interesting
@@let_uslunch8884 He uploaded two videos in the last week.
James never uploaded anything in his winters the past three years. He does this without announcement, which kind of sucks because people start to get worried.
@@eSheeep hey thanks, I knew he took off for winter, he's out of NJ. I wasn't aware he had been posting.
Don’t forget Tuck digging up a carrot to eat! And, Bubble Beet’s black cat scurrying around the yard. Those animals steal the show! 😂🥕
Kevin: “Yea, let’s tAke a look at those roots!”
*zooms in*
Me: *shivers with joy*
LOL
Seriously ???!!!! Guuuurl??😑 you need Jesus and some sex in your life. There is no way watching ROOTS gave you shivers. And if it did, that s soooo sad.
I was excited to see the roots too!🥰🤷♀️
Stahhhhp it!!! That's amazing. The cowpeas around the corn are interesting Such a nice space Jacques! We switched from container gardening to our large garden in March of 2020 also!
love seeing people’s gardens.
Great garden! Last year my raised bed looked the same way, sort of unruly, full of zinnias and nasturtiums in between the veggie, yet everything grew so well. The bad part was that it really became a hiding place for rats and mice at night. So this year I am keeping it tidy. I’ve done the same with grocery store Pearl onions in the past, recently though I just use the bottom of green onions that you cut off and still have the roots on it. Those grow fast and huge!
I love garden tours! I also love all the volunteer plants. Question for Jacques...what depth did you sow the asparagus seeds? Thank you for showing us your transformed space...it’s beautiful.
I 💕 that wild corner of his garden.
I, also live in San Diego, I moved here from Northern California, about 8 years ago and I love what a difference in planting!! I can grow more and grow at different times of year, starting my garden a few months earlier then the norm.
Your garden is impressive! I started asparagus from seed a few months ago in a grow bag. I'm going to plant it out in a garden bed soon.
The cutest intro ever. We all saw the cute top of your head and then u poke out to talk and keep a straight face. Cutie.
Wonderful garden. Love the enthusiasm to just try, and let the space evolve.
Thank you Kevin and Jacques. I admire the beautiful garden from the excellent knowledgable tour. The No Dig concept is really amazing.
I am from Canada.
God bless!
His garden is absolutely stunning! I'm soo inspired to grow my own food and start my own garden! 🙌🏻🌿
This was so awesome to watch, I have a little pallet garden right now at my rental place but I am hoping to one day have my own yard and fill it with all the many vegetables and flowers I enjoy!
love how the camerafocus is set to the plants instead of kevin in the intro :D
We all know what really matters
This garden is utter organized chaos and I'm living for it! Very naturalistic. I love how he kind of lets the plants do what they want (to an extent) and he gets good results.
This is amazing! Love to see the passion of gardening. This is what I want to achieve one day. Great content and always look forward to an Epic video!
Earwigs!! So that’s what’s been eating all my plant leaves! I could not figure it out; I’ve been looking for snails and haven’t seen any...but I’ve seen countless earwigs. I had no idea...like Jacques, I’m a pandemic gardener and I have a lot to learn. Thank you for all the information on your channel. 💚💚🌱🌱
They feast at night...so check then!
Same here. I’m new and learning so much!
I started my garden about 2 months into quarentiene, i had never gardened before but now i got a mini garden in my roof (i dont have a yard) and it all started from one cotton seed.
I live in Kelowna, BC, Canada. We are in a hot dry arid valley in the summer, but cold in the winter. There is a lot of difference from one year to the next. I have had New Zealand spinach and tomatillas overwinter, but other years not so much. I love how you allow the volunteers to live. My son used to say I planted things under the oak tree and let them all fight it out to see who survived.
damn i need to step up my garden game
One step at a time brother
Love seeing and hearing the process to his garden. I can't wait to have my own yard.
PS: As a Cali girl living in Nevada, I can appreciate and miss my SoCal accents! ❤️❤️❤️ it! Lol
Every garden is an ongoing project, to do what you have in just over a year is amazing, keep going, enjoy and keep adding with whatever interests you
"Can't keep up with booping it" 🤣
So good to hear more from Jacques!
WONDERFUL! Beautiful garden Jacques. Great interview, thanks!
You've got to love the start of this video. Kevin will always be there somewhere, popping up when you least suspect it, ready to teach you something new about gardening and horticulture.
Wow, it kept getting better and better. Impressive!
It's good to see Jacque's adventure in gardening, I also started learning and trying gardening because of the pandemic and already have a larger property ready for retirement next year. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and wisdom
So nice of you!
Kiwi plants actually need to be couple (male female) to give fruit. And with where you live, how much sun you have, you can make a sort of Pergola, so the vines attach to it, to create shade spot for you to drink beer in the hot days.
Here in Oregon we put pine saw dust around the blueberry plant base to keep the soil moist as well as add acidity to the soil from the pine dust. Try that as well as having multiple plants for cross pollination
I love how different this garden is from mine. So many neat ideas. Awesome job guys!
How amazing, I love this video, it really shows what you can do if you put your mind to it. Kudos to Jacque, you are an amazing gardener and an inspiration to me personally.
That columnar basil is everything
I’ve watched this a few times now. I love the controlled chaos/natural look.
14 month tomato plant! Mind blown, that’s amazing.
This is amazing! A 16 month garden and it looks this great - and in your climate that is not so easy at all. I'm blown over!
It really is!
legit stood up out my seat when I seen the a whole other garden
I didnt even KNOW there was ANOTHER garden. I was so impressed and satisfied with the front yard that I forgot about the back.
Such an impressive space. Love how Jacques is so humble about his success in his patch! Very inspiring. 🙏😊
Great job in 14 months. Imagine how it will look like in a few more years.