Mulching and Finalizing Our New Stacked Stone Garden Beds
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
- The beginning of our MAJOR CHANGES to our front yard is now completed! Leigh walks you through and shows our new dry stacked stone garden bed and the plants we are putting in. We have only just begun with the changes in our front yard! Stay Tuned for more!
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Everything looks beautiful!🌻🌻🌻
Thx
Oh wow! 🤩 The front looks amazing! That wall is perfect, and now I understand why it was such a huge project.
I really think we channel the same materials spirit. The new walk we put in (only 9x6) is made of the same material as your center walk up to your front door. Those bigger pieces of stone look more elegant than the standard pavers.
I have lots of eggs on my dill, and a few on my parsley. I’m letting nature take its course up until August. My milkweed is looking strong in my English garden, and I planted a few more seeds that had overwintered in the greenhouse.
Oh, I keep meaning to warn you; yarrow spreads aggressively. My patch doubled from last season. Have a plan to contain it.
I look forward to you next video.
Thanks for the Yarrow tip! It's mostly in pots. Taking its time. Our pavers are Cambridge bluestone. I do like the bigger pavers. I really love natural stone though. We are about to start a walkway upfront that goes around the side. I think we are getting slabs of real stone with natural stone boulders flat on top for a low rise step up a slight slope. The plan is, eliminate the front lawn with English raised beds. I'm so tired of this grass. We have the cutest black butterfly following us around. It looks fresh. I think of you every time I see it or look out at my butterfly gardens. Sending hugs. I hope you're swimming!
Hi Leigh. I found the secret formula to keep a pain in the butt raccoon from digging for grubs in my garden. CAYENNE PEPPER. It works. I also discovered the value of borage for bringing pollinators to my garden. Now I’ve got zucchini galore growing. Also I planted some dahlia tubers this year and hoping for the best. Have you ever grown them?
Hi Monica I hope you're doing well it's always nice hearing from you. I've used cayenne pepper in the front it does work! Dahlias my new obsession 😍 I've never planted tubers. I love labyrinth and caffeine latte I think it's called. I need to further amend beds for them. But I did start some from seed. Stay tuned, editing on this topic now! So exciting!
Lol, I planted borage last year. I’ve heard it reseeds 😅 Yes it does! There is more than enough to pop around the garden. Always love it when there’s volunteers. This year has been generous with all kinds of volunteers.
Leigh has grown dahlias from seed and I have also. Not sure if I want to keep digging them up. If I had a special variety I probably would then, but it’s a lot of work.
We used Milky Spore on the lawn and it works for many years. We had skunk and who knows what digging up the lawn and now no moles or digging.
Hi Leigh, I'm so glad to see you so soon! I thought for sure you were going to take a break from YT.
Your front yard looks nice!!! Does it face the north?
Do you hand water? I don't recall you discussing/sharing how you water everything.
Hi! Yes it does face north. We have beautiful mornings out there. We actually had several videos we scrapped so we have been working and shooting just didn't like my videos. We push on even though we don't grow much. We know we have a genuine handful of people who cars about us. It keeps us going. But watering....we never water up front. But since I planted I'm hand watering until established. I don't like irrigation it's so wasteful.
The wall turned out very nice! Your flowers are already blooming!
We must be a couple weeks or more behind in growth, but the heat will be on this weekend. I just got in and need to clean up. Had to stop to make supper and the sun was getting too hot to transplant. I was given a peony today so that was top on the list to plant. It’s crazy how many times I pop into the GH and pluck some more plants to stuff in somewhere. I already gave most flats of veg away to a church with an allotment garden. They were busy today😂.
The foxglove was how much? 😅 I have a goldmine.
The lettuce still looks great here, but detected a bit of bite to it so I’m sure this heat will do it in. That 5” of rain last week created an explosion of mushrooms I’ve never seen before and it looked like a fairy village-they were huge copper domed things. No need for mycorrhiza here 😅.
Thanks for showing the butterfly eggs, I’ve never seen or noticed before-will be checking for them.
I tilled up a patch 20x30 by field that was nettles and thistles and threw in as many seeds as I could from saved seeds and still have tons of left. Trying to catch the rain on this project because it’s far from house. I’m hoping the wildlife gives it a chance, but something tasted a few transplants already.
Tomorrow is strawberries and broccoli harvesting and if not too hot more transplanting. If it’s too hot I’ll prep the squash and melon area and throw in the dried beans. I’m finding so many worms and the arborist chips are doing a great job.
New plant varieties are bringing new bugs. Had a strange scale type thing on the eggplant, gypsy moths are munching fruit trees and the cabbage moths were here in April and just disappeared 🤷♀️. And I just realized why we have only 2 plums on trees that had a ton of blooms-we had freezing temps then and I quit covering as I was knocking off buds.
Hopefully we both catch up and can sit back and enjoy the view.
It was a beautiful spring day and actually this spring has been tops!
I'm pulling 5lbs of strawberries a day. Started freezing them
@@ourbackyardgarden I grew up up in a strawberry patch and every year we had so many we sold them.
You might want to get more Fennel for the babies. Total pigs!
Omg I grew all of that from seed. There's tons but I still think I'll need more. There's so many eggs!
@@ourbackyardgarden Fennel holds up for me better than Dill. Stronger. Bronze Fennel is kinda pretty. I have that from seed but they're pissy so I need to get more also.