2023 Garden Tour: Living Walkways Gardening
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2024
- After six years of growing a big garden here on the farm, I've finally found the method for me - something that allows me to have a huge garden with (almost) NO weeding....living walkways are a game changer. I've tried so many other methods and they just didn't work for me. I've tilled and hoed between rows, I've done heavy mulching, I've done lasagna gardening Charles Dowding style (still got soooo many weeds) - for me, this method is it. I'm sticking to this because it allows me to have a huge garden and grow a substantial amount of food without being married to my farm all summer. We like to do other things in the summer too aside from gardening so spending hours every day weeding isn't something I'm willing to do.
I don't remember where I bought my weed barrier or I'd link it. The pole beans I mentioned are Blauhilde from Baker Creek - my absolute favorite pole bean that thrives here in 6b every year.
If you have any more questions about anything I have planted, just ask in the comments and I'll try to answer.
Also, my blue dress is from my favorite Christian-owned capsule shop. I've been purchasing one or two items from their monthly collections for about a year now and I finally have a capsule wardrobe I love! www.neuflora.com/?ref=W4OeJ
00:00 Introduction
01:39 2023 Garden Tour
08:15 Living Walkways Gardening
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Welcome back. I found your channel recently, binge watched all your videos and made my first batch of homemade noodles. I love your videos because they are so rich with information without all the extra fluffiness added like so many influencers nowadays. THANK YOU for being a breath of fresh air!
Thank you so much!
Amen amen! What she said!
Same!!
Same here!
Oh my goodness. What a heavenly harvest!
I was bummed when I found you about a month ago, and no new content. I also understand and respect the need to unplug.
Would love to see more food preservation videos. Maybe eggs? Herbs?
Anything :)
You have a beautiful spritit!
God bless you and your family spiritually, mentally, physically, and financially in Jesus name amen.
Welcome back!! You’ve been missed.
I planted clover in the rows of my garden and the honey bees and bumble bees absolutely love them. When it gets too high, I weed eat it down and it grows right back. It also keeps nuisance weeds out, like sticker bushes.
Great idea!
Are you prepping your soil at all before laying the cloth! Love this! I’m a busy mom too and gosh I would love time to weed 😂💗💗 but I don’t!!
As a 10 year professional landscaper, I recommend doubling up the cloth.
Two layers adds a lot of life, and prevents exposure tears from casual walking on the material.
Also, mulch will stop the material from breaking/aging prematurely due to sun exposure.
Cool video. Have a good season.
Thank you this is really helpful, I may double up next year!
I don’t think I’ve ever heard this before, what a great idea to have living walkways!
You're back!!!! Yay!!!! I'm so excited!!
Gorgeous garden! Thanks for the update! Glad to see you back!
I wondered what happened to you.
Glad you're back.
Nice job on garden looks great 😊
Thank you!
So glad you are back! I don't have any other media other than TH-cam, so I was pretty bummed thinking that maybe you were done making content. Your videos have encouraged and inspired me in my homemaking. God bless!
Same here!! ❤
Love your garden! So encouraging! Glad you're back on TH-cam!
So glad to see you return!❤
I am so happy that you are back!!! I binge watched all your videos after finding your channel a couple of weeks ago and was bummed that there were no new ones. I love all of the content that you put out please don't stop. Happy that you and your family are well.
Looks amazing! So very blessed to have come across your videos and super glad to know everything is ok and that you’ll be posting again when you can. God bless!
So happy to see you back. I totally get taking a break, sometimes it is just needed. Your garden is beautiful. Thanks for sharing. 💚
That is a very smart way to garden. Thank you for sharing.
Hello - so happy to see you again.
Your films are full of useful info.
Thank you ❤
Glad to see you back 😊 We just found you a few weeks ago, and since then we watched most of your videos. Great to see a new one and glad to see all is well.
I have always loved the living walkways, I think they are so beautiful!! Thank you so much for sharing, it looks awesome!! I rent in town-ish, so for now have raised beds, but this is definitely the way that I want to go when I get my own land!!
Oh I’ve missed you!
I just found your channel and I am absolutely loving it! We have a 15 month old & I agree with much of what I have heard you say and things you believe in! Continue using your voice for good. Can’t wait to connect on Insta and keep up with you and keep gaining knowledge from your videos! Thanks a lot! Sending love to you & your family! 🫶🏻💕
Good to see you!
So glad you are back !! Missed your videos. I really like how you don’t let work stop you from having fun. Take care Steph :)
Beautiful garden
Beautiful ❤
Everything looks great!
So glad to see you back! 🎉
Happy to see you back 😊
So glad you’re back ❤🎉
Great to see you back! I look forward to more videos!
I’m so glad you’re back!
Yayyyyyyy. I'm so happy you're doing well!
I’m so, so excited your back!! Can’t wait what you have to show us!! Love, love your channel!
So happy to see you back! The garden looks amazing
I have a comment about your garlic…if you trim off the scapes ( which are edible) you allow the plant to focus more on bulb growth. Wait until the leaves start turning brown before harvest. You should get bigger bulbs.
Thank you! I just harvested the scapes yesterday and watered heavily today - hoping for big bulbs this year!
So happy to see you back!!! Love this garden update and I’m so glad it’s flourishing for you 🤗
I’m so glad you’re back!!! Missed you!!!
Welcome back! Hope you have a bountiful harvest!
Thank you for sharing! Very excited to see new content from you! Hope you and yours have a wonderful summer and we’ll be happy to see you whenever you’re ready to come back!
Glad you're back! I recently found you as well and binge watched all your videos. Your garden looks lovely!
Welcome back!!!! 🐣😊
Just started watching you’re old videos. They are very helpful. Glad you’re back
I had just started reading up on living paths to help cut back on weeding. Thx for the share Love your garden
Great job with your family farm it really looks good. Very new to your channel, but enjoying your content very informative and helpful 🥰 blessings ☝🏾🙏🏾❤️
I always do breaks! :) always follow my intuition when I need one
Those are some very nice-looking cows! The garden looks wonderful too. Well done
Glad your back! I just so happened to make your marshmallow recipe for the first time today and then saw a new video! Garden looks fantastic 👌
🥳🥳🥳 I found your channel earlier this year. It's been very helpful, and a blessing to be able to see.
I'm so happy you're back!❤ Amazing garden... I'm in the Colorado Rockies and my veggies are only about 3" tall.😅 I do Baker Creek seeds too!
Your garden is very productive. You have a really good system there.
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I'm doing the same thing, even rolling the black plastic in between the rows.
I have found you recently and I am so glad I found you! And the living walkways in the garden, that is happening in my garden because grass is growing. I just weedeat it, and honestly, I don't mind, and this is my first year of not worrying if every piece of grass is gone. It's a game changer and less stressed! I am going to try tour washing detergent also! I didn't like the clumpy home made kind, and I didn't have essential oils and I love what you did. So excited to try that!
New sub! Your channel has blessed me immensely and I thank God for you❤
I take long breaks too! I only use TH-cam to learn the Word/Bible study and homeschooling/homesteading!
Same here! I love these platforms for the education and inspiration - but breaks are always so refreshing!
@@HopewellHeightsamen. Very rare to find someone with the same values and following God so wonderfully! God bless and guide you and your family always!
Once again- my husband saw this and I was vindicated in my "weirdness". We actually have had rabbits in "tractors" this year we've been using to mow the pathways this year.
WOW if i had all that land? i would be planting all kinds of veggies. Great video. Awsome!!!liked and shared.
Oh yay! You're the one person I wonder about since I logged off Instagram months ago. Glad to see your face here again
Garden is working while your having fun with the kids awhile
I love this idea. How do you keep rabbits and deer out of the garden 🤔
Love this! Do you hand water, or did you lay drip irrigation? How often do you need to water with the barrier? This looks perfect for my space. Thank you for sharing!
Welcome back ❤️ I will add that here in VA we have wiregrass (Bermuda grass) and this wouldn't be possible since it creeps in and is so invasive. But great idea! If we didn't have that I would totally do this as it is much less work and much cheaper (compared to plastic or mulch)
Oh we have that in Oregon and it's the bane of my garden!
@@juliabrown5948 it is so terrible
Also, would love to see a video on your 2023 homeschool curriculum! 🤗
Noted!
awesome! you weed eating without pants and shoes gives me anxiety haha
Lol a death wish 🤣 I’m only this wreck less in the garden when I know it’s just grass!
This is brilliant. I really believe that this is a way to make a garden sustainable as one ages. Weeding can do a number on both your body and time budget. I get so many weeds in my littlest no-dig bed, but my garden that I covered in this landscape cloth requires very little weeding (it is covered in mulch however). Thank you for sharing. I missed it--but did you say you tilled before laying down the cloth? Or do you simply put the cloth over the grass?
This ground was already prepped earlier in the winter with lots of manure so it did not need to be tilled!
Do you still water your plants? We live in Iowa where people don’t normally water, we do the wood chip method, would you recommend putting woodcuts or straw over the fabric to keep water in the soil?
Also! If you have ducks or rabbits you can use a tractor in between the rows for fertilizer(rabbit and duck poop can go straight in the garden)/bug eaters (rabbits won’t eat bugs but ducks will eat anything) / and grass mowing (ducks and rabbits both do a good job)
So intrigued by this method!! I’m curious, do you do anything before you lay out the weed barrier? Or just do it over the grass and let that kill it? We have a lot of wire grass that is crazy resilient.
I was wondering the same... It looks like it's nice clean dirt under the fabric... Did you weed before you laid it? Or put down cardboard or something?
Love your garden! What is the living walkway? Grass? What kind? That is beautiful!
Yep just grass this year, next year I’m planning on sowing clover
New to your channel. Lovely property. The living walkways is a great idea but i would be concerned about vining plants, or others that will want to grow into the walkway..seems like you would not be able to cut the walkway down at that point and it would grow out of control. How do you desl with that?
I have cattle paneling for my vining rows so I just have to make sure to train my vines to climb that, but stakes & string would work as well
you can pick up a second hand push mower inexpensively.
I’ve thought of that and I’m very tempted!
sorry is this is a high maintenance question lol, do you worry about microplastics in your food when using that weed barrier?
Yes! I considered that
Do you till the areas where you put the weed barrier first, or just lay it out on top of the grass?
Nope! I just laid it on the grass a few months before growing season when everything was dead. But if you need to ammend your soil then you could till to get started
@@HopewellHeights thank you very much!!!
What state do you live in? My wife and I live in Michigan
Where did you get the tunnel?
Cattle panel!
What did you use for trellis?
We just use old cattle panning and fence posts - works great!
@@HopewellHeights neat, it looked like concrete mesh from the video. Garden looks great, live your ideas!
Are you worried about the weed barriers leaching chemicals into your food?
Yes I’m sure it will to some extent - I’ll take the trade off since it’s so low maintenance!
Maybe you should reconsider I converted from Catholic to Christian like Paul and the early church did nothing more nothing less Acts 11:26/Rom 16:16 Matt 7:15.. do like watching your videos nice garden
I left Catholicism before to be “just a Christian” so I understand that mindset! But I’m confident in returning 😊
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