We added a 2 feet thick layer of wood chips to half of our 3 acres in amish country. Literally had farmers pull over their tractors when they saw me out in the yard to ask what we were doing. Must have thought we were crazy. Now they ask how i grow bell peppers so easily. We didnt have to mow half our land either. Just kept adding fresh chips and composted chicken manure. We have chickens too. I am the chaos gardener and hubby just eats the yummy food and does projects. Life is good and our fruit trees are thriving. Love your channel!
I am totally knew it gardening in North Carolina. I recently talked to a lady who owned a farm and had mentioned to me something about having some kind of shade for my plants for hot days what do you suggest I do for shade kind of confused me why I would need shade. You had mentioned something about planting certain plants that provide shade but if I am just starting out and don't have any tall plants or anything to provide shape what would I do
I also raise rabbits and use the poop and straw directly in my garden. Both as a top dressing on my beds but also when I put in new plants. Thank you for telling people about using the poop directly. Many online sources say you have to compost it or turn it into tea. It wastes so much time and energy. Love your channel.❤
@@AnneofAllTrades thank you. I'm going around collecting everything you said to collect like a mad woman. I put a article on a free site online and everybody's helping me up I appreciate the advice
Hey Anne I'm a huge fan and have started my own garden, I'm a recovering alcoholic and your videos and actually gardening has helped alot! Thank you and please continue delivering us with great content
Congrats on your sobriety and your garden! I'm a recovering heroin addict, and gardening has brought such joy to my life. I'm coming up on 8 years clean! There's nothing like nature to get you back to right.
@@kaleyjanenigh imho that is part of why we have gotten so lost. We uprooted ourselves (pun intended) from the natural cycles of life, family & community. I'm so happy that is turning around. Glad you broke free. Peace to both of you.
Sister in recovery here--almost 23 years--and gardening saved my life! Congratulations to you both. There is so much healing to be found when you put your hands in the soil and become aware of the seasons around you. Sending love from New Zealand 💌
@@vinlagoIt's not about either or. We should embrace how far science has got us, with understanding the chemistry, biology and physics happening in nature. But we're also humans, still needing our stone age brains to adapt at accellerating speeds, that many of us cannot easily do. I'm a scientist in Norway that started out with saying no to work with hydrocarbons, then I worked with safety sensors for cars for a decade, took a master's degree in microsystems technology and found myself making electronics for weapons. I couldn't handle my nightmares of people being bombed, so I switched to making medical sensors, just to see that even that industry is corrupt. I've been depressed for years, but doing gardening is making wonders for my mental health and I can apply my chemistry wisdom too.
Using ashes for your blueberries isn't necessarily a mistake. I've had blueberries in my garden for many years and got like 6 berries if it was a good year. So one year I sprinkled ashes around them to fertilize them and got 0 berries. The next year I learned that they need sour soil to thrive, so I gave them all the left-overs of sour drinks the next year and got at least 20 berries. This year I mixed the ashes with the sour left-overs to ensure a more balanced pH, and all three plants have provided hundreds of berries already.
I just want to say what a breath of fresh air you to me during a very difficult time in my life. I have the biggest garden I have ever had this year and I hope to incorp more lazy method as I grow my space. I just wanted to say "Thank You Anne". God bless.
I watched your "from scratch" video last night for the first time. I dreamed about it and turning my one acre lawn into a food forest. I'm so hyped to go that I woke up at 4:30 a.m. eager to watch this video and the ones on composting (my nemesis). Thanks for all you do so well!
Same! I found this channel when I needed it the most. I've loved flirting with the idea of gardening but was too intimidated to start. I've become obsessed. Is it weird to say I think I found myself in the garden? Well, it's true for me.
Anne, thank a ton for the tip bout scattering bunny berries around Rhubarb. Our's grows crazy good next to an old compost area. We love our Rhubarb sauce..😋
That’s a really interesting idea, I wonder if that will successfully overcome the rhiosomal /similar genetic tissue propagation issue. I know it does for some fruit trees, but the pollination process works differently than on pawpaws. Into the lab I go!
That... Should work. I only have basic experience splicing citrus and walnut, but the genetics that come with the donor stalk definitely persist after being spliced into the base plant. Very excited to see if pawpaw will take to it too!
@@joanhunt7560 Yes grafting will supply the different genetics from the fruit. It's no different than buying fruit trees or plants that are grafted onto a native or different rootstock. It doesn't alter the genetics of the graft. You can actually graft different kinds of fruit onto one tree. They don't even have to be the same species or anything. And you don't have to wait until a specific time of year to graft either, it's not true you can do it any time during the year. Check out the Back to Eden documentary on yt which I'm sure you're well aware of. Paul G demonstrates on how to graft effectively as he is a trained arborist
I don't think you click bait. You have good energy. Happy spirit. Great educator. I appreciate you and your teaching. Don't even read the keyboard atrocities. Keep the good ignore the rest
I tell people the same thing for gardening that I do cooking. Start growing/cooking 1 thing, make it a favorite so you have extra motivation and learn all you can, do it well, then move onto the next. Pretty soon you will have an arsenal of plants you are good at growing 👍 Also want to add, even gardeners with years and decades of experience will have mishaps. It's part of the journey, good luck and happy gardening!
A crucial point regarding the bouncy plant beds is to adhere to the sidewalk. Standing, walking, or leaning on the beds can impede the air circulation vital for the plant roots.👩🌾👣🐐
@AnneofAllTrades looking forward to it! I love the knowledge you have. Really knowing how your soil and your plants work, means you don't have to stick absolutely a rulebook, but rather observe and use principles to your advantage. Which is what I learn from you. It is not about what the gardeners rulebook tells you to do without understanding why, but having enough skill to adjust to Your garden. I love that.
@@NitaP1569 yes, we do, but they don’t come in the garden because I have several lines of defense against them. The garden is located in a fence inside a fence. The exterior fence has a Hotwire on the top and bottom that is meant to deter pests. It is patrolled by my donkeys, livestock guardian dogs, and alpacas, as well as motion sensor lights. A deer could in theory still get in, but I’ve not seen one inside the fenceline since I installed the electric lines.
Just a suggestion. You could possibly sell passion fruit starters or seedlings. Some of us may be interested. Enjoyed the knowledge and skills in your gardening technique. Love your energy!
When I planted paw paws 8 years ago, it took 3 yrs before they flowered, noticeably. It took 5 to find fruit (you have to hunt for them. Last year @ yr 7 we got a good amount of fruit, more than we could eat so we shared them. The tree, on it's own it big and beautiful, with large leaves which looks somewhat tropical for Michigan, where they grow naturally. I'm loving how beautiful they are. Btw, I planted them all wrong, in direct sun, and not protected from the wind. Still, they are doing great! Good luck on your paw paw journey.
So glad to witness your companion/intercropping. Other youtube gardeners and some books say DO NOT plant onions near strawberries, asparagus, beans and peas. Stating that the onion will stunt the growth of the other plants. You've obviously proven them wrong. Which helps me to relax a little more. I plant a lot of veg in a very small yard with tall trees surrounding the property. Oh yeah, and dense clay soil. It squishes like a sponge all Winter long only to turn to cement by the beginning of Summer. So hitting the easy button on any level is a blessing. Thank you for taking the time and energy to share your gardening tips with us. Tomorrow I will be companion planting some carrots in my asparagus bed.
Love how you kill your cilantro to get some more! 😁😁 My boys (2, 4 and 6) actually love veggies of all kind. But it can happen that they refuse it and tell an astounded grandparent they "don't like store bought cucumbers, only those from mama's garden" 🤣🤣 Just learning the way of lazy gardening, I get so much out of your videos! Thank you! Best wishes from Austria
My kids are the same! I grow massive amounts of snap peas every year and I have NEVER had enough at one time to use them at dinner or anything. The kids just go outside and eat them all day lol
I've been working on my lazy garden today. Wood chips, compost, and the good things chickens do... NC has the same 12 seasons... But I did set out some peppers. I introduced my 3rd grade students to your videos. They loved it Thanks for your hard work!
I hand pollinated my pears recently. Best crop ever! I realised the first tree as flowering before any other trees I could see in my 'hood so I had to go find flowers elsewhere. I walked off with a few paint brushes and some of my own flowers and found a neighbor who agreed I could collect some from there's. Sure enough they were also interested so i brounght out my flowers. They were sceptical so I only did half their tree. When i bumped into them in the market they told me my half of the tree fruited. The other side didn't.
I just got wanted to pop in and let you know that your 1/3 lettuce harvest and cilantro harvest tricks got my plans through a few early hot days here in Georgia. It cooled off this week and it looks like I’m going to get two more harvests from my lettuce and the cilantro is making a comeback. Thanks so much for sharing that advice!
Omg I think you’re so lovely I wish I could pick you up & carry you home to help me 🤣 You are so informative I just laugh at all the knowledge spewing out your mouth in such a lovely way. How?????? How do you possibly have this stick in your brain? Omg I love it. You are so fun & soooooooooo knowledgeable. And I LOVE your excitement & you getting distracted. Girl you are so fun. I gotta watch again and again. Thank you thank you thank you!!!
The best pond aerators are the ones that use weighted bubble hose and release tiny bubbles into the water. It keeps the pond aerated, there is no electricity in or near the water and the energy cost is much less than a conventional aerator. You can power the air pumps on the bank using solar panels or an electrical box. There will always be an area on the pond surface that is free of ice. The added oxygen to the pond water encourages the breakdown of animal waste and decreases the mosquito population. Hardy mosquito fish in the pond will help too. You can plant elderberry plants which can be rooted from dormant cuttings, dwarf mulberry trees and a hazelnut hedge. I am going to plant Winkler hazelnuts which only get to 8 - 10 ft. tall.
Ann you are amazing and not alone Cassandra from the vlog Becoming a Farm girl has been having a similar journey with motherhood. Both of you are such great mentors you have my greatest gratitude and prayers for all you share.
Gardening becomes less of a challenge regardless of your location the more you work to improve your soil. Gardening here is great, but there was a BIG learning curve growing here after growing in a different climate.
I started in Ohio (on Lake Erie shore region), then moved to Seattle and now TX. Water is more precious here and I’m older now (retired )so I now do containers. It’s just easier all around.
Something I'm going to try this fall is to throw a layer of wood chips right on top of our strawberries. I was watching some of Paul Gautchi's Back to Eden videos, and he was showing folks his strawberry beds, where he does just this. He said that the older, less productive plants die off, while the young vigorous ones spring up with no trouble, providing the perfect lazy bounty! I did throw some mulch on them this last winter, but it really wasn't a think layer. Like he said, the strawberries had no problem pushing up through it, and there are some beautiful flowers getting ready to fruit now.
My gardn is considerably smaLLER, 14 raised beds, 8 fruit trees, a 10x20 in ground herb garden, 3 GreenStalk towers, 6 ten-gallon grow bags, and a few pots. 10 of my raised beds are protected from voles. This year, my unprotecxted beds are under attack from voles. So far, they have destroyed extra potato plants, and devestated my shelling peas. Thankfully my main crop of potatoes are in a vole proof raised bed. I harrvested mustard greens Thursday morning, and will harvest again in three weeks. My tomatoes are starting to flower, and the peppers are starting to fruit. The green onions are large enough to start harvesting the tops, I have lettuce that is ready to harvest, and I'm picking Seascape Strawberries daily. (Sylacauga Alabama)
I absolutely love your videos! So full of real practical information. I'm 72 and finally able to get back to gardening. Your style suits me! Thank you and please keep sharing!
May I suggest planting new pawpaw from a different location near your garden pawpaws to save yourself the trouble of hand pollinating in years to come. Love your content!
I am loving and learning so much from this channel. My enthusiasm moving compost and wood chips has knocked me on my ass for 5 days with flu like symptoms . Harsh learning curve .
Oh you are so right about the 12 seasons of Tennessee. I am so glad that there is a knowledgeable garden from Tennessee on TH-cam thank you for all your hard work. 😊
30:50 - we took really old fire pit Ash soil that had been there for over a decade building up and the pH was really low there, so I almost wonder if it matters what is being burnt... We put it on blueberries the acidity test was so low
@Anne of All Trades I am going to step out of my comfort zone experiment with something in my garden. My grandparents always direct sowed seeds. I am going to try and germinate tomato seeds and plant then directly in the ground as soon as they germinate. Wish me luck❤
I direct sowed all my seeds one year. It worked great! I just had a super late harvest of everything. But, if the goal was to put up a lot of food for winter, I can totally see how that would work. People talk about red tomatoes and ripe watermelons in the winter. And after that experiment year, I understand it now.
Ann thank you so much! I am caring for someone and can't be at my farm but your videos help me audaciously plan for the future. God bless you and your Farm.
Awesome tour! Always excellent info and inspiration to be doing much more. Fishing from that pond will be excellent! We also use the pumpkins for our pugs and chickens, a perfect natural remedy.
I love your energy. I am happy to see someone doing things like I do and have success. Its easy to compare your progress to others but we have to remember that our journey is our own. I am AuDHD so I can struggle with it a lot and not look at all the success I have had. I appreciate your tips so much, thank you 🙏
Florida plants giant onions in one row and strawberries in a row right next to it . The onions are huge and the strawberries are so sweet. Maybe you can try it.
I so enjoy all your videos! You make life real. You’ve inspired me to get back to growing vegetables in a more enjoyable way of doing so. On the subject of Paw paw’s in Indiana we call them native bananas. I have a beautiful grove and enjoy the fruits every year! I shared them, and people are shocked that they are a native growing plant here. My family has been growing them for as long as I can remember. Hopefully yours will flourish for you too.!
What kind of fig did you just prune back? When I lived in Utah, I attended a class about figs, and I was told the v only fig tree you can prune back at all is an elephant fig. In fact the instructors had picecs of branches in zippick bags to take and plant. And it grew. Unfortunately I couldn't bring it to Washington state when I moved back. I do have 2 fig trees which are doing well in pots. I sure enjoy watching you teaching about composting , mulching and all your cute animals. I grew up on 15 acres so I'm acustom to hard work even now at 70. ❤you young lady! Thanks so much fir sharing your knowledge ❤
it's a chicago hardy fig, and there's an important distinction there, these are fig bushes, not fig trees. The trees are quite different with regard to maintenance, pruning, and propagation ;)
Nice ! Getting us all amped up for spring! Hops like the paw paw are rather invasive. If I was to plant them again , I'd put them in one of those round culvert (aka park campground) fire rings 1 1/2 foot deep because those rhizomes go everywhere!!
Anne, your videos are awesome! I learn so much and you are so funny!! ❤ I have a heart condition so the no watering and no weeding makes a huge difference for me!
Hi. I thought I knew everything about gardening lol 😂 I’m so thankful to watch your videos ❤ I didn’t know that. Great hack not to take the entire spinach to truck them into regrowing the leaves by just taking some of it. That is really awesome ❤
Hi Anne, I think there's an advantage to letting chickens poop in the vacant lot before gardening or spreading cardboard, as the chicken droppings will help destroy all the weeds. Thanks for sharing this video. I appreciate all of your efforts in filming it.
The dedication o the gardening and the making of the video its super I love this youtube video, they dont do them like this no more ♥ I hope you can keep this as it is congratulations!
Love asparagus!! I learned a few years ago that alliums actually inhibit the growth of asparagus - since I had walking onions all over the place, three years ago I pulled them out of the asparagus patch and what do ya know...the next spring I had a far heartier harvest of asparagus. Now I'm all about the strawberries / asparagus/ thyme combo....we'll see how it goes this spring (we still have snow!)
Ah so interesting! I mean it makes sense that that would be the case. I’ll do a little more research and some experimenting and perhaps I’ll have you to thank next year for a much improved harvest!
I’ve done the same thing with the blueberries!!! We have so much wood ash after winter is over and while my potatoes LOVE it, my husband very quickly reminded me to not put them on the blueberries when I said I was heading out to ash them. I DO think there are minerals in the ash that the blueberries benefit from.
You are living my dream. I love propagating. I have a tiny yard on a city street. I gather my seeds and use milk jugs for winter sowing and give away most of the seedlings/starts.
Contain the roots would have helped with the Passion flowers I use a washing machines tub to grow wisteria and contains those roots. Just a idea you may benefit from.
Anne, what is your PH , you will know your blueberries are happy when there leaves are a dark green. We are right around a 7.0 PH in Central PA, so I put Elemental Sulfur on once a year and I use cottonseed meal as a fertilizer, spread out in 3 applications, through the growing season. I pray that you are getting past some of the zoning issues and roadblocks on your trades barn/building.
I won’t make you listen to my TED talk about this, but soil PH doesn’t really matter as much (at all) as having the right mineral balance, which is why that little whoopsie didn’t affect my blueberries.
i love how well thought out your plant placements are which in principle can really be utilized on a smaller scale too. The deep layered beds are exactly right, specially in sandy souls that leach nutrients really fast. Great show, keep up the good vids! 💚 native plants may be a consideration in the future that already have survival skills built in.
Thank you for these. I love the way you present your garden. We grew up in Zimbabwe (Africa) and had paw paw trees. We were told there always has to be a male and female tree within a few meters of each other or you would not get fruit. I guess this is the same idea.
I love your videos…so much information and so many great ideas. And even though I live in Canada, so many applicable things for all gardeners. I was surprised to see how well your garlic and asparagus are growing together. Everything I read said, said garlic, onions, and asparagus do not make good bedfellows… Clearly that’s not the case😊
@@AnneofAllTrades I missed you??!! Ug, I’ll be sure to watch for your name on the list of speakers next year. I just discovered you today. I’ve been binging your videos.
I'm in zone 4a and rhubarb has always been in my garden since childhood. We never cover it and very rarely fertilize. It's more like a weed, it just grows and it's BIG. Even when I got a rhubarb from someone and forgot it outside in a plastic box, nothing happened, it's growing now. And we have weeks in winters where we have -35C. Depends of the variety, but you could def try some more cold hardy ones.
It’s more that I have to temper it to deal with the huge temp swings. Most rhubarb is cold hardy, but few are as heat tolerant as we need them to be here.
Anne you should go back to those paw paws out in the woods while the season is right for it and put some air prunings on them so that you can go back for them in the autumn and clip them and bring them back. You could then get them inside over winter for a spring transplant into your garden, that way you won't have to go back every year, you'll also have enough diversity on your farm to start selling saplings at $50 by the pair in the least. Just make sure to give every tree and it's runners a name and or number.
We added a 2 feet thick layer of wood chips to half of our 3 acres in amish country. Literally had farmers pull over their tractors when they saw me out in the yard to ask what we were doing. Must have thought we were crazy. Now they ask how i grow bell peppers so easily. We didnt have to mow half our land either. Just kept adding fresh chips and composted chicken manure. We have chickens too. I am the chaos gardener and hubby just eats the yummy food and does projects. Life is good and our fruit trees are thriving. Love your channel!
I am totally knew it gardening in North Carolina. I recently talked to a lady who owned a farm and had mentioned to me something about having some kind of shade for my plants for hot days what do you suggest I do for shade kind of confused me why I would need shade. You had mentioned something about planting certain plants that provide shade but if I am just starting out and don't have any tall plants or anything to provide shape what would I do
What do you suggest is the best to spray on the leaves and on the ground for pest control
I also raise rabbits and use the poop and straw directly in my garden. Both as a top dressing on my beds but also when I put in new plants. Thank you for telling people about using the poop directly. Many online sources say you have to compost it or turn it into tea. It wastes so much time and energy. Love your channel.❤
@@andreagarofolo9431 don’t spray! Healthy soil grows healthy plants that recover from pest damage fantastically well
@@AnneofAllTrades thank you. I'm going around collecting everything you said to collect like a mad woman. I put a article on a free site online and everybody's helping me up I appreciate the advice
Hey Anne I'm a huge fan and have started my own garden, I'm a recovering alcoholic and your videos and actually gardening has helped alot! Thank you and please continue delivering us with great content
Congrats on your sobriety and your garden! I'm a recovering heroin addict, and gardening has brought such joy to my life. I'm coming up on 8 years clean! There's nothing like nature to get you back to right.
@@kaleyjanenigh imho that is part of why we have gotten so lost. We uprooted ourselves (pun intended) from the natural cycles of life, family & community. I'm so happy that is turning around. Glad you broke free. Peace to both of you.
Sister in recovery here--almost 23 years--and gardening saved my life! Congratulations to you both. There is so much healing to be found when you put your hands in the soil and become aware of the seasons around you. Sending love from New Zealand 💌
I discovered her one hour ago and am already a fan
@@vinlagoIt's not about either or. We should embrace how far science has got us, with understanding the chemistry, biology and physics happening in nature. But we're also humans, still needing our stone age brains to adapt at accellerating speeds, that many of us cannot easily do.
I'm a scientist in Norway that started out with saying no to work with hydrocarbons, then I worked with safety sensors for cars for a decade, took a master's degree in microsystems technology and found myself making electronics for weapons. I couldn't handle my nightmares of people being bombed, so I switched to making medical sensors, just to see that even that industry is corrupt.
I've been depressed for years, but doing gardening is making wonders for my mental health and I can apply my chemistry wisdom too.
Using ashes for your blueberries isn't necessarily a mistake. I've had blueberries in my garden for many years and got like 6 berries if it was a good year. So one year I sprinkled ashes around them to fertilize them and got 0 berries. The next year I learned that they need sour soil to thrive, so I gave them all the left-overs of sour drinks the next year and got at least 20 berries. This year I mixed the ashes with the sour left-overs to ensure a more balanced pH, and all three plants have provided hundreds of berries already.
I just want to say what a breath of fresh air you to me during a very difficult time in my life. I have the biggest garden I have ever had this year and I hope to incorp more lazy method as I grow my space. I just wanted to say "Thank You Anne". God bless.
I watched your "from scratch" video last night for the first time. I dreamed about it and turning my one acre lawn into a food forest. I'm so hyped to go that I woke up at 4:30 a.m. eager to watch this video and the ones on composting (my nemesis). Thanks for all you do so well!
Same! I found this channel when I needed it the most. I've loved flirting with the idea of gardening but was too intimidated to start. I've become obsessed. Is it weird to say I think I found myself in the garden? Well, it's true for me.
Rhubarb and strawberry cooked together makes the best pie ever
Hear hear
Making Rhubarb-strawberry hand pies at work while listening to this 😁
@@elmartell5724 I’ll be right over ;)
Very versatile fruit rhubarb, goes well with orange too and a banana sliced in just before adding a crumble topping
Anne, thank a ton for the tip bout scattering bunny berries around Rhubarb. Our's grows crazy good next to an old compost area. We love our Rhubarb sauce..😋
You should splice some of the other wild papaws branches onto your pawpaw at home to have one tree with multiple flower types
That’s a really interesting idea, I wonder if that will successfully overcome the rhiosomal /similar genetic tissue propagation issue. I know it does for some fruit trees, but the pollination process works differently than on pawpaws. Into the lab I go!
That... Should work. I only have basic experience splicing citrus and walnut, but the genetics that come with the donor stalk definitely persist after being spliced into the base plant. Very excited to see if pawpaw will take to it too!
Thats brilliant!
@@joanhunt7560 Yes grafting will supply the different genetics from the fruit. It's no different than buying fruit trees or plants that are grafted onto a native or different rootstock. It doesn't alter the genetics of the graft. You can actually graft different kinds of fruit onto one tree. They don't even have to be the same species or anything. And you don't have to wait until a specific time of year to graft either, it's not true you can do it any time during the year. Check out the Back to Eden documentary on yt which I'm sure you're well aware of. Paul G demonstrates on how to graft effectively as he is a trained arborist
I don't think you click bait. You have good energy. Happy spirit. Great educator. I appreciate you and your teaching. Don't even read the keyboard atrocities.
Keep the good ignore the rest
You radiate positive energy and you own both your mistakes and your successes. You're a genuine awesome person
I'm new to gardening this year, a real captain blight, haha. Glad I found you. I much appreciate what you bring and how you bring it. Thank you.
I tell people the same thing for gardening that I do cooking. Start growing/cooking 1 thing, make it a favorite so you have extra motivation and learn all you can, do it well, then move onto the next. Pretty soon you will have an arsenal of plants you are good at growing 👍 Also want to add, even gardeners with years and decades of experience will have mishaps. It's part of the journey, good luck and happy gardening!
A crucial point regarding the bouncy plant beds is to adhere to the sidewalk. Standing, walking, or leaning on the beds can impede the air circulation vital for the plant roots.👩🌾👣🐐
Passion fruit roots are nature's Xanex. You're lucky to have so many of them.
Love your videos and the way you educate/share knowledge to your viewers…
You are a wealth of knowledge. Thanks to the camera person for doing an excellent job capturing all that you do!
Another video!? You are truly spoiling us, Anne!!
More to come shortly! So glad you’ve stuck around ❤️❤️
@AnneofAllTrades looking forward to it! I love the knowledge you have. Really knowing how your soil and your plants work, means you don't have to stick absolutely a rulebook, but rather observe and use principles to your advantage. Which is what I learn from you. It is not about what the gardeners rulebook tells you to do without understanding why, but having enough skill to adjust to Your garden. I love that.
Do you have deer ? I’m wondering how they are not eating your fruit trees
@@NitaP1569 yes, we do, but they don’t come in the garden because I have several lines of defense against them. The garden is located in a fence inside a fence. The exterior fence has a Hotwire on the top and bottom that is meant to deter pests. It is patrolled by my donkeys, livestock guardian dogs, and alpacas, as well as motion sensor lights. A deer could in theory still get in, but I’ve not seen one inside the fenceline since I installed the electric lines.
Yessss! for another video, especially a garden video! 🎉
Just a suggestion. You could possibly sell passion fruit starters or seedlings. Some of us may be interested. Enjoyed the knowledge and skills in your gardening technique. Love your energy!
I'd take plenty 💚👍🌱
It amazes me people buy elderberry plants from nurseries.
Shoot, id buy some. I have none 😔
When I planted paw paws 8 years ago, it took 3 yrs before they flowered, noticeably. It took 5 to find fruit (you have to hunt for them. Last year @ yr 7 we got a good amount of fruit, more than we could eat so we shared them. The tree, on it's own it big and beautiful, with large leaves which looks somewhat tropical for Michigan, where they grow naturally. I'm loving how beautiful they are. Btw, I planted them all wrong, in direct sun, and not protected from the wind. Still, they are doing great! Good luck on your paw paw journey.
I wondered how long it took. This is my 3rd year the paw paw trees are growing but not big enough yet to fruit I think.
So glad to witness your companion/intercropping. Other youtube gardeners and some books say DO NOT plant onions near strawberries, asparagus, beans and peas. Stating that the onion will stunt the growth of the other plants. You've obviously proven them wrong. Which helps me to relax a little more. I plant a lot of veg in a very small yard with tall trees surrounding the property. Oh yeah, and dense clay soil. It squishes like a sponge all Winter long only to turn to cement by the beginning of Summer. So hitting the easy button on any level is a blessing. Thank you for taking the time and energy to share your gardening tips with us. Tomorrow I will be companion planting some carrots in my asparagus bed.
Love how you kill your cilantro to get some more! 😁😁
My boys (2, 4 and 6) actually love veggies of all kind. But it can happen that they refuse it and tell an astounded grandparent they "don't like store bought cucumbers, only those from mama's garden" 🤣🤣
Just learning the way of lazy gardening, I get so much out of your videos! Thank you!
Best wishes from Austria
My kids are the same! I grow massive amounts of snap peas every year and I have NEVER had enough at one time to use them at dinner or anything. The kids just go outside and eat them all day lol
I've been working on my lazy garden today. Wood chips, compost, and the good things chickens do... NC has the same 12 seasons... But I did set out some peppers. I introduced my 3rd grade students to your videos. They loved it Thanks for your hard work!
I hand pollinated my pears recently. Best crop ever! I realised the first tree as flowering before any other trees I could see in my 'hood so I had to go find flowers elsewhere. I walked off with a few paint brushes and some of my own flowers and found a neighbor who agreed I could collect some from there's. Sure enough they were also interested so i brounght out my flowers. They were sceptical so I only did half their tree. When i bumped into them in the market they told me my half of the tree fruited. The other side didn't.
I just got wanted to pop in and let you know that your 1/3 lettuce harvest and cilantro harvest tricks got my plans through a few early hot days here in Georgia. It cooled off this week and it looks like I’m going to get two more harvests from my lettuce and the cilantro is making a comeback. Thanks so much for sharing that advice!
What an interesting, capable and beautiful lady. Much love from Ireland.
❤ oh, I love learning from you. Have you made a video about cheap fencing, easy installing by yourself around the garden to keep goats out??
11:23 The 12 seasons of Tennessee LOL
I was wondering if Tennessee had a twin in Kansas; those seasons sound awfully familiar!
Omg I think you’re so lovely
I wish I could pick you up & carry you home to help me 🤣
You are so informative I just laugh at all the knowledge spewing out your mouth in such a lovely way. How?????? How do you possibly have this stick in your brain? Omg I love it. You are so fun & soooooooooo knowledgeable. And I LOVE your excitement & you getting distracted. Girl you are so fun. I gotta watch again and again. Thank you thank you thank you!!!
The best pond aerators are the ones that use weighted bubble hose and release tiny bubbles into the water. It keeps the pond aerated, there is no electricity in or near the water and the energy cost is much less than a conventional aerator. You can power the air pumps on the bank using solar panels or an electrical box. There will always be an area on the pond surface that is free of ice. The added oxygen to the pond water encourages the breakdown of animal waste and decreases the mosquito population. Hardy mosquito fish in the pond will help too.
You can plant elderberry plants which can be rooted from dormant cuttings, dwarf mulberry trees and a hazelnut hedge. I am going to plant Winkler hazelnuts which only get to 8 - 10 ft. tall.
I can’t wait for you to see the pond video, We think very much alike ;)
Ann you are amazing and not alone Cassandra from the vlog Becoming a Farm girl has been having a similar journey with motherhood. Both of you are such great mentors you have my greatest gratitude and prayers for all you share.
34:54 I've also used my dog's fur for insulation, as well as adding it to my compost! Same with my own hair that I pull out of my brushes 😬🫣
I live in TX and gardening is a challenge. Looks like TN is gardening heaven.
Gardening becomes less of a challenge regardless of your location the more you work to improve your soil. Gardening here is great, but there was a BIG learning curve growing here after growing in a different climate.
I started in Ohio (on Lake Erie shore region), then moved to Seattle and now TX. Water is more precious here and I’m older now (retired )so I now do containers. It’s just easier all around.
With figs i like to shove the branches into the ground in hopes it grows roots. Most of them do!
same here! They're so easy.
I am 69 and learning a lot from you. Born and raised and still live in Tennessee.
Sooo much great advice. I had almost given up on my garden. You have reignited my passion.
Something I'm going to try this fall is to throw a layer of wood chips right on top of our strawberries. I was watching some of Paul Gautchi's Back to Eden videos, and he was showing folks his strawberry beds, where he does just this. He said that the older, less productive plants die off, while the young vigorous ones spring up with no trouble, providing the perfect lazy bounty! I did throw some mulch on them this last winter, but it really wasn't a think layer. Like he said, the strawberries had no problem pushing up through it, and there are some beautiful flowers getting ready to fruit now.
My gardn is considerably smaLLER, 14 raised beds, 8 fruit trees, a 10x20 in ground herb garden, 3 GreenStalk towers, 6 ten-gallon grow bags, and a few pots. 10 of my raised beds are protected from voles. This year, my unprotecxted beds are under attack from voles. So far, they have destroyed extra potato plants, and devestated my shelling peas. Thankfully my main crop of potatoes are in a vole proof raised bed. I harrvested mustard greens Thursday morning, and will harvest again in three weeks. My tomatoes are starting to flower, and the peppers are starting to fruit. The green onions are large enough to start harvesting the tops, I have lettuce that is ready to harvest, and I'm picking Seascape Strawberries daily. (Sylacauga Alabama)
Thanks!
I absolutely love your videos! So full of real practical information. I'm 72 and finally able to get back to gardening. Your style suits me! Thank you and please keep sharing!
A lot of great info. Thanks Anne and Dan!
May I suggest planting new pawpaw from a different location near your garden pawpaws to save yourself the trouble of hand pollinating in years to come. Love your content!
You’re nipping things in the bud. Literally.
Absolutely wonderful content. Thanks Ann
You are inspiring. Thanks for the tips and ideas.
I love your enthusiasm! You’re awesome possum!
God bless always 🙏 ❤️
I am loving and learning so much from this channel. My enthusiasm moving compost and wood chips has knocked me on my ass for 5 days with flu like symptoms . Harsh learning curve .
You've reminded me of a childhood song. It goes "Picking up paw paws, putting them in your pockets."
I thought of that song, too. I never knew what a pawpaw was
I never knew what a paw-paw was either @Marilyn until now 😆
Oh you are so right about the 12 seasons of Tennessee. I am so glad that there is a knowledgeable garden from Tennessee on TH-cam thank you for all your hard work. 😊
OMG!!! I love you and your videos!! Im in East Tennessee and hope so much to meet you one day!! Awesome video!!!
I loved this video about native plants! So inspiring. We need more native, drought tolerant plants in our gardens!
I’m so glad that I’m not alone at getting distracted when filming… and the random things I start talking about 😂😂!! Love it !!!
Plant more then 1 Paw Paw from a different tree.
Buy good root stock for grafting on to and growing more root stock starts.
30:50 - we took really old fire pit Ash soil that had been there for over a decade building up and the pH was really low there, so I almost wonder if it matters what is being burnt... We put it on blueberries the acidity test was so low
"It's not technically weeding if I planted it" - Bwahahaha truest words ever.
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Me as I pull mint out of all my other plants to dry for tea. 🤣
I planted wild blackberries in my garden. Biggest mistake ever. They spread like wild fire and are full of thorns. 😢
@Anne of All Trades I am going to step out of my comfort zone experiment with something in my garden. My grandparents always direct sowed seeds. I am going to try and germinate tomato seeds and plant then directly in the ground as soon as they germinate. Wish me luck❤
I direct sowed all my seeds one year. It worked great! I just had a super late harvest of everything. But, if the goal was to put up a lot of food for winter, I can totally see how that would work. People talk about red tomatoes and ripe watermelons in the winter. And after that experiment year, I understand it now.
Ann thank you so much! I am caring for someone and can't be at my farm but your videos help me audaciously plan for the future. God bless you and your Farm.
Awesome tour! Always excellent info and inspiration to be doing much more. Fishing from that pond will be excellent! We also use the pumpkins for our pugs and chickens, a perfect natural remedy.
Love how often you’ve been posting. You energize me!
I love your energy. I am happy to see someone doing things like I do and have success. Its easy to compare your progress to others but we have to remember that our journey is our own. I am AuDHD so I can struggle with it a lot and not look at all the success I have had. I appreciate your tips so much, thank you 🙏
Me too, we have a way of finding one another ❤️❤️
@AnneofAllTrades We sure do 😉😁🙏
Florida plants giant onions in one row and strawberries in a row right next to it . The onions are huge and the strawberries are so sweet. Maybe you can try it.
I enjoy your videos. Thank you. It’s been a minutes since I’ve uploaded anything and I need to get back at it!
I have a tiny garden plot in the city, and watching this reaffirms my lazy gardening ways! I’ve been chaos gardening this year, and it’s been great!
You speak out loud my internal monologue 😂❤ love you heaps annie
I needed to hear the part about your neighbors. Thanks for being.
I so enjoy all your videos! You make life real. You’ve inspired me to get back to growing vegetables in a more enjoyable way of doing so. On the subject of Paw paw’s in Indiana we call them native bananas. I have a beautiful grove and enjoy the fruits every year! I shared them, and people are shocked that they are a native growing plant here. My family has been growing them for as long as I can remember. Hopefully yours will flourish for you too.!
O my gosh I have work to do but instead I am addicted to your videos! 😂 love it. Keep the videos coming! 👏🙌
What kind of fig did you just prune back? When I lived in Utah, I attended a class about figs, and I was told the v only fig tree you can prune back at all is an elephant fig. In fact the instructors had picecs of branches in zippick bags to take and plant. And it grew. Unfortunately I couldn't bring it to Washington state when I moved back. I do have 2 fig trees which are doing well in pots. I sure enjoy watching you teaching about composting , mulching and all your cute animals. I grew up on 15 acres so I'm acustom to hard work even now at 70. ❤you young lady! Thanks so much fir sharing your knowledge ❤
it's a chicago hardy fig, and there's an important distinction there, these are fig bushes, not fig trees. The trees are quite different with regard to maintenance, pruning, and propagation ;)
Nice ! Getting us all amped up for spring! Hops like the paw paw are rather invasive. If I was to plant them again , I'd put them in one of those round culvert (aka park campground) fire rings 1 1/2 foot deep because those rhizomes go everywhere!!
I actually use their invasive nature to my advantage- I pull all the spreading rhizomes, put them in pots, and sell them ;)
@@AnneofAllTrades ah, smart. Which hops did you choose to grow? So many!
Anne, your videos are awesome! I learn so much and you are so funny!! ❤ I have a heart condition so the no watering and no weeding makes a huge difference for me!
Hi. I thought I knew everything about gardening lol 😂 I’m so thankful to watch your videos ❤ I didn’t know that. Great hack not to take the entire spinach to truck them into regrowing the leaves by just taking some of it. That is really awesome ❤
I love ur idea of adding perennial mushroom spores definitely doing that.
Hi Anne, I think there's an advantage to letting chickens poop in the vacant lot before gardening or spreading cardboard, as the chicken droppings will help destroy all the weeds. Thanks for sharing this video. I appreciate all of your efforts in filming it.
Anne I love your information. And about your neighbors... Invite them to help in your yard if they complain 😊
Thankful to have found your channel! Love your style! 💚
You give me faith in my garden. I LOVED this story of experience and I thank You!
Oh my god. My first time here and you are extremely impressive
The dedication o the gardening and the making of the video its super I love this youtube video, they dont do them like this no more ♥ I hope you can keep this as it is congratulations!
💁🏽♂️New subscriber. Adding you to my list of motivation gardening 👩🏻🌾 peeps. 😎 God bless you, your family and your work young lady. 🐎🐎🦅🪶🕊
Love asparagus!! I learned a few years ago that alliums actually inhibit the growth of asparagus - since I had walking onions all over the place, three years ago I pulled them out of the asparagus patch and what do ya know...the next spring I had a far heartier harvest of asparagus. Now I'm all about the strawberries / asparagus/ thyme combo....we'll see how it goes this spring (we still have snow!)
Ah so interesting! I mean it makes sense that that would be the case. I’ll do a little more research and some experimenting and perhaps I’ll have you to thank next year for a much improved harvest!
I’ve done the same thing with the blueberries!!! We have so much wood ash after winter is over and while my potatoes LOVE it, my husband very quickly reminded me to not put them on the blueberries when I said I was heading out to ash them. I DO think there are minerals in the ash that the blueberries benefit from.
Thank you for teaching us to harvest exactly 1/3 rd of the plant (I will try that on my kale plant)
You are living my dream. I love propagating. I have a tiny yard on a city street. I gather my seeds and use milk jugs for winter sowing and give away most of the seedlings/starts.
Contain the roots would have helped with the Passion flowers
I use a washing machines tub to grow wisteria and contains those roots. Just a idea you may benefit from.
Anne, what is your PH , you will know your blueberries are happy when there leaves are a dark green. We are right around a 7.0 PH in Central PA, so I put Elemental Sulfur on once a year and I use cottonseed meal as a fertilizer, spread out in 3 applications, through the growing season. I pray that you are getting past some of the zoning issues and roadblocks on your trades barn/building.
I won’t make you listen to my TED talk about this, but soil PH doesn’t really matter as much (at all) as having the right mineral balance, which is why that little whoopsie didn’t affect my blueberries.
Thank you for showing the diversity possible in a small space. I will copy you like Edible Acres, you're on that level
I haven’t heard of them, I’ll have to check them out!
Yes please. I just found your channel two weeks ago. You’re so amazing! I’m new to gardening, it’s quite overwhelming.
Welcome!! You can do it, and be sure to ask your questions as they come!
Thank you from Kansas! My jaw dropped when you pulled the hop bine straight out of the ground. Looking forward to implementing your tips!
Plants aren’t as precious as we seem to think ;)
i love how well thought out your plant placements are which in principle can really be utilized on a smaller scale too. The deep layered beds are exactly right, specially in sandy souls that leach nutrients really fast. Great show, keep up the good vids! 💚 native plants may be a consideration in the future that already have survival skills built in.
Thank you for these. I love the way you present your garden. We grew up in Zimbabwe (Africa) and had paw paw trees. We were told there always has to be a male and female tree within a few meters of each other or you would not get fruit. I guess this is the same idea.
I absolutely love your channel. I just discovered it. Thank you!
Donkeys!,, yeah!
The best compost making pets!
Just the best.
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You need to write a book on lazy gardening! So much great information.
I love your videos…so much information and so many great ideas. And even though I live in Canada, so many applicable things for all gardeners. I was surprised to see how well your garlic and asparagus are growing together. Everything I read said, said garlic, onions, and asparagus do not make good bedfellows… Clearly that’s not the case😊
love your videos.... one thought though.... rhubarb actually likes a hard winter. my mom's in PA was a massive plant.
Wow I’m excited to see how the expansion goes in the upcoming years! Love your channel, love your gardening videos, thanks Anne!
Thanks so much!
So glad I found you. Gosh I’d love it if you ever talk at Roy Feeks homestead festival
I’ve done two talks every year ;) Rory is a good friend of mine.
@@AnneofAllTrades I missed you??!! Ug, I’ll be sure to watch for your name on the list of speakers next year. I just discovered you today. I’ve been binging your videos.
I'm in zone 4a and rhubarb has always been in my garden since childhood. We never cover it and very rarely fertilize. It's more like a weed, it just grows and it's BIG. Even when I got a rhubarb from someone and forgot it outside in a plastic box, nothing happened, it's growing now. And we have weeks in winters where we have -35C. Depends of the variety, but you could def try some more cold hardy ones.
It’s more that I have to temper it to deal with the huge temp swings. Most rhubarb is cold hardy, but few are as heat tolerant as we need them to be here.
Very nice new addition to your farm. I miss my produce box.
You should grow Bamboo for Shoots and Building Material!
My neighbor has a patch I steal from on occasion, but I've not planted them here because they're pretty invasive.
Congratulations for your videos! You are a great communicator and your Italian style gesture makes the videos very interactive 💚👌
Anne you should go back to those paw paws out in the woods while the season is right for it and put some air prunings on them so that you can go back for them in the autumn and clip them and bring them back. You could then get them inside over winter for a spring transplant into your garden, that way you won't have to go back every year, you'll also have enough diversity on your farm to start selling saplings at $50 by the pair in the least. Just make sure to give every tree and it's runners a name and or number.
I’ve had really good luck just digging the rhizomes but air layering them would obviously be a lot easier 😅
30:12 this is the best comment ever 😂
And so true!