I love how much you and Jacques have had your gardening style influence each other since you starting working alongside each other. Love the evolution and maturation of the epic homestead ❤
I love that you carried that giant leek through the whole video 😆 Hopefully everything there stays safe through the storms this week. I’m definitely worried about those dragonfruit in a stiff breeze 😬
3 take aways today. 1) I agree that we did get a later start of sunshine here in San Diego due to our 6 weeks of May gray and June gloom which set things back ie tomatoes 2) Looks like Jacque'sfree style gardening has rubbed off on you and 3) and the one I love best is to refer to a possible failed area as a "test area" when showing your garden off instead of making excuses 😂
I couldn’t ask for a better virtual mentor for my brand new garden. I went from an aero garden to starting my own raised beds. I really appreciate the knowledge everyone at epic provides. Keep doing great things. ❤
Thanks for the tour! I remember when you first bought the place and it was raw and you walked through what you envisioned the place to look like. I was excited to see it come to fruition. Now as it’s been established, I’m so proud of all the “fruits” of your labor. Your honesty about your wins and losses is an encouragement. I too have gone through a pandemic backyard raised bed garden transformation and have learned what works and what doesn’t. Your content is inspiring and encouraging! Thanks for taking us on your EPIC journey. Looking forward to more EPIC things to come!! CONGRATULATIONS!!
I remember, when I lived in San Diego, of a farmer who specialized in growing gourds. Think his farm was in Escondido…could be wrong. He made cool bird feeders. And also hanging art made of gourds. I bought one for my son’s bedroom that looked like an elephant head. Head, ears and trunk. It was sooooo cool! Hope he or at least his farm is still alive. (Now I’m in Vermont…ready to start a flower stand in my front yard) I’m going to add a strip of pepper plants next to road. With a sign…you-pick peppers…if you dare! I’ll label hotness nest to each plant. Great idea, right! Kids will enjoy as they have enjoyed free pumpkins!
Your new style is definitely mine--I have had the pleasure of gardening for over 30 years with my friend, Lisa, who lives in Paris and comes to live on my property in VT for about 2 months every summer. She has taught me a "disorderly order" of letting volunteers grow, sometimes moving them a bit, sometimes not, and lots of FLOWERS. The pollinators love my garden, and having the ground covered by plants conserves water. Of course, in July...we got hit by a massive flood in my area of Montpelier, but having really healthy soil in my garden, I think, helped the garden bounce or crawl back. The one thing Lisa and I do is keep things pretty weeded, with the exception of any wild edibles such as purslane or lambsquarters. Such joy! Can't believe your leek, amazing! Thank you for showing the beauty of the wild garden.
Probably too late now, but here in Florida when we have storms instead of using sand bags, I use bags of mulch. Then after the hurricane season is over I empty the mulch into my plant beds. I hope you and your plants do well during this hurricane storm you all are having.
You've gotta make salsa verde with the tomatillos! Roast the tomatillos (either with the grill in your oven, or maybe the fancy grill you've got in your yard haha), roast some jalapenos, then blitz it all together with cilantro, lime juice, and salt to taste. It's freaking delicious.
I did the same thing in my garden. I let things go. Just let it be free. My Roma tomatoes and morning glory flowers have created this huge dancing fiesta. It’s awesome looking.
I absolutely love how much its come together!! I remember when you bought the place and i was SO stoked for you! Its looking amazing 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 we just bought our first home a few weeks ago, finally got out of an apartment and now i have a huge yard to garden and i cant wait!!! and yes, PLEASE bring houseplant daddy back lol 😂❤
I have some volunteer cherry tomatoes from my neighbor growing in almost total shade, in 4 inches of decorative rocks, no fertilizer, no stakes and I water them right over the leaves. Heathy as can be, more so than the ones in my beds.
Another great video, thanks for sharing! For those tomatillos: a big ol pot of green chili (with pork preferably) and then a vat of salsa with anything left. honestly nothing beats a good green chili smother.
I grow mainly tomatoes and peppers but for sum reason my peppers grew to almost 4 feet tall and are massive bushes full of peppers! Ive been struggling keeping all the branches from falling from the weight
I hope you have some elevation where you’re at if Hillary comes in as it may well do. Best potential-disaster tip I’ve read today- fill gallon bags, or quarts if that’s what you have, with water and pack them around your freezer items. If the power goes out, your food will stay cold and you will have fresh water . If it doesn’t, hopefully, you can use them in your cooler, and still have water to drink !
The Midwest heat and infrequent rain had my garden looking pretty bad this year. My raised beds were booming though. Going to till up my garden next year. Mostly bc of the tree roots and going to put raised beds on top of them. Then going with an ibc tote converted into a rain catching system and put some irrigation down.
Love your enthusiasm! Things have changed so much. Up here in SFBay, my tomatoes are finally coming in, 2 months late. Even the early, cold tolerant tomatoes were late. But they're good now. I planted them farther apart but with companion plantings, & except fora few plants, they don't have as much disease as last year. Several tomatoes went into your 10 gal. grow bags--love the bags!
Greetings from the Netherlands... This year i tried tomatoes (in "bulk") for the first time... 4 plants of cherry tomatos (2 varieties) and 12 big fleshtomatoes ... and i am amazed (planted them spread out on different times and only the cherries and 3 flesh tom. are in harvesting mode (rest bear alot of fruit, but not ready to harvest)... 3kg of cherry tom and 3.5kg of flesh tomatoes harvested so far.. So next year ... tomatoes will be planted again...
I love it when you validate me! The name of my property is The Jungle for good reason. Seriously, plants just grow better that way! Congrats on a beautiful job! 🏆
I'm looking at my this year vs last year pictures and the very place I'm typing this from was still under construction as part of my garden! Pretty much everything I planted has taken off, with my only garden disappointments being the spring brassicas that bolted! The landscaping around my retention pond that I finished early June is settling in and the fish are getting huge! The wisteria and grapes are growing like crazy up the pergola!
Hey Kevin, pumpkin vines will naturally put down roots as long as they're contacting the soil, but it's great that you're helping it along. You can actually bury watermelon vines and they'll put down roots too, and that's to battle against vine borers as they'll attack the main stem but you'll have backups if that ever happens
I love your garden journey and bond with your buddy Jaques , you add soooo much fun and charisma and knowledge to the garden and I love the way you glean knowledge from one another and share the spoils with us. You are always learning, growing and getting better. I love the all natural look of your sprawling garden. Fun Pumpkin !! Go Craig- Johnson !!!
We don't have a house yet, so there's no yard in our lives. However, I've been writing down a lot of what you say and taking your advice so that when we do get ready to buy a house and establish our homestead. So in gratitude for your advice, please let me "pay" you back with some in return! I don't enjoy tomatillos much either, but they make incredible salsa verde. Stay Epic, my pixel garden-friend!
I also went the "jungle" route this year. 30+ flower types with all the veggies. I compost and get "free" tomatoes, peppers, melons., Clearing out veins I discovered a row of Amish Cantaloupes (from a nearby farm - gigantic produce). We live in one of the rainiest areas in the nation (middle TN) and I've used my expensive irrigation system three whole days! LOL Odd weather - cold winter, cool Spring and Fall (we had the heater on in the pool in June!) Love the carefree nature and variety of your garden and all the variety. The size is very impressive. Seasons are so long I have second batch of tomatoes growing.
Hey Kevin-- hoping everything is okay at the homestead and that you & Jacques get through the storm okay. I hope you have made some preps, and you're keeping an eye on the weather forecast. All the best to you
Honestly the amount of beauty in. This garden amazes me! Really hoping nothing bad happens when the hurricane comes in. Praying for the pumpkin and the dragonfruit
I moved two years ago. Didn't really have time to grow much with all the work the house needed. I tried growing out of containers on the back porch and everything fried. Lesson learned. This year I planted in the ground but I found out my soil is heavy clay and I didn't have enough chicken wire to surround the whole thing so rabbits laid waste to everything I transplanted. I did get some blueberries in the ground and although they got munched on, they are coming back strong now that they're protected. Next year is my year!
Just don’t get discouraged and you’ll get it!! One of the MANY things EG has taught me is that it’s OKAY to have failures, just keep growing and you’ll figure out what happened! Good luck!!
@@tretre1692 Thanks so much! I'll keep that in mind! You have impecable timing considering I recieved my first "hate comments" today. I appreciate the support!
Wow I love seeing this garden with so much diversity. Being is Zone 10b means that you have so many sunshine hours and few frost days. Which means that you can plant an incredible variety of fruit trees like bananas, mango, cofee jujube, dragonfruit, pineapple, kiwi and so much more!
I live in the foothills of northern Colorado and am also having my best eggplant year - unbelievable continuing production of large fruit. We have had a very wet spring and early summer. It was also rather cool compared to normal, but the eggplant did great anyways, so am thinking it is more about the water than the temperatures. Not sure what is going on, but am definitely enjoying my eggplant.
Here's an idea: fence off an area with 9 foot fence (probably also requiring foundation), put a door in the fence, like on a house, lay 2ft thick insulation on the inside, and rig up a way you can install and uninstall a glass or polycarbonate ceiling depending on the season. Yes I am suggesting an insulated greenhouse. I promise you'll like it, as will your bananas if you get a frost (many bananas will survive frosts but it's better to avoid the risk by insulating, and heating if necessary).
I'm so jelly of you and Jacques 😥. It has been so hot here in Southwest Tx. We had 100 plus degrees that we might break our previous record of 59 day. So far we're at 54...today we are supposed to hit 105 and Monday 104😓. Send us any extra rain if should get any from hurricane. Take care of Craig Pucci Johnson and yourselves too.
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I live in Central Europe and we had strange weather too. Cold spring, then hot beggining of summer, then cold again (during nights even 6°C) and now hot again... However, you've got a nice garden there.
😂 I had everyone asking where my tomato trellises were because I didn't buy a single one. First of all I'm cheap and have like 10 tomato plants and second last year I had great success with letting them run wild and not pruning or trellising. And they are doing fantastic again! I love the chaos lol harvest can be a bit of a treasure hunt though 😅
Thank you for that! Very interesting. I'm growing in SE Wisconsin and it has also been a weird summer. Our nights have been cool all summer. So the garden has been meh. Thanks again, love Epic Gardening/Homestead!
Kevin, I saw your gourds and wanted to warn you to wait until the stems are totally brown before you pick them. Next, you need to dry the gourds for a year before you cut the hole for a bird house. Good luck, gourds are fun.
This is awesome 😎. I feel like you could look into some sort of permaculture style of gardening. It’s basically where you let nature do it’s thing in an organized way so you get all of the benefits. You should definitely look into it!
Hi Kevin, I love your garden and your videos. I was wondering if you could make a video on how you made the grape vine trellis/ line for your grapes, how to train them and how to trim them back in the fall! I have a garden book where they show ow to do it, but I'm not really understand what it is saying. I' m more of a visual person, I really have to see it is being made and how to prune them ! I want to plant some grape vines next year, and I really would like to grow them the way you have them instead of your traditional trellis!!!
Kevin, great video and your garden is looking amazing! I hope we get some tropical rains up here in SW Oregon...we haven't had any rain since I can't remember.
Thank you for the extra thank you seed packet with my botanical interests order, i love your channel, im not in a great place right now and it was a nice touch along with the wax paper decoration thing. Epic Gardening is officially my go to channel and brand for all things gardening, to me honestly its more than just gardening info and products, you have yourself a whole community and clearly an amazing team of people behind it and im glad i stumbled across it when i did some 6 or so months ago.
Big differences for me this year too. (1) First (MASSIVE!) success with onions, and more success with potatoes than in the past. (2) Sad year for winter squash. This is in contrast to last year, when I harvested 9 "long pie" pumpkins from a single vine (!) and 4 pumpkins averaging about 12# each elsewhere, plus a good batch of wonderful delicata. I LOVE having squash all winter, but no: the fight against cucumber beetles, squash vine borers, and NEVER ENDING squash bugs robbed me this year. I have plans for next year that include giving the back yard a year off from cucurbits entirely -- which pains me, but it is needed! (3) The new Birdie bed in my front yard is a bright spot. It is just SO beautiful, overflowing with nasturtiums and chard and purple kale and parsley from the front, bright yellow marigolds filling in the back corners, BURSTING with oversized aji chiles in the middle. (I had bush beans in the back row and have replaced them with okra, still growing.) From my office window I can see pedestrians stopping to admire it. It's my most favorite bed I've ever grown. Oh, and like you: my back pathways are overgrown with volunteer sauce tomatoes!
I love how natural the pond is looking! ❤ I let my pumpkins sprawl and they do root themselves, got a lot of pumpkins that way! Love the passionfruit vine for covering that tank, pretty, and the bonus, fruit!! Yum!
Good to see the year to year comparisons! My own garden surprises me every year, and not all of them are good surprises 😂 I do learn something from each surprise though! I’m in the Great Lakes area and it has been a year of weird weather here too.
Hey, I'm growing Birdhouse Gourds too for the 1st time along with my luffas. I can't wait to see how you cut out the holes in the gourds,, it will help me learn.
Last year, our tomato harvest was pretty poor, because we had such a late frost along with a big cold snap hit us in Apri/May, along with a prolonged spell of high heat. This year, we were actually able to start planting at the end of February/early March and haven't had nearly the amount of high temperatures as the year before and we have harvested 3 cases of diced tomatoes, 15 jars of salsa, and are still picking tomatoes every day off of our plants. I think we figured between 2 - 2.5x9.5 planters we have picked/processed over 100 lbs of tomatoes. The year before we got less than a case of diced tomatoes. Our knowledge of how to fertilize/water/cultivate tomatoes has grown, but the weather being noticeably cooler than last year, as well as having a prolonged spring, has really been interesting. Hopefully next year will be somewhere in between the last two years or perhaps better. Our freezer is stuffed with green beans, peas, corn, tomatoes, onions, and green peppers.
An idea; build an individual birdie bed around each dragon fruit. Break the terracotta pot off as you fill in with more soil? I believe you can deadhead dahlias and not affect bulb growth. They should flower into October in your climate. Thanks for the updates.
You could probably secure those dragonfruit pots by wrapping them with some cattle paneand then covering them with burlap so they look nice. That way you won't have to disturb them. As for the posts, you could stabilize by adding more posts to the top or middle so it looks more like a trellis. Then prune. Your dragonfruit look great by the way!
We got a cutting to fruit in 12 months. You have a few things to fix with your dragons. 1) No terracotta pots 2) keep wood trellises out of the pot 3) stop using Fox Farms soil 4) Check out our farm tours with the experts we interview.
Thanks for a great tour & sharing successes and failures. Strange to see y’all bracing for a hurricane while we in NC haven’t anything happening but heat & humidity. Love learning from you and Jacques! Keep growing!
I’ve loved watching you grow over so many years. Jacque is definitely rubbing off on you. I’m sure eventually you’ll just have a whole forest. The pots almost look like a video game and you could be Mario and move around the garden though them. Lol How much space do you garden in now? I don’t remember seeing that in past videos after you moved space. Everything looks wonderful. The weather has been off everywhere. Stay safe. My fam is in Palm Springs with a lot of that hurricane coming through.
I love how much you and Jacques have had your gardening style influence each other since you starting working alongside each other. Love the evolution and maturation of the epic homestead ❤
I love that you carried that giant leek through the whole video 😆
Hopefully everything there stays safe through the storms this week. I’m definitely worried about those dragonfruit in a stiff breeze 😬
Thanks for the kind words! - KE
Those sunflowers and the pumpkin are absolutely insane! 🤯
I’ve literally never seen sunflowers like that, holy shit lol
Kevin, keep us posted on your & Jacque’s (& your Epic Gardening/Homestead) safety as the storm approaches!❤
Yes, can we get epic storm watch updates?! Sounds like something for the homestead channel maybe
Kevin, your garden is looking great as always! Hopefully the coming tropical storm doesn't change that (or rather it gives everything a nice drink).
Thank you - I'm preparing the best I can! - KE
3 take aways today. 1) I agree that we did get a later start of sunshine here in San Diego due to our 6 weeks of May gray and June gloom which set things back ie tomatoes 2) Looks like Jacque'sfree style gardening has rubbed off on you and 3) and the one I love best is to refer to a possible failed area as a "test area" when showing your garden off instead of making excuses 😂
LOLLLLL - KE
@@epicgardeningwhat ever happened to your gardener in Canada does she still make videos for EpicGardening
I couldn’t ask for a better virtual mentor for my brand new garden. I went from an aero garden to starting my own raised beds. I really appreciate the knowledge everyone at epic provides. Keep doing great things. ❤
Appreciate hearing this Daniel - keep growing - KE
i love watching your videos, it contains a lot of good gardening experience for the community, thanks for sharing
Thanks for the tour! I remember when you first bought the place and it was raw and you walked through what you envisioned the place to look like. I was excited to see it come to fruition. Now as it’s been established, I’m so proud of all the “fruits” of your labor. Your honesty about your wins and losses is an encouragement. I too have gone through a pandemic backyard raised bed garden transformation and have learned what works and what doesn’t. Your content is inspiring and encouraging! Thanks for taking us on your EPIC journey. Looking forward to more EPIC things to come!! CONGRATULATIONS!!
I remember, when I lived in San Diego, of a farmer who specialized in growing gourds. Think his farm was in Escondido…could be wrong. He made cool bird feeders. And also hanging art made of gourds. I bought one for my son’s bedroom that looked like an elephant head. Head, ears and trunk. It was sooooo cool! Hope he or at least his farm is still alive.
(Now I’m in Vermont…ready to start a flower stand in my front yard)
I’m going to add a strip of pepper plants next to road. With a sign…you-pick peppers…if you dare! I’ll label hotness nest to each plant. Great idea, right! Kids will enjoy as they have enjoyed free pumpkins!
Be safe this weekend Kevin! It's going to be pretty wild down in SD.
Just casually carrying around the leak for the tour
He's my best friend - Kevin
I was gonna say gotta love the leek tour
Make salsa verde with your tomatillos, onions and serranos, you'll have to buy some garlic. We just made some and it was delish!!!😋
Your new style is definitely mine--I have had the pleasure of gardening for over 30 years with my friend, Lisa, who lives in Paris and comes to live on my property in VT for about 2 months every summer. She has taught me a "disorderly order" of letting volunteers grow, sometimes moving them a bit, sometimes not, and lots of FLOWERS. The pollinators love my garden, and having the ground covered by plants conserves water. Of course, in July...we got hit by a massive flood in my area of Montpelier, but having really healthy soil in my garden, I think, helped the garden bounce or crawl back.
The one thing Lisa and I do is keep things pretty weeded, with the exception of any wild edibles such as purslane or lambsquarters. Such joy! Can't believe your leek, amazing! Thank you for showing the beauty of the wild garden.
Probably too late now, but here in Florida when we have storms instead of using sand bags, I use bags of mulch. Then after the hurricane season is over I empty the mulch into my plant beds.
I hope you and your plants do well during this hurricane storm you all are having.
You've gotta make salsa verde with the tomatillos! Roast the tomatillos (either with the grill in your oven, or maybe the fancy grill you've got in your yard haha), roast some jalapenos, then blitz it all together with cilantro, lime juice, and salt to taste. It's freaking delicious.
I did the same thing in my garden. I let things go. Just let it be free. My Roma tomatoes and morning glory flowers have created this huge dancing fiesta. It’s awesome looking.
It’s been a blast watching the Homestead grow the last few years. Everything looks amazing. My favorite might just be the pond. Thanks for the tour.
I absolutely love how much its come together!! I remember when you bought the place and i was SO stoked for you! Its looking amazing 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 we just bought our first home a few weeks ago, finally got out of an apartment and now i have a huge yard to garden and i cant wait!!! and yes, PLEASE bring houseplant daddy back lol 😂❤
I have some volunteer cherry tomatoes from my neighbor growing in almost total shade, in 4 inches of decorative rocks, no fertilizer, no stakes and I water them right over the leaves. Heathy as can be, more so than the ones in my beds.
I love looking at my old garden photos. I see so much progress and it makes me pretty happy. Good job.
Another great video, thanks for sharing! For those tomatillos: a big ol pot of green chili (with pork preferably) and then a vat of salsa with anything left. honestly nothing beats a good green chili smother.
Thank you for making it less overwhelming. You just learn and adjust along the way! Easy peasy... no perfection necessary!
There's nothing like a volunteer tomato plant for hardiness and to humble us too. Hope you stay safe and batten down the hatches!
I sense some strong Jacques influence in the more natural garden layout. Personally I love it!
Respect to your camera person. The energy you provide isn't done alone 🖖🏻
I grow mainly tomatoes and peppers but for sum reason my peppers grew to almost 4 feet tall and are massive bushes full of peppers! Ive been struggling keeping all the branches from falling from the weight
It's been a good pepper year here too. Try staking w/ bamboo and tying to stake - KE
I hope you have some elevation where you’re at if Hillary comes in as it may well do.
Best potential-disaster tip I’ve read today- fill gallon bags, or quarts if that’s what you have, with water and pack them around your freezer items.
If the power goes out, your food will stay cold and you will have fresh water .
If it doesn’t, hopefully, you can use them in your cooler, and still have water to drink !
The Midwest heat and infrequent rain had my garden looking pretty bad this year. My raised beds were booming though. Going to till up my garden next year. Mostly bc of the tree roots and going to put raised beds on top of them. Then going with an ibc tote converted into a rain catching system and put some irrigation down.
Oof, sorry to hear. Your plan sounds good for next year though - KE
@@epicgardeningMother Nature is her own beast.
Love your enthusiasm! Things have changed so much. Up here in SFBay, my tomatoes are finally coming in, 2 months late. Even the early, cold tolerant tomatoes were late. But they're good now. I planted them farther apart but with companion plantings, & except fora few plants, they don't have as much disease as last year. Several tomatoes went into your 10 gal. grow bags--love the bags!
Love the garden this year Kevin! Been watching your channel for a while now and always enjoy the way you explain things!
Greetings from the Netherlands... This year i tried tomatoes (in "bulk") for the first time... 4 plants of cherry tomatos (2 varieties) and 12 big fleshtomatoes ... and i am amazed (planted them spread out on different times and only the cherries and 3 flesh tom. are in harvesting mode (rest bear alot of fruit, but not ready to harvest)... 3kg of cherry tom and 3.5kg of flesh tomatoes harvested so far.. So next year ... tomatoes will be planted again...
I love it when you validate me! The name of my property is The Jungle for good reason. Seriously, plants just grow better that way! Congrats on a beautiful job! 🏆
You'll always find garden validation here - KE
I'm looking at my this year vs last year pictures and the very place I'm typing this from was still under construction as part of my garden! Pretty much everything I planted has taken off, with my only garden disappointments being the spring brassicas that bolted! The landscaping around my retention pond that I finished early June is settling in and the fish are getting huge! The wisteria and grapes are growing like crazy up the pergola!
Hey Kevin, pumpkin vines will naturally put down roots as long as they're contacting the soil, but it's great that you're helping it along. You can actually bury watermelon vines and they'll put down roots too, and that's to battle against vine borers as they'll attack the main stem but you'll have backups if that ever happens
They didn't seem to want to, so I buried to make sure - KE
Good luck with Hilary showing up, looks like your area will get hammered. Blessings. Love you channel.
Thanks - prepping the garden as we speak - KE
I love your garden journey and bond with your buddy Jaques , you add soooo much fun and charisma and knowledge to the garden and I love the way you glean knowledge from one another and share the spoils with us. You are always learning, growing and getting better. I love the all natural look of your sprawling garden. Fun Pumpkin !! Go Craig- Johnson !!!
It looks so amazing!!! Thanks for the tour!
I love your gardens, something for everyone and not extremely large. I’m in south gulf Florida, different climate but still so many great ideas
This place looks like paradise. I definitely am going to be borrowing some ideas to integrate into my homestead garden.
We don't have a house yet, so there's no yard in our lives. However, I've been writing down a lot of what you say and taking your advice so that when we do get ready to buy a house and establish our homestead. So in gratitude for your advice, please let me "pay" you back with some in return! I don't enjoy tomatillos much either, but they make incredible salsa verde.
Stay Epic, my pixel garden-friend!
I also went the "jungle" route this year. 30+ flower types with all the veggies. I compost and get "free" tomatoes, peppers, melons., Clearing out veins I discovered a row of Amish Cantaloupes (from a nearby farm - gigantic produce). We live in one of the rainiest areas in the nation (middle TN) and I've used my expensive irrigation system three whole days! LOL Odd weather - cold winter, cool Spring and Fall (we had the heater on in the pool in June!)
Love the carefree nature and variety of your garden and all the variety. The size is very impressive. Seasons are so long I have second batch of tomatoes growing.
Hey Kevin-- hoping everything is okay at the homestead and that you & Jacques get through the storm okay. I hope you have made some preps, and you're keeping an eye on the weather forecast. All the best to you
Honestly the amount of beauty in. This garden amazes me!
Really hoping nothing bad happens when the hurricane comes in.
Praying for the pumpkin and the dragonfruit
Owls are my favorite! I love the wheat wreaths and orange fabric! I am going to try that yogurt and frozen peach dish TODAY! ❤
I moved two years ago. Didn't really have time to grow much with all the work the house needed. I tried growing out of containers on the back porch and everything fried. Lesson learned. This year I planted in the ground but I found out my soil is heavy clay and I didn't have enough chicken wire to surround the whole thing so rabbits laid waste to everything I transplanted. I did get some blueberries in the ground and although they got munched on, they are coming back strong now that they're protected. Next year is my year!
I love seeing all the progress. Thanks for sharing.
I love to see the progress! I'm excited to have a garden glow-up like this one day!
You will!
Just don’t get discouraged and you’ll get it!! One of the MANY things EG has taught me is that it’s OKAY to have failures, just keep growing and you’ll figure out what happened! Good luck!!
@@tretre1692 Thanks so much! I'll keep that in mind! You have impecable timing considering I recieved my first "hate comments" today. I appreciate the support!
Your garden is thriving nice job Kevin and thanks for the help
Wow I love seeing this garden with so much diversity.
Being is Zone 10b means that you have so many sunshine hours and few frost days.
Which means that you can plant an incredible variety of fruit trees like bananas, mango, cofee jujube, dragonfruit, pineapple, kiwi and so much more!
I love your growing in the city!
I live in the foothills of northern Colorado and am also having my best eggplant year - unbelievable continuing production of large fruit. We have had a very wet spring and early summer. It was also rather cool compared to normal, but the eggplant did great anyways, so am thinking it is more about the water than the temperatures. Not sure what is going on, but am definitely enjoying my eggplant.
I started watching you at the old place! It amazing watching your dreams explode! ✌🏻❤️ 🎉
Thank you Susan, appreciate you! - KE
Here's an idea: fence off an area with 9 foot fence (probably also requiring foundation), put a door in the fence, like on a house, lay 2ft thick insulation on the inside, and rig up a way you can install and uninstall a glass or polycarbonate ceiling depending on the season.
Yes I am suggesting an insulated greenhouse. I promise you'll like it, as will your bananas if you get a frost (many bananas will survive frosts but it's better to avoid the risk by insulating, and heating if necessary).
I'm so jelly of you and Jacques 😥. It has been so hot here in Southwest Tx. We had 100 plus degrees that we might break our previous record of 59 day. So far we're at 54...today we are supposed to hit 105 and Monday 104😓. Send us any extra rain if should get any from hurricane. Take care of Craig Pucci Johnson and yourselves too.
I live in Central Europe and we had strange weather too. Cold spring, then hot beggining of summer, then cold again (during nights even 6°C) and now hot again... However, you've got a nice garden there.
You can always brace your dragon fruit posts together, it will help but won't solve the pot issue though they may last a good few years
😂 I had everyone asking where my tomato trellises were because I didn't buy a single one. First of all I'm cheap and have like 10 tomato plants and second last year I had great success with letting them run wild and not pruning or trellising. And they are doing fantastic again! I love the chaos lol harvest can be a bit of a treasure hunt though 😅
Nothing wrong with an untrellised tomato! - KE
Everyone in CA be safe during this storm! Please don't underestimate a hurricane! Coming from a southerner! ❤❤
Appreciate you Travis - KE
Hopefully it looks just as good after the hurricane! Stay safe this weekend!
""Your videos are not only beautiful in terms of content but also in how you edit them ! keep sharing the awesome videos."🌹🌹🌹""
Thank you for that! Very interesting. I'm growing in SE Wisconsin and it has also been a weird summer. Our nights have been cool all summer. So the garden has been meh. Thanks again, love Epic Gardening/Homestead!
I feel your pain, Terri! - KE
Kevin, I saw your gourds and wanted to warn you to wait until the stems are totally brown before you pick them. Next, you need to dry the gourds for a year before you cut the hole for a bird house. Good luck, gourds are fun.
This is awesome 😎. I feel like you could look into some sort of permaculture style of gardening. It’s basically where you let nature do it’s thing in an organized way so you get all of the benefits. You should definitely look into it!
Hi Kevin, I love your garden and your videos. I was wondering if you could make a video on how you made the grape vine trellis/ line for your grapes, how to train them and how to trim them back in the fall! I have a garden book where they show ow to do it, but I'm not really understand what it is saying. I' m more of a visual person, I really have to see it is being made and how to prune them ! I want to plant some grape vines next year, and I really would like to grow them the way you have them instead of your traditional trellis!!!
The leek!!! Like a baby blanket that goes everywhere! I absolutely love your channel Kevin and co.!!!
Made me giggle too 😂
use your tomatillos to make salsa Verde! you can also make a tasty tomatillo pork dish!
Kevin, great video and your garden is looking amazing! I hope we get some tropical rains up here in SW Oregon...we haven't had any rain since I can't remember.
Good luck this weekend!
Thank you for the extra thank you seed packet with my botanical interests order, i love your channel, im not in a great place right now and it was a nice touch along with the wax paper decoration thing. Epic Gardening is officially my go to channel and brand for all things gardening, to me honestly its more than just gardening info and products, you have yourself a whole community and clearly an amazing team of people behind it and im glad i stumbled across it when i did some 6 or so months ago.
My experiment this year has been pruning and staking my tomatoes like a peach tree. So far so good
WOW that sunflower! I'm praying that you don't suffer any bad weather from the storm.
Thinking of you and your beautiful garden and hoping the storm heading your way causes no destruction.
Have a plan. No fear, just preparation 💚
Thank you Erin!! - KE
Thank you for leaving the wild stuff Kevin, that’s what gardening is all about!
Big differences for me this year too.
(1) First (MASSIVE!) success with onions, and more success with potatoes than in the past.
(2) Sad year for winter squash. This is in contrast to last year, when I harvested 9 "long pie" pumpkins from a single vine (!) and 4 pumpkins averaging about 12# each elsewhere, plus a good batch of wonderful delicata. I LOVE having squash all winter, but no: the fight against cucumber beetles, squash vine borers, and NEVER ENDING squash bugs robbed me this year. I have plans for next year that include giving the back yard a year off from cucurbits entirely -- which pains me, but it is needed!
(3) The new Birdie bed in my front yard is a bright spot. It is just SO beautiful, overflowing with nasturtiums and chard and purple kale and parsley from the front, bright yellow marigolds filling in the back corners, BURSTING with oversized aji chiles in the middle. (I had bush beans in the back row and have replaced them with okra, still growing.) From my office window I can see pedestrians stopping to admire it. It's my most favorite bed I've ever grown.
Oh, and like you: my back pathways are overgrown with volunteer sauce tomatoes!
I love how natural the pond is looking! ❤ I let my pumpkins sprawl and they do root themselves, got a lot of pumpkins that way! Love the passionfruit vine for covering that tank, pretty, and the bonus, fruit!! Yum!
My local nursery owner here in LA told me this is one of the coldest years we've had in California. Should be good for stone fruit and apples.
Your garden is very epic looking, great job ❤❤. Love that giant pumpkin, you should carve it for fall decoration.❤❤❤
Thank you! - KE
Good to see the year to year comparisons! My own garden surprises me every year, and not all of them are good surprises 😂 I do learn something from each surprise though! I’m in the Great Lakes area and it has been a year of weird weather here too.
I'm in southern California, too, and the weather had a negative impact on my veggies this year.
Wow beautiful video🌹🌹
Hey, I'm growing Birdhouse Gourds too for the 1st time along with my luffas. I can't wait to see how you cut out the holes in the gourds,, it will help me learn.
Dude this is beautiful. Here in Austin we are just trying to keep things alive. Stay safe from the hurricane!
I loved this tour! I would also love to see this sort of thing contrasted with "before" footage to see the difference. Everyone loves a good makeover!
Last year, our tomato harvest was pretty poor, because we had such a late frost along with a big cold snap hit us in Apri/May, along with a prolonged spell of high heat. This year, we were actually able to start planting at the end of February/early March and haven't had nearly the amount of high temperatures as the year before and we have harvested 3 cases of diced tomatoes, 15 jars of salsa, and are still picking tomatoes every day off of our plants. I think we figured between 2 - 2.5x9.5 planters we have picked/processed over 100 lbs of tomatoes. The year before we got less than a case of diced tomatoes. Our knowledge of how to fertilize/water/cultivate tomatoes has grown, but the weather being noticeably cooler than last year, as well as having a prolonged spring, has really been interesting. Hopefully next year will be somewhere in between the last two years or perhaps better. Our freezer is stuffed with green beans, peas, corn, tomatoes, onions, and green peppers.
An idea; build an individual birdie bed around each dragon fruit. Break the terracotta pot off as you fill in with more soil? I believe you can deadhead dahlias and not affect bulb growth. They should flower into October in your climate. Thanks for the updates.
You could probably secure those dragonfruit pots by wrapping them with some cattle paneand then covering them with burlap so they look nice. That way you won't have to disturb them. As for the posts, you could stabilize by adding more posts to the top or middle so it looks more like a trellis. Then prune. Your dragonfruit look great by the way!
The leaves of the sunflower are gorgeous!
Have you made a video of one of the dragon fruit flower opening? That would be cool!
Make tomatillo salsa or enchilada sauce! Even if you don’t like tomatillos but themselves, there’s so many good recipes out there ☺️
Yes, my weed tomato, too, tastes super delicious and good for my soul.
We got a cutting to fruit in 12 months. You have a few things to fix with your dragons.
1) No terracotta pots
2) keep wood trellises out of the pot
3) stop using Fox Farms soil
4) Check out our farm tours with the experts we interview.
That pond is absolutely beautiful
I really love the fact that you carried that big ass leek around for the entire video 😂
I'm too attached to it - KE
Thanks for the great garden tour right before the hurricane!
Thanks for a great tour & sharing successes and failures. Strange to see y’all bracing for a hurricane while we in NC haven’t anything happening but heat & humidity. Love learning from you and Jacques! Keep growing!
2:59 “That is huge” -Kevin (while taking a leek)
Amazing garden btw
I’ve loved watching you grow over so many years. Jacque is definitely rubbing off on you. I’m sure eventually you’ll just have a whole forest.
The pots almost look like a video game and you could be Mario and move around the garden though them. Lol
How much space do you garden in now? I don’t remember seeing that in past videos after you moved space.
Everything looks wonderful. The weather has been off everywhere. Stay safe. My fam is in Palm Springs with a lot of that hurricane coming through.
Wow! So exciting!! I love it all. Also super inspiring!❤
yall better prep your gardens for the CAT4 hurricane hilary heading directly to san diego in its gonna be a wet one, i suggest a pre-hurricane harvest
We're on it! - KE
Any other Ottawa, ON. people here? How are your gardens doing?
I had a bit of a late start, as I was busy building raised garden beds. :)