Check out the Cedarline beds! We put a ton of time into designing these bad boys. Totally different vibe than our Birdies line: shop.epicgardening.com/collections/cedar-wood-raised-garden-beds
"I weirdly choke on carrots, like I don't know how to eat them." I'm not a carrot eating doctor, but sounds to me like a case of carrotosis nonchewitis. LOVE the new experiments, btw. Looking forward to seeing the results.
When I'm planting my carrots, I make little indentations 1 inch apart rather than making a trench. That way, when they sprout, my spacing is good, and I just have to thin the weakest in that 1 inch indented spot. Takes some of the measurement process out of it early on
My current crop of carrots were seeded at 1” intervals with a pair of tweezers, while I sat in a patio chair at a comfortable height next to the raised bed. Better to thin it once as you’re planting and a quick once more after you see what germinates.
Good idea, but also limiting your potential harvest. I did this and after thinning lost 2 out of my 9 carrots. If I did rows, I would’ve had more potential carrots
Homestead is where the heart is. You’ve poured in your heart and soul in yours, and it absolutely shows; wow, it looks amazing! It’s picturesque spring over there! Will your gf’s carrot salad recipe be in a future episode?
As an avid watcher of both this channel and Garden Answer, I knew what those salvia's were the second you walked past them. I did the same thing here, im in 10b and they just thrive all year long. Everything just looks so awesome. Also ty for the test garden, and the into to coffee growing, I can't wait for an update on the coffee shrub. That and vanilla have me wanting those plants now
I'm kicking myself for not harvesting my young asparagus this year...now that I know you can harvest the bigger ones until the new ones coming up dwindle to the diameter of pencils. Well, they'll be that much stronger and more plentiful next year... And that grass is Armeria, or sea thrift. It's beautiful but the dead flowers don't fall off or even fall over and look a bit crappy after a while.
Thank you for the carrot growing tips. I sometimes mix French breakfast radishes in with my carrot seeds. The radishes also help break the soil surface to help the carrot seedlings break through and since they are ready to harvest in a month it creates spaces for the carrots to grow. Your carrots look wonderful. I’ve been struggling with rodents eating my root crops for the past couple of years. So frustrating.
I tried a new hack this year. I took radish, seeds, beet, seeds, and carrot seeds, mixed them, and then shook them out from an herb shaker into the bed to see how they would germinate together.
Great tips! Love the accidental carrot succession. I think beets like crowding because they come that way in the seeds. I heard another famous gardener say “they just want to be with their friends”. Don’t we all!
I used to grow lots of carrots and potatoes until the voles and ground dwellers started destroying them. I love watching someone else’s success on this channel.😊
Poor Jacques. He certainly has the right temperment to handle all your "well meant" torment. I know you Love him but you might Love giving him #3!! More. 😂 Congrats on the success of your carrots and garden this spring.
@@epichomesteading I'm not sure if you misunderstood me. I know you love Jacques. Your teasing each other is fun to watch and to me actually is a sign of a good strong male relation - friendship. I apologize if I worded it in a way that perhaps confused you. In no way did I mean to imply that you are not nice to the garden hermit. You are a very generous individual from what I see with a unique trait of being able to tease your friends in a way that is seen by them as non threatening. I see it as a valuable characteristic.
@@brianmoore4299I think the error you made was putting "well meant" in quotes, which made it seem like you meant the opposite. But I fully agree with what you said in your clarification. I think some gentle teasing is a good sign of friendship too!
I was too scared to thin my carrots properly last year and they never got size and then the few I left into sept to get big got eaten by wild rabbits LOL
I didn't want to space my carrots even my daughter told i should. When it was time to harvest guess what some grew tiny some wraped each other. And very hard to pulled. I pulled one 7 or 9 comes out because they were stuck together. I didn't really make a mistake i actually wanted to experience it. I grew them in just 1 line all the space i had. But i love them little more sweeter. None were deformed nor has disease just not huge. We harvest about 50 carrots ( not at once) i grew the multi colors carrots. Just started another batch 3 weeks ago. This time will space it lol
I got two farmer's market carrots. Yes, they were sold in baskets of two. Monster carrots. And they were tender and sweet! So far I've used one of them for two meals. I still have one left. I don't know what variety but definitely not the skinny ones from the grocery store. 😮
How do you control pests in your garden? I have a lot of above ground planter boxes but always struggle with pests like caterpillars and slugs eating my vegatables
I love your corkscrew rush spiralis! I would love to know what kind of salvia that was by your pond. Have you every grown African blue basil? It’s a perennial for us in zone 10. It’s a hybrid that doesn’t set seeds but roots readily from cuttings. The bees love it.
Your May night Salvia is beautiful it over winters much colder that you’d believe. I live in zone 3b northern Saskatchewan Canada and my may night Salvia comes back when the snow melts every year🫶 the lil round grasses with the purple stem pom pom flowers that you couldn’t place the name..are called Thrift and are some 3-4 hardy. Thank you for the awesome garden tour!
So jealus of this envioment, i still have to remove frost from my car windows in the mornings. and i think i started some of my seeds way to early :-) Gonna have tomato plants all around the house soon, trying to find spaces for them to get light.
I was going to send this video to my cousin but there were no carrot tips for like 3-4 min… I love your videos but maybe update us about the garden at the end if your video is about carrots
From what I have learned, the results of applying fertilizer to inground gardening will always depend on the quality of the soil (microorganisms) and the seed (plant). Then there are environmental factors like bugs and critters, even weather. The aftermath of depending on fertilizer, is that it may not train the soil to learn how to become healthy and you will need to keep buying and applying fertilizer. Plants, fruits and vegetables have microbes that somehow are of benefit to the human microbiome. A plant can look healthy and have basic nutrition due to fertilizing but lack microbes or other nutrition. That is the issue with relying on commercial fertilizers.
I did the square foot gardening method with bulb onions. Nine in a square foot was too much. They bolted before filling out and looked kind of like leeks. It will be interesting how your experiment turns out. Good luck
HA HA !!., I feel the same way you do Kevin I’ve gotten really good it. It took me four years to figure it out but I’ve gotten pretty good at carrots. This year is my best best harvest, which I haven’t even pulled all of them because I want to pull as I go but man they are good I did the Devon is it Davenport Daven Hong so they’re great. Those are actually sold by the scoop or the pound at my local feed store here in Houston. This guy‘s been around forever and he sells a lot of seeds by the scoop that is a lost tradition I hear so, and he also grows things that are gonna be perfect for our area.🥕🥕🥕 Also, he sells y’all brand of seeds “ Quality feed store in Houston Texas”
How do you plant carrots in a round grow bag? I’m in Massachusetts zone 6. When should I plant them? I like how thorough you are with the information! Thanks for all you do!!
Succession growing is the best. I’ve already started more carrots, even though I haven’t even harvest my first set I’m actually gonna be harvesting this week because before I can eat some of the carrots, we’re going to use them in a photo shoot for my grandbaby.
Another Aussie about to try again 🥴 I got seed from a small local business this season, so the seeds will hopefully already be acclimatized to our local area. Here's hoping 🥴 Wishing you luck!
I use grow big bags for my potatoes. Add soil on the bottom then add hay as it grows. No digging. Harvest is easy. Just dump the bag on a tarp and collect the spuds. Good for a small space.
Everything in your garden is looking so RIGHT Kevin. I think you've motivated me to start some carrots this season. Hopefully it isn't too late. Thanks for the upload!
Carrots are very good. I planted it but the roots are too small. When they grow a little, the stem will split in half. I do not know why. Watching you grow up makes me excited again. Tomorrow I have to plant some carrots to eat. Hopefully I can eat them this time.
Just curious-are you considering keeping honeybees? I remember you mentioning the possibility in previous videos and it looks like they would always have something to eat in your garden (and in Jacque’s if he’s not too far away-honeybees fly up to several miles for food). If your roof can hold the weight (and large hives can be MEGA heavy), you might be able to keep a hive up there so you wouldn’t have to worry about clearing a space for them on the ground
Oooh! I have a question!! Do you ever get pestd like aphids, whiteflies etc? Im having a bit of a pest problem for my bushy tomatoe plants and theyre infested! What plants do you recommend for repelling pests and also fungus gnats? Always dealing with those guys and theyre annoying 😅
Oooo! After seeing your onion experiment, I'm adding fertilizer trenches to my bed this week! Love your videos, I always learn a neat trick every time and your backyard is stunning 😎
I just want to say thank you for making me feel seen as someone else who frequently and very specifically inhales and chokes on tiny pieces of carrot. End the stigma. Seriously though, why is it ALWAYS carrots? They always seem to somehow end up in my nasal cavity and then I have to do a weird sniffing thing to get them out 😬😳
You took minutes to finally get to the carrots didn't tell us about fertilizer, watering needs or tricks you use or how to know when they're ready to harvest. You pretty much told us about thinning. How is this your carrot secrets? 2/3 of your video was about everything except carrots. You rambled about your girlfriends recipe for 2 minutes.
Pride of Madeira is invasive so be careful. The seeds will self-sow anywhere on your property so be on the lookout for those. It gets HUGE too. The hummingbirds and bees do love it though.
I have to do container gardening because the ground where I'm at is way too rocky and full of clay. I've never been able to successfully grow carrots though, so hopefully this will help me. Thanks!
Asparagus, fresh and uncooked, straight out of the garden is the sweetest, most delicious thing! Same with corn. Much nicer than anything that comes out of my grocery store. Although a lot of fruit and veg is grown locally and organic, it takes a while to be harvested en masse, transported to the grocery store, unpacked and put out on shelves and in refrigerators (which dries them out,) and then bought and brought home. Even preparing and cooking the same day does not compare to what I have just taken out of my own garden.
My mom likes Salvia and she also kills everything and neglects everything so when I am cleaning the flower beds the dead stuff breaks off real easy and sometimes a little bit of green and roots come along too and I've successfully planted 2-3 and thats when I knew the right conditions for transplanting I rake the leaves and grass sticks to the leaves and literally trees get blown into my yard huge bare root end up in my front yard really crazy I've planted a few trees that way they like 1 foot to 16 inches and look like little branches that broke off but sometimes they are actual bare root trees
I direct sowed my carrots yesterday. I’m hoping for a good harvest this year although I have never had success with carrots. Trying to learn all I can.
I'm going to try carrots this year but what is the purpose of covering the seeds with cardboard or a wood plank? Is that just to keep them from blowing away or washing out?
I worked at Amazon and they don't let you put 2 items directly next to each other on the shelf only diagonal checkerboard and you could probably just go back and forth back forth and they probably get bigger as they dig and work the soil I definitely want to see the end of the bed what you do I know the area you could probably do that indefinitely lol
I like how you put the growing zone on your intro I think you might as well ad the date you recorded for perspective maybe even put like a weekly weather forecast under it high low Temps and sun rain or clouds
Do you think you can transplant them like seed a section then thin and expand and overlap by a couple days like succession sew 5-10 sections seed normal then every other section sew light
Hey Kev! Garden is looking amazing, I am trying a lot more flowers this season as well, and I agree that it adds so much more to the ambiance of the garden; really makes you want to be out there more. Also, over the cool season (Central FL) I was able to grow my first ever carrots from seed, Shin Kuroda from BotanicalInterests, I grew about 3 10gallon grow bags with them all spaced like 4" apart, they all did amazing and were the best carrots I have ever eaten, and now I just don't even want to think about store bought carrots lol. I watched alot of yours/Jacques videos, so wanted to say thank you! I watched your videos to help learn how to grow all of the plants that I have grown, I found your main channel several years ago and started a mini herb garden in my windowcill, now I have to hold myself back from expanding beyond my space limitations lol.
@@BosseInTheGarden Oh yeah, I love grow bags! I rent the house I'm at currently, so I have 4 birdies beds but fill them with grow bags instead, can easily swap plants out, move them if theres any disease/pest issues, and the increased drainage really helps with all the rain! Can be a downside in the dead of summer, but I did Carrots, roma+sungold tomatoes, cucumber, napa cabbage, dinosaur kale, pigeon pea, beans, peas, large squash, tomatillos, peppers, peanuts, onions, shallots, herbs, etc etc. All of them have done fantastic here in grow bags :D
@@Seraph318 awesome! 😃 were your onions started from seeds or sets? How was growing peanuts? I’ve never tried before. Also, what potting mix are you using? My personal favorite is happy frog potting mix or straight black kow manure.
I hate manzanita. It is a cool plant but the wood is so hard that it dulls your chainsaw chain so fast it's dumb if it's a full sized plant you won't get threw removing one with out having to change your chain at least once
Check out the Cedarline beds! We put a ton of time into designing these bad boys. Totally different vibe than our Birdies line: shop.epicgardening.com/collections/cedar-wood-raised-garden-beds
Alright Carrot King Kev, I haven't been able to harvest decent sized carrots ever. I'm all ears.
Tune in :)
Sounds like you planted corn instead
Lol, yeup, sounds like that might be the problem. @@CWorgen5732
Same 😂
This video was about as useful as a wet fart in that aspect..
"I weirdly choke on carrots, like I don't know how to eat them." I'm not a carrot eating doctor, but sounds to me like a case of carrotosis nonchewitis. LOVE the new experiments, btw. Looking forward to seeing the results.
I think that diagnosis is correct!
When I'm planting my carrots, I make little indentations 1 inch apart rather than making a trench. That way, when they sprout, my spacing is good, and I just have to thin the weakest in that 1 inch indented spot. Takes some of the measurement process out of it early on
SMART! I will definitely try it.
My current crop of carrots were seeded at 1” intervals with a pair of tweezers, while I sat in a patio chair at a comfortable height next to the raised bed. Better to thin it once as you’re planting and a quick once more after you see what germinates.
Good idea, but also limiting your potential harvest. I did this and after thinning lost 2 out of my 9 carrots. If I did rows, I would’ve had more potential carrots
Any chance of collabs with Laura in the future? I know yall were in the same spot recently, but love watching you both!
It would be 'epic'.
😁
Don't tell anyone but May...
@@epichomesteading Woot woot!
Kevin, your commitment to a healthy lifestyle is evident. You look fit and healthy. Good for you.
Thank you. Means a lot to hear this
Lol so far I'm a master at growing baby carrots.
Homestead is where the heart is. You’ve poured in your heart and soul in yours, and it absolutely shows; wow, it looks amazing! It’s picturesque spring over there! Will your gf’s carrot salad recipe be in a future episode?
Yes!
Dang, you’re already harvesting carrots?! I’m just now planting mine. I need to keep up with your planting schedule.
As an avid watcher of both this channel and Garden Answer, I knew what those salvia's were the second you walked past them. I did the same thing here, im in 10b and they just thrive all year long. Everything just looks so awesome. Also ty for the test garden, and the into to coffee growing, I can't wait for an update on the coffee shrub. That and vanilla have me wanting those plants now
Coffee update coming! Has mealybugs right now
I'm kicking myself for not harvesting my young asparagus this year...now that I know you can harvest the bigger ones until the new ones coming up dwindle to the diameter of pencils. Well, they'll be that much stronger and more plentiful next year...
And that grass is Armeria, or sea thrift. It's beautiful but the dead flowers don't fall off or even fall over and look a bit crappy after a while.
I love how he puts KEVIN real big on the screen when he comes on 😂 nobody dare mistake him(for an Eric)!
LOLLL
Bugs Bunny vibes. Absolutely love the pond!
I hear you on the carrot choking, I've literally panicked multiple times but I lived and now I am a master masticater..
"Nature will castigate those who do not mastigate."
So,many wonderful variations of beautiful colors it look just fabulous.🌹🥀🌷🌸🌺💐
Thank you for the carrot growing tips. I sometimes mix French breakfast radishes in with my carrot seeds. The radishes also help break the soil surface to help the carrot seedlings break through and since they are ready to harvest in a month it creates spaces for the carrots to grow. Your carrots look wonderful. I’ve been struggling with rodents eating my root crops for the past couple of years. So frustrating.
Go Kevin I have clay soil carrots hate me but I still try lol. The pond is looking beautiful
My dude you are looking so good and happy. The garden is gorgeous, thank you for these lovely videos! Carrot planting time for our family now 👍
Thank you!
I tried a new hack this year. I took radish, seeds, beet, seeds, and carrot seeds, mixed them, and then shook them out from an herb shaker into the bed to see how they would germinate together.
Great idea!
How are they doing so far?
Love this idea! Any updates?
Great tips! Love the accidental carrot succession. I think beets like crowding because they come that way in the seeds. I heard another famous gardener say “they just want to be with their friends”. Don’t we all!
I used to grow lots of carrots and potatoes until the voles and ground dwellers started destroying them. I love watching someone else’s success on this channel.😊
How about growing in tall raised beds with hardware cloth at the base? Don't give up fellow gardener!
Same! They'd eat every last one. I've been planting carrots in 20 gallon grow bags the last few years and so far the voles have left them alone
Poor Jacques. He certainly has the right temperment to handle all your "well meant" torment. I know you Love him but you might Love giving him #3!! More. 😂 Congrats on the success of your carrots and garden this spring.
Was giving him an entire greenhouse and celebrating him not enough? :)
@@epichomesteading I'm not sure if you misunderstood me. I know you love Jacques. Your teasing each other is fun to watch and to me actually is a sign of a good strong male relation - friendship. I apologize if I worded it in a way that perhaps confused you. In no way did I mean to imply that you are not nice to the garden hermit. You are a very generous individual from what I see with a unique trait of being able to tease your friends in a way that is seen by them as non threatening. I see it as a valuable characteristic.
@@brianmoore4299I think the error you made was putting "well meant" in quotes, which made it seem like you meant the opposite. But I fully agree with what you said in your clarification. I think some gentle teasing is a good sign of friendship too!
Heck yeah carrot king Eric!!!!
The pond looks beautiful. I especially love the soft grass next to the salvia that's moving from the breeze.
I was too scared to thin my carrots properly last year and they never got size and then the few I left into sept to get big got eaten by wild rabbits LOL
I didn't want to space my carrots even my daughter told i should. When it was time to harvest guess what some grew tiny some wraped each other. And very hard to pulled. I pulled one 7 or 9 comes out because they were stuck together. I didn't really make a mistake i actually wanted to experience it. I grew them in just 1 line all the space i had. But i love them little more sweeter. None were deformed nor has disease just not huge. We harvest about 50 carrots ( not at once) i grew the multi colors carrots. Just started another batch 3 weeks ago. This time will space it lol
I got two farmer's market carrots. Yes, they were sold in baskets of two. Monster carrots. And they were tender and sweet! So far I've used one of them for two meals. I still have one left.
I don't know what variety but definitely not the skinny ones from the grocery store. 😮
Man,I need to grow carrots like that I’m trying so hard. I’m gonna keep the faith.
How do you control pests in your garden? I have a lot of above ground planter boxes but always struggle with pests like caterpillars and slugs eating my vegatables
I love your corkscrew rush spiralis!
I would love to know what kind of salvia that was by your pond.
Have you every grown African blue basil? It’s a perennial for us in zone 10. It’s a hybrid that doesn’t set seeds but roots readily from cuttings. The bees love it.
Good eye on the rush! Grown African Blue Basil for YEARS, it's in the greenhouse right now!
Kevin! If you were given a 70' X 100' rectangle of ground with full sun and no trees, in the middle of a field, what would you do?
Grow a giant pumpkin
@@epichomesteading 🫡
Your pond is amazing.
Thank you!
Why title the video carrot secrets when 90% of it is not about carrots
Your May night Salvia is beautiful it over winters much colder that you’d believe. I live in zone 3b northern Saskatchewan Canada and my may night Salvia comes back when the snow melts every year🫶 the lil round grasses with the purple stem pom pom flowers that you couldn’t place the name..are called Thrift and are some 3-4 hardy. Thank you for the awesome garden tour!
Awesome video, the garden looks amazing, really appreciate the experiments thank you
Your garden is absolutely amazing, Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge.
Oh Carrot King Kev, Laura is watching! See this morning's video from her! 🤣 That's HILARIOUS!!
Need to watch!
English thyme can be kind of thuggish imop, I like the French variety, more tidy.
So jealus of this envioment, i still have to remove frost from my car windows in the mornings. and i think i started some of my seeds way to early :-) Gonna have tomato plants all around the house soon, trying to find spaces for them to get light.
All my carrots tops were chewed off by some critter. Will they continue to size up and grow or should I pull them up?
I was going to send this video to my cousin but there were no carrot tips for like 3-4 min… I love your videos but maybe update us about the garden at the end if your video is about carrots
From what I have learned, the results of applying fertilizer to inground gardening will always depend on the quality of the soil (microorganisms) and the seed (plant). Then there are environmental factors like bugs and critters, even weather. The aftermath of depending on fertilizer, is that it may not train the soil to learn how to become healthy and you will need to keep buying and applying fertilizer. Plants, fruits and vegetables have microbes that somehow are of benefit to the human microbiome. A plant can look healthy and have basic nutrition due to fertilizing but lack microbes or other nutrition. That is the issue with relying on commercial fertilizers.
Accurate
That carrot bed is pretty LUSH!
Might it be so lush bcuz that's the last place we saw "Eric" ???
(and when I say Eric,
I really mean Kevin.)
;)
Still not used to the new logo. Sorry for passing/liking recent videos !!
The Pride of Madeira is a stunning plant and I was wondering about what it was called.
I did the square foot gardening method with bulb onions. Nine in a square foot was too much. They bolted before filling out and looked kind of like leeks. It will be interesting how your experiment turns out. Good luck
Makes sense!
HA HA !!.,
I feel the same way you do Kevin I’ve gotten really good it. It took me four years to figure it out but I’ve gotten pretty good at carrots. This year is my best best harvest, which I haven’t even pulled all of them because I want to pull as I go but man they are good I did the Devon is it Davenport Daven Hong so they’re great. Those are actually sold by the scoop or the pound at my local feed store here in Houston. This guy‘s been around forever and he sells a lot of seeds by the scoop that is a lost tradition I hear so, and he also grows things that are gonna be perfect for our area.🥕🥕🥕
Also, he sells y’all brand of seeds
“ Quality feed store in Houston Texas”
By the scoop! That is epic
I absolutely love the painted wall! Very fun and so much color and happiness!
You can make carrot top pesto. Not wasting any of that beautiful plant
Carrot king Eric
How do you plant carrots in a round grow bag? I’m in Massachusetts zone 6. When should I plant them? I like how thorough you are with the information! Thanks for all you do!!
10" deep minimum, 2" apart
I'm still looking for the day I get a good size carrot.
Succession growing is the best. I’ve already started more carrots, even though I haven’t even harvest my first set I’m actually gonna be harvesting this week because before I can eat some of the carrots, we’re going to use them in a photo shoot for my grandbaby.
Carrots are my white whale. 4 attempts and no joy! 😭 we’re into autumn here in Oz, fingers crossed for this season 🤞🏻
You got this
Another Aussie about to try again 🥴 I got seed from a small local business this season, so the seeds will hopefully already be acclimatized to our local area. Here's hoping 🥴
Wishing you luck!
I use grow big bags for my potatoes. Add soil on the bottom then add hay as it grows. No digging. Harvest is easy. Just dump the bag on a tarp and collect the spuds. Good for a small space.
Hay or straw? Does it make a difference??
@@AshleysPZ Either works fine. Might get the odd straw or hay seed come up. Also used leaves too.
Super handy way to grow them
Yard is looking good. Need some giant veggies in there somewhere
Just click on your video and see your beautiful garden. What happened to the carrot video Iclicked on?
Watch to the end!
Wow! You have become quite the mad scientist! 😂 love it!
The view from your Dad's bench keeps getting better and better!
Hahaha hey Carrot King!
Love the pond area. The flagstone patio, the lilies, and all the plants around the pond. ❤❤❤
Eric's throwing all kinds of shade at Jack.
loving your lotuses. beautiful Garden Kev.
Love the spring garden. Thanks for sharing
Pond is absolutely poppin off, Kev. Beautiful!
Next will be endive Eric🤣🤣🤣
Everything in your garden is looking so RIGHT Kevin. I think you've motivated me to start some carrots this season. Hopefully it isn't too late. Thanks for the upload!
Awwwwwww, I’m tellin Jacques!
I have a terrible time trying to grow carrots. IN zone 5
Have you ever checked out Quebec Homestead? I think she is zone 3 or 4, but a couple years she did a video on how she does carrots.
You never put the name of the grass on screen for us. I wanna know! It's such a cute grass!
Will add!
Armeria/Sea Thrift
Carrots are very good. I planted it but the roots are too small. When they grow a little, the stem will split in half. I do not know why. Watching you grow up makes me excited again. Tomorrow I have to plant some carrots to eat. Hopefully I can eat them this time.
Carrot Eric!
Need some more Chef Kevin animations! 😂
Wowzie wowzers that's really pretty
That's the best the pond has ever looked
Just curious-are you considering keeping honeybees? I remember you mentioning the possibility in previous videos and it looks like they would always have something to eat in your garden (and in Jacque’s if he’s not too far away-honeybees fly up to several miles for food). If your roof can hold the weight (and large hives can be MEGA heavy), you might be able to keep a hive up there so you wouldn’t have to worry about clearing a space for them on the ground
Oooh! I have a question!! Do you ever get pestd like aphids, whiteflies etc? Im having a bit of a pest problem for my bushy tomatoe plants and theyre infested! What plants do you recommend for repelling pests and also fungus gnats? Always dealing with those guys and theyre annoying 😅
Oooo! After seeing your onion experiment, I'm adding fertilizer trenches to my bed this week! Love your videos, I always learn a neat trick every time and your backyard is stunning 😎
I just want to say thank you for making me feel seen as someone else who frequently and very specifically inhales and chokes on tiny pieces of carrot. End the stigma. Seriously though, why is it ALWAYS carrots? They always seem to somehow end up in my nasal cavity and then I have to do a weird sniffing thing to get them out 😬😳
You took minutes to finally get to the carrots didn't tell us about fertilizer, watering needs or tricks you use or how to know when they're ready to harvest. You pretty much told us about thinning. How is this your carrot secrets? 2/3 of your video was about everything except carrots. You rambled about your girlfriends recipe for 2 minutes.
Pride of Madeira is invasive so be careful. The seeds will self-sow anywhere on your property so be on the lookout for those. It gets HUGE too. The hummingbirds and bees do love it though.
I have to do container gardening because the ground where I'm at is way too rocky and full of clay. I've never been able to successfully grow carrots though, so hopefully this will help me. Thanks!
Asparagus, fresh and uncooked, straight out of the garden is the sweetest, most delicious thing! Same with corn. Much nicer than anything that comes out of my grocery store. Although a lot of fruit and veg is grown locally and organic, it takes a while to be harvested en masse, transported to the grocery store, unpacked and put out on shelves and in refrigerators (which dries them out,) and then bought and brought home. Even preparing and cooking the same day does not compare to what I have just taken out of my own garden.
Poor Jacque. He can come to Bulgaria and stay with me and I will get his skills up to match your g/friends :D
My mom likes Salvia and she also kills everything and neglects everything so when I am cleaning the flower beds the dead stuff breaks off real easy and sometimes a little bit of green and roots come along too and I've successfully planted 2-3 and thats when I knew the right conditions for transplanting I rake the leaves and grass sticks to the leaves and literally trees get blown into my yard huge bare root end up in my front yard really crazy I've planted a few trees that way they like 1 foot to 16 inches and look like little branches that broke off but sometimes they are actual bare root trees
I direct sowed my carrots yesterday. I’m hoping for a good harvest this year although I have never had success with carrots. Trying to learn all I can.
I'm going to try carrots this year but what is the purpose of covering the seeds with cardboard or a wood plank? Is that just to keep them from blowing away or washing out?
asparagus is creepy lol... the wiggling did not help LOL
I worked at Amazon and they don't let you put 2 items directly next to each other on the shelf only diagonal checkerboard and you could probably just go back and forth back forth and they probably get bigger as they dig and work the soil I definitely want to see the end of the bed what you do I know the area you could probably do that indefinitely lol
12:16 Love the carrot forrest, I can imagine my son playing trex and pulling carrots from his toy dinosaur mouth 🦖 🥕
He can thin the small carrots 😂🌱
I like how you put the growing zone on your intro I think you might as well ad the date you recorded for perspective maybe even put like a weekly weather forecast under it high low Temps and sun rain or clouds
Do you think you can transplant them like seed a section then thin and expand and overlap by a couple days like succession sew 5-10 sections seed normal then every other section sew light
Hey Kev! Garden is looking amazing, I am trying a lot more flowers this season as well, and I agree that it adds so much more to the ambiance of the garden; really makes you want to be out there more. Also, over the cool season (Central FL) I was able to grow my first ever carrots from seed, Shin Kuroda from BotanicalInterests, I grew about 3 10gallon grow bags with them all spaced like 4" apart, they all did amazing and were the best carrots I have ever eaten, and now I just don't even want to think about store bought carrots lol. I watched alot of yours/Jacques videos, so wanted to say thank you! I watched your videos to help learn how to grow all of the plants that I have grown, I found your main channel several years ago and started a mini herb garden in my windowcill, now I have to hold myself back from expanding beyond my space limitations lol.
I'm also Central Florida. Good to know grow bags did well for you with carrots.
@@BosseInTheGarden Oh yeah, I love grow bags! I rent the house I'm at currently, so I have 4 birdies beds but fill them with grow bags instead, can easily swap plants out, move them if theres any disease/pest issues, and the increased drainage really helps with all the rain! Can be a downside in the dead of summer, but I did Carrots, roma+sungold tomatoes, cucumber, napa cabbage, dinosaur kale, pigeon pea, beans, peas, large squash, tomatillos, peppers, peanuts, onions, shallots, herbs, etc etc. All of them have done fantastic here in grow bags :D
@@BosseInTheGarden also, subbed :D
@@Seraph318 very interesting 🤔 I would have never considered some of those. Great to know! Thank you.
@@Seraph318 awesome! 😃 were your onions started from seeds or sets? How was growing peanuts? I’ve never tried before. Also, what potting mix are you using? My personal favorite is happy frog potting mix or straight black kow manure.
The new setup and paths are looking so good! 😍 I'm predicting this to be the best growing season yet
Agree
There are over 1,000 varieties of manzanitas. They are great when they bloom and fruit.
"Tiny little babyboy carrot" 🥕
Did you grow the pride of Madeira plants from seed? I think they are beautiful.
I hate manzanita. It is a cool plant but the wood is so hard that it dulls your chainsaw chain so fast it's dumb if it's a full sized plant you won't get threw removing one with out having to change your chain at least once
@epichomesteading would you try planting ube sometime in the future?
I'm so jealous your garden is beautiful.I wish I could do that down here in florida.