May garden tour before leaving for a week

Leaving my new garden for a few days at the beginning of the planting season made me nervous. For weeks, I’d planned and prepared. I was ready-at least the garden was. Now it was time to hand over the garden. I did a final tour of the land before we left.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Introduction
00:40 A tour of the garden
01:00 There will be berries
01:30 Rhubarb growing in
01:41 Inside garden house
01:57 Rain barrel of doom
02:38 Comfrey volunteers
02:57 The planted bed
03:31 Volunteer strawberries
04:12 Pepper harvests carrots
04:32 The potato beds
05:38 Another bed rescue
06:07 Slow progress
06:52 Final bed check
07:22 The greenhouse
08:04 Home stretch at home

[@nell5607]

Just a small point - the plant you were eating is Borage, not comfrey, though Borage is also edible.

[@RootsandCalluses]

Yes, true that. I mixed up the name as I first learned about this one in German. Hence the "Borretsch" before my correction to the wrong English term 🤣

[@RootsandCalluses]

Fun fact: apparently, comfrey is in the borage family. Interesting.

[@nell5607]

Oh, I didn’t know that. Thank you. I wouldn’t have realised - they look really different.

[@jbyrd2516]

Looks great! Enjoy your time away. 😊

[@RootsandCalluses]

We did! It was great to see mountains after living in too flat areas for the last years.

[@Shakespearept]

Very peaceful video. Beautiful array of plants! I also like growing stuff I can eat :) Nice fermentations🙂

[@RootsandCalluses]

Thank you! Hopefully, they all survived the rain storms of the last days. A lot of water in little time.

[@Aphidman1]

A couple years ago I had to leave the garden and vegetable seedlings for about 10 days in May. Results were 50:50 when I got back. May yours be better!

[@RootsandCalluses]

Luckily, most things survived quite well. My neighbors took good care of everything.

[@Indianamatthew]

Are we all going on Vacation with you?

[@RootsandCalluses]

Yes, you will :) I was able to film a lot more than I had anticipated and my husband actively helped create some footage, so there will be an episode about it. Next week, I'll have my 100th episode which will be a year in review but the one after that (#101) is all about the vacation.

[@jemreandeau3583]

Hello, Kate. Is that your name. I’m enjoying your garden, it takes lots of energy and dedication to have a decent garden, you have both. I’m planting new strawberry plants today, the old strawberry bed was invaded by slugs and I couldn’t keep them out. My new plants will go into stackable pots, hope it works. ❤