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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2024
- It took a little longer for the weather to warm up, but we're finally ready to start planting our raised garden beds! Plus we get a boost from Thirsty Earth - a super cool automatic olla watering system.
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00:00 - Intro
0:25 - Adding Trellises to Raised Garden Beds
5:22 - Thirsty Earth Ollas Explanation
8:56 - Drip Irrigation Ollas Install
20:40 - Planting Vegetables & Flowers
25:13 - Bird Protection
25:25 - What Did We Plant?
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This is such a big moment for TSH! Makes my heart happy watching Ashley plant her long awaited garden!
BTW I also plant marigolds bc they also keep pests away... And a "quick tip" (from us Canadians) I use for my apple & cherry trees is... I hang a bunch of aluminum pie plates from the branches, and it scares the birds away. (Just when the cherries and apples come out. If you don’t mind the look of it??? Very economical...) And, love your whole system 😍 I can't wait for your results 🌶🫑🥒🍅🫛🥕🥬🥝😋
Good tip Noella 👍
I always keep a thermos of very hot water handy when working with drip irrigation. Just dip the hose in the hot water for a few seconds and it becomes nice and pliable and makes connecting to fittings easy. When it cools, the tubing shrinks back to shape.
Dang! That's a good idea! Thank you for sharing that. 🏆📚🫖🐝🖖
or a lighter works well and for bigger pipes and butane gas burner ;-)
Damn that's so smart
Pretty interesting information, may your garden grow to be lush and bountiful. Have a good week and God bless amen.
Maybe put the reservoir bucket's outside the bed as they look like they take up valuable plant space.
Or hang them on the hog wire?
@@benlipinski3818Nice idea but wont work well here in the SW desert, maybe up north because that Bucket plastic disintegrates in about a year when left outside year-round in our desert Sunny days. Hanging them up with 5 gallons (40 lbs) of water weight will only accelerate them falling apart from the stress of the weight.
I was thinking that too... you'd have to put them on a platform though
Probably have to be up high for flow
Yeah a platform over the top of the bed, and herbs can come from out below. Needed for gravity, I expect.
To keep the felions from uprooting wanted plants, push plastic forks, tines up, into the soil next to them. Cats will look elsewhere to scratch.
We use the plastic fork method and it mostly works.
Great idea! Not expensive and looks good.
Thank you! That’s a great idea. I have feral cats and this will work great.
Clever idea! Thanks
I’ve also seen people use tulle fabric to keep birds & critters out. Won’t help with the dogs tho🥴
The garden will look wonderful 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
My dad grew up on a farm. When he helped me plant my garden he always "watered in" the new plants. For example with a tomato, he would put water in the hole, then plant the tomato up to the first leaf, putting much of the stem into the ground. Then water it again once it was in the ground. I did notice that the ones I did with this method did better, then the ones I watered just from the top. Love your beds and your marigolds.
plant seelings at a severe slant , wind won.t break them
If you see praying mantis eggs for sale in the garden section in Tucson I highly recommend buying some. I live in Phoenix and found some at Lowe’s, they all (150-200 of them) just hatched and are successfully defending my garden from aphids and caterpillars
Interesting!
Wow…very cool idea!
I love praying mantis!
As well as being useful for the garden, they are so cool to watch.
One of the few bugs that I'm not afraid of.
I recently moved, and just realized I have not seen any in my yard or the neighborhood (currently, the only thing I've seen in my garden are very large grasshoppers, and a handful of small lizards. Fortunately, the grasshoppers aren't eating anything... which is kinda strange).
It's cool to know that you can buy them. I'll have to look online to see if I can get them shipped.
I know the Lowe's, and HD here in Yuma wouldn't have them.
I have a desert garden. Last year I planted brussel sprouts for my first time. All of them had lots of bugs. I tried diluted dish soap but it didn't help.
@@gowest5145 that sucks 😞
I am a total novice when it comes to vegetable gardens, so I don't have a whole lot of "tools" in my tool box.
I would've done the same thing.
I did sugar peas, twice over the winter.
The first time they got a few inches tall, and then started dying from the bottom up (same thing happens when I try tomatoes).
Figured they weren't getting enough sun, so tried again in my other bed.
This time they actually produced a handful of pea pods (just like my tomatoes), then they started dying from the bottom up again.
I guess I'm going to have to start googling, and watching more gardening videos... again 😏
Your Mom was smart. Marigolds are insect deterrents. Not only do the insects not like the smell, you can take the petals and soak them in water then strain them and use them to spray your plants and veggies. They also make a great hair conditioner along with sage, lavender and rosemary. You can dry the herbs and make a tea to pour over your hair.
At the end of the line just have an extra bit of hose that it’s held up to the height of the top of the refill bucket. Leave it open.
That way if you forget to fill the bucket and it drains you won’t have to bleed the air out again from all the cotta cups 💕💕
Having been an arid land farmer the only advice i would offer for smaller scale gardening in an environment like yours is do not underestimate the wind.
I can see and hear it in the video, it will dry everything out quicker than anything else and do it even at night.
Personally i had to create wind breaks to protect from both west and north, iron fence, rows of trees and shrubs, then a second fence just to protect a 1/2 acre or 2000 square mtr plot of garden,
i also planted on the east side of every building / shed, this way is protected from the west and only gets half a days sun in the blazing Australian summer.
You two were matched up in heaven I swear!!
That is going to be one nice garden when everything is planted. Easy way to water, so cool 😊. Are you going to plant green beans?
Y'all are such visionaries and I'm amazed how beautiful your visions always come out. Love your garden, enjoy and thank you for sharing with us.
Great progress. I’d move the water containers out of the beds fort about an extra square foot of growing space ! On benches or cinderblocks if you have some, etc etc
Not really room near the fence to do that for us.
The way you suggested won't work, because the water needs to be near the plant in order for it be effective. Otherwise it would be watering the soil and not the plant.
@@TinyShinyHome what about on the other side?
I don't think 1 square foot will matter much, just adjust the plant spacing.
Beautiful. My garden is fenced in all around just to keep my dogs out. Learned the hard way when I planted seeds years back and they had a digging party there 😮
Much easier to fill cottapods first either with hose or just in a waterfilled bucket so that afterwards it is just al little air left.
Hi guys. Just started watching your site…love it. Today’s installment with the raised garden beds was great, especially the irrigation system. I’ve been doing raised beds for many years, but fortunately for us water isn’t as much of a concern. Still may take a look at it for its water preservation properties. All that said, one thing you may want to consider is the height of your bird protection, and the eventual need to stake your tomato plants. In fact, from what I could see, most of your plants will outgrow the hardware cloth very quickly.
However, don’t despair!
You need doggie protection, right? Well, that hardware cloth can make short fencing along the inside of the beds! Drive sturdy sticks (about 4ft x 1/2 inch or so, with about a foot or two above the soil) into the soil around the inner edges of the beds, and then zip tie the hardware cloth pieces to the sticks. Works great, trust me. If you run out of your scrap hardware cloth, you can get rolled chicken wire cheaply (you may already have scraps) and use that. It looks like you only need it to be about a foot or so above the beds to prevent those little guys from getting into your dinner.
For bird protection, these little fences provide nice sides to attach bird netting. It’s inexpensive at Lowe’s, and you literally drape it over stuff. Works great for other wildlife pilferers, too, as they hate messing around with that stuff! If you get a big piece, carefully unfold it on a non-windy day and cut to sizes you want, to save money. Or you can get smaller pieces (maybe 8ft long x 6 ft wide, not including the trellises). If you want the trellises covered, then wider pieces so it drapes down. Drape over your plants and leave it…the stuff will catch on the plants and stay put, even in wind. One thing, if growing viney plants like cukes, beans, etc, you will have to keep the vines from growing through the mesh, so I’ve never used it on my trellised veggies. If you feel you need it, however, then drive stakes (tall sticks higher than the trellised veggies) and then drape your mesh where they are. It’s ridiculously simple and cheap! To tend and harvest, just lift up the edges of the mesh.
One more thing, watch for snakes in any trellised plants, as they love the shade, camouflage, and coolness of well watered plants. Just need to carry a stick and tap wherever you will stick hands or get close (sides and above). Don’t worry…they usually take off when this is done, and it won’t be a problem. Just basic dessert/warm climate safety.
Good luck with it all. You guys rock!
Oh my! You just solved 30 year desert gardening drip irrigation issues for me. I have tried tubing above the beds (evaporation), the plugs you stick in beside the plants (sand/dirt clogs), drip irrigation hoses (desert heat breaks them up). I also have been researching ollas. 1 4x8 kit ordered. If it works as shown and promised, I will need 6 or 7 more! Yes, I know that I can diy craft them and dig bigger holes, but at 73 with arthritic hands & knees, kits are easier for me! Thanks for posting this video.
@@mycinnamongirl Yes, I agree it is cheaper. I tried this a few years ago but digging the bigger holes was very difficult for me. Also more difficult to keep them filled. Then there is the problem of making sure you don’t break the bigger pots due to not correctly gsuging the size of the buried pot.
Love, love your trellis arrangement.
Thank you for the demonstration of how to release the posts. That is something I recently struggled with.
Dogs and other animals - what about a solar electric fence around the garden area? It looks good and I hope the new water system works :D
Great instinct! marigolds will also help with some pests around tomatoes and other plants and encourage pollinators. Perfect companion plant and also edible!
This was by far the coolest thing I’ve seen you do since I started watching I don’t know how long ago! I loved watching Ashley put those plants in the ground, it was so relaxing! This is the neatest system! I’m excited to see all the plants blooming and making good stuff to eat! It was nice to catch a glimpse of Adelei , too, we don’t get to see much of her these days. Everything you do always looks so completely, neatly, professionally done. I loved Ada getting her groove on in the background and the puppies with their love attack on Ashley! The music was awesome as well. Very satisfying adventure with you guys today! Thank you so much for sharing it.
really? cooler than where's it at Wednesday?
Marigolds are also very good against soil eels ( a root eating small worm) just keep a few flowers of the ones you like most after blooming. They are very easily grown next year.
Everything you do just looks so neat (like tidy neat) and cool too. 😍 I'm gonna look into the raised bed system bc I want to add a bed or two to my garden this season, so thanks for the introduction🙌 Stay safe, be well and see ya next time👋👋👋
All gourds like trellis. Add mulch on your beds to retain water too. Good luck growing!
I like the olla system and have added Thirsty Earth to my list of gardening resources. I confess to a bit of jealousy to your garden. I have been gardening for decades in the urban desert but I don’t have a yard anymore. I was planning to transition to hydroponics before I moved into a small condo to save water. Now I’ve had to get creative with my space. My plan is a mix of hydroponic systems and planting dwarf varieties. My patio is 6’ by 9’ and I have a wicking bed system on 3/4 of the patio with a 23 gallon reservoir on a timer. I have a stacking tower on a 5 gallon reservoir. The pump in the reservoir is also on a timer. I have plans for an ebb and flow system later. I have LED greenhouse grow lights for supplemental lighting. Inside, I have a small NFT system under the kitchen peninsula and a DWC system in the walk in closet. (I have a total of five closets so…) I have grow lights and fans for ventilation in both areas. I do have to hand pollinate the indoor gardens😒. I have a micro greens set up that I will start up again as soon as I unpack it. I plan on trying sprouts in jars next to the herbs on the kitchen counter. I’m growing mostly micro dwarf varieties of tomatoes, cucumbers and melons. I have lettuce and seedlings in the kitchen NFT system and have mixed success. This year is my time to experiment and learn a new way to garden.
Please let us know how this works for you as the year progresses. Thank you!🖖🐝📚🫖
How do you like the Thirsty Earth system? I am highly considering ditching my drip system in my raised beds and going with this system instead.
Nice job! You may know this you you can prick off all the bottom leaves of a tomato plant and burry the stem to the last 4 or 6 leaves. Roots will grow all along the buried stem. For this reason I always buy the leggiest tomato plant I can find. Any long branches you pruned off can be rooted in water to give you more plants.
I've done this, and it works well. Both the strip-the-stem method and the rooting-in-water method. More plants! That's a 👍 good thing!
I see a picket fence in your future. Puppies are such curious creatures. But, gotta love em. The Terra cotta pot are an awesome addition!!
Your tomatoes and cucumbers should do well using the hog panels for support
I always look forward to your vidios. They are fun and you give us viewers information that we can apply to our homes
Yay! Planting your raised beds! I love the hog panel trellises! Those purple flowers are nice! Thanks for showing how to pull out the t-posts! I want to try that! Nice butterfly decoration Ada! Thirsty Earth irrigation! Cool! God works in great ways! I love the bucket system! Great idea! Raised beds seem to dry out faster so this system will really help. I like the block you put the reservoirs on. You always amaze me in the systems you build for your homestead! I like the "Y" connectors so you can go along each side. Thanks for explaining about the quick cut of the hose so there will be less leaks. I like the air relief screws in the buried terracotta ollas(waterers). That is such a wonderful watering system. Good idea to zip tie the reservoir handles to the trellises! Yum, salsa plants! Tomatoes, peppers, and onions! Cukes too! I put marigolds in too to keep pests down. I love the bells at the top of the trellises! Good idea to use the hardware cloth around the edges. We do two foot hardware cloth around our raised beds to keep our chickens out! One of our roosters still jumped in and wrecked a bed. The hens don't do that. We made wood frames to attach the hard cloth to so it's removable in one action. Yeah, dill and basil. Watch out, dill will take over! I grow my dill in a separate pot on our deck so it doesn't take over the garden. Yay, peas too, more cukes, and Luffa! We have 4 foot tall cylinders of woven metal fence with 6 inch spacing between the wire that we use as tomato cages and it's sturdy and works really well. There is plenty of room to stick your hand through the wire to grab the tomatoes. This looks amazing! Thanks for this video Longnecker family!
Try planting some green onions around the inside edge of the raised garden. This may deter the dogs especially if the take a bite
Love , love, love your garden, trellis and watering system. Great explanation Jonathan! Can’t wait to see how beautiful your garden grows! Thanks for sharing!
This is one of the best systems I have ever seen!!!!!!!!!!🎉🎉. Consider moth balls for dogs and plastic Owl for bird
Nice. I like this planting setup. I just know that your harvest is gonna be epic.
So cool, what an awesome system!
Go go go...I really like videos like this 🎉🎉🎉.I wish you a good harvest.
I found out the hard way that Tomatillos can overwhelm a raised bed! They got 3 feet tall and crowded everything else out. You might want to put them on a awake near the house where they can spread out as much as they want. Also, plan on buying more garlic to put in the fall, Sept or Oct. they’ll grow all winter and you can use the leaves for cooking until the bulbs are ready to harvest about July
Swale, not awake. Stupid word correct
Wow! so impressive, love the garden and of course, always need marigolds 😃
what freaking great video -- keeping making more content for us to watch -- we love your family!!!
Just remember melon plants get HUGE and take up a lot of space, so I'm not sure how that's gonna work for those tiny beds with all the other plants in there. Love the system though and it will be interesting to see how it all works out in the end! 😊
I have a low maintenance self watering garden that is in containers. I got the idea from You Tube gardening with Leon. I would love to share pictures with you but can't figure out how to attach them here. I'm an old man with a bad heart and this method allows me to keep gardening. I love watching your channel not just for the building and developments but also the family comradery and love. Thank you for allowing me to share your family
Fertilize those tomatoes woman! They need a snack to get a super start ❤😂
Love seeing you plant your garden. Up here in Minnesota it will be awhile it is still snowing.
Think about all the veggies that you can replant after you’ve cut. Ex: root end of bunching onions, the top of the carrots, the bottom of the celery, and of course potatoes that have sprouted and so many more. ( I’m sure Ashley knows all this)
I don't comment often enough, but you all AMAZE me!! Thank you so much for taking the time to teach us.
Missed seeing Ada and your youngest son (sorry I get the boys names mixed up a lot) having their usual hijinks!
Jax.
Thank you so much for sharing the tip about removing T posts. I have injured my ribs twice trying to get t posts out of the ground and I have two big ones sunk in gravel right now and, for the life of me , I cannot get them out and now I’m afraid to try because of injuring my ribs! Also, I like your watering system. I have had to resort to putting garden pots on my carport roof to escape the plague of grasshoppers on the ground that annihilate most of my vegetables. I would like to try some thing like that system you are using. Thank you!
Sorry to hear about the grasshoppers. I wish you the best with that plague.
Oh the patience this takes!!
Those zip ties will fall apart, glad to see the correct steel ties being used and thanks for the Tpost removal trick.
Uv zip ties - try them sometime ;)
Marigolds are a great pest deterrent for gardens.
So beautiful! I miss planting tomatoes and peppers. My Indiana dad and mom who had marigolds in a planter on the front porch. We learned years later this was to keep mosquitoes away. And he had hummingbird feeders to go after mosquitos, too. Thank you for sharing your lives and adventures. 😊
If I had a company, I would soooo want your family to be my spokespeople. You are just awesome. Good on ya’ Thirsty Earth!
Very cool looking! Can’t wait to see it with growth!!
Remember the high winds during monsoon season. Secure those reservoir buckets! ❤️🌱
Oh! I didn’t watch far enough! Of course you thought of securing the buckets. 😂
They are ground gophers , other vegetarian ,animals that like vegetables and herbs, out in the desert to eat your garden 😮 Sooner or later a fence around the garden will keep everything safe wonderful will keep all and other animals OUT!
All of you guys done a good job 👍
I like how you tell the both good and negative aspects of the product. Perhaps they will modify or include a tube cutter that corrects the leaks in future product. I thought you would grow some of the tomatoes up those trellises.
❤😊 Just like everybody else I’m so excited for all of you guys, I’m jealous that you’re planting, here in Illinois it’s currently snowing. So my garden hast to wait. I would buy cilantro seeds, and then you start every three weeks along the edge, and just wait for them to come. The watering system you have is so cool I can’t wait to see how it does for you guys
Yay for new garden stuff!! I can’t wait to see stuff growing over the arches, that’s gonna look so pretty. I wish our summers up here didn’t reach the 120°+ degree temps, I’d totally invest in something like that for my back patio. ❤😊
😂totally nailed that second high five 😂
Marigolds help keep pest out of the garden. They also help pollinate the garden.
Maybe make a stand at the end of each bed for the 5 gallon buckets to have a little bit extra growing space, even if they were elevated a bit above the bed.
I have used silver wrapping ribbon tied onto fencing to ward off birds... I have two tower planters on my deck and I got a bunch of spinner pinwheel things at the dollar store and put them into my planter spaces to keep my dogs away from them as I have had digging occur in planter dishes in the past. So far, so good.
Ashley get you some shiny ribbon tye pieces around the trellis just enough to fly in the wind farmers use it to keep the birds off the fruit it should work the same way they don't like to see the reflection of light flashing about. Good luck
Love fast garden videos. I hope you grow a ton of goodies for all. I seen a video on the loofah and it really looks fast and easy . I know that the videoing is always appreciated by Ashley and Johnathan and it is really done well. See you on your next visit.
I don't know about dogs, but cats seem to think mu garden beds make the bestest place to poop. I found moth balls keep them out. If anyone knows of a scent dogs don't like I am sure we could all appreciate input. That watering system looks great, I will have to check out their stuff. My beds are much larger and made of old metal doors from a school. They are great except its hard to get to the centers. My problem since moving here is the soil, last year I found a total of 4 worms, after MUCH amending we found worms, worms worms, maybe we will have more success with the garden this year. Knock on wood.
I have found that I like growing cucumbers on a trellis no bending over looking for them.
When I am short on time, I would use the auger for drilling into compost to aerate it . . . instead of shoveling it. When I have the time, I would turn the whole pile.
Garden beds look great!!!😊🎉❤
What is more satisfying than to plant your future/food😊
The music selections for your videos are really well chosen. ❤
These garden beds will look amazing once everything is growing. Maybe build a fence around them. Hope this irrigation system works. Love and be safe!😘🤗🌼🇻🇪
Add a brick to inside bucket that will also keep from blowing away! Great video as usual!
It has to be a flat cut so it’ll seat at the o-ring just after the teeth . I worked in plumbing and several customers would return their quick connect fittings so we’d have to instruct them on how to install fittings. You can purchase a cutter that will cut per tubing and will work for this type of project
Just remember that zip ties will only last one growing season (or less), and will need to be replaced when they start failing (breaking). Twisted wire is not as easy to install, but won't need to be replaced. Great job on your raised garden system.
I was told that marigolds repel flys. That's why they had them by the doors.
I love you guys and your whole Family! That includes Ocho and Mojito yum veggies soon !!!
Great job kiddos. You're doing it right.
Beautiful!!
This is Magda Mienie from South Africa. May I suggest that you plant the tomatoes next to the trellis because the tomatoe plant's branches are not strong. When they fruit the tomatoes are lying on the ground. You can support the plant with the trellis. I wish I could plant a garden. Sadly I can't because we must move here. I wish you luck with your garden. ❤😅❤
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So to help you resolve the leaks after you shove the line in the connecter, pull back out on them a little and it's OK if the blue tab comes back out a little there supposed to. If the blue tab is pushed in the lines release. That's how you get the line out of the connector. Push in the line, hold the blue tab in and pull out on the line. Yall have grown your property so much its beautiful.
Wow!
I love the garden placement so close to your home. It's going to be gorgeous!
Tomato plants need support as they grow up. You planted the tomatoes plants far away from the wire trellis. Unless you plan to put sticks and tie them later. Awesome job, I love to follow the progress on your homestead!❤
Love this!!!! 😁
Im very interested in how this works for you guys lt may be a good solution to my watering needs on my patio,🌻🌼🏵️❤️
MAYBE Jax & Ada could decorated the water containers that are tied to the hog panels.
LOVE watching y'll - I went back and watched really old videos - to get my TINY SHINY FIX!
First of all, I love you guys. With the gardening and the birds, I may have an idea that you want to try out. Red and silver 1 inch bird tape and you tie it up so it can wiggle in the wind maybe 2 feet long and birds think it is fire, and therefore they will not land there, hang them from the trellises or on a stick or a tree nearby. That is the least invasive, affordable solution that I can think of. You might want to discipline your dogs and tell them no if they approach the plants or if they want to dig. You need to teach them what you want them to know. I enjoy watching you guys and I have been a fan of what you are doing, living off grid and off the land.
looks amazing
Looks great
Ohh I like that watering system. I’ll be watching to see how it works out.
Awesome job 👍👍👏👏
Very neat watering system
That is just too cool!😊
Exciting times. 🇳🇿 ‘how does your garden grow?’ With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row.
wow awesome episode! love yall
AHA! Saw the butterfly from MCC Welding School! Neat about the Olla's. Looking forward to what you need to do next to protect your crop.
I've used spinners to keep birds away. I tried kids pinwheels first to see if it helps with great results so the ventured into garden spinners that not only keep birds away from my railings but also are so pretty.
Congrats on planting!!!!!
Amazing option!!! Love it!
I always rejoice when you guys have accomplished another task. Way to go!
Absolutely awesome love it team work
Love the gardens. I need some of the thirsty earth and the beds. Pups are so cute as always.
Loved the vlog, very informative.