Laura I would just love a video on how you do your hair and what you use. I know that's random and has nothing to do with gardening lol but it's always looks so healthy and pretty!
I ADORE YOUR GARDEN AREA'S THEY ARE EVERY BIT SOMETHING I'VE DREAMED OF HAVING, BUT STILL WORKING TO SEE COME TO PASS AS YET??? NOT AT YOUR LEVEL OF GROWTH IN THE GROWN AS YOU ARE YET! JUST APPRECIATING ALL YOUR HARD WORK AND THANKING YOU FOR SHARING YOUR BEAUTY WITH US!!!
Laura, you're the garden friend everyone wants!! You're so knowledgeable and pleasant to watch. Thank you so much, Laura and Aaron, for sharing your garden and for inspiring us all!!
Is anyone else on the West side of OR/WA watching Laura plant blackberries in awe. These are so invasive in our area that no one would need to plant them since they're everywhere. Free blackberries!
Yes, I hear you! I’m from western Oregon and now live in western Washington. Your comment made me laugh as it reminds me of my new neighbor from California thrilled to have a mound of “wild” Himalayan blackberries in his yard. While I was fighting mine down to the roots next door, he actually started propagating more from cuttings! Our Himalayas, which are invasive and we fight, were actually introduced to the PNW by a guy named Luther Burbank and it quickly became invasive. They’re also disgusting to eat, in my opinion. Though they are notoriously good at feeding rats and invasive bird species. Big, bitter seeds and lacking in concentrated flavor. It always amazes me to see folks picking them along roads as if they’re scoring delicious, free fruit. It makes perfect sense to grow better varieties in the garden! I’m planting Marionberry this year. Happy gardening!
MICROCENTRUM EGGS!!! Yes they laid and hatched, if you find some that haven’t opened prune them off and spray tree with Triple Action Neem Oil!!! Thanks for all your content helping us to enjoy the beauty in our gardens and share your expertise with others! Loving the interest Benjamin has shown this year, he will be something else to watch in years to come! Thank you for all you do for us! ❤️
Summer 2022 is going to be a treat@!! See Dad is becoming less camera shy, wonderful!!! Such a lovely family and thanks again for just bringing a ray of sunshine into our lives everyday. Are those not ladybird eggs that have alrsady hatched? We haven't had any for many years but I recall seeing something similar from my childhood. My gran always said they belonged to ladybirds and we shouldn't harm/disturb them. It means you've got your eco system balanced and hopefully no need to set fire 🔥 to anything 😂😂
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I had never seen these before either. You just helped laura, the garden answer community and if laura share this with her parents, the andrew's customers will also benefit from it . Thanks again !
Great job! We have grown Triple Crown blackberries in our zone 8b California garden for the last 15 years. They are wonderful! I would like to tear out the other two varieties we have altogether and just leave the Triple Crown. Enjoy!!
All the TH-cam people muchly appreciated all your lovely so thank you from all of us for making love you as and lovely as it's your job well worth doing
I have been watching your channel for over a year now and it has become my routine to start my day with Laura and a coffee. My husband. Surprised me today with a Garden Answer sweatshirt and t- shirt. I now feel so part of the club and can't wait to see who approaches me at my local nurseries when i wear them. Thank you for your inspiration, motivation and knowledge. I so enjoy spending my time with you and your family. I love my husband too in that he always supports and encourages whatever interest i have. I have gardened for years and find that it is hard work yet so nourishing and enriches my life continually. Keep up the great work you do as your are a treasure to many.
Those katydid eggs. They overwinter. They hatch in spring but, it is so close and our weather in Oregon this year has been pretty mild. I love the perfect symmetry of how they lay their eggs!
I asked this yesterday too but I'm really hoping you see this 😃 please show us an update Tree Tour of all the trees planted back in April 2018. To give me/ everyone an idea of what to expect from planting a tree seeing the growth four years on and also talking about any lessons learned or pruning needed, issues, successes or changes made because of the new property 🤗🌲🌱
Yes! As wonderful as they are and the great videos they post, this is the one thing I wish they did more of - timeline videos - so we can see progress and change of significant areas/plantings! 👍👏🙌
Thank you, Laura, for this tidbit of information. I know your video is on blackberries, but at the end you talked about gathering your strawberries together into a waist-high type of raised garden, and THAT is what really caught my attention today. BINGO! Sam's Club has a raised container planter that is 44" X 18" X 33" high for just over a hundred dollars in my Middle TN, Zone 7 area. I'd already decided that I am going to invest in one of them this season for my back deck area, but was still mulling over what I wanted to plant in it. Meanwhile, I also have a large, plastic wash tub of strawberries that will be going on it's third summer, I believe. That container is aged and cracking and needing to be replaced. So now, because of your nonchalant side comment about strawberries at the end, I am going to transplant my strawberries, and add to them, into that raised garden that I want from Sam's. It will be perfect. Thank you for the inspiration you give. THANK YOU so much for sharing your lives with us! May God continue to bless you and keep you in the palm of His hand.
13:51 Some kind of katydid eggs. I google it for you Laura: Katydid, (family Tettigoniidae), also called long-horned grasshopper or bushcricket, also spelled bush cricket, the common true katydid (Pterophylla camellifolia) produces the repetitive song for which katydids are named; the song is phoneticized as “katy-did, katy-didn’t.” They are especially abundant in the tropics, particularly in the Amazon Rainforest, but are also found in cooler and drier regions, such as the heathlands of Australia, the deserts of the United States, and parts of Canada and northern Europe. They typically are found living on trees, bushes, or grasses, often matching the appearance of their surroundings.
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 What the FORK? Mad skills with flaming red hair flying around those pallets. I was waiting to hear Laura play, 🐝 "Flight of the Bumblebee" 🐝 on the piano in the background! 🐝🌞🐝
Man!! You made short work of that! Driving the forklift, drinking coffee and knocking those beds out!! You are one strong woman!! I admire you so much!!
Laura, you are such an inspiration to me. Not only in your garden and work, but in your priorities and family life as well. I first found your channel when Covid broke out, and while I was furloughed from work, I would sit at home and watch your older episodes while dreaming about my home, family, and garden. What a bright spot you were in those uncertain days! You and I were also pregnant around the same time. I had my first baby in May of last year. Watching you keep moving and gardening even as your due date approached encouraged me to keep working too! Now, I spend each morning with my “me time” watching your posts. New mamas don’t tend to get a lot of me time, and I eagerly anticipate each morning because of you. It’s also fun to see Samantha Grace growing, because I know my baby won’t be far behind her! I love how you do what you love, provide for your family, and make both of them priority in their time. I want to be the same way. Watching you, I know I can do it too. Thank you for sharing your gifts and time with all of us folks you’ll never meet. Anybody else wish they could be like Laura when they “grow up,” like me? -Ivy
Laura it's so satisfying watching you work. Your efficiency is over the top!! Every time you dig a hole and dump amendment you don't hesitate one bit. I'm sure it inspires us viewers to work more smartly in the garden!
I would recommend trying black raspberries in the future, also. Our property came with a bed of black raspberries. They make the most flavorful jelly. They do need to grow a distance away from raspberries, because they are prone to have some disease the wouldn’t be good for raspberries. It’s been 7 yrs and so far I haven’t seen it. (Zone 4A here) I’m in Wisconsin, not quite at the planting stage but can get out to down my raspberry canes and prune grape vines. So ready to see GREEN again. Thank you and Aaron for all the inspiration that gets us through late winter months. But I would trade the 4 seasons for anything else. Julie
Yes this was fantastic. Got to see Mum and Dad and Samantha Grace ( she’s growing so great). Great raise beds and complete now. Thank you so very much for sharing this with us. Appreciated.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Your 3rd year will be the best year. The first year you’ll get some fruit but the fruit will only grow on what is existing right now. So be patient and enjoy!! 🥰
Love blackberries! They grow wild here and I have fond memories of my dad giving my brother and I a bucket and sending us out on our bikes to go find berries for homemade ice cream and cobbler. Can't wait to see how these grow. The south garden is really coming together
Omg wild blackberries?!?? FREAKING LUCKY!!! We have wild mulberries where I'm at. The birds planted 21 mulberry trees on my 2.5 acres. I think its so sweet of them but I wish we had wild wild blackberries.
FREAKING LUCKY. Are you kidding me. Wild blackberries are nothing like normal berries. They cannot be killed. They grow and grow and grow, you can't stop them you can only watch as they consume everything you love. Last year i lost 7 friends in the forest of pain, we couldn't save them without risking getting turned to mincemeat by the demonbush's 3 cm long razorblade thorns.
As always loved the video. Blackberries are cultivated here but also grow wild. When I was a child, my mother would take my sister and me picking blackberries. We would fill buckets and then she would make the most wonderful blackberry jelly. She made wonderful cobblers too. This video brought back some wonderful memories. Thank you
I had the same thing on one of my plants last year, they were so pretty! I agree with a previous comment, I believe they were katydid eggs. Nature can be so beautiful, happy gardening!
I like this video! It was a whole buffet of Garden Answer! A little bit of harvest, a little of sweet baby girl, some biology mystery, the family and garden center, and planting with some tips. Not to mention, I love longer videos! It really made my Saturday morning tea time! I would love if every Friday video were like this one to hold me over until the Highlights on Sunday. I love you guys! I might come all the way from Spain and fangirl you one of these days! May God continue to bless you! Hugs, Brittany
My parents have blackberry bushes in southern California, my Mom planted 3 branches she got from her brother who cut them from wild blackberries on his property near Yosemite. She literally stuck them into the ground near a border fence and they grew and spread and took over the whole fence that I think is about 30 feet long and 6 feet tall and they reach over the fence all the way to the ground on the other side into the neighbors side yard and they have to cut them back just so they don’t grow into the walkway but they let them grow and harvest too. My Mom fills her freezer with what she harvests and gives away a lot to neighbors and family and can’t harvest it all. The birds love them too. They have been growing there for now over 20 years and she has never fertilized them, my Dad has cut them back every few years when they get too thick. They are the biggest, juiciest and sweetest blackberries I have ever had and we have no idea what kind they are but it’s now impossible for me to eat any other blackberries.
Hi Laura and Aaron! It will be fun watching the kiddos eating the berries. If you plant strawberries in a taller raisd bed, won't it be hard for the kiddos to pick them? Thank you so much for sharing!
As a first time gardener, I am learning so much from you! Even the simple way you set up materials for efficient work! Kudos to your photographer/videographer for their skills!!
If Samantha Grace isn't the cutest little thing I see today, I don't know what will be! I miss my kids at that age but it's so fun to watch them grow up and see what their personalities become, Have a great weekend! :P
We're in the UK. Our blackberries and loganberries (raspberry/blackberry cross) go straight in the ground and grow along our fences. Our loganberry stretches for 36 feet and produces so much fruit! We're going to try trailing blackberries in our hanging baskets for the first time this year!
Hi Laura, I wanted to inform you that you can take cuttings of the Fallgold Raspberries on new green growth which are very easy to take root! I stuck some cuttings of the same variety in the ground 2 years ago and they have fruited wonderfully!
Bugs in a bag! I love it. That is a common occurrence around work for me too. (Landscaping Industry, it is either bugs or weeds to identify.). The eggs look similar to Katydid eggs. Best of luck with the berries and the bugs. ;)
Take 3 different photos and send or take to your County Extension office. They "usually" have a number of resources to consult. Or, usually, they can send it off to an Oregon Extension lab for an official I. D. May cost a nominal fee.
Cylinder towers with multiple openings would be really cool for the strawberries! Put them in the corners of the berry patch like pretty edible pillars. They’d look so pretty trailing down the sides of the tower. 🍓
Triple Crown is more of a vining type of blackberry, and it will quickly take over a trellis or arbor. I have to train mine like a climbing rose, weaving the very long canes back and forth.
Love watching all your videos. Enjoy seeing your beautiful family too. I have a quick question on regards to the hose thing? The tan and new charcoal one. What are they? Silly I know, but it doesn’t look like a normal hose reel.
The eggs on tree may be katydid, angular wing or broad winged. Also, long ago you asked about your old stair way what the decorations in the corners were, they are called dust corners, I saw them in a catalog called Van Dykes Restorers.
I found eggs just like that on my star jasmine a few months ago. A bug friend of mine identified them as Katydid eggs, as it’s warmed up here in New Orleans (zone 9b) I’ve been seeing Katydids all around my back yard!
Your my hero, love the berry beds and the garden. I can’t imagine what you will do with all the new things in your garden. It a journey I’ve loved watching.
I am from the western side of Oregon where blackberries are a nuisance. When I moved out of state I had job as a cashier. A customer came came through my line with a blackberry plant and I was so confused! I could not believe what I was seeing and told them I should have been in the blackberry selling business!
Same here! I was thinking of all the blackberries we killed, hacked back etc. watching them being planted on purpose! Now that we live in a state without them, I kinda miss them. haha!
Lovin your raised beds for the berries. You guys put a lot of thought into your beds and I know you’ll have a bumper crop of blackberries next year. We planted 3 little thornless blackberry plants on our very small subdivision lot 2 years ago and this past year our vines were loaded with very large sweet berries and they just kept on producing berries all summer. The plants were nothing special, got them from WalMart. Only wish I had enough room for more.
We have a blackberry plant that was literally left for dead for years. It got replanted to a different location and watered regularly. Now we have a large blackberry patch with huge juicy fruit. It produces for at least 5-6 weeks maybe longer. The trick is lots of water. I wish we had put more thought into making a few rows to keep it tidy. I'm in Utah BTW. Had a friend who grows raspberries and hasn't had much success with blackberries. I think we got lucky.
Great job. Covered quite a bit today. Blackberries and raspberries are so good and healthful. Can’t wait to see how they do - along with all the things! Nice to see your mom, and dad. It looks like you’re wearing down your dad’s resistance to being on camera! 🤣👍. Samantha Grace is so cute! 💚💚💚
Your excitement for each project is contagious and gets me excited for my own spring plantings! I've watched you for years now and have grown so much in my knowledge of gardening. I've been taking gardening classes with Laura! I've noticed you have continually adapted your drip system installation method. I'm assuming as you learn what works and doesn't you keep working to perfect it. Isn't that the beauty of gardening in general? In this video, you are using clamps to secure the tubing to the barbed connectors. I love this idea and wondered if you could share the sources of the clamps used as well as the clamping tool. Thanks so much!
🍓🍓🍓The area opposite to then horizontal pear 🍐 tree you are planning on putting, where the high tunnel were ,would be nice to flank some raise beds for strawberries 🍓 opposite to that fence beside the pathway 🍓🍓🍓
Hey Aaron, I enjoyed your driveway care video the other day, was wondering if you wouldn’t mind doing a short on the Arbs care? That would be great! Thank you 🙏🏼😊♥️
I planted blackberry's a couple of years ago. No blackberry's first year, last year we got quite a few black berries. So my question is will I have blackberry's this year? Can't wait to see how your blackberry's do this year. I'm so excited.❤️🥰❤️
Excited to see this crop's growth and also how well it is supported by the structure. I would love to have the same set up. How lovely yet completely functional!
Did Laura just say “Nespresso has changed my life”?! I’m a Nespresso employee and I always get such a thrill seeing my favorite creators loving our coffee. It’s a wonderful company to work for too. I just wish they’d put me in charge of influencer sponsorships, lol!
So much geeat info in this video! Glad to know what Katydid eggs look like, that would have grossed me out for sure. And the transition with your fancy coffee from the barn to the garden was 🤌 I had to go back and watch that again. So clever, your team!
PLEASE do a video of blackberries, specifically Navajo and baby cakes if you can. Thank you for sharing all of your knowledge!
I think those are katydid eggs on your maples that have already hatched. No worries
Agree.
I was hoping somebody could identify them. I just looked it up and it does seem like that's exactly what they are. Thanks for the insight.
Aren’t the fascinating looking!
Well done!
I looked it up and the adult katydid have some leaf like camouflage..very interesting..thanks for the info..
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Laura: “I WILL LIGHT THAT GARDEN ON FIRE!”
Laura’s HATE for Spider mites is REAL!
Loved this video, I love them all!! 🌿
I have never laughed this hard because of a garden video before
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I thought this was hilarious. Props to the editing master of the fireball! 🔥 😂
Spider mites are my nemesis
I'm definitely with her on the hate for mites!! Last year they were relentless!
Just shows how well-rounded Laura is....She got skills on the forklift then for coffee/expresso she whips out a fancy-shmancy teacup! Love it! LOL
Hi AJ, I'm glad to see you follow Laura. She's one of a kind👍
@@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920 she is beyond awesome!!💯
Laura I would just love a video on how you do your hair and what you use. I know that's random and has nothing to do with gardening lol but it's always looks so healthy and pretty!
I ADORE YOUR GARDEN AREA'S THEY ARE EVERY BIT SOMETHING I'VE DREAMED OF HAVING, BUT STILL WORKING TO SEE COME TO PASS AS YET??? NOT AT YOUR LEVEL OF GROWTH IN THE GROWN AS YOU ARE YET! JUST APPRECIATING ALL YOUR HARD WORK AND THANKING YOU FOR SHARING YOUR BEAUTY WITH US!!!
Laura, you're the garden friend everyone wants!! You're so knowledgeable and pleasant to watch. Thank you so much, Laura and Aaron, for sharing your garden and for inspiring us all!!
Is anyone else on the West side of OR/WA watching Laura plant blackberries in awe. These are so invasive in our area that no one would need to plant them since they're everywhere. Free blackberries!
Yes, I hear you! I’m from western Oregon and now live in western Washington. Your comment made me laugh as it reminds me of my new neighbor from California thrilled to have a mound of “wild” Himalayan blackberries in his yard. While I was fighting mine down to the roots next door, he actually started propagating more from cuttings! Our Himalayas, which are invasive and we fight, were actually introduced to the PNW by a guy named Luther Burbank and it quickly became invasive. They’re also disgusting to eat, in my opinion. Though they are notoriously good at feeding rats and invasive bird species. Big, bitter seeds and lacking in concentrated flavor. It always amazes me to see folks picking them along roads as if they’re scoring delicious, free fruit. It makes perfect sense to grow better varieties in the garden! I’m planting Marionberry this year. Happy gardening!
Why do I feel so productive after you guys did all of the work 😅
Have you thought about growing marions? their season is super short but SO worth the wait!
MICROCENTRUM EGGS!!! Yes they laid and hatched, if you find some that haven’t opened prune them off and spray tree with Triple Action Neem Oil!!! Thanks for all your content helping us to enjoy the beauty in our gardens and share your expertise with others! Loving the interest Benjamin has shown this year, he will be something else to watch in years to come! Thank you for all you do for us! ❤️
I almost spewed my morning coffee when your mom said those scales looked like mite eggs and the atomic mushroom cloud popped up!!!! Too funny!!!!!
Summer 2022 is going to be a treat@!! See Dad is becoming less camera shy, wonderful!!! Such a lovely family and thanks again for just bringing a ray of sunshine into our lives everyday. Are those not ladybird eggs that have alrsady hatched? We haven't had any for many years but I recall seeing something similar from my childhood. My gran always said they belonged to ladybirds and we shouldn't harm/disturb them. It means you've got your eco system balanced and hopefully no need to set fire 🔥 to anything 😂😂
Oh yes, katydid eggs! I love these guys, so neat. Sometimes they look like a welder stopped by. I find these quite often, along with katydids.
I scrolled through the comments to find the answer! Lol thanks for sharing! 😊
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I had never seen these before either. You just helped laura, the garden answer community and if laura share this with her parents, the andrew's customers will also benefit from it . Thanks again !
@@lookingforsure Thanks for this, you are right Katydid eggs! We get them over here in England but have never seen the eggs.
If those are Prime-Ark 45, they are quite thorny. Prime-Ark Freedom and Prime-Ark Traveler are thornless.
"light our garden on fire 🔥🔥"
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It’s great to see your father.
Loved seeing Samantha Grace, she is so beautiful! Everything is coming together so nicely! Great video!
Great job!
We have grown Triple Crown blackberries in our zone 8b California garden for the last 15 years. They are wonderful! I would like to tear out the other two varieties we have altogether and just leave the Triple Crown. Enjoy!!
All the TH-cam people muchly appreciated all your lovely so thank you from all of us for making love you as and lovely as it's your job well worth doing
I have been watching your channel for over a year now and it has become my routine to start my day with Laura and a coffee. My husband. Surprised me today with a Garden Answer sweatshirt and t- shirt. I now feel so part of the club and can't wait to see who approaches me at my local nurseries when i wear them. Thank you for your inspiration, motivation and knowledge. I so enjoy spending my time with you and your family. I love my husband too in that he always supports and encourages whatever interest i have. I have gardened for years and find that it is hard work yet so nourishing and enriches my life continually. Keep up the great work you do as your are a treasure to many.
Samantha Grace can sure put a smile on your face. When she came walking toward you smiling, I smiled too.
Those katydid eggs. They overwinter. They hatch in spring but, it is so close and our weather in Oregon this year has been pretty mild. I love the perfect symmetry of how they lay their eggs!
So impressed with the way you Handel that equipment. You go sunshine👏 👏 👏.
I asked this yesterday too but I'm really hoping you see this 😃 please show us an update Tree Tour of all the trees planted back in April 2018. To give me/ everyone an idea of what to expect from planting a tree seeing the growth four years on and also talking about any lessons learned or pruning needed, issues, successes or changes made because of the new property 🤗🌲🌱
I think it would be more interesting to make that video once the trees have leafed out!
Yes! As wonderful as they are and the great videos they post, this is the one thing I wish they did more of - timeline videos - so we can see progress and change of significant areas/plantings! 👍👏🙌
@@MauricioMascia yes you're right on that... I'm just flagging it to them so they add it to their "to video job list" 😃 🤗
Best part- Samantha Grace’s smiles and sounds!🥰
Love watching your family and you and Aaron together. I miss my husband, been gone for almost 20 years. My grown kids are all wonderful helpers.
Oh! Those shelves of organized soils and fertilizers . . . YES!!! So satisfying 😌
Thank you, Laura, for this tidbit of information. I know your video is on blackberries, but at the end you talked about gathering your strawberries together into a waist-high type of raised garden, and THAT is what really caught my attention today. BINGO! Sam's Club has a raised container planter that is 44" X 18" X 33" high for just over a hundred dollars in my Middle TN, Zone 7 area. I'd already decided that I am going to invest in one of them this season for my back deck area, but was still mulling over what I wanted to plant in it. Meanwhile, I also have a large, plastic wash tub of strawberries that will be going on it's third summer, I believe. That container is aged and cracking and needing to be replaced. So now, because of your nonchalant side comment about strawberries at the end, I am going to transplant my strawberries, and add to them, into that raised garden that I want from Sam's. It will be perfect. Thank you for the inspiration you give. THANK YOU so much for sharing your lives with us! May God continue to bless you and keep you in the palm of His hand.
Laura yall work so beatifully together like me and my hubby so sweet. Love ur berry beds.
I just love Laura’s enthusiasm! If I could be more like her my yard would be so beautiful. I’m trying though.
13:51 Some kind of katydid eggs. I google it for you Laura: Katydid, (family Tettigoniidae), also called long-horned grasshopper or bushcricket, also spelled bush cricket, the common true katydid (Pterophylla camellifolia) produces the repetitive song for which katydids are named; the song is phoneticized as “katy-did, katy-didn’t.” They are especially abundant in the tropics, particularly in the Amazon Rainforest, but are also found in cooler and drier regions, such as the heathlands of Australia, the deserts of the United States, and parts of Canada and northern Europe. They typically are found living on trees, bushes, or grasses, often matching the appearance of their surroundings.
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What the FORK?
Mad skills with flaming red hair flying around those pallets.
I was waiting to hear Laura play, 🐝 "Flight of the Bumblebee" 🐝 on the piano in the background!
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Man!! You made short work of that! Driving the forklift, drinking coffee and knocking those beds out!! You are one strong woman!! I admire you so much!!
You always plant whatever crosses my mind randomly... 🌵
Laura, you are such an inspiration to me. Not only in your garden and work, but in your priorities and family life as well. I first found your channel when Covid broke out, and while I was furloughed from work, I would sit at home and watch your older episodes while dreaming about my home, family, and garden. What a bright spot you were in those uncertain days! You and I were also pregnant around the same time. I had my first baby in May of last year. Watching you keep moving and gardening even as your due date approached encouraged me to keep working too! Now, I spend each morning with my “me time” watching your posts. New mamas don’t tend to get a lot of me time, and I eagerly anticipate each morning because of you. It’s also fun to see Samantha Grace growing, because I know my baby won’t be far behind her! I love how you do what you love, provide for your family, and make both of them priority in their time. I want to be the same way. Watching you, I know I can do it too. Thank you for sharing your gifts and time with all of us folks you’ll never meet. Anybody else wish they could be like Laura when they “grow up,” like me? -Ivy
Laura it's so satisfying watching you work. Your efficiency is over the top!! Every time you dig a hole and dump amendment you don't hesitate one bit. I'm sure it inspires us viewers to work more smartly in the garden!
Remember ferrying over to Vashon Island for blackberries the size of golf balls. So yummy!
Those are definitely Katydid eggs. The good news is that they do minimal to no damage in the garden.
The galvanized strawberry containers would like nice at each end of the rows of berries, and easy to pick all of the berries at once. 🍓🍓🍓🍓
That's a great idea ! Perfect place for them, i agree
Loving Samantha Grace's curiosity of carrots.
You are a RENAISSANCE WOMAN. Many talents. You go Lady!
I would recommend trying black raspberries in the future, also. Our property came with a bed of black raspberries. They make the most flavorful jelly. They do need to grow a distance away from raspberries, because they are prone to have some disease the wouldn’t be good for raspberries. It’s been 7 yrs and so far I haven’t seen it. (Zone 4A here) I’m in Wisconsin, not quite at the planting stage but can get out to down my raspberry canes and prune grape vines. So ready to see GREEN again. Thank you and Aaron for all the inspiration that gets us through late winter months. But I would trade the 4 seasons for anything else. Julie
I love these longer vlog style videos!!
Yes this was fantastic. Got to see Mum and Dad and Samantha Grace ( she’s growing so great). Great raise beds and complete now. Thank you so very much for sharing this with us. Appreciated.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Your 3rd year will be the best year. The first year you’ll get some fruit but the fruit will only grow on what is existing right now. So be patient and enjoy!! 🥰
Love blackberries! They grow wild here and I have fond memories of my dad giving my brother and I a bucket and sending us out on our bikes to go find berries for homemade ice cream and cobbler. Can't wait to see how these grow. The south garden is really coming together
Ditto wild blackberries and cobbler! 😋 And chigger bites. Tons and tons of chigger bites… lol
What a sweet (pun intended) memory of picking then being rewarded with treats.
Omg wild blackberries?!?? FREAKING LUCKY!!! We have wild mulberries where I'm at. The birds planted 21 mulberry trees on my 2.5 acres. I think its so sweet of them but I wish we had wild wild blackberries.
FREAKING LUCKY. Are you kidding me. Wild blackberries are nothing like normal berries. They cannot be killed. They grow and grow and grow, you can't stop them you can only watch as they consume everything you love. Last year i lost 7 friends in the forest of pain, we couldn't save them without risking getting turned to mincemeat by the demonbush's 3 cm long razorblade thorns.
As always loved the video. Blackberries are cultivated here but also grow wild. When I was a child, my mother would take my sister and me picking blackberries. We would fill buckets and then she would make the most wonderful blackberry jelly. She made wonderful cobblers too. This video brought back some wonderful memories. Thank you
I had the same thing on one of my plants last year, they were so pretty! I agree with a previous comment, I believe they were katydid eggs. Nature can be so beautiful, happy gardening!
I like this video! It was a whole buffet of Garden Answer! A little bit of harvest, a little of sweet baby girl, some biology mystery, the family and garden center, and planting with some tips. Not to mention, I love longer videos! It really made my Saturday morning tea time! I would love if every Friday video were like this one to hold me over until the Highlights on Sunday. I love you guys! I might come all the way from Spain and fangirl you one of these days! May God continue to bless you! Hugs, Brittany
Raised beds are GORGEOUS!
I love Samantha's little walk. Adorable!!
My parents have blackberry bushes in southern California, my Mom planted 3 branches she got from her brother who cut them from wild blackberries on his property near Yosemite. She literally stuck them into the ground near a border fence and they grew and spread and took over the whole fence that I think is about 30 feet long and 6 feet tall and they reach over the fence all the way to the ground on the other side into the neighbors side yard and they have to cut them back just so they don’t grow into the walkway but they let them grow and harvest too. My Mom fills her freezer with what she harvests and gives away a lot to neighbors and family and can’t harvest it all. The birds love them too. They have been growing there for now over 20 years and she has never fertilized them, my Dad has cut them back every few years when they get too thick. They are the biggest, juiciest and sweetest blackberries I have ever had and we have no idea what kind they are but it’s now impossible for me to eat any other blackberries.
Hi Laura and Aaron! It will be fun watching the kiddos eating the berries. If you plant strawberries in a taller raisd bed, won't it be hard for the kiddos to pick them? Thank you so much for sharing!
As a first time gardener, I am learning so much from you! Even the simple way you set up materials for efficient work! Kudos to your photographer/videographer for their skills!!
Good morning!🌻🐝
If Samantha Grace isn't the cutest little thing I see today, I don't know what will be! I miss my kids at that age but it's so fun to watch them grow up and see what their personalities become, Have a great weekend! :P
I just watched a garden tour video from 3 years ago. The transformation and evolution of your gardens is just amazing! Bravo! 👏👏👏
We're in the UK. Our blackberries and loganberries (raspberry/blackberry cross) go straight in the ground and grow along our fences.
Our loganberry stretches for 36 feet and produces so much fruit!
We're going to try trailing blackberries in our hanging baskets for the first time this year!
Hi Laura, I wanted to inform you that you can take cuttings of the Fallgold Raspberries on new green growth which are very easy to take root! I stuck some cuttings of the same variety in the ground 2 years ago and they have fruited wonderfully!
Yes, they are Katydids! Will eat some deciduous leaves but they are beautiful. Like a bright green leaf cricket
You could ask MR MAPLE!! Wow SAMANTHA IS WALKING SHE IS JUST SO ADORABLE!!!
I have been looking forward to this since last year. Thank you. I love blackberries.
Bugs in a bag! I love it. That is a common occurrence around work for me too. (Landscaping Industry, it is either bugs or weeds to identify.). The eggs look similar to Katydid eggs. Best of luck with the berries and the bugs. ;)
I can't wait to see Samantha running around your garden Laura, another little helper just like her brother 🌻🌳
Take 3 different photos and send or take to your County Extension office. They "usually" have a number of resources to consult. Or, usually, they can send it off to an Oregon Extension lab for an
official I. D. May cost a nominal fee.
Wire rope or aircraft cable. Very strong. Won't rust if it's stainless. Used on sailboats all the time.
This is looking incredible!! I'd love to see a new drone shot of the progress!!!
Cylinder towers with multiple openings would be really cool for the strawberries! Put them in the corners of the berry patch like pretty edible pillars. They’d look so pretty trailing down the sides of the tower. 🍓
Good idea ! Love the imagination !
A great tool for your arsenal would be a Wilton trenching spade to slip watering tube into the soil without digging up a larger ditch.
Triple Crown is more of a vining type of blackberry, and it will quickly take over a trellis or arbor. I have to train mine like a climbing rose, weaving the very long canes back and forth.
Morning everybody... blackberries are so yummy!
Laura, I know this is an old video, but I just love your parents! They seem just wonderful. God bless.
Love watching all your videos. Enjoy seeing your beautiful family too.
I have a quick question on regards to the hose thing? The tan and new charcoal one. What are they? Silly I know, but it doesn’t look like a normal hose reel.
I'm a huge blackberry fan and have several types. If you have room and can find one, try a Kiowa. Huge, sweet berries! Just thorny, but 100% worth it.
Good morning all have a safe and blessed day
How wonderful to have parents who own a garden center!
The eggs on tree may be katydid, angular wing or broad winged. Also, long ago you asked about your old stair way what the decorations in the corners were, they are called dust corners, I saw them in a catalog called Van Dykes Restorers.
I found eggs just like that on my star jasmine a few months ago. A bug friend of mine identified them as Katydid eggs, as it’s warmed up here in New Orleans (zone 9b) I’ve been seeing Katydids all around my back yard!
Your my hero, love the berry beds and the garden. I can’t imagine what you will do with all the new things in your garden.
It a journey I’ve loved watching.
I am from the western side of Oregon where blackberries are a nuisance. When I moved out of state I had job as a cashier. A customer came came through my line with a blackberry plant and I was so confused! I could not believe what I was seeing and told them I should have been in the blackberry selling business!
Same here! I was thinking of all the blackberries we killed, hacked back etc. watching them being planted on purpose! Now that we live in a state without them, I kinda miss them. haha!
We had a WALL of them grow along the edge of our South West WA property. People there use pigs to eradicate blackberries.🤔
Hope your husband is feeling better Going to my nursery to see if we have raspberries great information on the berries.
I love all the berries. Just think of all the jams, jellies and MUFFINS you can make with them! My mouth is watering 😋! Have a great weekend.
Lovin your raised beds for the berries. You guys put a lot of thought into your beds and I know you’ll have a bumper crop of blackberries next year. We planted 3 little thornless blackberry plants on our very small subdivision lot 2 years ago and this past year our vines were loaded with very large sweet berries and they just kept on producing berries all summer. The plants were nothing special, got them from WalMart. Only wish I had enough room for more.
13:01 I can relate, right now, I have a whitefly problem in my trees and I hate it!
We have a blackberry plant that was literally left for dead for years. It got replanted to a different location and watered regularly. Now we have a large blackberry patch with huge juicy fruit. It produces for at least 5-6 weeks maybe longer. The trick is lots of water. I wish we had put more thought into making a few rows to keep it tidy. I'm in Utah BTW. Had a friend who grows raspberries and hasn't had much success with blackberries. I think we got lucky.
Great job. Covered quite a bit today. Blackberries and raspberries are so good and healthful. Can’t wait to see how they do - along with all the things! Nice to see your mom, and dad. It looks like you’re wearing down your dad’s resistance to being on camera! 🤣👍. Samantha Grace is so cute! 💚💚💚
Some beautiful square raised beds like ones area in that area but at ends of berry runs would be nice for strawberries 🍓😀😋. Beautiful area!
I loved that cool transition from coffee cup to garden bed around 16:05 😊
Me too!
Yes, so creative. I appreciate the time it took to do that. And I got such a chuckle from the atomic bomb clip - so unexpected!
I could watch an entire episode of Samantha doing her thing ... she's absolutely adorable.
Your excitement for each project is contagious and gets me excited for my own spring plantings! I've watched you for years now and have grown so much in my knowledge of gardening. I've been taking gardening classes with Laura! I've noticed you have continually adapted your drip system installation method. I'm assuming as you learn what works and doesn't you keep working to perfect it. Isn't that the beauty of gardening in general? In this video, you are using clamps to secure the tubing to the barbed connectors. I love this idea and wondered if you could share the sources of the clamps used as well as the clamping tool. Thanks so much!
Laura, love to watch how happy you get with the promise of spring weather.
🍓🍓🍓The area opposite to then horizontal pear 🍐 tree you are planning on putting, where the high tunnel were ,would be nice to flank some raise beds for strawberries 🍓 opposite to that fence beside the pathway 🍓🍓🍓
Your barn is like a personal Home Depot. Love it!
You two work together like a well oiled machine! A pleasure to watch you accomishing you daily miracles.
Hey Aaron, I enjoyed your driveway care video the other day, was wondering if you wouldn’t mind doing a short on the Arbs care? That would be great! Thank you 🙏🏼😊♥️
I planted blackberry's a couple of years ago. No blackberry's first year, last year we got quite a few black berries. So my question is will I have blackberry's this year? Can't wait to see how your blackberry's do this year. I'm so excited.❤️🥰❤️
Excited to see this crop's growth and also how well it is supported by the structure. I would love to have the same set up. How lovely yet completely functional!
Did Laura just say “Nespresso has changed my life”?! I’m a Nespresso employee and I always get such a thrill seeing my favorite creators loving our coffee. It’s a wonderful company to work for too. I just wish they’d put me in charge of influencer sponsorships, lol!
So much geeat info in this video! Glad to know what Katydid eggs look like, that would have grossed me out for sure. And the transition with your fancy coffee from the barn to the garden was 🤌 I had to go back and watch that again. So clever, your team!