Robbie, I am so excited. You are my favorite. I followed your advice on growing potatoes... I'd always struggled with them and believed inwas incapable of growing them. A couple of YOUR VIDEOS and i harvested my first potatoes today!!! 😭 I planted in smaller containers. Literally threw chitted potatoes some in pretty sad soil added a few amendments a few months ago. Watered them, but really ignored them. I can't believe it. Thank you for what you do. You are teaching the world to feed itself. ❤❤❤❤
Robbie, you can compost the mint if you put them into a bucket of water with a lid and put the bucket in the sun. The bucket heats up and cooks the mint.
Hi Robbie & Gary Keep thinking one of these days you might create a cookbook. Sure do enjoy your videos 👍🏻 You two have unbelievable energy, creativity & successful projects 👏
I grow in totes due to many tree roots take over my inground beds. I built a 3-tiered cinder block bed just for my pineapples on a hill along one side of my house. This spring my neighbor (helper) and I cut a 20ft tree down with a pole chainsaw where I left 8ft of the tree trunk to hang a Staghorn thats been there for 6yrs. Under and around the tree I made it into a garden with 3 dragon fruit planters, about a dozen herbs in pots, cranberry hibiscus, and veggies in half barrels, and so much more. The whole area was leveled, outlined with scalloped edging and landscape fabric installed to control weeds. Behind this space is a flower bed that's 2-1/2ft deep with various flowers to attact butterflies and bees. Every week I set a goal to work on an area of my yard or to create a new project. My house is on a 1/4 acre with flower beds 3ft deep outlining my yard and back of my house and with 3 island flower beds plus a 4ft x 8-1/2ft raised garden up on 3 huge plant stands built 2 months ago. Living in Florida it can be difficult to grow until you learn fall and spring planting which has taken me years to learn.
Wow, what a great garden tour. It looks so pretty and I love the little wrens. Oh and the geraniums are just gorgeous. You have so many colors. The purple ones are blooming so good. Saying "Hi to Gary and Zoey." 🦋🦋♥♥🐦🐦🌸🌸💗💗
Loved the baby birds at the end. Thank you for sharing, and the tour was wonderful like always. You mentioned blue flowers. I started blue bachelor buttons 3 years ago and so many reseeded, I have them everywhere here in Southern Oregon. Beautiful blue. Hard color to find. I think I might get my totes filled this year and you are right--More totes next year LOL Happy Gardening!
if you cut the mustard greens before they bloom they are exquisite; you saute them with cilantro, garlic, onion and tomato, salt pepper or chili sauce as u like, it's called guisado de mostazas in Mexico. Yummy
I didn't know birds ate greens. I have some kale and collards that look like yours, but I thought it was the iguanas chowing down on them. Very good to know. Thanks.
I would love to see how many potatoes you get out of a dishpan. I normally use grow bags, and am not impressed with the low yield and most of them had black scurf on them. It looks yucky, but, still edible, however most were too small to bother peeling. I just harvested from my first tote today, and was thrilled with the amount of beautiful potatoes.
I have add sweet mint, chocolate mint and flowet to my self watering container. One I add chocolate mint to pot and put pot into that I put peppers, lemon balm, flower and tomatoe with water trough/compost container. The other water trough I add bee balm in a pot with soil around both pot in both trough. I'm hoping to bring in ladybug to help with bugs and help hummingbirds and bee. Thanks for the idea.
You mentioned that you would like to add some blue to your garden: The hummingbirds here in southern Indiana absolutely adore the Black and Blue Salvia - this is a gorgeous cobalt blue, considered to be a bi-annual here under ideal circumstances, and they can reach about 3 foot tall if they are very happy, and they will bloom all season long. I deadhead to keep them re-blooming at their best.
Can you do a video on propagating your geraniums? I’d like to do that with some of mine even though mine can’t ever get as big and beautiful as yours. Love them!
This am, the green ruby throat hummingbird sent sweet regards to the Robbie & Gary team and all helpers. Said "whew, i made it to wisc & thanks 😘 !!!!!!!! 🌄 *i'm hoping to see a mate.
Hey Robbie, put a tuna can into the ground level with the ground and put beer in it and the snails will drown. and yes tule. we have a cicada epidemic and i had to cover everything in tule. i have a bird nesting in my plant so i can’t plant yet. ugh i love forget me nots. we are in south east TN so not the same weather as california. we used to live in south cali near the salton sea. now we just grow in pots. we have your hummingbirds that come in summer but leave in winter! :) i use organic cane sugar and we named one of them raspberry with the redish pink chest and we name the female one baby. i love weeds cuz they are medicinal but looks somewhat unsightly! LOL
Man, I wish I had watched this before I went out and took down all the tall grass with seeds starting to form. Didn’t realize the birds would eat them. Just didn’t want them to grow again.
Robbie - what about the spearmint, peppermint, lemon balm etc that's been used to make teas? Can they be composted? They've been heated. When I can, I'll use fresh but in the winter months I'll use either dried or frozen, if that makes a difference. I hate to keep throwing it away after I've made my yummy herb tea. Thanks!
Hey Robbie I have turmeric and ginger sprouting leaves now I am so excited to see them blooming and I am in Eastern N.C. and love seeing Zoey even if it's just a peek ty
I thought of you, yesterday, I have hummingbirds feeders up, and the orioles keep looking for a way in, well, these hummingbirds are glass, so I didn’t want to ruin them in any way, so I found one of my cheap plastic feeders, and I made the holes bigger, but they didn’t have anywhere to stand, so I took an old lampshade, and put the feeder up inside of it, and hung it up, in my tree, but I haven’t been out there yet to see if they’ve used it. The hummers have used it, and they love to rest on the lampshade between feedings.
In my video description, tap on the title under the video, you can see the link for the tulle where I get it really cheap and just tap on that and go take a look at it 😊
I have one 18 gal tote full of Walking onions. How do I fertilize it? I've just been giving it the water that's filtered through other totes. I can't dig up any soil because there's no space between onions. Help. Also, will you share your recipes or ways of using your shark fin melon?
Yes on the shark fin melon 😊 You are doing fine with the walking onions, that may be enough, if you want, just drop some dried leaves or yellow leaves on top around the walking onions and they will slowly decay and feed your plant as well❤️
Got an idea for those rradishes... we heard they are very good roasted and or then pan smashed and fried - we are gonna try it.. outs just put in a couple of weeks ago !
Isn’t there a city ordinance or something. This is a rule or ordinance in my city where all business in residential areas start at 8 am -10pm. That’s pretty reasonable as long as everyone follows the rules. 🥺Or the owner is a distant relative of Sarah Winchester. 🤔 Nah! No worries. It should end real soon with the prices of building materials and all. Unless the have unlimited supply. 😮
Robbie, I am so excited. You are my favorite. I followed your advice on growing potatoes... I'd always struggled with them and believed inwas incapable of growing them. A couple of YOUR VIDEOS and i harvested my first potatoes today!!! 😭 I planted in smaller containers. Literally threw chitted potatoes some in pretty sad soil added a few amendments a few months ago. Watered them, but really ignored them. I can't believe it. Thank you for what you do. You are teaching the world to feed itself. ❤❤❤❤
Robbie, you can compost the mint if you put them into a bucket of water with a lid and put the bucket in the sun. The bucket heats up and cooks the mint.
Hi Robbie & Gary
Keep thinking one of these days you might create a cookbook.
Sure do enjoy your videos 👍🏻
You two have unbelievable energy, creativity & successful projects 👏
😊 Thank You so much ❤️❤️❤️
Chinese Forget Me Not have the nature of weeds
I too didn’t care for geraniums but after seeing some pretty spectacular ones I’m now a fan too 🙂
Took time for me to like them 😊 too ❤
Aww...look at the babies!
loveYOURfruittrees
I grow in totes due to many tree roots take over my inground beds. I built a 3-tiered cinder block bed just for my pineapples on a hill along one side of my house. This spring my neighbor (helper) and I cut a 20ft tree down with a pole chainsaw where I left 8ft of the tree trunk to hang a Staghorn thats been there for 6yrs. Under and around the tree I made it into a garden with 3 dragon fruit planters, about a dozen herbs in pots, cranberry hibiscus, and veggies in half barrels, and so much more. The whole area was leveled, outlined with scalloped edging and landscape fabric installed to control weeds. Behind this space is a flower bed that's 2-1/2ft deep with various flowers to attact butterflies and bees. Every week I set a goal to work on an area of my yard or to create a new project. My house is on a 1/4 acre with flower beds 3ft deep outlining my yard and back of my house and with 3 island flower beds plus a 4ft x 8-1/2ft raised garden up on 3 huge plant stands built 2 months ago. Living in Florida it can be difficult to grow until you learn fall and spring planting which has taken me years to learn.
I couldn't get chamomile to grow, then pineapple weed grew wild in the field. So, I guess I have wild chamomile instead. 😆
🤣 I bought chamomile once and it re-seeds when it wants 😊
Always a joy to watch, but how do you keep up with ALL these gardens,so never apologize for not having done something!
I love this video. Learned a lot.
Hi Robbie! Wishing you a great bounty! I love seeing what’s going on in your garden in California in comparison to mine in Oregon !
I think we have more Oregon weather than California weather right now😅 Thank you so much
Wow, what a great garden tour. It looks so pretty and I love the little wrens. Oh and the geraniums are just gorgeous. You have so many colors. The purple ones are blooming so good. Saying "Hi to Gary and Zoey." 🦋🦋♥♥🐦🐦🌸🌸💗💗
Hi Robbie!
Hi Jackie ❤
Loved the baby birds at the end. Thank you for sharing, and the tour was wonderful like always. You mentioned blue flowers. I started blue bachelor buttons 3 years ago and so many reseeded, I have them everywhere here in Southern Oregon. Beautiful blue. Hard color to find. I think I might get my totes filled this year and you are right--More totes next year LOL Happy Gardening!
if you cut the mustard greens before they bloom they are exquisite; you saute them with cilantro, garlic, onion and tomato, salt pepper or chili sauce as u like, it's called guisado de mostazas in Mexico. Yummy
Thanks for sharing 😊❤️
I didn't know birds ate greens. I have some kale and collards that look like yours, but I thought it was the iguanas chowing down on them. Very good to know. Thanks.
Although I have to say, iguanas sound pretty cool too! 🦎
@@pollytiks3885 They're the scourge to home gardeners in south Florida.
Try roasted radish. yum.
Another great tour. Those babies are too cute.
I would love to see how many potatoes you get out of a dishpan. I normally use grow bags, and am not impressed with the low yield and most of them had black scurf on them. It looks yucky, but, still edible, however most were too small to bother peeling. I just harvested from my first tote today, and was thrilled with the amount of beautiful potatoes.
Very cool
Thanks ❤
I have add sweet mint, chocolate mint and flowet to my self watering container. One I add chocolate mint to pot and put pot into that I put peppers, lemon balm, flower and tomatoe with water trough/compost container. The other water trough I add bee balm in a pot with soil around both pot in both trough. I'm hoping to bring in ladybug to help with bugs and help hummingbirds and bee. Thanks for the idea.
You mentioned that you would like to add some blue to your garden: The hummingbirds here in southern Indiana absolutely adore the Black and Blue Salvia - this is a gorgeous cobalt blue, considered to be a bi-annual here under ideal circumstances, and they can reach about 3 foot tall if they are very happy, and they will bloom all season long. I deadhead to keep them re-blooming at their best.
Can you do a video on propagating your geraniums? I’d like to do that with some of mine even though mine can’t ever get as big and beautiful as yours. Love them!
This am, the green ruby throat hummingbird sent sweet regards to the Robbie & Gary team and all helpers. Said "whew, i made it to wisc & thanks 😘 !!!!!!!! 🌄 *i'm hoping to see a mate.
Love it, 😊 Thanks ❤
We got ours in PA on May 3rd, which was 2 days early, now I have 3 or 4.
just about everything i have bolts cuz it’s so warm here.
Hey Robbie, put a tuna can into the ground level with the ground and put beer in it and the snails will drown.
and yes tule. we have a cicada epidemic and i had to cover everything in tule.
i have a bird nesting in my plant so i can’t plant yet. ugh
i love forget me nots.
we are in south east TN so not the same weather as california.
we used to live in south cali near the salton sea.
now we just grow in pots.
we have your hummingbirds that come in summer but leave in winter! :)
i use organic cane sugar and we named one of them raspberry with the redish pink chest and we name the female one baby.
i love weeds cuz they are medicinal but looks somewhat unsightly! LOL
Man, I wish I had watched this before I went out and took down all the tall grass with seeds starting to form. Didn’t realize the birds would eat them. Just didn’t want them to grow again.
Robbie - what about the spearmint, peppermint, lemon balm etc that's been used to make teas? Can they be composted? They've been heated. When I can, I'll use fresh but in the winter months I'll use either dried or frozen, if that makes a difference. I hate to keep throwing it away after I've made my yummy herb tea. Thanks!
Hey Robbie I have turmeric and ginger sprouting leaves now I am so excited to see them blooming and I am in Eastern N.C. and love seeing Zoey even if it's just a peek ty
I thought of you, yesterday, I have hummingbirds feeders up, and the orioles keep looking for a way in, well, these hummingbirds are glass, so I didn’t want to ruin them in any way, so I found one of my cheap plastic feeders, and I made the holes bigger, but they didn’t have anywhere to stand, so I took an old lampshade, and put the feeder up inside of it, and hung it up, in my tree, but I haven’t been out there yet to see if they’ve used it. The hummers have used it, and they love to rest on the lampshade between feedings.
OMG that is amazing that those wrens have that many babies.
I hear you just fine.
Thank you.
I wish I had a garden!
Copper tape wrapped around tree stem deters the snails. Also wrap copper tape around planter. (How do you use tule to stop snails?)
Good to know! Think I’ll buy some
Usually here, if the snails feel the tulle, they’ll turn around and go in another direction, the copper tape is good, but it’s so expensive here
Copper tape did not work for me. The snails and slugs still go thru it.
@@jlseagull2.060 I have hear that
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What are some good recipes for shark fin melon? I have planted a few seeds, and they are just growing fast!!
Where do you get your toul for the garden? New to your channel and just love it! ❤ Thank you!!
In my video description, tap on the title under the video, you can see the link for the tulle where I get it really cheap and just tap on that and go take a look at it 😊
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I would like to see u redo the 🍓 s on the chair. Maybe a member only video???😊
I have one 18 gal tote full of Walking onions. How do I fertilize it? I've just been giving it the water that's filtered through other totes. I can't dig up any soil because there's no space between onions. Help.
Also, will you share your recipes or ways of using your shark fin melon?
Yes on the shark fin melon 😊 You are doing fine with the walking onions, that may be enough, if you want, just drop some dried leaves or yellow leaves on top around the walking onions and they will slowly decay and feed your plant as well❤️
seed pods from the raddishes are very good, sometimes I just eat those instead.
Oh yes, thank you for the reminder. I eat them too. The seed pods taste wonderful.
Got an idea for those rradishes... we heard they are very good roasted and or then pan smashed and fried - we are gonna try it.. outs just put in a couple of weeks ago !
What is the name of that black thing with legs holding up your nectarine tree? Could you put in a link to it in a future video?
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My tumeric is up in Central Texas
Hi Debbie, we are going to be all week 50 degrees, too cold for ours here. Great that yours are growing!
I've been wondering. What are the cameras that you have set up on fountains and your feeders? I am in the market for the same thing! Thanks!
our geraniums never get that big what type are they?
Are those hummingbird babies??
hardly any of my seeds are coming up n we are having warm weather now. i don’t get it!
Do you have some ideas for how to prevent totes from cracking? Mine seem to crack pretty easily, only 2 years old.
She always says to keep them watered if you have soil, and if you need to move them empty it out.
How do I get the hummingbirds , ducks , and birds to trust me
Sit and spend time with them 😊
Isn’t there a city ordinance or something. This is a rule or ordinance in my city where all business in residential areas start at 8 am -10pm. That’s pretty reasonable as long as everyone follows the rules.
🥺Or the owner is a distant relative of Sarah Winchester. 🤔
Nah! No worries.
It should end real soon with the prices of building materials and all. Unless the have unlimited supply. 😮
Does turmeric and ginger need to be grown mainly in shade? Hope to get a response from you. 🥰
Here I grow them in morning sun not late day sun which is too hot and dry for them here in Southern California. Part sun is good, 😊 Take care
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy TY You take care also!! 🥰
I counted 8 mouths.
Pliz don't hurt the snails coz they're also trying to survive 😢
I hate forget me nots. You get sticky things all over your clothes and have to pick them off. They spread so fast it's horrible.