Awwwww, you guys are so darn cute! I love to see couples garden together....it's very healthy! .......so is that patch ! I just started gardening, and it all began with strawberries! I was watching QVC or HSN and there was a supplier on called Robertas Garden. Well I ordered some flowering vine type plants with big leaves and huge flowers, trumpet vines, blueberry bush, and strawberries (2 different varieties, can't remember but I think one was Tuscan???) Both are apparently ever bering as they bloom all year, and I live in AZ and they love all the sun and hot temps, yet weirdly enough like the "cold" as well (cold, lol! In az, lmao!). I planted in 12" pots, but it's the 3rd year and they don't look as good so I'm schooling myself on youtube about the several different ways to grow them. I think I'm going to stick to beds like yours and dig these guys out, separate, clean up,,and then transplant. I am from WI and would love to find some decent cheap rural land and build an earthbag home and be mostly off grid with a nice big garden , raise chickens, a couple tiny goats (my son is 11 and wanted a lil goat for 5 years!). I was wondering if that is your land, do you guys live there.....I'm asking because it looks like a good size of land....and soooo nice and green! That is what I'm looking for! I can't stand it here and it is so darn hot as we speak! Luckily I discovered I have quite the green thumb....but I have tons to learn, luckily I'm a fast visual learner, and very crafty! I'm building some beds as we speak and my son is getting interested in planting as well... I would love for others to know that if kids help in the garden they will also go outside and pick stuff right off the plants to snack on while playing. The first time I saw him picking and eating veggies he refused to eat off his dinner plate was so satisfying, and he said he felt happy, and wants to eat healthier by planting more fruit and veggie. I want ti grow a bunch of different berries....everywhere! I don't have blueberries as everything I ordered from Robertas died....except the strawberries! So hopefully there is a nursery here with lots of different berries. Thank you for sharing all your amazing tips!
Charley we are most impressed. You are also very kind and appreciative. Being from Wisconsin you understand our long winters compared to the very hot summers you have in Arizona. I guess only island life is near perfect. While our garden may look larger than life, we really only have a little more than 1/2 an acre, but gardens surround our entire home. We invite you to visit our website, www.WisconsinGarden.com where we have nearly 850 free garden videos on a wide variety of topics. Our main landing page started with #600 - currently #833. Other pages have more video links to earlier videos which we started in the summer of 2011. My husband Richard films, edits, writes and produces all of our videos so he has learned a great deal since. Early videos are very primal. We are an eclectic experimental garden simply showing what and how we do what we do. Your son's love for goats matches my husbands, but our Brookfield community does not allow either goats or chickens as it would make our community too urban according to city fathers. We since became master gardeners to make sure we were answering the thousands of questions we receive weekly. Thank goodness we were giving out correct info. But we have found every gardener has their own personal way of doing things and that's what makes gardening wonderful. In today's world of social media, bullying, etc., we've found nothing less than love, support and appreciation for what we do. We simply share what we are doing in our garden. Doesn't mean it's the only way, but the way we try things, year after year. So we are most pleased to hear your love for starting gardening. We highly recommend taking Master Garden classes, most of which is now Online. The access alone to the latest research and horticultural tip, tools and techniques is amazing and well worth the cost of training. And having your son share and enjoy your enthusiasm will be life-changing for him as well. We wish all of you new adventures will be soul satisfying and if you're ever returning to Wisconsin for a visit we hope you and your son will stop and visit. Gardening, writing books and doing educational presentations is where life has taken us since we began decided not to retire, rather refocus. Next week we will be doing a fun-filled 2-hour presentation at the Brookfield Public Library. Visit www.HollywoodLovesWisconsin.com for more info if interested. Waukesha County Technical College premiered it this spring to stand room only and the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee will host our extensive 5-hour, all-day presentation this fall. Now the Department of Tourism has expressed interest. Who knows where this project will lead. So, be patient, start small and expand your garden when you know you have the time to handle all that needs to be done. We look forward to your future comments. Thanks for watching, caring and sharing. Lynn & Richard
Oops, I forgot to add. Using that method, you will never have to start a new bed unless you want a larger one. It comes from the Back to Eden method. !!!
Thank you BC. We do thank you for watching, caring and sharing and invite you to see many of our other garden videos at www.WisconsinGarden.com. Lynn & Richard
Is your garden area in full sun? They really like sun. Is your soil rich with compost, if not, that might be your problem. Add some well aged compost and peat moss and try again. You know it’s worth it. :) Lynn
88lbs is very impressive. I only get a few lbs at best from my tiny patch each year. I actually like seeing those kinds of invasive tuberous weeds in my garden because they work very well for my melons and gourds. I purposely let them grow nice and big before harvesting them to bury under some of my vegetables for some aeration and organic fertilizer.
Hi Portia. What a great name. Is Hollywood calling? 2018 was a wet spring and early summer. After replanting the bed in 2017, and probably because of the weather last year, our strawberry crop struggled. We hope this year's harvest in better because we've been spoiled by the prolific harvests of past years. Picking 75-80 quarts isn't that unusual for our 7 beds, then freezing, canning and eating is a pure delight. Thanks for watching, caring and sharing. Lynn & Richard
@@WisconsinGarden No, I was born on and English base, Suffolk and mom liked Shakespeare. Yes, Pittsburgh, PA gets VERY wet too! I'm grateful for it bc we never have to water:-) Oats like rain. I plant a lot of cover crops bc our soil isn't the best. It's VERY slippery. I have to unlock the minerals with the cover crops. I plant almost ALL of Johnny's Farm seeds. I love radish in the fall bc (4) nights below 25? and they disappear by spring. I get my strawberries from Nourse. My favorite strawberries are from a local rural nursery. They are everbearing and run a lot. I got Malwina from Nourse. They sit up pretty and are bigger. Nourse warns that strawberries get smaller over time so that's why we need to replace them every (3) years. This year, in April 2019 I'm getting Rutgers Scarlet and Yambu from the Netherlands. One year I ordered (4) different types and let them sit in the refrigerator too long:-( They're somewhere in my compost:-) I have enjoyed watching your videos. You guys have been able to do SO much in the North Midwest. Your seasonal approach to your videos is lovely.
Thank you, Portia. Yes, strawberries are so delicious, but need lots of tending and replacing to keep them in top shape. Thank you for sharing more. Lynn & Richard
If you cover them with a light layer of wood chips in the fall, just enough to cover them over, the young plants will come up next year and the old last year's plants won't have the energy to push up through the chips, plus you will have less weeds.
Hi David, for the most part, we used crushed leaves from our garden in the winter. Also we add compost and if necessary, we use perlite for better drainage and aeration in the spring. Every other year we add some peat moss. Is that what you might do? Thanks for watching and for your great question. Lynn & Richard www.WisconsinGarden.com
+Ann Wallace - Hi Ann. We really don't fertilize any our garden veggies, annuals, or perennials with the exception of fish emulsion from our pond and an occasional worm casting tea solution for our hanging baskets. We do amend our beds with lots of aged compost every year, especially for our vegetables using and modifying some of Jerry Baker's formulas using common household products. We also use Milorganite for our remaining lawn areas with great success. We avoid using phosphate because of it's harmful effect on the environment. Thank you for watching our video and sharing your comment. Lynn & Richard
How far apart did you plant. You may want to remove and sacrifice a plant here or there for the benefit of others. Thinning plants is equally important. Lynn & Richard
Your Strawberries are looking great! Happy Gardening!
Awwwww, you guys are so darn cute! I love to see couples garden together....it's very healthy! .......so is that patch ! I just started gardening, and it all began with strawberries! I was watching QVC or HSN and there was a supplier on called Robertas Garden. Well I ordered some flowering vine type plants with big leaves and huge flowers, trumpet vines, blueberry bush, and strawberries (2 different varieties, can't remember but I think one was Tuscan???) Both are apparently ever bering as they bloom all year, and I live in AZ and they love all the sun and hot temps, yet weirdly enough like the "cold" as well (cold, lol! In az, lmao!). I planted in 12" pots, but it's the 3rd year and they don't look as good so I'm schooling myself on youtube about the several different ways to grow them. I think I'm going to stick to beds like yours and dig these guys out, separate, clean up,,and then transplant. I am from WI and would love to find some decent cheap rural land and build an earthbag home and be mostly off grid with a nice big garden , raise chickens, a couple tiny goats (my son is 11 and wanted a lil goat for 5 years!). I was wondering if that is your land, do you guys live there.....I'm asking because it looks like a good size of land....and soooo nice and green! That is what I'm looking for! I can't stand it here and it is so darn hot as we speak! Luckily I discovered I have quite the green thumb....but I have tons to learn, luckily I'm a fast visual learner, and very crafty! I'm building some beds as we speak and my son is getting interested in planting as well... I would love for others to know that if kids help in the garden they will also go outside and pick stuff right off the plants to snack on while playing. The first time I saw him picking and eating veggies he refused to eat off his dinner plate was so satisfying, and he said he felt happy, and wants to eat healthier by planting more fruit and veggie. I want ti grow a bunch of different berries....everywhere! I don't have blueberries as everything I ordered from Robertas died....except the strawberries! So hopefully there is a nursery here with lots of different berries. Thank you for sharing all your amazing tips!
Charley we are most impressed. You are also very kind and appreciative. Being from Wisconsin you understand our long winters compared to the very hot summers you have in Arizona. I guess only island life is near perfect. While our garden may look larger than life, we really only have a little more than 1/2 an acre, but gardens surround our entire home. We invite you to visit our website, www.WisconsinGarden.com where we have nearly 850 free garden videos on a wide variety of topics. Our main landing page started with #600 - currently #833. Other pages have more video links to earlier videos which we started in the summer of 2011. My husband Richard films, edits, writes and produces all of our videos so he has learned a great deal since. Early videos are very primal. We are an eclectic experimental garden simply showing what and how we do what we do. Your son's love for goats matches my husbands, but our Brookfield community does not allow either goats or chickens as it would make our community too urban according to city fathers. We since became master gardeners to make sure we were answering the thousands of questions we receive weekly. Thank goodness we were giving out correct info. But we have found every gardener has their own personal way of doing things and that's what makes gardening wonderful. In today's world of social media, bullying, etc., we've found nothing less than love, support and appreciation for what we do. We simply share what we are doing in our garden. Doesn't mean it's the only way, but the way we try things, year after year. So we are most pleased to hear your love for starting gardening. We highly recommend taking Master Garden classes, most of which is now Online. The access alone to the latest research and horticultural tip, tools and techniques is amazing and well worth the cost of training. And having your son share and enjoy your enthusiasm will be life-changing for him as well. We wish all of you new adventures will be soul satisfying and if you're ever returning to Wisconsin for a visit we hope you and your son will stop and visit. Gardening, writing books and doing educational presentations is where life has taken us since we began decided not to retire, rather refocus. Next week we will be doing a fun-filled 2-hour presentation at the Brookfield Public Library. Visit www.HollywoodLovesWisconsin.com for more info if interested. Waukesha County Technical College premiered it this spring to stand room only and the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee will host our extensive 5-hour, all-day presentation this fall. Now the Department of Tourism has expressed interest. Who knows where this project will lead. So, be patient, start small and expand your garden when you know you have the time to handle all that needs to be done. We look forward to your future comments. Thanks for watching, caring and sharing. Lynn & Richard
Oops, I forgot to add. Using that method, you will never have to start a new bed unless you want a larger one. It comes from the Back to Eden method. !!!
Thanks for watching and for your strawberry growing tips. Lynn
Thanks, George. We are looking forward to harvesting this year. So far the weather and the critters are treating us well. Lynn
Truly, truly impressive
Thank you BC. We do thank you for watching, caring and sharing and invite you to see many of our other garden videos at www.WisconsinGarden.com. Lynn & Richard
They look wonderful. I lost a lot of mine last year from the drought so had to plant some new ones this year.
Thanks for sharing..Looks wonderful!!
best wishes for u too guys,keep inspiring us as u always do! thamks again for sharing:)
You are so smart. Thanks for sharing again. :)
Is your garden area in full sun? They really like sun. Is your soil rich with compost, if not, that might be your problem. Add some well aged compost and peat moss and try again. You know it’s worth it. :) Lynn
I just got both kinds of strawberries started this year.
Thanks for your comment. We were very happy with them this year. Weather must have been just right. Lynn
Yes, last year was a rough one on gardens. Hope they produce well for you. Nothing like them fresh from your own garden. Lynn
Wow! They are huge! Let's hope this is a sign of bumper crops of everything. Woohoo!
88lbs is very impressive. I only get a few lbs at best from my tiny patch each year. I actually like seeing those kinds of invasive tuberous weeds in my garden because they work very well for my melons and gourds. I purposely let them grow nice and big before harvesting them to bury under some of my vegetables for some aeration and organic fertilizer.
Oh no! How can critters that are so cute be soooo destructive! Yes, get some more and fence them in I guess. Good luck. Lynn
Best wishes of growing for your strawberries. Enjoy! Lynn
I like strawberries, but not quite that much. I started a little patch this year.
How was 2018 for strawberries?How did u raise them? Eighty eight # Wow! As Mark Weins says:-)
Hi Portia. What a great name. Is Hollywood calling? 2018 was a wet spring and early summer. After replanting the bed in 2017, and probably because of the weather last year, our strawberry crop struggled. We hope this year's harvest in better because we've been spoiled by the prolific harvests of past years. Picking 75-80 quarts isn't that unusual for our 7 beds, then freezing, canning and eating is a pure delight. Thanks for watching, caring and sharing. Lynn & Richard
@@WisconsinGarden No, I was born on and English base, Suffolk and mom liked Shakespeare. Yes, Pittsburgh, PA gets VERY wet too! I'm grateful for it bc we never have to water:-) Oats like rain. I plant a lot of cover crops bc our soil isn't the best. It's VERY slippery. I have to unlock the minerals with the cover crops. I plant almost ALL of Johnny's Farm seeds. I love radish in the fall bc (4) nights below 25? and they disappear by spring. I get my strawberries from Nourse. My favorite strawberries are from a local rural nursery. They are everbearing and run a lot. I got Malwina from Nourse. They sit up pretty and are bigger. Nourse warns that strawberries get smaller over time so that's why we need to replace them every (3) years. This year, in April 2019 I'm getting Rutgers Scarlet and Yambu from the Netherlands. One year I ordered (4) different types and let them sit in the refrigerator too long:-( They're somewhere in my compost:-)
I have enjoyed watching your videos. You guys have been able to do SO much in the North Midwest. Your seasonal approach to your videos is lovely.
Thank you, Portia. Yes, strawberries are so delicious, but need lots of tending and replacing to keep them in top shape. Thank you for sharing more. Lynn & Richard
If you cover them with a light layer of wood chips in the fall, just enough to cover them over, the young plants will come up next year and the old last year's plants won't have the energy to push up through the chips, plus you will have less weeds.
Great tip. But then we wouldn't have all the fun of pulling weeds! Grrrrrrrrr! LOL Lynn
That is the one thing in gardening that I try to do less and less. I'd rather plant, harvest and plan new gardening adventures !!!
Thanks, Delinda. Will let you know how they do. Thanks for visiting. Lynn
Thanks for visiting.
Rick likes to do things in a BIG way, so I just harvest what comes up. LOL Lynn
Wow, I have not luck growing strawberries.
drj Westfield Wisconsin what kind of fertilizers do you do?
Hi David, for the most part, we used crushed leaves from our garden in the winter. Also we add compost and if necessary, we use perlite for better drainage and aeration in the spring. Every other year we add some peat moss.
Is that what you might do?
Thanks for watching and for your great question.
Lynn & Richard www.WisconsinGarden.com
Don’t mind me, just homesteading on what I got
We appreciate your watching, caring and sharing. Lynn & Richard www.WisconsinGarden.com
You look so cute
Hi Nedj, you are so kind. :) Thank you for watching, caring and sharing. Lynn & Richard - www.WisconsinGarden.com
how much phosphate do you use when planting plants from a different bed,??
+Ann Wallace - Hi Ann. We really don't fertilize any our garden veggies, annuals, or perennials with the exception of fish emulsion from our pond and an occasional worm casting tea solution for our hanging baskets. We do amend our beds with lots of aged compost every year, especially for our vegetables using and modifying some of Jerry Baker's formulas using common household products. We also use Milorganite for our remaining lawn areas with great success. We avoid using phosphate because of it's harmful effect on the environment. Thank you for watching our video and sharing your comment. Lynn & Richard
I lost over 100 plants to rabbits last year. I need to get more now.
Wouldn’t that be nice!
Yeah I over crowded my zucchini and squash didnt turn out to well .
How far apart did you plant. You may want to remove and sacrifice a plant here or there for the benefit of others. Thinning plants is equally important. Lynn & Richard