What a coincidence, lol! Laura says to get this planted before whatever storm arrives and looks to the distance… lightening strike in my real life, also waiting on a storm.
I learned to plant potatoes from my grandmother who was taught by her Scots-Irish grandfather, whose family left Ireland in the wake of the potato famine (which killed over a million people). Potatoes became a food staple for Ireland’s poor tenant farmers because you could get high yields out of a small area. So you could feed your family healthily out of a small plot. Unfortunately, people came to rely on potatoes so much it was completely devastating when the blight hit in the 1840s and the majority of the population was left with no food. Ireland’s population before the famine was 5 million. After, it was approximately 3. Approximately 1 million people left the country to escape the devastation and seek opportunities abroad. Consequently, there are more people of Irish descent outside of Ireland than actually live in the country today. One of those immigrant families was the Kennedys, who of course produced a President of the United States. So the simple potato had a tremendous impact on history.
Your south garden shed is such a great asset! You’re going to get a lot of use and enjoyment out of it and the Hartley for years and years to come. My garden shed has seen better days and needs replaced, but our local contractors are so booked I don’t know when it will happen. Eventually. 😊
Everything is getting so organized! The flower shed will be so nice for planting in the cut flowers garden. Wish there was a way to see how much time you will save driving back and forth to the barn to get supplies! Everything will run much more smoothly now! ☺️
Amazing video Laura!! I’m telling you she goes above and beyond to teach her audience how to do gardening! I absolutely LOVE HER!! Your amazing Laura!! You have inspired a lot of people including me and I’m only 15! And I’ve being gardening since I saw your planting bulbs in December video!! And now I teach others how to grow their own plants on my channel Ultimate Gardening! I love you Laura never let nothing or no one tell you, your not capable!💚
I was sitting here thinking, “I just love Laura!” Then I thought, “Is that weird? It’s not like I know her.” But I feel like watching her with her plants and her family, gives me a good example of her character and her heart. And I think she is just fabulous.
Laura when you snapped off that red bloom I laughed and thought well without pulling the bulb we will see this same scene next year when it appears again 😂😂
Red. Ugh.......It ruined her entire 'color' scheme......Good riddance. If it comes back next year, we'll have another good laugh at her pulling it out. (entire bulb next time?)
I appreciate your teaching style in this video! I consider myself an intermediate-ish gardener, but I would have LOVED this as a beginner gardener. It’s just nice to know how many more gardeners are learning from you (and motivating all of us) to join this gardening community! Gardeners are some of the chillest, kindest people I know! It’s probably something about being close to nature 🌱
I've grown the purple majesty potatoes, they're SO fun to cook up & eat. The color stays when cooked so it's a fun treat to eat purple potatoes. I didn't make a potato salad with them, but that would be fun. They have good flavor & even mashed up with butter take on a lighter purple color. I think you'll enjoy them & so will your kiddos ( it'llbe interestingto see what Aaron thinks, please record a video of his reaction 😄).
I'd love to see how you would tackle a wild raspberry patch to align the plants into rows with minimal root disturbing and how you'd stake and tie them up on a budget.
The potato tutorial was really helpful. As for the purple potatoes I love how you say they’re an experiment since you’ve not grown them or cooked with them. That’s one of the many encouragements I’ve gleaned from watching your videos. I’m trying new varieties, planting combinations, colors and textures because of you, Laura. Thank you!
I've grown purple majesty! They're pretty good! I think the purple color includes more vitamins or something? Either way, I grew them for the color and they were super tasty roasted along with asparagus (all cut into 1 inch pieces- even the asparagus). Really nice bite sized pieces seasoned with garlic. They were sooo pretty and tasty along with our home raised steak from our Brangus type cattle. I look forward to seeing you make some purple mashed potatoes! Would be so fun for the kids 🤣 definitely green eggs and ham energy!
Just discovered your channel a couple of months ago and have been marathoning ever since!! I’m embarrassed to admit this, but am I the only one that had NO IDEA that you can literally plant a potato to get potatoes?! I think my head exploded 😂.
Laura, you always pick on yourself for having dirt on your face after planting, but honestly it makes you all the more beautiful! It's a sign of your hard work and shows how much you love what you do 🙂
As a kid growing up on a mixed farm, we hand planted 20 acres of potatoes. Rows were marked out by a horse drawn sled. We walked along and cut and dropped sets . They were planted about 1 foot apart using a toe to keep any stragglers in the row. The sets were planted raw and we never tried to plant eyes up. The planted rows were hilled up with a hiller and we walked away. Potatoes had no problem growing.
When you hit the city drain cover, it reminded me about how we help to protect any in ground lines electric/water/sewer in France. The lines are usually laid a meter (3ft) or more under ground, and then covered with soil, leaving 1/3 (1ft) open where we lay a long strip of red mesh over the buried lines, then cover the red mesh up to ground level. This way, when digging, you would hit the red mesh first indicting you to stop digging. I'm not sure if that is a practice here in the states, maybe might help you guys with any new lines being laid.
@@barbaracarlson1331 but they won't locate any lines that you personally have installed. We have an electrical line between our house and my husband's workshop that was installed by personal friend who is an electrician. When I called Digger's hotline they came out said that wasn't their responsibility.
There suppose to put caution tape a few inches above the pipe and a piece of tracer wire. But alot of times one or both of these get skipped usually the tape and they just have a tracer wire, which isn't great as it just tells you the general area it runs, it could be a 1ft to the left of the mark or 1ft to the right. Then the depth can be anybody's guess really certain things are supposed to be a certain depths but.... that subject to the contractor doing it. Especially when it comes to cable lines I've seen anywhere from 18in to just 2-4in below the surface
The aggression from finding a rouge red tulip 🤣 Laura and Aaron you’re a part of my daily routine and I really look forward to coming home from a day at office to find your joyful voice to inspire me to look forward to the weekend and binge garden! Thank you for your ongoing inspiration!
That little flower shed looks like a perfect kids' party place for all the seasons--- decorating different themes inside and outside. Outdoor party activities from water balloon fights, to pumpkin carving, to snowball fights. Small enough to decorate thoroughly and large enough to seat a bunch of happy kids!
And the red tulip lives for another year. Perhaps for an annual “gah, what is that red tulip doing there?” reaction from Laura. 😂😘 Random red spring flowering bulbs would be a perfect April Fool’s prank, Aaron. 😉😉
The purple potatoes are so good as a potato chip, maybe air fry them. Loving how all the new updates is looking, so exciting to see the changes on the property coming together.
It was nice to see the inside of the flower shed, but I’m sure I’m not the only one thinking “That orchard area is looking fluffy”. We never got a spring bloom update?!
I think I saw on the Garden Answer IG that the bulbs bloomed, but they all came up super, super short. Like only an inch above the ground in some cases. I can’t imagine how frustrating that must be!
@@chrissihr1031 I grow hundreds of bulbs. Frequently the first year they are short as they adjust the depth themselves. It also can depend on where they were grown before. They should be fine next year.
@Garden Answer 👋🌞Good morning Laura! The Flower Shed is looking so beautiful! It will be nice to see it completed and construction supplies gone. Those berry beds are really coming to fruition. I know you will be excited when you can reap the rewards of them, this year. That is going to be a LOT of taters. It is wonderful and generous of you and Aaron to gift some of your bounty to others.🥰 You cracked me up when you spotted that red tulip, again. You pointed it out a video or so ago. "Look at this; we have a rogue. How dare it." Off with it's head...😂🤣😂 That was such a bummer about the utility box being right where you wanted to plant the evergreen. 🤦♀️Oh well, like you said, finding it saves the entire rest of your flower bed.🤷♀️ New opportunity... It looked like the storm blew in pretty fast, by the end of this video. Have a Blessed and Beautiful day! Kimberley F in AZ 🌞🌵
My father taught me to cut my potatoes and then put them inside a paper bad with bone meal and shake it all over the potatoes. Then let the potatoes sit for a couple of days and then plant according to preferred method. Works great~Thank you Laura~
When planting potatoes in your own garden, one should always use "certified seed". Not only does it protect your own potatoe crop but it protects large farmers around you from disease that might be in potatoes. You should always know where you get your potatoes from that you are using for sets.
Laura I love that you always show your technique, like how gentle you were with your raspberry sucker transplants, where as I just rip them out with reckless abandon much like you and the red tulip! 🤣 Love to see all the progress, thank you for sharing your enchanting space with the world!
Oh multicolour potato salad is THE BEST! We have a local farmer nearby who focuses on growing pink flesh, purple flesh and orange flesh new potatoes. I add german fingerlings to her mix and boil them whole (to maintain colour) then halve them once they cool. It's a jewel-toned show-stopper at dinner parties. I dress it with olive oil, mustard, parsley, dill and lemon with just a touch of yogurt - so it doesn't obscure the colours. So pretty, try it!!
It's so nice to see you kept your grandfather's table!! :)❤💚 I believe it was your grandfather's table? The little blue/green table in the cut flower shed(00:09:12).
Good morning, Laura ☕️. The flower shed has a Hoselink 🤣🤣 Aaron “heard” the green light from you 😂. The tulips 🌷 in the orchard are all filling in nicely. That is a ton of potatoes 🥔😳. I’ll have to keep my eye out for those lilacs! I too love the smell of them. Have a Blessed Day 😊🐈
Of all the spaces, I am most excited about the flower shed. What a beautiful workspace surrounded by fruit trees and looking out over the cut and veg garden. I can’t wait to see it filled with old cupboards of vases and pots! My daughter loves the purple potatoes best. We have done mashed but fries and roasted are the way I like them. I am definitely going to look for the Tiny Dancer. I would love to put in smaller lilacs in my garden.
Garden Answer is simply amazing! God blessed you because you are truly making a difference in peoples lives, to see the natural Beauty all around us. Thank You for that
Love your videos!! My parents have grown blue potatoes before and when you boil them they loose the purple color… so no weird mashed potatoes or potato salad! I agree the best way to keep them purple is to roast or crisp them! Great color addition!
Hey Laura, the purple spuds make great crisps. If you want to make things really interesting you could make a crisp medley using the purple potatoes, orange sweet potatoes, & the white potatoes. Also, they say the universe gives you what you need, not necessarily what you want; given you keep getting random red flowers popping up, do think the universe is trying to tell you that you need more red in your life?😝😂 Thanks for yet another wonderful video. I get so excited when I receive a TH-cam notification on my screen each night at 21:30 (Aus EST) that there is a new Garden Answer video!! 🤗
Bronwyn Newell I was confused by your potato comment until I realized you must be in the UK. In the US a crisp is similar to a fruit pie with a crumble topping. I think you mean some kind of French fry or potato chip.
@@cynthiafisher9907 Hi Cynthia, actually I’m from Australia. I meant a potato chip, like what you would buy from a shop in a packet as a snack (Lays, Pringles, Kettle Chips). I was actually going to use the term “chips”, but I was concerned it would be confused with “hot chips” or “fries” haha. I didn’t even consider that in USA “crisps” would be considered as a pie haha. Thanks for the heads-up. Who would have thought that one product name could have such a vastly different interpretation despite being in the same language!! I really applaud people who have come from non-English speaking cultures & successfully learn the English language…it really is a very complicated language!! Anyway, thanks again for the heads-up, I’ll try to be more mindful with my terminology. Hope you’re having a wonderful day! 😊😊
All the various projects of this video were so fun and informative. LOVE the 'Cut Flower Shed'! The natural color of the wood inside is so beautiful! I hope it doesn't get painted, it really brings such a warmth to the space and looks beautiful as a backdrop for projects. It relates so well with the more informal look of the area around it with the meadow flowers and orchard. Do you plan on keeping it that way?
Purple potatoes are so fun. Mashed purple potatoes are delicious and a great way to get picky eaters to eat different things. Purple potatoes, purple carrots, purple cabbage, purple veggies are just fun and packed full of different phytonutrients than other varieties
We love purple potatoes and, in particular, purple sweet potatoes (a variety I cannot remember the name of) that tastes exactly like a cake! I'm trying to get the right variety, so every year, I order different purple sweet potato varieties hoping to 'discover' it again!
Oh Laura. I can’t tell you how excited it makes me to see your structures coming together. I can already envision all of the beauty that will be created this summer in the shed with the cut flowers. Could you and Mom make some cocktails this summer with all the berries!?!
Love when I see a 28 minute video. The longer the better! Lol I love to watch and enjoy my first coffee of the day. My husband knows I get to watch Garden Answer before he can get the iPad. I know how it is to start digging and realize the dirt only goes a few inches. Our house is from the 1920’s. When we first moved in, we went to plant a tree and a flower bed. Realized there is actually concrete that goes out about 4 feet from the slab.
Laura and the red tulip should either be a meme or a book title 🌷😂 Just wondering, how will you keep the birds away from the blackberries? I think I remember that the birds beat you to it last year.
Here in Hawaii we eat purple sweet potatoes, either the Molokai or Okinawan varieties. You can mash them up, and add some coconut milk to add some creaminess. Yum!
I just love hanging out with y’all and seeing your beautiful gardens come alive with blooms. This time of year is so pretty with everything waking up for the season. Thanks for taking us along on this journey and season of life. Hugs. PS - I would love, love, love to be able to have a flower shed like yours. It would be to me what The Hartley is to you!!! Maybe someday. 👩🌾☀️💕😍🌷🐝🦋
Natchez blackberry is part of a group named after native Americans. My home town, Natchez, MS is named for the Natchez as we have several mounds & artifacts from that period. Natchez is the oldest settlement on the MS River and features many antebellum homes but sadly their gardens are lacking IMO, as I have a 'Laura style' of gardening. It's still a beautiful little town. Aaron would love the architecture I believe.
@@julieclark9173 Please do! Spring us beautiful with azaleas but weather is unreliable until late April, May. Summers are hot. Fall is my favorite season because of the light. There's the Great MS River Balloon Race in Oct and Ghost Tours (sells out quickly) in Nov where locals portray past residents during evening tours of our city cemetery, one of my favorite places. Let me know if you make it!
My parents have a whole bed of Natchez blackberries. They live in Alabama and the plants handle the heat and humidity superbly. They start getting gallons of blackberries mid-late June in their 7b garden. Plus, no thorns which is great!
Triple crown and black beauty are amazing blackberries! Huge and delicious. I live in high heat and desert…very similar to garden answer actually. They do better with trellising, but so good! My soils is a bit different though. She said triple crown. I have been growing that for a few years now! So good and sweet. Just don’t pick to early!
It’s so fun seeing all the bulbs and meadow flowers in the background. Hoping we get a full tour of all the thousands of bulbs we watched you plant so many months ago. 🥰
Purple potatoes are fantastic! They taste like a Yukon gold but with more nutrients than a regular yellow or red fleshed potato. Super fun for kiddos too. Super excited to see your garden this year!!!
Love the potato project in the cut flower shed.....the beginning of so much more to come👏The scent of a lilac is an old fashion true springtime garden treasure!❤️
I love using purple fingerling potatoes with carrots or butternut squash and Brussel sprouts, red bell pepper. I roast them with olive oil, rosemary, salt and pepper. Beautiful combination and yummy.
Good Morning, I don't think you need to keep that box cleared of mulch, just find a nice rock that is not too heavy or a small statue to place on the top as a marker. It will add interest to the area and let you know right where the box is in case someone needs access. What about using a ground cover, like lamium, for the rest of the space?
I was so excited about the Hartley update yesterday, I almost completely forgot about your shed in the cutting garden! 🤣 It is looking so beautiful!! I LOVE the wood finish inside and those tables look beautiful in there! You have such a talent for envisioning a space as you want it! I think I share you and your mom's tastes as well!
A great variety of potatoes! I agree with you about the purple potatoes- you won’t want to boil them with any other potatoes because they turn everything purple. They are great as chips/crisps though. Watching you prepare the potatoes for planting reminded me of the movie The Martian 🤣. It also reminded me of a long time ago when I had some potatoes I thought were spoiled, threw them in my mulch pile and they grew new plants!
Thanks for taking us on your daily journeys in your gardens. Your property is looking great! Always interesting, and I learn a few things here and there. My daughter and I were just talking about growing potatoes.
Purple potatoes are fun! The kids especially think they’re pretty neat. And odd as it is, making a potato salad with them is really beautiful, especially if you add in lots of fresh green herbs!
I don't normally comment, but I had to share what a small world we live in. I started watching this channel while working from home. Now it is my daily ritual to drink coffee and spend my morning with Laura and the family. I have been eyeing the drill and auger for a bit. I decided to go all in and buy the combo pack with your link. I was SHOCKED to find out I was supporting a small family owned business in the town my family and I grew up in. How funny that watching someone from across the country makes me support a local business. It turns out it really is a small world!
It is uplifting to know some of these challenges, like a box where you don't want it, but can't move it, or some plants just don't make it, despite your doing all you could/doing things well. Makes me feel better about the random things that challenge us in our landscapes and efforts. THANK YOU for this, always learn something here.
What is funny is we have the Gold raspberries that you love in EVERY garden center I've been in this spring. Too bad I can't ship them to you from Maryland. 😆 Love the lilacs and the size! That is perfect.
Your area must be where the Gold raspberry grower is located. Crazy isn't it? Maybe the cost of fuel is keeping plants more localized this year from the growers. Happy gardening!
The kids would love the mashed potatoes with the purple potatoes! LOL My daughter loved it when I did that. LOL I also heard that MaryCarl at Cog Hill loved them too. Give it a try.😃
I am new to you channel. I saw your last vid about Lilac and didn't realise that they were a shrub as when we moved in there was a 6ft garden fence blocking the view behind it. I thought it was a tree, with several mini branches coming from the roots. It is as tall as our dying conifer tree (Ivy plus neighbours cutting it down over our fence). I am not good with height measurements but it is as high as the 2nd storey/ 1st floor ceiling. It is in bloom rn and i love seeing this. With have a passion fruit running up in front of the fence and another pink bloom is our bleeding hearts growing slightly under our dwarf red acer tree, alongside some blue bells. I am learning about no dig atm and encouraging my hubby to be a bit more organic with the lawn. We both seem to have taken to our roles organically in terms of who looks after what. It is the first house that i haave lived in and we have renovated it head to toe. With regard to the garden, hubby cares for the lawn, hedges, watering and helps with digging our doggy clay soil (although not so much now, with the soil improvement techniques and no dig). I research plants, fruits and veggies, prepare our own potting soil and plant seedlings. I made a google spreadsheet this year to be super organised and to help me out next year. It's a UK garden/back yard so its wet clay and not massive compared to the US about 70ft from the house. I learnt from your channel that some of our bushes are called Euonymus! So thank you again! Renovating our garden has been fun but hard work. That weird fence in front of the conifer and Lilac was actually full of garden waste and motorbike parts 6ft high! We ordered a skip but it was that old we found a mummified rat! We called him Roger so not to scare the kid and made a grave for him next to the dog bones we also found.... We de-Ivyed the conifer tree but we had to cut down some other dead trees back there. We now have a play house and mini shed chest for garden stuff and the BBQ storage area. We cut out a hole in the fence like a doorway to access the back area. The lilac is now fenced off too for wildlife as we have finches living in there. The lilac is on the back right and the dying conifer is on the left. In front of the conifer on the other side of the fence we have planted a pear tree and a cherry tree. The pear tree was finally fruiting last year, but then the new renting neighours decided to cut down their conifer tree, with nesting birds into our garden, along with their elderberry tree, which we were allowed to harvest the over hang to make jelly. This was last year in May on my birthday, whilst we were having a BBQ, with my dad on a support network day out. I cried. Anyway, this year we managed to rescue the pear tree. I am not sure how many conference pears it can support. I did prune it in winter and this week cut off some ill looking post flower buds. There are still about 20 potential pears to form. Should i keep an eye on them or cut more off? I don't wish to over stress the trees. The cherry tree isn't coming back this year i don't think but i think i found a self seeded cherry tree, which i potted up last year as it was a competition between the birds and us picking the cherry's the year before! lol Our wild birds have also graced us with some bramble. There is a massive wild blackberry/bramble bush near us. We also bought a raspberry cutting on sale last autumn that is budding. Going to up pot these soon as we have limited space. Forget crazy cat lady, i'm the crazy plant lady come summer! lol I have learnt about cover crops, succession planting, mulching, how to build a tiered wormery, composting and interplanting to prevent bugs. I have learnt that everything does not succeed but i love experimenting! Regrowing leeks. I also found a sprouting potato peel in the composter. I thought the white bit was the root but it was the plant as it resurfaced. Even after uprighting it and separating the peel, i still managed to get 1lb of potatoes from a single peel sprout. Potatoes grown at home taste totally different from the shop ones!! We bought first earlies - Orla. Using the Tony method from Simplify Gardening. Got some great plants showing. We put 14 in a large 3ft/1mtr wide terracotta pot. 7/7 on each level. Have no idea how we are going to harvest them all but last year, i just put my hands in the same container to pick them out.
When I was growing up, my Dad and I grew 2/3 acre of potatoes, 1 acre of sweet corn, and 1/2 acre of everything else. Mom would buy a 50lb. bag of potatoes from the store and cut them up like you did. We took them from her and planted them, we did not leave them over night. I don't know if that is the right way but we always had a huge crop at the end of summer. I was one of 5 kids so we ate a lot of potatoes. We also grew 2 beef cows, 6-8 pigs, 24 roosters, and a few turkeys each year for meat. We had a few dozen egg layers as well. We were pretty self sufficient back then.
Purple mashed potato is fun! 😁 My mum grew then when we were growing up. Ohhh... Those Lilacs and tulips look AH-MA-ZING!!! You also could have just popped a pretty boulder on that box in the flower bed.
Seeing you over the year or so that I have been watching take plants and moving them gave me the courage to do that. I had a Pieris that was not doing well I moved it and replaced it with a yellow twig dogwood. Well that pieris is showing new growth!! You helped me save that plant and I am SO EXCITED! Thank you!
You went to the garden centre and we didn't get to say hi to your Mum! I've just realised how I look forward to seeing her smiley face and hearing her cheery voice! I felt so disappointed when you grabbed those potatoes and next thing, you were home again.
I just planted potatoes for the first time ever! You inspired me last year to plant them this year. Thank you for your inspiration and learning experience. I’ve learned so much more in the last year watching your channel and Gardening with Creekside! I have worked in Greenhouse’s and planted flowers and veggie gardens but have not planted certain things and with what I’ve learned I’m encouraged to try planting things based on you videos! Thank you! 🥰❤️
We are technically in the same zone as you (we are in SE Michigan) but compared to your area and other places in the country in “our growing zone” we are at least 2 weeks behind you in terms of spring color. It is just now that the trees are budding up and the daffodils are finally blooming and I have yet to see a tulip bloom. I just can’t wait!!
So nice to see you in the flower shed. It’s looking great! Thank you for the great video on planting potatoes. Very helpful. Also, helpful on the berries. Can’t wait to see what happens there. I wish I could watch you all day in the garden🌷
Great video, super informative! A tip I have for picking blackberries is to wait until the berry is dull instead of shiny, that really makes a big difference in the sweetness. I’m actually pulling my blackberry vines out because they’re so aggressive, I’m thinking of moving them to another part of our property but haven’t decided yet. I prefer raspberries 😊
Purple mashed potato would be fun for the kids 💜 When my sisters and I were little, Mum coloured our mash potatoes blue. We thought it was the coolest!! It was the only way we would eat mash ☺️ Now we all love it… white mash now though 😂 My daughter loved the idea when I did it for her a few years back.
Love this video. A question I have is, why pick up more potatoes from the garden center to cut up and plant (other than for more variety from what you have stored)? Why don’t you use the sprouted ones in the root cellar for planting? Just curious!
I grew up on a farm and have planted and dug a lot of potatoes in my life, not so much lately, but on the farm. I have always been a little OCD and my grandmother used to tell me as we walked the rows planting by hand that I planted the straightest rows of taters she had ever seen, lol. Now, I plant them in grow bags which makes digging obsolete. Anyway, yes, red la soda and red norland are related. Red la soda (both actually) is an excellent new potato. Dig them smaller even than the seed potatoes you bought. Wash it and boil them, then eat with butter and hot sauce (my current favorite is cholula). Of course, new potatoes are also good boiled and served with butter and mint, too. Yummy! As for blackberries, I have tons of Himalayan blackberries I could send you and I can guarantee you they wouldn't have died, lol. They're tasty but the worst invasive plant I have ever seen, far worse than kudzu.
P.s. if you have potatoes stored that are sending up shoots, you could have used them for planting. Probably would have saved you a lot of money. At least where I live now, seed potatoes are crazy expensive. You can even plant organic potatoes from the grocery store although I would let them chit for a few days if I was going to plant in rows.
LOL!! Anyone else get The Queen of Hearts vibe from Laura when she pulled the red tulip? Love her!!🤣🤣🤣
My first thought was "off with their heads"! 😆 My #1 favorite flower is tulip, so my thought was "hey, No! Not the pretty tulip!"😄
Red tulips are my fav, also red geraniums. Come to think of it, anything red.
That one red tulip .... messed up her entire 'color' scheme, that she has worked so hard on.
Off with it's head! ❌👤 ❌ Ha.
I popped open the comments I was laughing so hard…how dare it… The loudest snap of the day 😂
What a coincidence, lol! Laura says to get this planted before whatever storm arrives and looks to the distance… lightening strike in my real life, also waiting on a storm.
My daughter loves purple potatoes! Colorful foods are fun for kids :) Purple and yellow cauliflower too!
Purple potatoes are so tasty! When I get the little fingerling potatoes, I always eat the purple ones first. I need to grow some!
I learned to plant potatoes from my grandmother who was taught by her Scots-Irish grandfather, whose family left Ireland in the wake of the potato famine (which killed over a million people). Potatoes became a food staple for Ireland’s poor tenant farmers because you could get high yields out of a small area. So you could feed your family healthily out of a small plot. Unfortunately, people came to rely on potatoes so much it was completely devastating when the blight hit in the 1840s and the majority of the population was left with no food. Ireland’s population before the famine was 5 million. After, it was approximately 3. Approximately 1 million people left the country to escape the devastation and seek opportunities abroad. Consequently, there are more people of Irish descent outside of Ireland than actually live in the country today. One of those immigrant families was the Kennedys, who of course produced a President of the United States. So the simple potato had a tremendous impact on history.
Great info!
That's how one branch of my family came to be in the states. We were from county cork! Thanks for sharing this info.
Your south garden shed is such a great asset! You’re going to get a lot of use and enjoyment out of it and the Hartley for years and years to come. My garden shed has seen better days and needs replaced, but our local contractors are so booked I don’t know when it will happen. Eventually. 😊
Everything is getting so organized! The flower shed will be so nice for planting in the cut flowers garden. Wish there was a way to see how much time you will save driving back and forth to the barn to get supplies! Everything will run much more smoothly now! ☺️
Hi how are you doing?
Amazing video Laura!! I’m telling you she goes above and beyond to teach her audience how to do gardening! I absolutely LOVE HER!! Your amazing Laura!! You have inspired a lot of people including me and I’m only 15! And I’ve being gardening since I saw your planting bulbs in December video!! And now I teach others how to grow their own plants on my channel Ultimate Gardening! I love you Laura never let nothing or no one tell you, your not capable!💚
I was sitting here thinking, “I just love Laura!” Then I thought, “Is that weird? It’s not like I know her.” But I feel like watching her with her plants and her family, gives me a good example of her character and her heart. And I think she is just fabulous.
Laura when you snapped off that red bloom I laughed and thought well without pulling the bulb we will see this same scene next year when it appears again 😂😂
Yep.
Red. Ugh.......It ruined her entire 'color' scheme......Good riddance.
If it comes back next year, we'll have another good laugh at her pulling it out. (entire bulb next time?)
I appreciate your teaching style in this video! I consider myself an intermediate-ish gardener, but I would have LOVED this as a beginner gardener. It’s just nice to know how many more gardeners are learning from you (and motivating all of us) to join this gardening community! Gardeners are some of the chillest, kindest people I know! It’s probably something about being close to nature 🌱
I've grown the purple majesty potatoes, they're SO fun to cook up & eat. The color stays when cooked so it's a fun treat to eat purple potatoes. I didn't make a potato salad with them, but that would be fun. They have good flavor & even mashed up with butter take on a lighter purple color. I think you'll enjoy them & so will your kiddos ( it'llbe interestingto see what Aaron thinks, please record a video of his reaction 😄).
I'd love to see how you would tackle a wild raspberry patch to align the plants into rows with minimal root disturbing and how you'd stake and tie them up on a budget.
The potato tutorial was really helpful. As for the purple potatoes I love how you say they’re an experiment since you’ve not grown them or cooked with them. That’s one of the many encouragements I’ve gleaned from watching your videos. I’m trying new varieties, planting combinations, colors and textures because of you, Laura. Thank you!
I love love love purple potatoes! Great flavor!
I've grown purple majesty! They're pretty good! I think the purple color includes more vitamins or something? Either way, I grew them for the color and they were super tasty roasted along with asparagus (all cut into 1 inch pieces- even the asparagus). Really nice bite sized pieces seasoned with garlic. They were sooo pretty and tasty along with our home raised steak from our Brangus type cattle. I look forward to seeing you make some purple mashed potatoes! Would be so fun for the kids 🤣 definitely green eggs and ham energy!
Just discovered your channel a couple of months ago and have been marathoning ever since!! I’m embarrassed to admit this, but am I the only one that had NO IDEA that you can literally plant a potato to get potatoes?! I think my head exploded 😂.
Laura, you always pick on yourself for having dirt on your face after planting, but honestly it makes you all the more beautiful! It's a sign of your hard work and shows how much you love what you do 🙂
As a kid growing up on a mixed farm, we hand planted 20 acres of potatoes.
Rows were marked out by a horse drawn sled. We walked along and cut and dropped sets . They were planted about 1 foot apart using a toe to keep any stragglers in the row. The sets were planted raw and we never tried to plant eyes up. The planted rows were hilled up with a hiller and we walked away. Potatoes had no problem growing.
Snapping the red tulip is Laura’s equivalent to Aaron’s sunflower volunteer murder 🌷 🌻 😂
Well done Laura! That out of place... Red tulip was messing up your entire gentle color scene. 💮🌼 💮🌼
When you hit the city drain cover, it reminded me about how we help to protect any in ground lines electric/water/sewer in France. The lines are usually laid a meter (3ft) or more under ground, and then covered with soil, leaving 1/3 (1ft) open where we lay a long strip of red mesh over the buried lines, then cover the red mesh up to ground level. This way, when digging, you would hit the red mesh first indicting you to stop digging. I'm not sure if that is a practice here in the states, maybe might help you guys with any new lines being laid.
Usually the lines are covered with a specific type of sand and a caution tape is place on top with more of the sand on top
In our area we call Digger’s hotline to locate all service lines. No charge for this service.
@@barbaracarlson1331 but they won't locate any lines that you personally have installed. We have an electrical line between our house and my husband's workshop that was installed by personal friend who is an electrician. When I called Digger's hotline they came out said that wasn't their responsibility.
@@michellezimmerman7827 I believe Laura mentioned that this was their city’s installation.
There suppose to put caution tape a few inches above the pipe and a piece of tracer wire. But alot of times one or both of these get skipped usually the tape and they just have a tracer wire, which isn't great as it just tells you the general area it runs, it could be a 1ft to the left of the mark or 1ft to the right. Then the depth can be anybody's guess really certain things are supposed to be a certain depths but.... that subject to the contractor doing it. Especially when it comes to cable lines I've seen anywhere from 18in to just 2-4in below the surface
I appreciate the fact you let us see a few dead plants in your garden. In a “photo shop” world your honesty is refreshing!
The aggression from finding a rouge red tulip 🤣 Laura and Aaron you’re a part of my daily routine and I really look forward to coming home from a day at office to find your joyful voice to inspire me to look forward to the weekend and binge garden! Thank you for your ongoing inspiration!
That little flower shed looks like a perfect kids' party place for all the seasons--- decorating different themes inside and outside. Outdoor party activities from water balloon fights, to pumpkin carving, to snowball fights. Small enough to decorate thoroughly and large enough to seat a bunch of happy kids!
And the red tulip lives for another year. Perhaps for an annual “gah, what is that red tulip doing there?” reaction from Laura. 😂😘 Random red spring flowering bulbs would be a perfect April Fool’s prank, Aaron. 😉😉
😂 “how dare it” lol
LOL that would be so twisted if he did that 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love it.
The purple potatoes are so good as a potato chip, maybe air fry them. Loving how all the new updates is looking, so exciting to see the changes on the property coming together.
It was nice to see the inside of the flower shed, but I’m sure I’m not the only one thinking “That orchard area is looking fluffy”. We never got a spring bloom update?!
I think I saw on the Garden Answer IG that the bulbs bloomed, but they all came up super, super short. Like only an inch above the ground in some cases. I can’t imagine how frustrating that must be!
Could you possibly put a large pot or pedestal planter on top of that spot which could be moved if they need access to it??
@@chrissihr1031 I grow hundreds of bulbs. Frequently the first year they are short as they adjust the depth themselves. It also can depend on where they were grown before. They should be fine next year.
Been waiting for the Spring Garden Tour..in fact, I've rewatched previous years garden tours..
Yeah, have you noticed she doesn’t bother showing the failures
@Garden Answer
👋🌞Good morning Laura!
The Flower Shed is looking so beautiful! It will be nice to see it completed and construction supplies gone.
Those berry beds are really coming to fruition. I know you will be excited when you can reap the rewards of them, this year.
That is going to be a LOT of taters. It is wonderful and generous of you and Aaron to gift some of your bounty to others.🥰
You cracked me up when you spotted that red tulip, again. You pointed it out a video or so ago.
"Look at this; we have a rogue. How dare it." Off with it's head...😂🤣😂
That was such a bummer about the utility box being right where you wanted to plant the evergreen. 🤦♀️Oh well, like you said, finding it saves the entire rest of your flower bed.🤷♀️ New opportunity...
It looked like the storm blew in pretty fast, by the end of this video.
Have a Blessed and Beautiful day!
Kimberley F in AZ 🌞🌵
My father taught me to cut my potatoes and then put them inside a paper bad with bone meal and shake it all over the potatoes. Then let the potatoes sit for a couple of days and then plant according to preferred method. Works great~Thank you Laura~
When planting potatoes in your own garden, one should always use "certified seed". Not only does it protect your own potatoe crop but it protects large farmers around you from disease that might be in potatoes. You should always know where you get your potatoes from that you are using for sets.
Laura I love that you always show your technique, like how gentle you were with your raspberry sucker transplants, where as I just rip them out with reckless abandon much like you and the red tulip! 🤣 Love to see all the progress, thank you for sharing your enchanting space with the world!
That one red tulip .... messed up her entire 'color' scheme, that she has worked so hard on.
Off with it's head! ❌👤 ❌ Ha.
Oh multicolour potato salad is THE BEST! We have a local farmer nearby who focuses on growing pink flesh, purple flesh and orange flesh new potatoes. I add german fingerlings to her mix and boil them whole (to maintain colour) then halve them once they cool. It's a jewel-toned show-stopper at dinner parties. I dress it with olive oil, mustard, parsley, dill and lemon with just a touch of yogurt - so it doesn't obscure the colours. So pretty, try it!!
It's so nice to see you kept your grandfather's table!! :)❤💚 I believe it was your grandfather's table? The little blue/green table in the cut flower shed(00:09:12).
I love that table!!
Good morning, Laura ☕️. The flower shed has a Hoselink 🤣🤣 Aaron “heard” the green light from you 😂. The tulips 🌷 in the orchard are all filling in nicely. That is a ton of potatoes 🥔😳. I’ll have to keep my eye out for those lilacs! I too love the smell of them. Have a Blessed Day 😊🐈
Of all the spaces, I am most excited about the flower shed. What a beautiful workspace surrounded by fruit trees and looking out over the cut and veg garden. I can’t wait to see it filled with old cupboards of vases and pots! My daughter loves the purple potatoes best. We have done mashed but fries and roasted are the way I like them. I am definitely going to look for the Tiny Dancer. I would love to put in smaller lilacs in my garden.
Although I’m 66 years old I can still relate to a girl with dirt on her face! It just shows how much we love gardening! Love it, Laura! ❤️
Garden Answer is simply amazing! God blessed you because you are truly making a difference in peoples lives, to see the natural Beauty all around us. Thank You for that
Love your videos!! My parents have grown blue potatoes before and when you boil them they loose the purple color… so no weird mashed potatoes or potato salad! I agree the best way to keep them purple is to roast or crisp them! Great color addition!
Hey Laura, the purple spuds make great crisps. If you want to make things really interesting you could make a crisp medley using the purple potatoes, orange sweet potatoes, & the white potatoes.
Also, they say the universe gives you what you need, not necessarily what you want; given you keep getting random red flowers popping up, do think the universe is trying to tell you that you need more red in your life?😝😂
Thanks for yet another wonderful video. I get so excited when I receive a TH-cam notification on my screen each night at 21:30 (Aus EST) that there is a new Garden Answer video!! 🤗
I think red is beautiful in the garden, especially mixed with yellow, pink, and purple! Gorgeous 🌺🌸🌼🥀🌷🌺🌻🦋🐝🐞
Bronwyn Newell I was confused by your potato comment until I realized you must be in the UK. In the US a crisp is similar to a fruit pie with a crumble topping. I think you mean some kind of French fry or potato chip.
The universe, telling her she has to like Red ? > Nope. > Tells her that 'quality control' at the bulb company messed up. lol.
@@cynthiafisher9907 Hi Cynthia, actually I’m from Australia. I meant a potato chip, like what you would buy from a shop in a packet as a snack (Lays, Pringles, Kettle Chips). I was actually going to use the term “chips”, but I was concerned it would be confused with “hot chips” or “fries” haha. I didn’t even consider that in USA “crisps” would be considered as a pie haha. Thanks for the heads-up. Who would have thought that one product name could have such a vastly different interpretation despite being in the same language!! I really applaud people who have come from non-English speaking cultures & successfully learn the English language…it really is a very complicated language!! Anyway, thanks again for the heads-up, I’ll try to be more mindful with my terminology. Hope you’re having a wonderful day! 😊😊
@@l.m.4014 😂 indeed
All the various projects of this video were so fun and informative. LOVE the 'Cut Flower Shed'! The natural color of the wood inside is so beautiful! I hope it doesn't get painted, it really brings such a warmth to the space and looks beautiful as a backdrop for projects. It relates so well with the more informal look of the area around it with the meadow flowers and orchard. Do you plan on keeping it that way?
Purple potatoes are so fun. Mashed purple potatoes are delicious and a great way to get picky eaters to eat different things. Purple potatoes, purple carrots, purple cabbage, purple veggies are just fun and packed full of different phytonutrients than other varieties
We love purple potatoes and, in particular, purple sweet potatoes (a variety I cannot remember the name of) that tastes exactly like a cake! I'm trying to get the right variety, so every year, I order different purple sweet potato varieties hoping to 'discover' it again!
LOL !! I just KNEW she couldn't resist mentioning the rogue tulip! ..."How dare it?!" ... Laura cracks me up!!
Oh Laura. I can’t tell you how excited it makes me to see your structures coming together. I can already envision all of the beauty that will be created this summer in the shed with the cut flowers. Could you and Mom make some cocktails this summer with all the berries!?!
Excellent idea!
No doubt they will
Your positivity in the morning is just what I needed!🌷
Love when I see a 28 minute video. The longer the better! Lol I love to watch and enjoy my first coffee of the day. My husband knows I get to watch Garden Answer before he can get the iPad. I know how it is to start digging and realize the dirt only goes a few inches. Our house is from the 1920’s. When we first moved in, we went to plant a tree and a flower bed. Realized there is actually concrete that goes out about 4 feet from the slab.
Laura and the red tulip should either be a meme or a book title 🌷😂
Just wondering, how will you keep the birds away from the blackberries? I think I remember that the birds beat you to it last year.
Here in Hawaii we eat purple sweet potatoes, either the Molokai or Okinawan varieties. You can mash them up, and add some coconut milk to add some creaminess. Yum!
I just love hanging out with y’all and seeing your beautiful gardens come alive with blooms. This time of year is so pretty with everything waking up for the season.
Thanks for taking us along on this journey and season of life. Hugs.
PS - I would love, love, love to be able to have a flower shed like yours. It would be to me what The Hartley is to you!!! Maybe someday. 👩🌾☀️💕😍🌷🐝🦋
Natchez blackberry is part of a group named after native Americans. My home town, Natchez, MS is named for the Natchez as we have several mounds & artifacts from that period. Natchez is the oldest settlement on the MS River and features many antebellum homes but sadly their gardens are lacking IMO, as I have a 'Laura style' of gardening. It's still a beautiful little town. Aaron would love the architecture I believe.
I have great hopes to visit Natchez one day soon!
@@julieclark9173 Please do! Spring us beautiful with azaleas but weather is unreliable until late April, May. Summers are hot. Fall is my favorite season because of the light. There's the Great MS River Balloon Race in Oct and Ghost Tours (sells out quickly) in Nov where locals portray past residents during evening tours of our city cemetery, one of my favorite places. Let me know if you make it!
My parents have a whole bed of Natchez blackberries. They live in Alabama and the plants handle the heat and humidity superbly. They start getting gallons of blackberries mid-late June in their 7b garden. Plus, no thorns which is great!
Thanks for sharing that, I live in south Alabama and have been wondering what are some good verities to grow.
Also an Alabamian here. We have been successful with “thornless” blackberry variety purchased at Lowes.
Triple crown and black beauty are amazing blackberries! Huge and delicious. I live in high heat and desert…very similar to garden answer actually. They do better with trellising, but so good! My soils is a bit different though. She said triple crown. I have been growing that for a few years now! So good and sweet. Just don’t pick to early!
They are both thornless!
My soil is more alkaline
It’s so fun seeing all the bulbs and meadow flowers in the background. Hoping we get a full tour of all the thousands of bulbs we watched you plant so many months ago. 🥰
Purple potatoes are fantastic! They taste like a Yukon gold but with more nutrients than a regular yellow or red fleshed potato. Super fun for kiddos too. Super excited to see your garden this year!!!
Love the potato project in the cut flower shed.....the beginning of so much more to come👏The scent of a lilac is an old fashion true springtime garden treasure!❤️
I love using purple fingerling potatoes with carrots or butternut squash and Brussel sprouts, red bell pepper. I roast them with olive oil, rosemary, salt and pepper. Beautiful combination and yummy.
Yum
Good Morning, I don't think you need to keep that box cleared of mulch, just find a nice rock that is not too heavy or a small statue to place on the top as a marker. It will add interest to the area and let you know right where the box is in case someone needs access. What about using a ground cover, like lamium, for the rest of the space?
Or they have those hollow fake rocks…
What about putting a nice pot with an evergreen in it?
I was so excited about the Hartley update yesterday, I almost completely forgot about your shed in the cutting garden! 🤣 It is looking so beautiful!! I LOVE the wood finish inside and those tables look beautiful in there!
You have such a talent for envisioning a space as you want it! I think I share you and your mom's tastes as well!
A great variety of potatoes! I agree with you about the purple potatoes- you won’t want to boil them with any other potatoes because they turn everything purple. They are great as chips/crisps though.
Watching you prepare the potatoes for planting reminded me of the movie The Martian 🤣. It also reminded me of a long time ago when I had some potatoes I thought were spoiled, threw them in my mulch pile and they grew new plants!
Thanks for taking us on your daily journeys in your gardens. Your property is looking great! Always interesting, and I learn a few things here and there. My daughter and I were just talking about growing potatoes.
Sitting here in hospital, had a total knee done yesterday! Watching all the wonderful plants you're putting in..
Recover soon!
Grasses in that tricky area would be perfect! Fun and informational video, thx!
I really enjoyed seeing the orchard in this video. I'm curious when they are going to be planting the meadow and grass in the lanes.
Hi Lisa how are you doing?
Purple potatoes are fun! The kids especially think they’re pretty neat. And odd as it is, making a potato salad with them is really beautiful, especially if you add in lots of fresh green herbs!
I love purple potatoes! I typically roast them with some carrots.
I don't normally comment, but I had to share what a small world we live in. I started watching this channel while working from home. Now it is my daily ritual to drink coffee and spend my morning with Laura and the family. I have been eyeing the drill and auger for a bit. I decided to go all in and buy the combo pack with your link. I was SHOCKED to find out I was supporting a small family owned business in the town my family and I grew up in. How funny that watching someone from across the country makes me support a local business. It turns out it really is a small world!
It is uplifting to know some of these challenges, like a box where you don't want it, but can't move it, or some plants just don't make it, despite your doing all you could/doing things well. Makes me feel better about the random things that challenge us in our landscapes and efforts. THANK YOU for this, always learn something here.
What is funny is we have the Gold raspberries that you love in EVERY garden center I've been in this spring. Too bad I can't ship them to you from Maryland. 😆
Love the lilacs and the size! That is perfect.
Your area must be where the Gold raspberry grower is located. Crazy isn't it? Maybe the cost of fuel is keeping plants more localized this year from the growers. Happy gardening!
The kids would love the mashed potatoes with the purple potatoes! LOL
My daughter loved it when I did that. LOL I also heard that MaryCarl at Cog Hill loved them too. Give it a try.😃
I am new to you channel. I saw your last vid about Lilac and didn't realise that they were a shrub as when we moved in there was a 6ft garden fence blocking the view behind it. I thought it was a tree, with several mini branches coming from the roots. It is as tall as our dying conifer tree (Ivy plus neighbours cutting it down over our fence). I am not good with height measurements but it is as high as the 2nd storey/ 1st floor ceiling. It is in bloom rn and i love seeing this. With have a passion fruit running up in front of the fence and another pink bloom is our bleeding hearts growing slightly under our dwarf red acer tree, alongside some blue bells.
I am learning about no dig atm and encouraging my hubby to be a bit more organic with the lawn. We both seem to have taken to our roles organically in terms of who looks after what. It is the first house that i haave lived in and we have renovated it head to toe.
With regard to the garden, hubby cares for the lawn, hedges, watering and helps with digging our doggy clay soil (although not so much now, with the soil improvement techniques and no dig).
I research plants, fruits and veggies, prepare our own potting soil and plant seedlings. I made a google spreadsheet this year to be super organised and to help me out next year. It's a UK garden/back yard so its wet clay and not massive compared to the US about 70ft from the house.
I learnt from your channel that some of our bushes are called Euonymus! So thank you again!
Renovating our garden has been fun but hard work. That weird fence in front of the conifer and Lilac was actually full of garden waste and motorbike parts 6ft high! We ordered a skip but it was that old we found a mummified rat! We called him Roger so not to scare the kid and made a grave for him next to the dog bones we also found....
We de-Ivyed the conifer tree but we had to cut down some other dead trees back there. We now have a play house and mini shed chest for garden stuff and the BBQ storage area. We cut out a hole in the fence like a doorway to access the back area. The lilac is now fenced off too for wildlife as we have finches living in there.
The lilac is on the back right and the dying conifer is on the left. In front of the conifer on the other side of the fence we have planted a pear tree and a cherry tree. The pear tree was finally fruiting last year, but then the new renting neighours decided to cut down their conifer tree, with nesting birds into our garden, along with their elderberry tree, which we were allowed to harvest the over hang to make jelly. This was last year in May on my birthday, whilst we were having a BBQ, with my dad on a support network day out. I cried.
Anyway, this year we managed to rescue the pear tree. I am not sure how many conference pears it can support. I did prune it in winter and this week cut off some ill looking post flower buds. There are still about 20 potential pears to form. Should i keep an eye on them or cut more off? I don't wish to over stress the trees. The cherry tree isn't coming back this year i don't think but i think i found a self seeded cherry tree, which i potted up last year as it was a competition between the birds and us picking the cherry's the year before! lol
Our wild birds have also graced us with some bramble. There is a massive wild blackberry/bramble bush near us. We also bought a raspberry cutting on sale last autumn that is budding. Going to up pot these soon as we have limited space.
Forget crazy cat lady, i'm the crazy plant lady come summer! lol I have learnt about cover crops, succession planting, mulching, how to build a tiered wormery, composting and interplanting to prevent bugs.
I have learnt that everything does not succeed but i love experimenting! Regrowing leeks. I also found a sprouting potato peel in the composter. I thought the white bit was the root but it was the plant as it resurfaced. Even after uprighting it and separating the peel, i still managed to get 1lb of potatoes from a single peel sprout. Potatoes grown at home taste totally different from the shop ones!! We bought first earlies - Orla. Using the Tony method from Simplify Gardening. Got some great plants showing. We put 14 in a large 3ft/1mtr wide terracotta pot. 7/7 on each level. Have no idea how we are going to harvest them all but last year, i just put my hands in the same container to pick them out.
When I was growing up, my Dad and I grew 2/3 acre of potatoes, 1 acre of sweet corn, and 1/2 acre of everything else. Mom would buy a 50lb. bag of potatoes from the store and cut them up like you did. We took them from her and planted them, we did not leave them over night. I don't know if that is the right way but we always had a huge crop at the end of summer. I was one of 5 kids so we ate a lot of potatoes. We also grew 2 beef cows, 6-8 pigs, 24 roosters, and a few turkeys each year for meat. We had a few dozen egg layers as well. We were pretty self sufficient back then.
Yay, *free* plants!!!! ☀️🌱🤣 The lilacs are so beautiful!! If I can find them locally, I am getting at least one (possibly more)!!! 💕
Purple mashed potato is fun! 😁 My mum grew then when we were growing up.
Ohhh... Those Lilacs and tulips look AH-MA-ZING!!! You also could have just popped a pretty boulder on that box in the flower bed.
Those lilacs are gorgeous! Planting one of my own if it ever warms up here in IL! Same zone as you guys.
Seeing you over the year or so that I have been watching take plants and moving them gave me the courage to do that. I had a Pieris that was not doing well I moved it and replaced it with a yellow twig dogwood. Well that pieris is showing new growth!! You helped me save that plant and I am SO EXCITED! Thank you!
Laura, I think I'm quite envious of just how great the inside of the garden shed smell is lol. Love the smell of wood.
Me too! The look and the smell ❤️
You went to the garden centre and we didn't get to say hi to your Mum! I've just realised how I look forward to seeing her smiley face and hearing her cheery voice! I felt so disappointed when you grabbed those potatoes and next thing, you were home again.
I hope I don’t stir any emotions, but the flower shed is so beautiful even more than Hartley for me.
I love these mixed projects videos, they’re very entertaining.
I just planted potatoes for the first time ever! You inspired me last year to plant them this year. Thank you for your inspiration and learning experience. I’ve learned so much more in the last year watching your channel and Gardening with Creekside! I have worked in Greenhouse’s and planted flowers and veggie gardens but have not planted certain things and with what I’ve learned I’m encouraged to try planting things based on you videos! Thank you! 🥰❤️
We are technically in the same zone as you (we are in SE Michigan) but compared to your area and other places in the country in “our growing zone” we are at least 2 weeks behind you in terms of spring color. It is just now that the trees are budding up and the daffodils are finally blooming and I have yet to see a tulip bloom. I just can’t wait!!
So nice to see you in the flower shed. It’s looking great! Thank you for the great video on planting potatoes. Very helpful. Also, helpful on the berries. Can’t wait to see what happens there. I wish I could watch you all day in the garden🌷
I love how last year's harvest becomes this year's 'seed'. Beautiful to see.♥️
I’m sure the kids will love the novelty of purple mashed potatoes!!
I get amazed how you can deal with such a ginourmous garden and the chores, my adhd could never, im over here stressing over some planters
Great video, super informative! A tip I have for picking blackberries is to wait until the berry is dull instead of shiny, that really makes a big difference in the sweetness. I’m actually pulling my blackberry vines out because they’re so aggressive, I’m thinking of moving them to another part of our property but haven’t decided yet. I prefer raspberries 😊
The purple potatoes are so sweet and creamy!! So good!!!
Purple mashed potato would be fun for the kids 💜
When my sisters and I were little, Mum coloured our mash potatoes blue. We thought it was the coolest!! It was the only way we would eat mash ☺️ Now we all love it… white mash now though 😂 My daughter loved the idea when I did it for her a few years back.
You have the prettiest blue eyes, especially when looking into the bright daylight.😍
Love this video. A question I have is, why pick up more potatoes from the garden center to cut up and plant (other than for more variety from what you have stored)? Why don’t you use the sprouted ones in the root cellar for planting? Just curious!
And all of us in Seattle watch you plant blackberries and yell “NOOOO!!!”
I love purple potatoes! My favorite are the purple fingerling. They taste great with fresh herbs and then roasted with veggies.
I can't wait to see your harvest. I'm trying Ruth Stout for the first time.♥️
Purple majesty potatoes are yummy!😁 wow! Super fun varieties and will be so nice to have grown your own.
My Triple Crown has been a prolific producer. They are delicious! You’ll love them. Thank you for sharing your gardening love and talent.
Yes, mine have too! I love them. But voracious might not be the Word you’re looking for, Lol.
@@cynthiafisher9907 I changed it to prolific…. Voracious describes how I eat them!
@@barbershopchick :)
I grew up on a farm and have planted and dug a lot of potatoes in my life, not so much lately, but on the farm. I have always been a little OCD and my grandmother used to tell me as we walked the rows planting by hand that I planted the straightest rows of taters she had ever seen, lol. Now, I plant them in grow bags which makes digging obsolete. Anyway, yes, red la soda and red norland are related. Red la soda (both actually) is an excellent new potato. Dig them smaller even than the seed potatoes you bought. Wash it and boil them, then eat with butter and hot sauce (my current favorite is cholula). Of course, new potatoes are also good boiled and served with butter and mint, too. Yummy! As for blackberries, I have tons of Himalayan blackberries I could send you and I can guarantee you they wouldn't have died, lol. They're tasty but the worst invasive plant I have ever seen, far worse than kudzu.
P.s. if you have potatoes stored that are sending up shoots, you could have used them for planting. Probably would have saved you a lot of money. At least where I live now, seed potatoes are crazy expensive. You can even plant organic potatoes from the grocery store although I would let them chit for a few days if I was going to plant in rows.
Your videos are so informative and inspirational. God bless you, Aaron, Benjamin and Samantha Grace.
Good morning! 🌻🐝
Good morning! The flower shed looks so nice and what a beautiful table.
Hi Laura, You’re getting to the point where if you have an empty spot, there could be a reason. I call that progress! Love watching your videos ❤️
Funny Laura just plucking that rogue red tulip up and showing it who is boss!😂