This was such a lovely stroll through your garden, thank you so much! I live in the PNW and your garden really showcases the natural vibrant, lush plantlife:) Is there a source for pnw gardening that you used or could recommend for a beginner? I have a sizable yard I would much rather grow a garden in than grass!
Thank you so much! ❤️ Before I built the gardens I studied this book: Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades by Steve Solomon. It's quite a comprehensive book on organic gardening for our area. There are other books I read but this is the one I feel taught me the most before getting started. I studied for about a year before I broke ground. Then I dived right in. After you know the basics a lot of it just getting in tune with your microclimate and the seasons. And remember, grow what you like! ❤️
@@whitneylee5993 Unless you’re pretty old, probably not. The old hospital on State street (?) was torn down long ago. Same town is very cool though!!😎👍💙
Thank you, yeah the galvanized troughs were expensive, we accumulated them slowly over time. They work great and serve a dual purpose so I'm pretty happy with them.
Its not too late to harvest garlic scapes. They have not opened up and are just curling. Perfect time to harvest, blend and freeze for the time when you can make garlic scap hummus! Freeze dry it and wow!! The best you'll ever taste!!
Thank you! You're welcome. Yes too hot for my sensibilities even if most of the garden had patience for it. Excited to see what this year holds for us all!
A certain amount of crop loss is to be expected, but last year voles decimated certain crops in my raised beds. This year I dug up the beds and placed quarter-inch galvanized mesh underneath them stapling it to the sides. I know it's a pain to do, and the voles have definitely tried to get in, but so far so good this year.
Brilliant! Totally wish I knew about that before I built the garden. When I let it go fallow that would probably be a good year to do that. How deep did you put it down? Do you have any problems with your root vegetables?
We had moles. I'm not sure what I did to get rid of them will work for voles, but I had the males in my household urinate into gallon, empty milk jugs. When they were full, I let it ferment for a couple days in the sun. Then I dug the soil up and poured the pee into the holes. About three days later, there were dozens of mole hills in the neighbor's house, 4 doors down. There is no need to kill or use poisons in most cases. That's really great to hear about cranberries. I've never tried to grow them because of the myth of needing so much water. Also, the cauliflower, I've never grown it because I thought they take over the yard. But tying them makes them less hoggish of the space. Thanks for the tips! It would be great to see how you harvest chamomile. The way I did it was so labor intensive, I decided not to keep growing it. What is the trellis for your pickling cucumbers called? It looks like it is easier to manage then the big heavy arching kind. Our trellising jobs have not been the best. Can the shallots that have gone to seed, still be eaten? Thank you for showing your garden. It's nice to know that I am not the only one who lets things go a little further than we want.
Hi! Thank you so much for the tips on moles! We're a Housefull of women here but for my husband. Looks like a fire night with his friends is in order. Odd question though, they drink beer on fire nights. Do you think that would effect it's ability to deter the moles? Might help it ferment faster hahaha. The way I harvest chamomile is time consuming, I have a video on it from last year. BUT you could just gather huge swaths and cut them that way instead of each head. You'd get some young ones but it would be fast to weed those out later. I harvest only the fully developed ones so I have a consistent harvest through the summer. That way I still have dehydrator space for the other herbs that are ready to harvest at the same time. I just did a batch yesterday of comfrey, chamomile, purple dead nettle, marjoram and thyme. The cucumber trellis is one of my favorite garden helpers! It's called an A frame cucumber and squash trellis. I bought it from Lehman's but there are similar ones sold all over. What I love about this one is that it folds up tightly about a foot across for easy storage in the off season. Yes! You can definitely harvest and eat the shallots even after they go to seed. In fact they store so well even so that I still have a basket of them in storage!! It was fun reading and responding to your comment! Let's talk again!
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead Thank you for the response! I am actually shocked. Most never do! Fermented beer pee. Guys are weird, they do like to pee on and in just about anything. I bet they'd love to help you out. Start saving those milk jugs! I'd love to hear back on how it goes! Not the filling of jugs, rather if it works at helping the little furry guys find a new home in someone else's garden. One guy could probably fill a half gallon a day! Just give him a lot of beer. If you want more, tell him, "I bet you can't fill a gallon jug a day", and see if he takes the bate. If you have blackberry stickers, you could cut them into pieces and shove them down the holes, but dry them first so they don't rot. It works for slugs, it might also work for rodents. I'm going to have to hurry up and get that trellis. We've had record rainfall in my area of the state, but finally had some nice weather the last couple of days. We were gone most of both days and boy, did everything shoot up! We're supposed to get another week of it and I'm thrilled! I've never been happier to have a sunburn! I have no patience to harvest chamomile. I did it for a couple years but it's just not worth it. I don't like it THAT much! Good to know about storing shallots. This year we have an amazing crop of onions, potatoes, and garlic. Storing is one of the things that stumps me. Purple dead nettle? Do they sting like regular nettles? When the first baby sprouts of nettles come up, I sometimes pick them for tea. When my husband was going through full body radiation, I made him a tea to drink out of baby nettles, seaweed, and red clover. He never got more than a light pink and he was never in pain. Nature really does have some wonderful things in it, if we could only learn to utilize it all. Well I have yammered on long enough. Thanks for the response. I'm going to go find those trellis's now!
@@cbryce9243 Hahahaha give a man a challenge and 9/10 he'll take it on for sure! I didn't know that about the bramble stickers, I do have a ton on my property, it's worth a try! Literally everything that isn't poison is worth a try! Looks like spring might show up right time for summer over here. Finally turned my heat off this morning. I'm grateful for the rain but also feel like we're all about to be slammed with two months of work consolidated into three weeks! I have tried lots of different ways to store potatoes, garlic and onion and I've come to the conclusion that canning the potatoes or freezing is my favorite, hanging the garlic from the ceiling, and just leaving the shallots and onion on a table in my tool shed work the best. Cortland onions have by far been the best variety of onion for storage. Purple dead nettle doesn't sting at all. I have a video on this channel all about it. More than you ever wanted to know I'm sure hahaha. I'm happy to hear your husband had such good results with the herbs. I hope more people will excited about natural medicine! Well, I'm off to weed my front yard and see if I caught any voles in the garden! Have a great day!
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead Oh darn (just kidding) Guess I will be spending a lot of time watching your TH-cam. Thankfully the weather forecast was all wrong. It won't be as hot as they said it would be for the next week! Happy gardening!
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead I am getting things set with fabric pots on my back porch. I have peas and strawberries planted so far. I got the ball rolling on bean starts last night with a lot more in my sights soon 😎
@@gblyndensrandomreviews yay!!!! That sounds perfect! Have you ever grown potatoes in those bags? My daughter did that last year on her balcony and they did well!
Oh it's definitely 16 hour days 7 days a week during some parts of the season. I don't sell my produce but I do share with the community and our church and everything else I process either by canning, drying, freezing, wine making or tinctures.
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead Lots of Corn, green beans, blueberries, potatos, tomatoes, several grape varieties, beets, carrots, peas, might try some watermelon and cantaloupe, we also have some fruit trees (apples, pears, cherry) that are in 5 gallon buckets for 2 years now that will be planted within the fenced half acre (lots of plant munching deer here) also have solar panels and 48v water pump to use for irrigation from our water totes that collect rainwater
Thank youuuu! My husband and I bought an acre of land in the Sedro Woolley area a few years back and I'm trying to get brave enough to start planting. I loved taking a trip through your garden. 😊 what learning materials did you use starting out?
Yay!!!! Jump right in! My most helpful book when I was researching before I started my garden was Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades by Steve Solomon.
Voles eat vegetables, not sure it would work for them. I've heard others mention gum for moles but we haven't tried it. Have you tried it? How well did it work?
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead thanks for watching the channel. Maybe we can all get together one day this summer and all do videos interviewing each other at a farmers market or something.
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead Hey, I lived in Reno for one year. I cannot imagine not having AC. 107 degrees nearly killed me. I read that we are supposed to get to 83 tomorrow and in the 70's for the following week!
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead peppers tomatoes potatoes onion garlic green beans corn herbs pumpkin watermelon strawberries blueberries some fruit trees !! It’s kinda overwhelming but needs to happen I just have to figure out where to start !!
Lol... a squirrel came up right next to me and started digging at the roots of one of my plants trying to plant a peanut it had gotten from someone. I went into gardening with the idea to grow everything organic as an offering to the wildlife who are living off human trash. Whatever they don't eat is mine and mostly they leave everything alone. I think people should let go of the idea of ridding their garden of wildlife and find ways to protect their plants like netting if there are plants they don't want the animals getting. To deal with the problem of the squirrel digging at the roots of plants I stopped digging when transplanting seedlings into the beds. I create a sort of burlap pot with bamboo and twine and fill it with soil so the plant can still root down into the bed but is raised and that creates a perimeter around the roots so the squirrel is digging at the side of the burlap pots to contribute seeds that it wants to grow and not harming the roots of the other plants. That cute little squirrel was really just trying to garden with me.
It's always sketchy online when commenting because people might get really mad. I'm glad to see a good reaction from you. Lol... I tried to plant tons of sunflowers this year because I know the animals like to eat those but I planted them too close together so they are only like 6" tall. ;D @@HappyAppleCoreHomestead
I got kicked out of a group on Facebook called Goth Gardening for posting a picture of a spider helping out to guard my plants. They said it was triggering to people with a fear of spiders (who obviously don't garden and just want clout for reposting the photos of actual gardeners) and that spiders aren't something that has ever even been affiliated with goth culture. You have no idea how much it means to me that you get it about working with the wildlife.@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead
@@EmpressKadesh I love all people and respect their walk. I think it's amazing that you care so much for animals that you grow them healthy food to eat. We all have a special purpose in this world and I would never get angry because someone chooses to do life or gardening differently than me. Plus in all honesty it helps that you shared your story but did it without being hard on me. I suppose it's always easier to be kind to kind people but at the end of the day we should all love each other the best we can.
As of August 4, 2023 in Arlington (city limits): spinach, beets, kohlrabi; cold-loving, short-season allium; cold-hardy legumes such as Peas and broad bean, lime, etc.; Evergreen and hardy herbs; and what are categorically, on Chinese terms, choy (choi sum, gai lan, yu sum, tatsoi, etc.) may be direct sown from seed, thus with care an succession. In all likelihood, short-term warm weather goodness such as cilantro and some basil are still able to yield. Also, overwintering perennials but cardoon, blueberry, currant, grapes, tayberry, asparagus, nor umbrella figs. I'll prolly let us know when we can plant mass more stuff in my favored way, or direct sowing save for the required starts. Of course, starts if hardened-off should figure the common sense: no immediate climate concerns fail to support plans for summer's 60-day short-term end of season... save for an 65% chance of summer's clime continuance for another 2-3 (probable just over 2) months beyond September. 8-13-2023: As of today; mustards, broccoli, turnips, swedes, neeps, and best last days for all other herbs (time to harvest permitting) but especially overwintering and holiday-ready fresh herbs.
Awesome response, thank you! I'm about to film my August 2023 garden tour. We are neighbors! I just planted lettuce, thyme, hyssop, savory and have seed starts in flats going of broccoli and cauliflower for a fall harvest! Definitely a lot going on in my garden since this video was originally posted. Stay tuned to see what's going on in my August garden!
@@KevinWJenner I'll probably film the August garden tour tomorrow because everytime I walk outside today the rain sprinkles start back up! My goal is to do one every month until the harvest is over so probably November-ish.
Thank you so much!!!! No special safety prep needed for these troughs. If they're safe for horses they're safe for humans. That said, we do drill holes in the bottom for proper drainage, fill up halfway with soil then amend the top half with compost, fertilizer and a good quality topsoil. Some people like to use different items at the bottom to avoid having to get so much dirt. Large pine cones, sticks and branches, rocks, styrofoam (which I personally wouldn't use) but those are a few options. What are growing in your garden?
We placed wood & cardboard in the bottom and filled with garden soil & manure. We have planted potatoes, carrots, onions, zucchini, cucumber, Broccoli, cabbage, tomatoes & peppers & a asparagus bed!
Thank you! That's a great idea! These particular troughs, the large ones have a drain plug in the side along the bottom edge. The small ones don't have that though!
Thank you!! You'll have come visit the rainy PNW to get my blueberries but they'll grow in your yard too! My absolute fav is an SCD legal almond blueberry muffin but I'm also partial to making a compote for a totally illegal angel food cake. Worth it tho I promise!
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead My grandmother froze her blueberries on a cookie sheet and put them in another container when frozen. Grandpa was a farmer/butcher so they had fresh cream. She'd pour the cream onto the frozen blueberries and have them like ice cream. I still do it, but I use 2%. The milk/cream freezes onto the berries and coat them. As they defrost, you get this nice creamy purple cream 😋 yum. If you try it, the berries will freeze solid so be ready to jab at them to separate. I do love angel-food cake too, it was always a fave, but I have Celiac and can't eat it anymore. And I am too lazy to try and make it. But blueberries are good with everything! Do you find places to pick blackberries? We have a special place that few people know of in Kirkland. Last year was too hot and the berries were too dried up and tasted badly. Let's hope this year is not so grueling. It would be fun to get all the PNW gardening peeps together and meet. One gardening TH-camr I would love to meet is, Misilla Dela Llanna. I just bought her new book called Four-Season Food Gardening. Happy gardening!
@@cbryce9243 oh yum! That sounds delicious! Kinnikinnick brand makes an amazing gluten free, safe for celiac angel food cake. They also make vanilla wafers and both taste exactly perfect! I grow my own blueberries. I freeze them as well. Special trick is to freeze them in a single layer, not touching then transfer into a food saver bag. They don't stick to each other that way! I have both invasive and mountain blackberries on my property. And yes last year was a bust, I only got one harvest before they shriveled up and dried out. Thankfully I still had some left over from the year before. I'm hoping we don't get anymore 113 degree days.....ever. Yes it would be so fun to all get together!
Hi! I also live in 8b north seattle area. have you had any luck with catching voles since then? they are destroying my new orchard and garden as well. You´re garden still looks amazing though!
Hi Neighbor!!! Thank you so much!! Yes I've had tons of success catching voles using the Swissinno traps. Apparently they can work for moles too. They don't hurt birds! This year though weird as it is I'm having a baby mole and shrew problem and those traps don't work as well because they burrow tunnels sideways as opposed to vertical. It's been a challenge! But those traps I mentioned are the best! What are you growing in your orchard and garden this year?
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead awesome! thanks i just bought some off amazon LOL. I got many of the fruit trees and berry bushes from flower world last year including a few types of apples, pears, cherries, plum, and apricot. I also got a few strange ones from one green world in portland including yuzu. the voles are eating all the roots of the trees though womp womp. thanks for the garden tours. Its reassuring to see things grow.
Very nice thank you for sharing! Question: I just joined a community garden in Tacoma, so we should also be in Zone 8b. I am a novice gardener, about 3 years in...I would like to know do you have a standard planting schedule you follow for our zone?
Hi!!! Yes I do. It's plant specific, more than I can message here but I'm happy to talk to specifics if you want to email me happyapplecore@gmail.com and if you'd rather talk on the phone send me a message and I'll give you my phone number.
Really? I did not know that. Why? I WISH I grew enough for juice but my current cranberry beds only give me enough for my most favorite brandied cranberry sauce. Yum!
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead honestly I couldn’t tell you why lol but I’m down at the beach and we have tons of cranberry farmers here. I love your garden I’m just getting started
How do I find out what zone I'm in??? I've gotten conflicting information. Some say 8a some 8b and according to seeds I'm in 3 or 4 lol Help!! I'm near Olympia but also near mountains and also near the ocean. About 45 min from all of those.
Based on your description I would say you're in zone 8b or potentially zone 8a but probably 8b honestly. I'm a couple hours north of you, also very close to the water and mountains and I'm 8b. We do all have very different microclimates depending on your topography. For example a friend of mine who lives less than 5 miles away from me, also close to the water but a slightly lower elevation has much higher temps and her garden fruits way earlier than mine. If you can, keep a cheap thermometer on your porch to track frost dates at your exact location. That will help you determine the safest times to plant your seeds. Also I buy seeds for the Pacific Northwest climate. Territorial Seed is great with those because they are relatively local. Another good trick for knowing when to plant your seeds is check your soil temperature. Most seed packs will say the best soil degree, like 50 degrees for beans etc. check the soil temp with a regular kitchen or garden thermometer in the morning, plunge it deep into the soil, like 3 + inches down and when your soil temp matches what's on the seed pack go ahead and direct seed them into the ground.
Oh something awful. The trick is to go out every morning and do "slug patrol". Gloves and a bucket and pick them up and remove them. If I start right away in the spring and do it daily by this time of year I find only a couple a day. Down from 60+!
Thank you so much!!!! It was a fluke year, it almost never gets that hot here on the west side of the Washington state mountains. Last year we didn't even get a real Spring and it never got super hot. What are you planning to grow in your garden this year?
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead my grandparents lived in Forks for about 30 years and I lived there for 1 year and in Port Angeles for about 6 years but now I’m in NW Oregon. We probably have very similar climates unless you’re in the rainforest lol. This will be our first PNW garden and I’m building out an indoor grow room this weekend. I’m going to try a few super hot peppers as an experiment and garlic, onions, artichokes, peas, brussel sprouts, green beans, romanesco broccoli, sweet peppers, and hopefully corn at some point. Hoping to have raised beds and an elk fence up by summer!
@@jeradweeks that's absolutely incredible!! You're growing some really fun food too. Sounds like you have clear and attainable goals, will you be posting your projects on TH-cam? If so I'd love to follow your progress . May your garden be a massive success!!! Fun fact, I was born in Oregon, it's a beautiful state!
Do you have a harvesting video? I would like to grow potatos but I kill them before I harvest so I stopped growing them I want to start back up. Also are their any vegetable I can grow with little light? My back yard doesnt get much light and my front yard has my other garden in it.
In my last comment I posted my video on potatoes for you. I'm unsure what you mean about killing them before you harvest. Can you tell me more? As far as growing vegetables in the shade, not really honestly however there's tons of flowers and herbs you can grow in the shade. My favorite is bleeding heart.
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead yeah I was told to plant them in tires, so I put one tire down added dirty the as it grew I added another tire and dirt and then I think I burried it and killed it
@@markosp ah okay, tires do have chemicals in them that plants might not like. If you can use grow bags or wood boxes I think you'll have a lot more success ❤️
Hi!! It's hard to see on this video but the fencing around the garden has rabbit fencing at the bottom. Without it my garden would be destroyed. In the spring we have thousands of bunnies running around our property. Here's a link similar to what we use. www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/rabbit-guard-fence-40-in-x-50-ft?cid=Search-Google-TSC_DYN-Dynamic%20All%20Site-All%20Site%20TSC&Google&Search&TSC_DYN&Dynamic%20All%20Site&All%20Site%20TSC&gclid=CjwKCAjw7IeUBhBbEiwADhiEMTimkNIvF78om_tYqzzKDkUKm_jRS8PpwmmMVTIPkjWQZtFn7wO0LBoCTfAQAvD_BwE
your garden is stunning! im trying for a bigger garden this year and hope it goes well. If i might ask, what potato varieties do best in our area? im in vancouver area which shows to be 8a/b as best i an tell.
Thank you so much!!! Yukon Gold's do so amazing here and they preserve nicely, they are my favorites. But Ive grown everything from russets to Adirondack blues and they all did perfect!
Thank you!! It depends on the time of year. Right now since I'm planting I spend about 15-30 hours a week working out there. When the sun comes out and it's harvest season it could be up to 12 hour days for a few weeks. Then in the Fall for clean up it goes back down to 20 and in the winter I just do quick harvests and weeding as needed so just a few minutes here and there. My only full break from the garden is December and January.
We bought it from a friend who was moving away. Don't quote me on this but I think they got it from harbor freight. It's not a super good quality but it does work!
@@kristina_lynn If you were to ask my husband he would say splurge on the better quality if you can. This greenhouse seems to be the bane of his existence hahaha. The panels blow out in the storms and it's very small.
That's a great question. The same zones in different parts of the country will have the same minimum temperature. So if I can grow a certain type of vegetable here for example, it will be hardy in your garden as well.
That's a bummer. For me it's usually kale the aphids attack. I noticed a LOT less of them if I plant tons of marigolds and Calendula with my brassicas.
Mostly I work full time on this property. Hahaha. But no, not outside the home at a 9 to 5 anymore. I own a ceramics business that I work in part time the rest of my time is spent growing and preserving food and taking care of the livestock.
Stanwood/Tulalip area of Washington State. Zone 8b with a fun and funky micro climate because of our proximity to the water and the woods! Where abouts are you?
Great question! Unfortunately right now it's really far from my garden so when we're using the irrigation system we run a hose aaaallllll the way from the house to the garden. Our water line does pass near the garden but we haven't had the time to dig it all up and put in an access point.
This was such a lovely stroll through your garden, thank you so much! I live in the PNW and your garden really showcases the natural vibrant, lush plantlife:)
Is there a source for pnw gardening that you used or could recommend for a beginner? I have a sizable yard I would much rather grow a garden in than grass!
Thank you so much! ❤️ Before I built the gardens I studied this book: Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades by Steve Solomon.
It's quite a comprehensive book on organic gardening for our area.
There are other books I read but this is the one I feel taught me the most before getting started.
I studied for about a year before I broke ground. Then I dived right in. After you know the basics a lot of it just getting in tune with your microclimate and the seasons. And remember, grow what you like! ❤️
Hurray!! A northwest gardening community!!! Happiness!!! I live in Skagit county. 🥰
Howdy neighbor!!!!!
Sedro Woollian here in 2024 😂
@@whitneylee5993 lol! I was born in Woolley! Now in Bow area.
So close!!! 👍🤣😂🤣😂
@@Avi_Z. we were born in the same hospital 🤣
@@whitneylee5993 Unless you’re pretty old, probably not. The old hospital on State street (?) was torn down long ago. Same town is very cool though!!😎👍💙
Ok, when you said "and over here, I have weeds!" I immediately had to like and subscribe.
Haha, yay!
Yeah I'm not sure if the weeds and I are friends or enemies but we sure do spend a lot of time together lol
What a dreamy garden. - Katie in Portland
Thank you so much!!!!!
So many expensive galvanized planters, sheesh. I hope it pays off,. Looks nice
Thank you, yeah the galvanized troughs were expensive, we accumulated them slowly over time. They work great and serve a dual purpose so I'm pretty happy with them.
SO glad I found your channel- I’m PNW zone 8B too so I’ll be following! 💛 beautiful garden - great great job!
Thank you so much!!!! Are you planning a garden or going to grow any foods/flowers/herbs this year?
This what dreams are made! How beautiful ❤
Thank you so much! It truly is my happy place ❤️
Voles travel along the surface.
Voles travel through tunnels underground then pop up to the surface to eat vegetation.
Its not too late to harvest garlic scapes. They have not opened up and are just curling. Perfect time to harvest, blend and freeze for the time when you can make garlic scap hummus! Freeze dry it and wow!! The best you'll ever taste!!
Definitely planning to harvest them this year! So excited!!! You have so many amazing use ideas, thank you! Love it!
lol, I always thought cranberries needed to grow in lakes.
Now you know you can grow them in your garden like me!!!!!
Love this.
Thank you!!!
Yes last year was terrible it got up to 117 here and like 115 for two more days . it was terrible for the garden. Nice video thank you
Thank you! You're welcome. Yes too hot for my sensibilities even if most of the garden had patience for it. Excited to see what this year holds for us all!
Oh forgot to say how it's put together. Dip cotton batting in peanut butter tie on to trap with dental floss
Oooh that's a fun new one I've never heard of before, thank you!
Cool garden tour. I'm up in the PNW too. 💚🤘
Thank you!!!! Howdy neighbor!
You need to buy a Gopher Hawk off of Amazon. That’s how we keep the voles down. Works great.
They do totally work!! Great suggestion ❤️
Blueberries look great!! Hello from Port Angeles!
Thank you so much! Howdy neighbor!!!
You could snare those voles. Getcha some steel wire and look up a youtube video on snaring. Youve got a lot of good anchor points
Ooohhh good idea! Guess what TH-cam rabbit hole I'm going down tonight haha!
This is my goal to grow pretty much everything like you are.
May you meet your goals! It's definitely my happy place!
Lovely garden.. very organized too. !
Thank you so much!!!!
Thank you very much, very helpful
You're welcome! ❤️
This is beautiful; I’m in Beaverton, west of Portland. We bought a condo, I wish I had space like this 😂❤
Condos can be fun too! Walkable towns, easy access to entertainment! If you have a patio or sunny window you can still grow a good amount of goodies!
Wow, gardening to perfection!
Thank you so much! ❤️ God has been (Is) so good to me.
Beautiful!
Thank you!!!!
linden berry in the PNW hmmmmm. You have my attention. How did they do?
Lingonberry. It does well in colder climates. It flowers beautifully. So far it hasn't fruited so I probably need to adjust the soil pH
Yes! I'm glad I found a pnw gardener! I love watching the Australian guy, but 8b can't grow bananas like he does. 😆
Does he grow banana in zone 8b?!!!!
You referring to self sufficient me? Lol
@@julianrodriguez1768 😆 Yes, I am! I adore his dad jokes.
Wow... That was a wonderful, beautiful, self sustaining n informative vdo. So organic n nature friendly 😘😘😘😘. I m fm india.
Thank you! Welcome, from the United States ❤️
Beautiful work in the garden. Thank you for the video!
Thank you!!! You're welcome!!!!
A certain amount of crop loss is to be expected, but last year voles decimated certain crops in my raised beds.
This year I dug up the beds and placed quarter-inch galvanized mesh underneath them stapling it to the sides. I know it's a pain to do, and the voles have definitely tried to get in, but so far so good this year.
Brilliant! Totally wish I knew about that before I built the garden. When I let it go fallow that would probably be a good year to do that.
How deep did you put it down? Do you have any problems with your root vegetables?
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead About a foot deep, and no issues as far as I can tell. Definitely much better results with than without.
@@willsolarski8550 you are so inspiring to me!!! Thank you!!!
Absolutely gorgeous garden!!!😍
Thank you!!!!
💖 Harvest lettuce in the morning before the sun hits it (the sap rises). Thanks for sharing 💞
Excellent advice!!!!
We had moles. I'm not sure what I did to get rid of them will work for voles, but I had the males in my household urinate into gallon, empty milk jugs. When they were full, I let it ferment for a couple days in the sun. Then I dug the soil up and poured the pee into the holes. About three days later, there were dozens of mole hills in the neighbor's house, 4 doors down. There is no need to kill or use poisons in most cases.
That's really great to hear about cranberries. I've never tried to grow them because of the myth of needing so much water. Also, the cauliflower, I've never grown it because I thought they take over the yard. But tying them makes them less hoggish of the space. Thanks for the tips!
It would be great to see how you harvest chamomile. The way I did it was so labor intensive, I decided not to keep growing it.
What is the trellis for your pickling cucumbers called? It looks like it is easier to manage then the big heavy arching kind. Our trellising jobs have not been the best.
Can the shallots that have gone to seed, still be eaten?
Thank you for showing your garden. It's nice to know that I am not the only one who lets things go a little further than we want.
Hi! Thank you so much for the tips on moles! We're a Housefull of women here but for my husband. Looks like a fire night with his friends is in order. Odd question though, they drink beer on fire nights. Do you think that would effect it's ability to deter the moles? Might help it ferment faster hahaha.
The way I harvest chamomile is time consuming, I have a video on it from last year. BUT you could just gather huge swaths and cut them that way instead of each head. You'd get some young ones but it would be fast to weed those out later. I harvest only the fully developed ones so I have a consistent harvest through the summer. That way I still have dehydrator space for the other herbs that are ready to harvest at the same time.
I just did a batch yesterday of comfrey, chamomile, purple dead nettle, marjoram and thyme.
The cucumber trellis is one of my favorite garden helpers! It's called an A frame cucumber and squash trellis. I bought it from Lehman's but there are similar ones sold all over. What I love about this one is that it folds up tightly about a foot across for easy storage in the off season.
Yes! You can definitely harvest and eat the shallots even after they go to seed. In fact they store so well even so that I still have a basket of them in storage!!
It was fun reading and responding to your comment! Let's talk again!
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead
Thank you for the response! I am actually shocked. Most never do!
Fermented beer pee. Guys are weird, they do like to pee on and in just about anything. I bet they'd love to help you out. Start saving those milk jugs! I'd love to hear back on how it goes! Not the filling of jugs, rather if it works at helping the little furry guys find a new home in someone else's garden. One guy could probably fill a half gallon a day! Just give him a lot of beer. If you want more, tell him, "I bet you can't fill a gallon jug a day", and see if he takes the bate. If you have blackberry stickers, you could cut them into pieces and shove them down the holes, but dry them first so they don't rot. It works for slugs, it might also work for rodents.
I'm going to have to hurry up and get that trellis. We've had record rainfall in my area of the state, but finally had some nice weather the last couple of days. We were gone most of both days and boy, did everything shoot up! We're supposed to get another week of it and I'm thrilled! I've never been happier to have a sunburn!
I have no patience to harvest chamomile. I did it for a couple years but it's just not worth it. I don't like it THAT much! Good to know about storing shallots. This year we have an amazing crop of onions, potatoes, and garlic. Storing is one of the things that stumps me.
Purple dead nettle? Do they sting like regular nettles? When the first baby sprouts of nettles come up, I sometimes pick them for tea. When my husband was going through full body radiation, I made him a tea to drink out of baby nettles, seaweed, and red clover. He never got more than a light pink and he was never in pain. Nature really does have some wonderful things in it, if we could only learn to utilize it all.
Well I have yammered on long enough. Thanks for the response. I'm going to go find those trellis's now!
@@cbryce9243 Hahahaha give a man a challenge and 9/10 he'll take it on for sure!
I didn't know that about the bramble stickers, I do have a ton on my property, it's worth a try! Literally everything that isn't poison is worth a try!
Looks like spring might show up right time for summer over here. Finally turned my heat off this morning. I'm grateful for the rain but also feel like we're all about to be slammed with two months of work consolidated into three weeks!
I have tried lots of different ways to store potatoes, garlic and onion and I've come to the conclusion that canning the potatoes or freezing is my favorite, hanging the garlic from the ceiling, and just leaving the shallots and onion on a table in my tool shed work the best. Cortland onions have by far been the best variety of onion for storage.
Purple dead nettle doesn't sting at all. I have a video on this channel all about it. More than you ever wanted to know I'm sure hahaha.
I'm happy to hear your husband had such good results with the herbs. I hope more people will excited about natural medicine!
Well, I'm off to weed my front yard and see if I caught any voles in the garden! Have a great day!
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead Oh darn (just kidding) Guess I will be spending a lot of time watching your TH-cam.
Thankfully the weather forecast was all wrong. It won't be as hot as they said it would be for the next week!
Happy gardening!
Dang! That is quite the garden. I am trying to mimic this in an apartment setting.
Thank you!!! You can most definitely grow in an apartment! What's your plan for this year?
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead I am getting things set with fabric pots on my back porch. I have peas and strawberries planted so far. I got the ball rolling on bean starts last night with a lot more in my sights soon 😎
@@gblyndensrandomreviews yay!!!! That sounds perfect! Have you ever grown potatoes in those bags? My daughter did that last year on her balcony and they did well!
What an amazing garden! Looks like more than a full time job. I'm assuming you sell some of your produce - so much yield!
Oh it's definitely 16 hour days 7 days a week during some parts of the season. I don't sell my produce but I do share with the community and our church and everything else I process either by canning, drying, freezing, wine making or tinctures.
Beautiful gardens! You've done a great job.
Thank you so much!!!
Beautiful
Thank you!!!
Vols: cotton batting. Dental floss, peanut butter... 100% effective
Put in their run... Not near their hole.
Thanks for sharing..
We are planning to start our gardenthis spring...
You're welcome! What all are you planning to grow?
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead Lots of Corn, green beans, blueberries, potatos, tomatoes, several grape varieties, beets, carrots, peas, might try some watermelon and cantaloupe, we also have some fruit trees (apples, pears, cherry) that are in 5 gallon buckets for 2 years now that will be planted within the fenced half acre (lots of plant munching deer here) also have solar panels and 48v water pump to use for irrigation from our water totes that collect rainwater
@@portlandlocalchurch8168 oh my goodness that sounds absolutely EPIC!!!!
Thank youuuu! My husband and I bought an acre of land in the Sedro Woolley area a few years back and I'm trying to get brave enough to start planting. I loved taking a trip through your garden. 😊 what learning materials did you use starting out?
Yay!!!! Jump right in! My most helpful book when I was researching before I started my garden was Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades by Steve Solomon.
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead perfect! Thanks 😄
@@sophiareed1101 you're welcome!!
Omg start now!
Nice
Thank you!
Juicy Fruit gum in the holes for Moles and Voles.
Voles eat vegetables, not sure it would work for them. I've heard others mention gum for moles but we haven't tried it. Have you tried it? How well did it work?
Just great
Thank you!!
New subscriber and new content creator. Love the channel. Thanks for the video. I'm up in Bellingham.
Thank you!!! Howdy neighbor! I subbed you back, always excited to connect with and learn from like minded folks, especially in this part of the state!
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead thanks for watching the channel. Maybe we can all get together one day this summer and all do videos interviewing each other at a farmers market or something.
@@Herbsformentalhealth oh my goodness!!! I would love that so much! Let's do it!!!!
That heat last summer was BRUTAL!
Oh my gosh yes! Reminded of my youth in Reno only without AC and the open fire hydrant to play in hahaha.
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead Hey, I lived in Reno for one year. I cannot imagine not having AC. 107 degrees nearly killed me.
I read that we are supposed to get to 83 tomorrow and in the 70's for the following week!
It really was.
Sweet garden
Thank you!!!!!
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead I’m in zone 8b too Shelton wa I’m a beginner and planning my garden I wanna be just like you lol 😝
@@Slaughterk360 awwww yay!!!!! You're so sweet! What are you planning to grow this year?
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead peppers tomatoes potatoes onion garlic green beans corn herbs pumpkin watermelon strawberries blueberries some fruit trees !! It’s kinda overwhelming but needs to happen I just have to figure out where to start !!
@@Slaughterk360 Oh heck yeah! Your garden is going to be AMAZING!!!!!!!
Lol... a squirrel came up right next to me and started digging at the roots of one of my plants trying to plant a peanut it had gotten from someone. I went into gardening with the idea to grow everything organic as an offering to the wildlife who are living off human trash. Whatever they don't eat is mine and mostly they leave everything alone. I think people should let go of the idea of ridding their garden of wildlife and find ways to protect their plants like netting if there are plants they don't want the animals getting. To deal with the problem of the squirrel digging at the roots of plants I stopped digging when transplanting seedlings into the beds. I create a sort of burlap pot with bamboo and twine and fill it with soil so the plant can still root down into the bed but is raised and that creates a perimeter around the roots so the squirrel is digging at the side of the burlap pots to contribute seeds that it wants to grow and not harming the roots of the other plants. That cute little squirrel was really just trying to garden with me.
I love your heart for the animals! ❤️❤️❤️
It's always sketchy online when commenting because people might get really mad. I'm glad to see a good reaction from you. Lol... I tried to plant tons of sunflowers this year because I know the animals like to eat those but I planted them too close together so they are only like 6" tall. ;D @@HappyAppleCoreHomestead
I got kicked out of a group on Facebook called Goth Gardening for posting a picture of a spider helping out to guard my plants. They said it was triggering to people with a fear of spiders (who obviously don't garden and just want clout for reposting the photos of actual gardeners) and that spiders aren't something that has ever even been affiliated with goth culture. You have no idea how much it means to me that you get it about working with the wildlife.@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead
@@EmpressKadesh I love all people and respect their walk. I think it's amazing that you care so much for animals that you grow them healthy food to eat. We all have a special purpose in this world and I would never get angry because someone chooses to do life or gardening differently than me. Plus in all honesty it helps that you shared your story but did it without being hard on me. I suppose it's always easier to be kind to kind people but at the end of the day we should all love each other the best we can.
As of August 4, 2023 in Arlington (city limits): spinach, beets, kohlrabi; cold-loving, short-season allium; cold-hardy legumes such as Peas and broad bean, lime, etc.; Evergreen and hardy herbs; and what are categorically, on Chinese terms, choy (choi sum, gai lan, yu sum, tatsoi, etc.) may be direct sown from seed, thus with care an succession.
In all likelihood, short-term warm weather goodness such as cilantro and some basil are still able to yield. Also, overwintering perennials but cardoon, blueberry, currant, grapes, tayberry, asparagus, nor umbrella figs.
I'll prolly let us know when we can plant mass more stuff in my favored way, or direct sowing save for the required starts.
Of course, starts if hardened-off should figure the common sense: no immediate climate concerns fail to support plans for summer's 60-day short-term end of season... save for an 65% chance of summer's clime continuance for another 2-3 (probable just over 2) months beyond September.
8-13-2023: As of today; mustards, broccoli, turnips, swedes, neeps, and best last days for all other herbs (time to harvest permitting) but especially overwintering and holiday-ready fresh herbs.
Awesome response, thank you!
I'm about to film my August 2023 garden tour. We are neighbors! I just planted lettuce, thyme, hyssop, savory and have seed starts in flats going of broccoli and cauliflower for a fall harvest! Definitely a lot going on in my garden since this video was originally posted. Stay tuned to see what's going on in my August garden!
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead Can't wait to see it all, especially how your recent sowing & planting comes out!
@@KevinWJenner I'll probably film the August garden tour tomorrow because everytime I walk outside today the rain sprinkles start back up! My goal is to do one every month until the harvest is over so probably November-ish.
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead Are you getting enough rain for watering, today? Gotta say, my garden loves it.
@@KevinWJenner yes!!!!!!! I'm so happy and so is the garden!
I loved your video. I live in the PNW too and garden. Your garden is beautiful! Good job! Ant pointers on preparing the galvanized beds for planting?
Thank you so much!!!! No special safety prep needed for these troughs. If they're safe for horses they're safe for humans.
That said, we do drill holes in the bottom for proper drainage, fill up halfway with soil then amend the top half with compost, fertilizer and a good quality topsoil. Some people like to use different items at the bottom to avoid having to get so much dirt. Large pine cones, sticks and branches, rocks, styrofoam (which I personally wouldn't use) but those are a few options.
What are growing in your garden?
We placed wood & cardboard in the bottom and filled with garden soil & manure. We have planted potatoes, carrots, onions, zucchini, cucumber, Broccoli, cabbage, tomatoes & peppers & a asparagus bed!
@@catalina8677 oh my goodness!! That's so amazing!!!! ❤️
Hi, I drill my drainage holes in the side of my stock tanks. That way when they get plugged I can clear them. Beautiful garden..
Thank you! That's a great idea! These particular troughs, the large ones have a drain plug in the side along the bottom edge. The small ones don't have that though!
I want your blueberries! What are your favorite recipes to incorporate them in? I love this garden, it's stunning.
Thank you!!
You'll have come visit the rainy PNW to get my blueberries but they'll grow in your yard too!
My absolute fav is an SCD legal almond blueberry muffin but I'm also partial to making a compote for a totally illegal angel food cake. Worth it tho I promise!
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead My grandmother froze her blueberries on a cookie sheet and put them in another container when frozen. Grandpa was a farmer/butcher so they had fresh cream. She'd pour the cream onto the frozen blueberries and have them like ice cream. I still do it, but I use 2%. The milk/cream freezes onto the berries and coat them. As they defrost, you get this nice creamy purple cream 😋 yum. If you try it, the berries will freeze solid so be ready to jab at them to separate.
I do love angel-food cake too, it was always a fave, but I have Celiac and can't eat it anymore. And I am too lazy to try and make it. But blueberries are good with everything!
Do you find places to pick blackberries? We have a special place that few people know of in Kirkland. Last year was too hot and the berries were too dried up and tasted badly. Let's hope this year is not so grueling.
It would be fun to get all the PNW gardening peeps together and meet. One gardening TH-camr I would love to meet is, Misilla Dela Llanna. I just bought her new book called Four-Season Food Gardening.
Happy gardening!
@@cbryce9243 oh yum! That sounds delicious! Kinnikinnick brand makes an amazing gluten free, safe for celiac angel food cake. They also make vanilla wafers and both taste exactly perfect!
I grow my own blueberries. I freeze them as well. Special trick is to freeze them in a single layer, not touching then transfer into a food saver bag. They don't stick to each other that way!
I have both invasive and mountain blackberries on my property. And yes last year was a bust, I only got one harvest before they shriveled up and dried out.
Thankfully I still had some left over from the year before. I'm hoping we don't get anymore 113 degree days.....ever.
Yes it would be so fun to all get together!
Seems you and I hGe the sand disease issues with yellowing / rust. Must be all the rain!
Oh yes pests, fungus, powdery mildew.....I get it all in the organic garden at one point or another!
Put a large pot upside down with mouse traps under it. Works good
Is that why I see neighbors with upside buckets all over their yard?
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead it could be. Not sure why but works
Your place is so nice!! Love it!!
Thank you!!!! It's definitely my happy place!
I really love what you’ve done there ! XOXOX
Thank you so much!!!!
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead 💜💜💜
I’d like to accomplish something similar one day…!! 🙏🏼
@@jorgegalindo7036 I hope you get your wish!
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead 🙏🏼💜🌈
Hi! I also live in 8b north seattle area. have you had any luck with catching voles since then? they are destroying my new orchard and garden as well. You´re garden still looks amazing though!
Hi Neighbor!!! Thank you so much!!
Yes I've had tons of success catching voles using the Swissinno traps. Apparently they can work for moles too. They don't hurt birds!
This year though weird as it is I'm having a baby mole and shrew problem and those traps don't work as well because they burrow tunnels sideways as opposed to vertical. It's been a challenge!
But those traps I mentioned are the best!
What are you growing in your orchard and garden this year?
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead awesome! thanks i just bought some off amazon LOL. I got many of the fruit trees and berry bushes from flower world last year including a few types of apples, pears, cherries, plum, and apricot. I also got a few strange ones from one green world in portland including yuzu. the voles are eating all the roots of the trees though womp womp. thanks for the garden tours. Its reassuring to see things grow.
@@RM-te1pc Wow that's incredible! One Green World is an excellent company. Keep us posted on how that apricot does, that's something I've never grown.
Very nice thank you for sharing! Question: I just joined a community garden in Tacoma, so we should also be in Zone 8b. I am a novice gardener, about 3 years in...I would like to know do you have a standard planting schedule you follow for our zone?
Hi!!! Yes I do. It's plant specific, more than I can message here but I'm happy to talk to specifics if you want to email me happyapplecore@gmail.com and if you'd rather talk on the phone send me a message and I'll give you my phone number.
If you float your cranberries they can only be used for juice ☺️
Really? I did not know that. Why? I WISH I grew enough for juice but my current cranberry beds only give me enough for my most favorite brandied cranberry sauce. Yum!
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead honestly I couldn’t tell you why lol but I’m down at the beach and we have tons of cranberry farmers here. I love your garden I’m just getting started
@@jamielowe9721 that's so cool! Good luck on your gardens! What are you planning for this spring?
How do you harvest scapes
How do I find out what zone I'm in???
I've gotten conflicting information. Some say 8a some 8b and according to seeds I'm in 3 or 4 lol
Help!!
I'm near Olympia but also near mountains and also near the ocean.
About 45 min from all of those.
Based on your description I would say you're in zone 8b or potentially zone 8a but probably 8b honestly. I'm a couple hours north of you, also very close to the water and mountains and I'm 8b. We do all have very different microclimates depending on your topography. For example a friend of mine who lives less than 5 miles away from me, also close to the water but a slightly lower elevation has much higher temps and her garden fruits way earlier than mine. If you can, keep a cheap thermometer on your porch to track frost dates at your exact location. That will help you determine the safest times to plant your seeds. Also I buy seeds for the Pacific Northwest climate. Territorial Seed is great with those because they are relatively local. Another good trick for knowing when to plant your seeds is check your soil temperature. Most seed packs will say the best soil degree, like 50 degrees for beans etc. check the soil temp with a regular kitchen or garden thermometer in the morning, plunge it deep into the soil, like 3 + inches down and when your soil temp matches what's on the seed pack go ahead and direct seed them into the ground.
What time of the year would be nice.
I feel like I mentioned that in the video but maybe I forgot! I'm thinking this was in July judging by how close the potatoes are to harvesting.
Amazing! do you have trouble with slugs?
Oh something awful. The trick is to go out every morning and do "slug patrol". Gloves and a bucket and pick them up and remove them. If I start right away in the spring and do it daily by this time of year I find only a couple a day. Down from 60+!
Amazing garden! What area of the PNW are you in that hits 112? We're starting our garden this year. Looking forward to it!
Thank you so much!!!! It was a fluke year, it almost never gets that hot here on the west side of the Washington state mountains. Last year we didn't even get a real Spring and it never got super hot.
What are you planning to grow in your garden this year?
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead my grandparents lived in Forks for about 30 years and I lived there for 1 year and in Port Angeles for about 6 years but now I’m in NW Oregon. We probably have very similar climates unless you’re in the rainforest lol. This will be our first PNW garden and I’m building out an indoor grow room this weekend. I’m going to try a few super hot peppers as an experiment and garlic, onions, artichokes, peas, brussel sprouts, green beans, romanesco broccoli, sweet peppers, and hopefully corn at some point. Hoping to have raised beds and an elk fence up by summer!
@@jeradweeks that's absolutely incredible!! You're growing some really fun food too. Sounds like you have clear and attainable goals, will you be posting your projects on TH-cam? If so I'd love to follow your progress .
May your garden be a massive success!!!
Fun fact, I was born in Oregon, it's a beautiful state!
Please mention date & temps when doing videos, some of us don't see them until much later.
Oooh that's an excellent idea! I'll work on that!
What month did you record this? The video only says 2 years ago.
Do you have a harvesting video? I would like to grow potatos but I kill them before I harvest so I stopped growing them I want to start back up. Also are their any vegetable I can grow with little light? My back yard doesnt get much light and my front yard has my other garden in it.
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In my last comment I posted my video on potatoes for you. I'm unsure what you mean about killing them before you harvest. Can you tell me more?
As far as growing vegetables in the shade, not really honestly however there's tons of flowers and herbs you can grow in the shade. My favorite is bleeding heart.
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead yeah I was told to plant them in tires, so I put one tire down added dirty the as it grew I added another tire and dirt and then I think I burried it and killed it
@@markosp ah okay, tires do have chemicals in them that plants might not like. If you can use grow bags or wood boxes I think you'll have a lot more success ❤️
Hi from Hockinson. How do you control rabbits?
Hi!! It's hard to see on this video but the fencing around the garden has rabbit fencing at the bottom. Without it my garden would be destroyed. In the spring we have thousands of bunnies running around our property. Here's a link similar to what we use. www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/rabbit-guard-fence-40-in-x-50-ft?cid=Search-Google-TSC_DYN-Dynamic%20All%20Site-All%20Site%20TSC&Google&Search&TSC_DYN&Dynamic%20All%20Site&All%20Site%20TSC&gclid=CjwKCAjw7IeUBhBbEiwADhiEMTimkNIvF78om_tYqzzKDkUKm_jRS8PpwmmMVTIPkjWQZtFn7wO0LBoCTfAQAvD_BwE
your garden is stunning! im trying for a bigger garden this year and hope it goes well. If i might ask, what potato varieties do best in our area? im in vancouver area which shows to be 8a/b as best i an tell.
Thank you so much!!! Yukon Gold's do so amazing here and they preserve nicely, they are my favorites. But Ive grown everything from russets to Adirondack blues and they all did perfect!
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead thank you so much for your input. look forward to seeing more of your videos, and learning from your knowledge.
@@doughnutguy82 thank you! Is there anything you'd like to to learn or see that you'd like me to cover in a video?
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead no maam nothing that i can currently think of. eventually something will pop up and ill probably ask then
@@doughnutguy82 please do! I'm always up for a challenge!
How wide are your wood raised beds?
4 feet of growable space
what month are you doing your tour in?
I'm pretty sure this tour was done in July
amazing! your garden looks great. how much time do you think you spend a week in there?
Thank you!! It depends on the time of year. Right now since I'm planting I spend about 15-30 hours a week working out there. When the sun comes out and it's harvest season it could be up to 12 hour days for a few weeks. Then in the Fall for clean up it goes back down to 20 and in the winter I just do quick harvests and weeding as needed so just a few minutes here and there. My only full break from the garden is December and January.
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead whoa! do you work other than in your garden?
@@madisonhadden9510 I do! I own a pottery business, Happy Apple Core Ceramics. The studio is located on my property so it's a short commute!
Where did you get your greenhouse from
We bought it from a friend who was moving away. Don't quote me on this but I think they got it from harbor freight. It's not a super good quality but it does work!
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead Thanks! I'm deciding between a pricey high quality one for around $8500 and a cheaper one
@@kristina_lynn If you were to ask my husband he would say splurge on the better quality if you can. This greenhouse seems to be the bane of his existence hahaha. The panels blow out in the storms and it's very small.
@@HappyAppleCoreHomestead Your input is very helpful thanks!
@@kristina_lynn you're welcome!!
Is my 8b in panhandle of florida same?
That's a great question. The same zones in different parts of the country will have the same minimum temperature. So if I can grow a certain type of vegetable here for example, it will be hardy in your garden as well.
That is a mole hole. Use Gopher Hawk. 😀
We have moles AND voles in our garden, the traps do help for sure!!!
My broccoli never make it that far without being covered in aphids.
That's a bummer. For me it's usually kale the aphids attack. I noticed a LOT less of them if I plant tons of marigolds and Calendula with my brassicas.
Out of curiosity what is your elevation? Are you in zone 8b or 8a?
Great question. I am zone 8b. Elevation is somewhere around 427ft
Do you work full time?
Mostly I work full time on this property. Hahaha. But no, not outside the home at a 9 to 5 anymore. I own a ceramics business that I work in part time the rest of my time is spent growing and preserving food and taking care of the livestock.
get a cat to catch the moles and voles
There are several cats that hunt on my property, so grateful for them!
Mouse traps injure small birds!
I don't use those anymore. I only use underground vole traps now so no birds get injured ❤️
Where at in the Pacific Northwest?
Stanwood/Tulalip area of Washington State. Zone 8b with a fun and funky micro climate because of our proximity to the water and the woods!
Where abouts are you?
Is your water source close to the garden? Would love to know more about your irrigation. Thanks!
Great question! Unfortunately right now it's really far from my garden so when we're using the irrigation system we run a hose aaaallllll the way from the house to the garden. Our water line does pass near the garden but we haven't had the time to dig it all up and put in an access point.