I bought a little 10 or 12 oz glass bottle of Pure Leaf Blackberry and Sage out of a refrigerator at Walmart check out that was delicious. Have never seen it again.
Jacques, you have such a beautiful garden!!! I have been holding back on expanding mine because there are so many things I am not sure of. But since you have been doing your videos, I am feeling more and more confident finally! I'm in central California so Im hoping in the next couple of years I can have a beautiful garden! Was wondering how often you use your fruits and veggies in recipes? And what are your favorite meals or drinks you make with them? Would love to see some of that. Please keep giving us these updates! ❤️
Thank you I appreciate that! We use just about everything we grow except for when we get too many tomatoes or squash then we will share some 😜. We like doing simple sautes with fresh herbs will get some more of that to share as the summer harvest ramps up
Hi Tammy! I garden in Central CA as well. I’ve been learning how to manage my watering schedules in the heat. If you do expand your garden consider trying Armenian cucumbers. They love the valley heat and are so easy to grow!
@@allysonmusser6648 Ooo thank you!!! And yeah watering is tough especially with the restrictions. I have been mostly hand watering though but my garden is small.
AWESOME TOUR!! SO MANY Things!! SO NICE!!! I am just starting artichokes! Woot! Woot!! And I'll be excited to finally have some for dinner whenever they finally decide to grace me with their delish flower buds!! 🌱
"Parsley doing its parsley thing" Fantastic Jacques! Thanks for showing the good bad and ugly in your garden. Its very helpful to gean a bit of your knowledge with these videos. Happy gardening!
I have a volunteer little California bay tree next to my driveway, probably deposited by a bird as they are native in the hills around here. I just used one in a pot of minestrone tonight...so fragrant! I feel very lucky.
Your garden is absolutely incredible! The vast amount of varieties and genetic diversity has me in awe; it’s beautiful, and your plants are so prolific. Those trellised tomatoes are already loaded! Off topic, but if the white van in the background says ‘Free Plants’ on the side, watch out. It’s how they get us gardeners.
Seeing all these garden updates makes me feel sooooo behind.....but I have to keep reminding myself this year I am growing a human and I live in CA and can still garden. You can see all the work you have put in!
Awesome work Jacques! Thank you for being so open and honest about the good and the could be better. It keeps me motivated to know that I'm not the only one that doesn't always get it right. I'm 8b just North of Seattle, all container gardening but wanting to transform my yard.
Such a beautiful garden! Would love to see more cooking and drinks with you and Kevin. Nasturtiums are so useful and beautiful in many dishes too. I need to try to grow some. Thx for your updates!
So I have a passion fruit story. We use to have one near some really tall ackee trees and to be honest I don’t know if my Mom planted it or if it was our neighbor BUT over the years that passion fruit took over the entire tree, practically top to bottom and then it went after palm trees that were about the same size. It was an entire canopy network of passion fruit. We eventually had to cut down but yeah, passion fruit can be a real monster when the conditions are right and it’s happy
I’m brand new to gardening this year, and I only have a patio to work with which we put in a raised garden bed, greenstalk & a few grow bags. I am studying you & others as I try hands on experimenting on how to grow as much as possible in a smaller space. Love all the information you give out to help me & others, and I can tell you it has been so very helpful to this new gardener! ❤️ April from Modesto CA
I tried fresh organic Concord grapes last year and I couldn't believe how amazing it tastes. I'm surprised more people don't grow that variety because it's the best tasting than any organic grapes I've had, literally like candy.
I gotta get out and find a bay laurel! These walkthroughs are so helpful. If you need to pass off any of those seedlings, i have a happy home for them!
if you prune back your grapes 2-3 nodes above the fruit - it will put the energy into the fruit instead of growth. also grapes have suckers like tomatos
@@jacquesinthegarden You're welcome Jacques! Rural Sprout also has a good article written on pruning and trellising grapes. I learnt all of this from my grandpa who had me help him yearly pruning his 30 + year old grape vines.
Thanks for sharing your garden, Jacques! Hi from another Bulgarian, gardening in zone 5b. We are just starting to transplant here, as our last frost date recently passed. Got my hands on some Bulgarian kapia, and oxheart tomatoes. At the same time, I'm twice as excited to grow Carmen, Escamillo, and Ajvarski peppers...Paul Robinson, Dr. Wyche's, terra cotta, Sun Gold and other flavorful, or pretty tomatoes...and lots of Bulgarian leek :).
That's awesome to hear! I have a bunch of Plovdiv Kapia peppers and a mix of Bulgarian tomatoes, the Bulgarian leeks are actually really delicious I am glad I found those!
I love your garden! I was so excited to see you have a pomegranate tree in a pot. I have a Russian pomegranate that I just decided to keep in a pot as well. So now I know it can be done!
Hey! Could you do a video on Using organic Fertilizers and to understand the nutrient numbers so you dont over fetrilizer when using more than one type of fertilizer at a time
Sorry for the loss of your avacodo trees. I also lost my avacodo plant last year in that really bad heat wave we had in I think it was early September. The heat just burned it up.
I wish I had the correct spot to let my Passion Fruit grow. It was going crazy and I had flowers but no fruit. This year, I just took it out. Sad. I really wanted to taste a Passion Fruit. Thanks for the info. I really appreciate your gardening technique.
Can you and Epic do a video on how you to met? I find it amazing when two people who have a love for something find each other as friends when it is not something that might be in a social setting like a sport.
I am north of San Francisco and grew hard necked garlic over the winter. Mostly I wanted scapes. Harvested and cleaned it yesterday to set up for curing. Fingers crossed big time!
@@sharonk8424 Depending on how I use them, I either blanch them or sauté them before anything else that I do. I have used them with pasta and alone as a vegetable. My favorite ways so far have been on top of a white pizza and in a fish sautéed in butter.
Great tour! Could you please do a video about cutting back artichokes. This was my first season to get fruit, and I am terrified to cut them back--but if I could get a second flush, then cool!
wow, thanks or sharing and cookie is soo cool looking, where do you get these different chicken breeds at? Only place I know of locally in my area is tractor supply, is it a website you can order from?
Its so funny, my softneck (which should be the better for my climate too) were ready to harvest mid to late may this year and my hardneck are just not with the program and not ready to come out yet. I only did hardneck last year and did pretty well, so I am not sure what happened this winter. oh well.
🌼🐝 👨🌾🌻🐇🌺I’m Back for another update of your beautiful garden. It’s amazing to see the changes in your plants over time. I love watching my garden grow a little each day, that is my favorite part of gardening. I am making garden videos too on my own channel. It’s so fun to have the growth documented over the season. I still have so much to learn in this area. I hope we can learn more from each other!
Omg please let us know what all you grow in the 5 tier. I agree the spinner is mandatory. Can I grow any peppers? I'm assuming no bell peppers. I had cherry tomatoes in mine but worried there wasn't enough room. Id love to hear which varieties work the best for you.
oooh i don't have trypophobia but that avocado pot looked creepy. That aside, the avocado tree we planted on dad's farm lot also didn't survive. The other 16-17 trees we planted did great in comparison. I guess they're really just quite a challenging tree to keep 😢
Loving these updates. Garden looks fantastic. About your avocado tree, do you plan on keeping it in a pot? Or will it eventually end up in the ground? I tried, twice, putting an avocado in a pot and both times it failed. I've had a lot more success planting in ground, 3 out of 3 😋 I was told by my local nursery that the best variety to plant in pots is the Wurtz since it's a naturally dwarf tree.
I am thinking of leaving it in this pot for the year and finding a good place in ground for it next year. I believe "Gwen" is another good container variety.
Jacques, thanks for showing us your garden. You've got a lot going on in that garden. Bayleaf is on my list! I have a question I'm hoping you can answer. What do you know or do you recommend beneficial nematodes in 10b, specifically for fly larvae. With two dogs, I always battle flies during the summer heat and am looking for a way to deal with them. It's not something I've heard Southern California gardeners mention (you, Epic Gardening, CaliKim, etc) so I'm wondering what you think. I read they need to be applied before a rain, so that's a challenge this time of year. Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
I've tried them before in the winter timed with a rain storm. It's challenging here because of how dry it is so unless you use a sprinkler to wet everything it will be hard
Is that a mini greenhouse (@13:50) behind you with the okra? Do you grow from seed there, or is it a place to harden off plants? I recently purchased one, and am trying to decide the best way to use it.
I've been using it to grow seeds outdoors Instead of messing around with heat mats and grow lights. I always leave the door open so it can't get too hot though
@ 19:58…such Divas wanting to hog camera time! Lol! I wish I could have chickens. HOA problems. I’ll be sharing this video with my daughter who is just learning how to grow. P.S.~ You are such a cutie, Jacques! 💜🌱💜
Behind you near the strawberry spinner planter--is that big, blue-leaved plant an agave? It's beautiful! Unfortunately, I know of no agave I can grow here in my VA zone-7A, but I am able to grow most yucca plants, which look a bit agave-ish.
Gorgeous and inspirational as always. Is that pineapple sage with purple flowers or am I confusing that with fallen jacaranda petals? I am totally sold on growing pineapple sage after watching this, but I’m either finding salvia sage bushes with purple flowers or pineapple sage with red flowers. Can you help guide me to an edible pineapple sage source in the Bay Area or online? Thanks!
Love that Cookie and Cream name for your chicken. So cute. Oh, love your garden too . LOL..What is the name of your favorite chard again? I couldn't hear it clearly when you mentioned it Thanks.
The only disadvantage to growing potatoes in the last (bottom) tier of the Green Stalk is that you have to either dismantle the whole thing (tower) to get to the tier to harvest the potatoes or you have to dig around in each pocket and get soil all over the place.
Ok so I was growing tomatoes in a container I can’t remember they variety. Anyway they didn’t make it. I over watered it and the soil became too wet. Which I didn’t realise till it was too late. RIP TOM. I pulled them out after about 9 weeks of growing from already established seedling. I’m growing a heap of chilies and they are doing amazing. I noticed the other day 2 small tomato plants 🌱 growing in with the habanero. I’ve been growing the habanero for around 8 months and have had so many chilies from it. How did 2 tomato plants appear ? Is this something tomatoes do ? They propagate them selves ? Or do I have magic plants ? 😆
It's possible you reused the soil and tomato fell in it and eventually those seeds germinated or a bird ate a tomato and pooped some seeds into your bed 🤣
Hello Jacques. Enjoy your videos! Been liking your work before you started your own channel! What is the name of the netting that you have on the blueberry bush? Does it come in different sizes? I have some hot pepper bushes, but the caterpillars are driving me crazy! Where can I buy that netting? Thanks Jacques.
I've been looking at getting some cold hardy maypop for the garden, flowers are always nice, but just curious how you find the fruit; is it worth it? Love from BC, Canada!
We do personally enjoy the fruit quite a bit, its fun to get so much fruit reliably over many months. Not everyone will like it but its fun to eat and collect a bunch to make something more involved or collect them for juice.
I'm so glad to hear that I'm not the only one to kill an avocado. 🤦🏻♀️😬 That's been my most expensive plant to care for - eek - hoping it'll be worth the investment one day!
Can I cut back flowering kale plant and still eat the new growth? Can I backfill or top up my kale bed? This would mean burying the base of the plant beneath the soil
You can still eat it and some people love eating the flowered tops of the plants! You can bury it somewhat but not sure how much before it gets unhappy
It looked like the tomatoes on your string trellis had more than one leader, are you not pruning suckers and just running additional strings for the sucker stems?
I end up supporting 2 leaders because I am a sucker for more tomatoes. But I also let them grow a bit before removing in case the top leader breaks somehow
Hello! I noticed that you have this pliable metal fencing attached to a wooden stick/pole. What is the fencing called? I currently have a fence around my small garden and in order to work in there I have to reach in or climb over so something like that would work so well!
I love your posts but I'm so confused! I'm in 9b deep south (so humid) but I can't grow the things together that you're growing in 10b. Lettuce, kale, herbs like cilantro + dill, brassicas won't go into the heat (we're already daytime 80s). Tomatoes except for cherries will stop fruiting when days are 90s and nights are 80s so they have to be in ground by early March and producing quickly to beat the heat. Ditto corn (and hard to keep raccoons off of that!). Are your temps so much cooler than ours? We grow all fall-winter-spring but summer is either eggplant, peppers, okra, soybeans or cover cropping until fall planting time.
It is actually quite odd that we are zone 10b but actually extremely temperate. We never get hard freezes but May for context is an average of 68 degrees June might hit 72, July 76 and then August and September are the hot months here when it can get up into the low 80s. Where I am in particular is only a few miles from the coast so we get marine layer air that rolls in and cools everything down significantly.
My grape plants started yellowing on the stems. Also the baby/newer leaves (smaller ones) are like a dusty yellow, almost white color. Jacques would you happen to know what's wrong? Can't seem to find an exact answer with looking it up on the net.
Hmm it can be really hard to tell what's going on with yellowing, from over watering, underwatering, lack of nutrients or even a virus or bacteria! If you can eliminate watering issues try fertilizing after that it will be harder to tell
My zucchini have blossom end rot! But the plant is flourishing it’s huge. I’m so confused?? I read that I should use a fertilizer with calcium. What’s your take?
It might be that it's just not getting pollinated , is it turning yellow and shriveling? Then you should manually pollinate them until more flowers open
I grew pineapple sage a few years ago right next the house it has some of the most amazing flowers ive ever seen but one day my landlord came by and mowed over it 😑
anyone have any tips on keeping red russian kale from flowering? Mine didnt grow stalky like that. I overwintered in new england and got a bunch of growth for a month or two then it flowered :(
It's so different where you are! I can't get over the growth there. It's beautiful. We had one week of record heat in between lots and lots of rain - so much rain. And the temps are cooler than last year (except for that one week) that the strawberries aren't yet giving their best flavor. But every thing is so prolific!
Its very stable here in terms of temperatures but for example right now in may its like 58 at night and 68 high during the day so everything is growing a but slower.
If you have space and you don't mind it always returning let some of flowers go to seed and dry on the plant so that it can self scatter and sow. It seems to like a decent amount of water to produce prolifically
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I’d love to see the drinks/cocktails that you make with the pineapple sage, or any other herbs!
I bought a little 10 or 12 oz glass bottle of Pure Leaf Blackberry and Sage out of a refrigerator at Walmart check out that was delicious. Have never seen it again.
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The growth from then to now is truly amazing! Congratulations on your garden success!!!
Jacques, you have such a beautiful garden!!! I have been holding back on expanding mine because there are so many things I am not sure of. But since you have been doing your videos, I am feeling more and more confident finally! I'm in central California so Im hoping in the next couple of years I can have a beautiful garden! Was wondering how often you use your fruits and veggies in recipes? And what are your favorite meals or drinks you make with them? Would love to see some of that. Please keep giving us these updates! ❤️
Thank you I appreciate that! We use just about everything we grow except for when we get too many tomatoes or squash then we will share some 😜. We like doing simple sautes with fresh herbs will get some more of that to share as the summer harvest ramps up
Hi Tammy! I garden in Central CA as well. I’ve been learning how to manage my watering schedules in the heat. If you do expand your garden consider trying Armenian cucumbers. They love the valley heat and are so easy to grow!
@@allysonmusser6648 Ooo thank you!!! And yeah watering is tough especially with the restrictions. I have been mostly hand watering though but my garden is small.
These updates are so nice to see. I’m glad you can share your garden with us.
AWESOME TOUR!!
SO MANY Things!!
SO NICE!!!
I am just starting artichokes!
Woot! Woot!!
And I'll be excited to finally have some for dinner whenever they finally decide to grace me with their delish flower buds!! 🌱
"Parsley doing its parsley thing" Fantastic Jacques! Thanks for showing the good bad and ugly in your garden. Its very helpful to gean a bit of your knowledge with these videos. Happy gardening!
My new favorite gardening channel.
I have a volunteer little California bay tree next to my driveway, probably deposited by a bird as they are native in the hills around here. I just used one in a pot of minestrone tonight...so fragrant! I feel very lucky.
It's really wonderful to have fresh bay leaves I'm glad I picked it up on a whim
Your garden is absolutely incredible! The vast amount of varieties and genetic diversity has me in awe; it’s beautiful, and your plants are so prolific. Those trellised tomatoes are already loaded! Off topic, but if the white van in the background says ‘Free Plants’ on the side, watch out. It’s how they get us gardeners.
Haha usually I'm so overloaded with starts that I can avoid the temptation
My Echinacea just flowered after a year, and many more flowers on the way. Worth it. Maybe do a harvest, storage and use video later.
You've put a lot of work into your garden. Can't wait to see the transition, progress, and growth.
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If you love dill like I do, definitely consider growing Superdukat dill. It’s absolutely fantastic in zone 10b.
Thanks for the heads up I'll definitely get some!
Thanks, I'm in 10a and love dill. Where did you get the seeds?
@@susieclark1498 Starts with an e and ends with bay. Look for a seller named “aspetuck”
🥰Thanks for the tour, can’t wait till I get to play in my little garden.
The Epic pop up in the seedling branch haha! Always look forward to your videos
Decided to try it out 😂😂
Seeing all these garden updates makes me feel sooooo behind.....but I have to keep reminding myself this year I am growing a human and I live in CA and can still garden. You can see all the work you have put in!
The gift and curse of CA is the never ending season, many chances but no breaks.
I love your garden. In in Northern California with strict watering rules. I only have one tomato this year.
Beautiful garden, thanks for sharing! 💚🌱
Thanks for the tour.
Your baby chickens are adorable! Love your gardens!
Jacques! You are the garden Viking! Omg! I love to watch the chickens!
Your garden is wonderful! 🐥🐥🐥🌱
Thanks for sharing your garden. We love your chickens!
Awesome work Jacques! Thank you for being so open and honest about the good and the could be better. It keeps me motivated to know that I'm not the only one that doesn't always get it right. I'm 8b just North of Seattle, all container gardening but wanting to transform my yard.
Wow 🤩 can’t wait for a harvest video soon too 👀! Loving it 😍
Thank you so much for sharing your garden! I learn a lot from your videos and they inspire me to keep working on mine too
Such a beautiful garden! Would love to see more cooking and drinks with you and Kevin. Nasturtiums are so useful and beautiful in many dishes too. I need to try to grow some. Thx for your updates!
Great video, as always! When are we getting a Jacques Q&A (AMA)? 😆😆
Might be posting sometime soon to get questions because this could be a fun video!
Good afternoon. Winter is coming here in Australia
So I have a passion fruit story. We use to have one near some really tall ackee trees and to be honest I don’t know if my Mom planted it or if it was our neighbor BUT over the years that passion fruit took over the entire tree, practically top to bottom and then it went after palm trees that were about the same size. It was an entire canopy network of passion fruit. We eventually had to cut down but yeah, passion fruit can be a real monster when the conditions are right and it’s happy
Now that we expanded our garden I wish we had it further back haha but this year we are going to get flooded with fruit so I'm not mad about that!
Awesome tour! Thank you so much! What a wonderful space you have. ❤️
I’m brand new to gardening this year, and I only have a patio to work with which we put in a raised garden bed, greenstalk & a few grow bags. I am studying you & others as I try hands on experimenting on how to grow as much as possible in a smaller space. Love all the information you give out to help me & others, and I can tell you it has been so very helpful to this new gardener!
❤️ April from Modesto CA
I'm glad to have been helpful!
"Hello, my name is Jacques I am a gardener." Nice to meet a fellow plant addict.
I tried fresh organic Concord grapes last year and I couldn't believe how amazing it tastes. I'm surprised more people don't grow that variety because it's the best tasting than any organic grapes I've had, literally like candy.
Unfortunately it's apparently too warm here for them to thrive
Beautiful intresting garden. Thanks for sharing 👍
I gotta get out and find a bay laurel! These walkthroughs are so helpful. If you need to pass off any of those seedlings, i have a happy home for them!
Thank you for the tour and also thank you for the new chick update. I have been wondering how they were doing xxx
if you prune back your grapes 2-3 nodes above the fruit - it will put the energy into the fruit instead of growth. also grapes have suckers like tomatos
Excellent, we keep meaning to read up and forget so this will get me started thanks
@@jacquesinthegarden You're welcome Jacques! Rural Sprout also has a good article written on pruning and trellising grapes. I learnt all of this from my grandpa who had me help him yearly pruning his 30 + year old grape vines.
Love to see your garden updates. 😊
Thanks for sharing your garden, Jacques! Hi from another Bulgarian, gardening in zone 5b. We are just starting to transplant here, as our last frost date recently passed. Got my hands on some Bulgarian kapia, and oxheart tomatoes. At the same time, I'm twice as excited to grow Carmen, Escamillo, and Ajvarski peppers...Paul Robinson, Dr. Wyche's, terra cotta, Sun Gold and other flavorful, or pretty tomatoes...and lots of Bulgarian leek :).
That's awesome to hear! I have a bunch of Plovdiv Kapia peppers and a mix of Bulgarian tomatoes, the Bulgarian leeks are actually really delicious I am glad I found those!
Thanks for the tour! I love your garden videos. 🌿😊
Enjoyed to awesome garden tour. You have utilized your space wisely..
I love your garden! I was so excited to see you have a pomegranate tree in a pot. I have a Russian pomegranate that I just decided to keep in a pot as well. So now I know it can be done!
I've definitely seen people harvest off their potted pomegranates but I think it takes a few years for it to get comfortable.
Well now, as a beverage girly, I’m hoping for a herby cocktail and mock tail recipe video.
Loved this tour and the variety of things your growing! 😍🙌🏻
I enjoy your videos sooooo much! Keep them coming, please!
I just bought that beautiful color greenstalk from Epic Gardening. I can't wait to get it.
Hey! Could you do a video on Using organic Fertilizers and to understand the nutrient numbers so you dont over fetrilizer when using more than one type of fertilizer at a time
Sorry for the loss of your avacodo trees. I also lost my avacodo plant last year in that really bad heat wave we had in I think it was early September. The heat just burned it up.
That's a lot of food you have growing!
Love the gardens. #goals.. lol
I wish I had the correct spot to let my Passion Fruit grow. It was going crazy and I had flowers but no fruit. This year, I just took it out. Sad. I really wanted to taste a Passion Fruit. Thanks for the info. I really appreciate your gardening technique.
i just asked about passion fruit on the epic homestead channel, good to see someone growing it
Thanks for the tour!
Can you and Epic do a video on how you to met? I find it amazing when two people who have a love for something find each other as friends when it is not something that might be in a social setting like a sport.
I am north of San Francisco and grew hard necked garlic over the winter. Mostly I wanted scapes. Harvested and cleaned it yesterday to set up for curing. Fingers crossed big time!
The scales were really fun, would definitely grow them again just for them
What do you do with the scapes?
@@sharonk8424 Depending on how I use them, I either blanch them or sauté them before anything else that I do. I have used them with pasta and alone as a vegetable. My favorite ways so far have been on top of a white pizza and in a fish sautéed in butter.
beautiful garden thanks for sharing
Can you please show us how to make some of the teas you drink. I've never tried to make my own before. Thank you
Going to look into a bay tree. Cute chickens.
Great tour! Could you please do a video about cutting back artichokes. This was my first season to get fruit, and I am terrified to cut them back--but if I could get a second flush, then cool!
Can you make a video please on preserving excess herbs? Thanks!
I think an herb care and preservation video would be great!
Ordering melon for my melon patch
I have three pineapple guava trees in my yard. I think I might get some fruit from them this year.
wow, thanks or sharing and cookie is soo cool looking, where do you get these different chicken breeds at? Only place I know of locally in my area is tractor supply, is it a website you can order from?
Its so funny, my softneck (which should be the better for my climate too) were ready to harvest mid to late may this year and my hardneck are just not with the program and not ready to come out yet. I only did hardneck last year and did pretty well, so I am not sure what happened this winter. oh well.
🌼🐝 👨🌾🌻🐇🌺I’m Back for another update of your beautiful garden. It’s amazing to see the changes in your plants over time. I love watching my garden grow a little each day, that is my favorite part of gardening. I am making garden videos too on my own channel. It’s so fun to have the growth documented over the season. I still have so much to learn in this area. I hope we can learn more from each other!
I see you have mulched your herb garden with Jacaranda flowers! 😁
🤣🤣😂
Omg please let us know what all you grow in the 5 tier. I agree the spinner is mandatory. Can I grow any peppers? I'm assuming no bell peppers. I had cherry tomatoes in mine but worried there wasn't enough room. Id love to hear which varieties work the best for you.
Peppers can work just fine, I think smaller lunch box style peppers would do best. I have a few bush tomatoes, beans, and potatoes going this year.
oooh i don't have trypophobia but that avocado pot looked creepy. That aside, the avocado tree we planted on dad's farm lot also didn't survive. The other 16-17 trees we planted did great in comparison. I guess they're really just quite a challenging tree to keep 😢
Chirp makes me laugh every time! I tried the burlap on carrot seeds and ended up creating a seedling buffet for pillbugs
Ahh yes, I actually decided to sprinkle some sluggo plus under the burlap after a few days passed and that kept them at bay.
Loving these updates. Garden looks fantastic.
About your avocado tree, do you plan on keeping it in a pot? Or will it eventually end up in the ground? I tried, twice, putting an avocado in a pot and both times it failed. I've had a lot more success planting in ground, 3 out of 3 😋 I was told by my local nursery that the best variety to plant in pots is the Wurtz since it's a naturally dwarf tree.
I am thinking of leaving it in this pot for the year and finding a good place in ground for it next year. I believe "Gwen" is another good container variety.
Jacques, thanks for showing us your garden. You've got a lot going on in that garden. Bayleaf is on my list! I have a question I'm hoping you can answer. What do you know or do you recommend beneficial nematodes in 10b, specifically for fly larvae. With two dogs, I always battle flies during the summer heat and am looking for a way to deal with them. It's not something I've heard Southern California gardeners mention (you, Epic Gardening, CaliKim, etc) so I'm wondering what you think. I read they need to be applied before a rain, so that's a challenge this time of year. Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
I've tried them before in the winter timed with a rain storm. It's challenging here because of how dry it is so unless you use a sprinkler to wet everything it will be hard
Is that a mini greenhouse (@13:50) behind you with the okra? Do you grow from seed there, or is it a place to harden off plants? I recently purchased one, and am trying to decide the best way to use it.
I've been using it to grow seeds outdoors Instead of messing around with heat mats and grow lights. I always leave the door open so it can't get too hot though
@ 19:58…such Divas wanting to hog camera time! Lol! I wish I could have chickens. HOA problems. I’ll be sharing this video with my daughter who is just learning how to grow. P.S.~ You are such a cutie, Jacques! 💜🌱💜
Hi Jaques. If you go to the new chicken update, the title is written as "ENW chicken update"
Hmm I think it's too late to change but good catch
Behind you near the strawberry spinner planter--is that big, blue-leaved plant an agave? It's beautiful! Unfortunately, I know of no agave I can grow here in my VA zone-7A, but I am able to grow most yucca plants, which look a bit agave-ish.
It is an agave! We have quite a few of them across our property and the color is wonderful
Gorgeous and inspirational as always. Is that pineapple sage with purple flowers or am I confusing that with fallen jacaranda petals? I am totally sold on growing pineapple sage after watching this, but I’m either finding salvia sage bushes with purple flowers or pineapple sage with red flowers. Can you help guide me to an edible pineapple sage source in the Bay Area or online? Thanks!
What soil for raised beds or grow pots ???
Is it just adding the compost & fertilizers ?
Thanks for all your info 👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼
Its usually some sort of potting mix that I then add compost and fertilizer to
Love that Cookie and Cream name for your chicken. So cute. Oh, love your garden too . LOL..What is the name of your favorite chard again? I couldn't hear it clearly when you mentioned it Thanks.
It's Bietola a Costa Fine from adaptive seeds!
Tulsi basil is also a sacred plant in some Indian religions!
The only disadvantage to growing potatoes in the last (bottom) tier of the Green Stalk is that you have to either dismantle the whole thing (tower) to get to the tier to harvest the potatoes or you have to dig around in each pocket and get soil all over the place.
Haha this is actually a great point that I did not foresee! I guess I'll find out how annoying it will be
@@jacquesinthegarden yes, you will!
Good luck! 🤞🏾
Ok so I was growing tomatoes in a container I can’t remember they variety. Anyway they didn’t make it. I over watered it and the soil became too wet. Which I didn’t realise till it was too late. RIP TOM. I pulled them out after about 9 weeks of growing from already established seedling.
I’m growing a heap of chilies and they are doing amazing. I noticed the other day 2 small tomato plants 🌱 growing in with the habanero. I’ve been growing the habanero for around 8 months and have had so many chilies from it.
How did 2 tomato plants appear ? Is this something tomatoes do ? They propagate them selves ? Or do I have magic plants ? 😆
It's possible you reused the soil and tomato fell in it and eventually those seeds germinated or a bird ate a tomato and pooped some seeds into your bed 🤣
Hello Jacques. Enjoy your videos! Been liking your work before you started your own channel! What is the name of the netting that you have on the blueberry bush? Does it come in different sizes? I have some hot pepper bushes, but the caterpillars are driving me crazy! Where can I buy that netting? Thanks Jacques.
It was something I randomly bought on Amazon I think if you search like individual plant netting some options should come up
@@jacquesinthegarden Thanks Jacques. I will try. Many thanks for responding. It’s appreciated.
I've been looking at getting some cold hardy maypop for the garden, flowers are always nice, but just curious how you find the fruit; is it worth it? Love from BC, Canada!
We do personally enjoy the fruit quite a bit, its fun to get so much fruit reliably over many months. Not everyone will like it but its fun to eat and collect a bunch to make something more involved or collect them for juice.
I'm so glad to hear that I'm not the only one to kill an avocado. 🤦🏻♀️😬 That's been my most expensive plant to care for - eek - hoping it'll be worth the investment one day!
19:00 not me trying to figure out which plant is called 'baby chicks' 😂
I have a couple of kale plants that are big and sturdy but had mildew on the leaves. Do you think I should try to behead it?
You could definitely try or remove everything but like the last 3 baby leaves
Can I cut back flowering kale plant and still eat the new growth? Can I backfill or top up my kale bed? This would mean burying the base of the plant beneath the soil
You can still eat it and some people love eating the flowered tops of the plants! You can bury it somewhat but not sure how much before it gets unhappy
Very cool! Do you have ties to Bulgaria?
Yes! My parents are from Bulgaria and I have visited many times so I love growing varieties from Bulgaria
@@jacquesinthegarden that is so awesome! My maternal family is Norwegian and everyone still lives over there besides us few Americans. 😂
It looked like the tomatoes on your string trellis had more than one leader, are you not pruning suckers and just running additional strings for the sucker stems?
I end up supporting 2 leaders because I am a sucker for more tomatoes. But I also let them grow a bit before removing in case the top leader breaks somehow
@@jacquesinthegarden Thanks Jacques! Makes sense
Hello! I noticed that you have this pliable metal fencing attached to a wooden stick/pole. What is the fencing called? I currently have a fence around my small garden and in order to work in there I have to reach in or climb over so something like that would work so well!
Most of it is 2 foot tall 1/2" hardware cloth!
I love your posts but I'm so confused! I'm in 9b deep south (so humid) but I can't grow the things together that you're growing in 10b. Lettuce, kale, herbs like cilantro + dill, brassicas won't go into the heat (we're already daytime 80s). Tomatoes except for cherries will stop fruiting when days are 90s and nights are 80s so they have to be in ground by early March and producing quickly to beat the heat. Ditto corn (and hard to keep raccoons off of that!). Are your temps so much cooler than ours? We grow all fall-winter-spring but summer is either eggplant, peppers, okra, soybeans or cover cropping until fall planting time.
It is actually quite odd that we are zone 10b but actually extremely temperate. We never get hard freezes but May for context is an average of 68 degrees June might hit 72, July 76 and then August and September are the hot months here when it can get up into the low 80s. Where I am in particular is only a few miles from the coast so we get marine layer air that rolls in and cools everything down significantly.
@@jacquesinthegarden OK, that explains everything! Truly sounds like the ideal growing climate. Lucky you!
You guys keep saying you live in San Diego but how did you get sooo much space? :)
Lots of old neighborhoods in San Diego fortunately have large lots!
My grape plants started yellowing on the stems. Also the baby/newer leaves (smaller ones) are like a dusty yellow, almost white color. Jacques would you happen to know what's wrong? Can't seem to find an exact answer with looking it up on the net.
Hmm it can be really hard to tell what's going on with yellowing, from over watering, underwatering, lack of nutrients or even a virus or bacteria! If you can eliminate watering issues try fertilizing after that it will be harder to tell
@@jacquesinthegarden ok thanks!
Any tips where I can find comfrey plants. I’ve been to five greenhouses and they don’t carry it and have not heard of it
I think you have to find and order them online, a lot of places or etsy shops will sell you root cuttings.
My zucchini have blossom end rot! But the plant is flourishing it’s huge. I’m so confused?? I read that I should use a fertilizer with calcium. What’s your take?
It might be that it's just not getting pollinated , is it turning yellow and shriveling? Then you should manually pollinate them until more flowers open
I grew pineapple sage a few years ago right next the house it has some of the most amazing flowers ive ever seen but one day my landlord came by and mowed over it 😑
That is very sad, such an aromatic plant too!
Jacques!
I'm craving some aerial views!
pretty please ; )
anyone have any tips on keeping red russian kale from flowering? Mine didnt grow stalky like that. I overwintered in new england and got a bunch of growth for a month or two then it flowered :(
Hmm maybe since you have proper seasons the plants actually realized its been two years and flowered, at least that should be their genetic plan.
@@jacquesinthegarden totally makes sense, they barely survived through the winter. Thanks for the great channel and response!
A bit wordy for me tbh
It's so different where you are! I can't get over the growth there. It's beautiful.
We had one week of record heat in between lots and lots of rain - so much rain. And the temps are cooler than last year (except for that one week) that the strawberries aren't yet giving their best flavor. But every thing is so prolific!
Its very stable here in terms of temperatures but for example right now in may its like 58 at night and 68 high during the day so everything is growing a but slower.
Love the way you describe all plants 🪴 💯 by the way any tips for chamomile? You can share thanks 😊
If you have space and you don't mind it always returning let some of flowers go to seed and dry on the plant so that it can self scatter and sow. It seems to like a decent amount of water to produce prolifically