Best Bang For Your Buck Plants? // Is Planting in August Risky? // Recap 🌿

hey guys how's it going welcome to this week's recap video we just spent the morning shooting a q a video with my mom i'm really excited about it i think it was really fun just to sit and chat your mom did a good job too i kind of wondered how she'd be with the camera oh she's she's totally cool she used to be like petrified yeah off camera i told her she always kind of i'm like mom you're looking a little worried like it looks like you might burst into tears and she goes i feel like i'm going to i don't know it was just the weirdest thing yeah she always kind of had a smile that was like i'm smiling but on the inside i'm real worried right but she's great yeah um so that video will be up probably after you see this one and in fact we might do a part two and i think i mentioned that in the beginning of the video because you guys asked so many great questions of course you can't answer all of them uh we picked like i think just 10 from each platform which made for 40 questions so that's a lot that's a long check especially when you're with your mom you know i want to chat about all the things surrounding it and we may do one with my dad too i think that that would be interesting i'm not sure exactly i think it would be funny because he's kind of a wild card he he is might have to like we'd have to heavily edit that one i'm sure i told him like we could cuz he said well i mean i'll try it and i told him i'll know in about five minutes if it's gonna work a lot um but he hasn't really been in i mean he's been in the background and stuff yeah and i would never like push him to do something he's uncomfortable doing but he's comfortable answering garden questions yeah and so he's really good on the like more technical scientific side of things i think um yeah soils he has more of like an ag background with crops what's uh he's got um this spray what's that called oh just a spray applicator it's a chemical applicator so he knows a lot about different types of which honestly is a big part of gardening too or it's a big part of um agriculture yeah anyway let us know if you think that would be interesting because it's something that we think would be fun so let's just jump into the videos from this last week the first one was planting five varieties of echinacea they love the heat they do love the heat and i had five gorgeous varieties i picked up at the garden center they just got a fresh load of perennials and i am such a sucker especially like this time of year the garden center is like not very like not as busy and you can just go down there and just kind of meander your way through it's really chill and lovely yeah and then i end up just loading the truck up with stuff i've got two gorgeous evergreens i picked up on the same day they're sitting out in front of the greenhouse waiting for their their turn anyway they were beautiful and they're doing really well out there even with all the heat so i planted them right before our heat wave which it got up you know 107 89 and 10 and they still did it still did great uh kirsten said are echinacea and rebecca in the same family i know they're different plants but they seem to have so many similarities too maybe a silly question that is not a silly question they are in the same family i'm not sure how the umbrella goes but i think it's like family genus species i'm looking at you for validation i don't know if that's right sounds like there may be like second cousins or something something so if you're in the same fa the family is like asteroids see i don't know maybe we can toss it up on the screen and then when they get underneath that part of the umbrella that's when they start splitting into different groups they're very similar in that you know similar bloom structure similar bloom time uh and so on and so forth but there are a lot of varieties of rudbeckia that are tender so they can't survive in zones like four or five maybe six even and most echinaceas are pretty tough so they have started to cross the two or they call them eckebeckias i did try them last year and what it does is they hope to take the hardiness of an echinacea and breed it with the bloom structure of some of those tender rudbeckias so that you can maybe have one that will survive i bought several of them last year for our fall containers and after i was done with them i planted them out and only a couple of them came out came back and we just pulled them eventually because when they came back they were like a quarter of the size they were before and we just thought uh this isn't gonna work we're gonna put something else in this spot uh hearty geraniums went in the spot of those already and some his up uh anyway it's an interesting group of plants and both of them are gorgeous and i love them both uh sherry said can you please tell me how you edge your grass so perfectly do you use a special tool so when we initially plant grass like i showed you last year when we planted the grass up front and we edged the big flower beds also edged the grass pathways in the south garden the one leads to the cut flower garden in the big loop the first step we do is a manual a shovel it's a half uh straight shovel half moon shovel or step edger step edger so we manually go through and do that it's a it's a big job and it's a little bit um like nerve wracking to me because when you make that i do deep cuts too like i deep cut that thing so that it can't the grass can't um cruise very fast into the flower beds i don't know if that's like a specific well certain method oh yeah i think it is i think a lot of people do that because a lot of grass is spread by rhizome yeah so yeah if you do a real deep edge it just kind of creates a barrier yes you've got your grass and then if you cut a deep edge and then your flower bed's coming up like this but your grass level is actually up there you don't have to edge it quite as much we do a weekly schedule though after that initial edging a weekly schedule of using the trimmer the grass trimmer and it's up on a vertical instead of holding it at a horizontal and it just slices such a beautiful clean edge kate says a channel about creating a brand new and heavily expensive garden this isn't a nice one i don't think everything is perfect but too perfect for me maybe i missed something but have i seen a pond is there a pond no also is there a part with natural looks yes actually we just we just added how many acres three more acres three more acres it's completely natural it's just beautiful dry and brown that's what natural is around here you will notice though toward the back of that space there is an irrigation ditch that runs through it there's water back there and things do grow around that ditch yeah there's trees and stuff back there and they look kind of kind of snagged out for the most part yeah i mean it's it's natural yeah i kind of like it well no one cares for them you know so it's like the types of trees that are just kind of like weed trees yeah and i don't think that we're going to do much to i probably won't touch them no there's one tree you notice kind of where you've been spreading the grass clippings there's one tree right behind it that's just completely dead it's very small i thought that'd be easy just to tie a chain around and just drag it down and put it in a pile yeah and just get rid of that one so that you don't see that with all the other pretty shrubs i asked chad if he would put a road through that new property because i think we are going to do that just so that we can we want to put high tunnels up this way yeah travel on it easier um anyway what was i getting at well the the naturalness back there maybe no no no idea why i offered that information well there you go that's the plan we're gonna have a little little road oh he's gonna he's gonna level it out for us yeah that's what it was he's gonna put the road in he's gonna level out the whole area with his uh road grader that big old machine he can do it so quick with that and then we're gonna this fall i think we're gonna seed with a dry land dry land grass so that'll be natural yeah and that's so if you if you put that in in the fall i think that we had three different blends down at the garden center there was a pasture mix which is irrigated and then there's a dry land mix which is for areas of 12 to 14 inches of rainfall and then there's a rangeland mix for areas with 9 to 11 which would probably be the more appropriate if we don't plan on irrigating it at all but we probably will dry line's a little bit more palatable if you've got livestock feeding on it not as palatable as the irrigated mix you know you've got trade-offs for everything but you don't have to irrigate it as heavily yeah um so anyway yeah i think we'll get that seeded in the fall and winter moisture can bring it up and right see how that goes tammy said your beds look so nice how do you keep the weeds at bay we try to keep on top of things pretty close like we try to look at every area of our garden once a week and i have shared our zoning system how we kind of chunk the garden up into five different zones so that every day of like the work week we know what zone needs to be looked at but honestly we kind of abandoned that system because we have such good help that's the other thing we have help we don't do it all ourselves there's no way we could um but we've got paul who's with us full time and then paul's sister bethany she's with us part time and they're just like they don't need a zone system they just get stuff done i don't know how lucky like how we were so lucky to get those two out there but amazing team they just see something that needs to be done they do it and they move on to the next thing that needs to be done never idle always looking for things even when it's like 108 degrees or whatever i mean they just shift you know they shift into the shade or they come into the studio and do like organizing or into the barn where they're out of the sun which is great by me um yeah they're just very smart about how they use their time and all of that so that's also very helpful in that and i also noticed like in the early spring you kind of have that initial flush of weeds that you keep on top of and then it seems like our season it goes from pretty cool to like boom hot yeah you know most of the time that's typical and then when it does that shift the weeds just explode there because the ground still has a little bit of moisture from the spring rain yeah and so but then it's because we stay so dry during the summer it seems like the weeds kind of lull a little bit when it's real hot i feel like there's one point of the season where i'm like oh like there are weeds everywhere it's a carpet like it looks like a carpet for a couple weeks even when you're on top of it the whole spring um but once you get on top of that like you said the heat kind of makes some like the extreme heat and dry kind of just has them peter out a little bit uh housewarming said i have a limited budget what are some plants that give you a bang for your buck and aren't fussy um sedum russian sage echinacea rudbeckia heliopsis geranium hearty geraniums coreopsis any of the hyssops uh man buttony um lavender a lot of those unless you want to start them from seed which is a great option and it also depends like on your setup too like you could go fancy if you wanted you could go budget with that as well so if you wanted if you had a larger space and you wanted to really deck it out on a smaller budget getting yourself set up with some grow lights so you can start some of those seeds that in bigger quantities is way worth it because if you take for example i don't know maybe a specialty variety of echinacea might run you like for a one gallon size can sometimes that's all the size you can get them in not a four inch they might be like 16 or 17.99 well let's say you wanted a huge drift of them and you've got a big space and you need 10 you know it's 179.90 you know if you need 10 of them if you planted 10 seeds in 10 cells and grew those on yourself with a grow light that cost you way less than that yeah and once you invest in the growing setup you're like a lot of it you don't have to replace every year right the trays you can reuse the lights you can reach everything except for the soil and the fertilizer shiamo says do you know why lakota fire was changed to summersong fire finch lakota fire is much easier to remember so i did mention the echinacea lakota fire i had planted in the containers in front of the cut flower shed it's one of proven winter's varieties looks much like the cheyenne um is it shine spirit that i planted anyway it kind of has the same multiple different flower colors in one plant and i'm not really sure did they actually change the name yeah i got an email about it well it seems like in the past whenever i've heard about name changes it's always related to like someone else owns the name or it's so similar like do you remember um uh the shrub division approved winners they came out with whatever tater tot was gonna be it was like a tiny tot i think they were originally gonna call it tiny top but then they couldn't because it was too similar to something else oh so they had to switch to tater tot which i think is cute yeah it is kind of a tater tot but those types of things sometimes you don't find out that someone owns a name until after you've been selling a product for a while so i think that could be a reason why it got changed yeah it's hard sometimes when you get to know a plant a certain way yeah like i don't want to change yeah usually it's a legal reason yeah okay next video was seven top seven most popular varieties of lavender plus lavender basics so we just sat down and talked about lavender and honestly it's kind of nice to have some of those types of videos to do some of those things to talk about when it's so hot outside because it it gets difficult not just me being out there i'm more acclimated i guess i would actually rather be outside on 109 degree day working in the full sun than the day we filmed the garden tour which you guys maybe have seen maybe it goes up before this video does but it was like what was it out that day 95 92 93 and the humidity was higher i just nope yeah like i the humidity i just don't do humidity the dry heat i can take a lot more of that either way our camera shut down in like two minutes you know i have i can hear i set a gopro up and then i hear that i'm like yeah speaking of that somebody emailed um alyssa was the one that got the email and she forwarded on to me but they sent a couple amazon links of little uh ice packs that you like reusable ice packs and they said that you know we strapped these on to the back of our cameras to keep them from overheating so i did that a lot of times for the garden tours i film with just a cell phone and i and that overheats like fast yes um so anyway i strapped one of those on there and i didn't have any issues the entire tour yeah and it was like an hour long tour yeah ish so at least for the cell phone for the gopro i still don't know because it's so small and it's got the screen on the back of it i wonder if you did over the top it's a pretty big ice pack though i mean there are different sizes of them but there's not a whole lot of air surface area to tape or to so i don't know we could play around with it but yeah but anyway just wanted to like whoever that person was thank you i bought the stuff and it works i love learning stuff like that to make make life a little easier um anyway we actually got with several different people we got with a local lavender grower here we talked with proven winners of course and monrovia we talked well and i think that was it those are the people we got with but then just my experience my background at the garden center knowing what varieties went in and out the door the fastest and which ones perform in our area anyway every area is going to be a little bit different but we gathered from all of those sources what we believe to be some of the top varieties of lavender out there that you'll come across at garden centers and what they could add to your your garden and then i also talked about different types of lavender a lot of confusion out there and it gets like even when i know the stuff like i it's so funny because i'll get into like confirm like it's been a while since i've talked about you know all the differences between english and lavenden and spanish and french and i want to just brush up on my botanical names and such you get into it and then i start reading information i'm like do i even remember this right yeah and like all of a sudden i'm all confused yeah and i think jeez it you know when you don't have a background in the information you're trying to learn it how frustrating yeah to see all these different things anyway so i just talked about the different groups of lavender and which type is best suited for different things there are more tender ones like you know french and spanish don't tend to be as tough as your english and lavenden and lavenden is the best for oil production but it's got a more pungent smell than english and all of those things watch the video if you want more information amanda said best ever helpful lavender video oh thank you that's so nice to hear have you been to head coach yes no did you seem comfortable with its correct pronunciation and kiffskate nearby i didn't kiss skate maybe i'm saying that wrong but i did not go there it's funny head coat was on my mom's bucket list we were flying out that day and wasn't hit no we were going to go to head coat the day before it was closed right was it it was closed or we got it was too late and we weren't going to have time because we went somewhere else that morning anyway um we decided like last minute we're gonna do this thing we're gonna get to head coat we're gonna go through that garden then we'll get to the airport it was a little bit of a mission but we got it done and it was beautiful yeah it really was stereo for those who don't know it's a garden in england oh yes i'm sorry yeah stereo airsoft said laura regarding head coat have you ever checked out on youtube the quiet american gardener it's a documentary on the head coat gardener's garden's founder it's amazing he had a gorgeous english garden in the cotswolds of england about 100 years ago the garden is maintained by the national trust to this day it's very inspiring that about his garden yeah about the head coat gardens i should watch that that documentary janine said which lavender do you feel works best for a hedge it depends on what you're going for i mean you guys know we have a hedge a few hedges of sweet romance lavender and it works great for our use or our needs i guess because it stays smaller at 12 to 18 inches tall and wide you might have an area where you want something impressive so you're going to do something that gets a little bit bigger like the grosso or things like that but any of the seven varieties i talked about would make a great hedge you just got to pick out which one you want based on size and really like bloom color and structure amy said does denim and lace russian sage do okay in part shade and zone eight lots of red clay would love to add this to our courtyard um part shade it depends if it's uh i mean they need as much sun as they can they produce or are more productive uh if they're in full sun which typically means six to eight hours of sun but in the case of russian sage i would say if that was the only sun it got it needs to be in the afternoon like hot sun it used to be like a lot of sun um and then i don't know like if it's just a little if it's a little bit of morning sun like six hours of morning sun it might do all right but not as good as it would do if it got that sun in the afternoon i have a feeling it just wouldn't be impressive it maybe wouldn't be quite as like striking yeah but it might be awesome you never know until you try so i mean just if you can snag one of the plants and try them in your that location see how it does over the course of a couple seasons and you will know sometimes trial and error and sometimes plants will surprise you too you know you think one thing and you have it somewhere where it used to be sunny and all of a sudden shady like the munster lavender hedge that we had down at our last house it was full sun when i planted it as a baby because the tree near it was you know little and then as that tree got big and that red point is huge now it's beautiful it's a glorious tree uh but it shades that area at this point the lavender probably doesn't do well at all because it's like deep shade under there now uh but for a while there it was just it was part shade and that lavender still did it yeah and i was very surprised ed said are there any zone four lavenders or is there none of the zone fives that you would say is the cold hardiest above the others i don't know if any of those that i talked about would be heartier than another i think they were all well except for the english well all the seven i shared were zone five through nine i don't know zone four i'm sure there's one out there or more let me just do a quick search just to see what comes up um it says munstead is a four through nine but see then again you get all kinds of different information says you can do phenomenal in zone four as well which we talked about right did we talk about phenomenal we're sensational i can't remember anyway you might be able to push it and try with some of the ones we talked about i'd probably have to look into that just a little bit further just to see if those are sources i would trust or not because some are like individuals and some are actual companies you know who have done testing and stuff i tend to trust that a little bit more because individual experiences are so individual you know so yeah jessica said i'm wondering if you could talk a little bit more about watering in the first year especially in your high temps how much and what kind of schedule they're on i struggle to keep lavender alive and also live in a high desert climate i've been told they are not as drought tolerant as people assume they are which why which is why people will struggle with them ours right now gets water every other day and that i mean you have to take into consideration that this is planted in gravel like full sun all day long gravel lots of heat um so they're drying out a lot faster than they would if they were you know tucked into a flower bed somewhere even if it's full sun but if they've got mulch around them rather than rocks it's absorbing more heat they're gonna you know stay moist for longer but how long do you run our system i think that that zone goes for maybe 30 minutes and it's just the brown drip tubing with holes every 18 inches so just to give you an idea so every other day i do want i do tend to agree with whoever she talked to that said that lavender is not as drought tolerant i think it is once it's like established if you've got you know some old lavender that's been there a while but you know last year i was watering our lavender every third day it suffered yeah and it just didn't look good it didn't like it so i switched it to every other day this this year and it i think it looks really great i wonder what would happen if i watered it every day and that's obviously assuming no rain you know if it rains we would turn the drip off but um for times where there's no rain i wonder what every day would do um it looks pretty good this year so this is your four right yeah it's your fault so first two years it was beautiful last year we thought we were gonna have to replace remember we were like ooh i think it's time for yeah and that was just it was just a bad call to water it every third day sometimes you know you just want to try to push it a little bit and see if they can handle it but maybe we push it for too long yeah but i think you corrected it in time because it just bounced right back and looked gorgeous yeah um eberlin said you've shared that you cut back sweet romance each year well you do that with all of these that you're planting in the south garden i sure will i don't let them form the woody base so the deal with lavender is you'll see in all of the different guides to cut them back i mean it's riskier what i'm doing for sure it's not what like the proper way i guess but i've been doing it for it might just work in a high desert climate maybe maybe so maybe you're right um so lavender will create that woody network of stems at the bottom of the plant and if you let that happen if the plant gets that big then you aren't supposed to cut your lavender back into that woody base because it could shock the plant and kill it they're really tender that way so i just never let mine form that so every single like just yesterday we shared ours back by about half we sheared off all the bloom spikes so we can let it bloom again but then late this fall or early next spring we'll go in and shear it down to like this much maybe an inch or two above the ground and that way it forces the plant to always have just that fresh new growth from the base of the plant and it just stays so beautiful and it's how i've always treated all my lavender and honestly it would happen because i didn't know any better and that's how i just treated my lavender in our first garden i just cut it back like i did everything else and it always grew you know yeah and so now that's just how we handle it so that because i don't like lavender hedges that have the woody base the lavender plants look scraggly and dry and old and i just don't care for that look so much so anyway yep that's what we do next video is flower bed maintenance and tree pruning so i did some work in the chicken coop flower bed found a bunch of spider mites oh spider mites are the worst you guys and what else did i do some tree pruning the ash tree up front and i did some tree pruning i lifted the canopy on the red bud and the golden rain tree that near our parking area there amy said is in the lavender video started it saying did i mine the wrong video oh no that was in this video in the lavender video you started saying hi this is laura from garden answer i wonder if you were doing the video for proven winners i'm used to you saying hey guys how's it going uh nice to hear this video start as they usually do um i did i didn't do that for proven winners we don't do any videos specifically for really anybody no we did uh this spring we filmed some that went out to garden center we didn't post them but they were um like garden centers posted them uh-huh sorry but yeah we we don't do we don't do any videos uh at the direction of privilege no especially not that one because uh like six other varieties aren't proven winner's varieties you know i feel like when i do a video like this it's one that somebody that doesn't know our channel might be searching about lavender uh and they might you know they might not know who we are or what we do or anything but they found our video on lavender so i feel like introducing myself and those types of like educational videos might be helpful um that the people like know my name or whatever um so i just like i get into a different mode i didn't even think about it oh but going into the video it was just like this is how i do this sort of video and then when i'm starting a vlog like this one it was just like hey guys we're in the garden today yeah how's it going um yeah anyway no i actually saw not just your comment i i think i saw a couple more people asking if it was um like sponsored or sponsored by proven winners it was not we just well proof of winners only has the one one variety it's a good one though i think that was at the top of my list um romy said hi laura socal here your weather usually hits us after a couple of days my pain question my my pain question is about pruning roses the roses you prune seem to be in the shade so i understand pruning them but mine are in full sun and as you know hot temps can i prune my roses um so the way i pruned these they're just in morning shade that's why i was working in that bed because i was trying to get through it but you know work through that bed really quickly so that i could you know not be out there when it was full sun because that area is hot in the afternoon and i just didn't want to do that so they're totally fine right now if you expose like way down into the shrub uh the leaves if you have super intense temperatures at that moment the leaves down there are not acclimated to seeing that much sun and they can burn i had that happen um on our oh so easy paprika on the side i cut into just a little bit one side because it was kind of engulfing another plant so i felt like i needed to cut it back further it did burn some of those leaves they'll be totally fine it's just an aesthetic thing at this point but yeah definitely something to think about for sure next one you've mentioned liking your bug zapper i saw it hanging from the ash tree aaron would have those everywhere yeah wouldn't ya it's a rechargeable one can you link it to or tell us the brandon model yeah it was a flotron i'll i'll make sure it's linked below you know i did see a comment of someone saying that they actually don't do very much for mosquitoes but can actually kill a lot of beneficials too but i don't know what beneficials i'm not seeing anything other than mosquitoes right maybe like i've seen two mob white moths but those aren't good either no the two spotted no i don't know i just take that information i read it i don't know i you know j s kurt j skurzians said how do you keep your plants from burning or scorching from the hot sun i think they're kind of like us they just kind of eventually acclimate to it um and we are trying to plant appropriate things in the appropriate spots which we're still learning you know sometimes we plant something thinking we can get by with it by maybe giving it a little extra water and it just still can't handle that sun um but i think we are going to be leaning harder into varieties of things that just thrive in our area you'll see us planting a lot more things that are like maybe more water wise maybe less maintenance in terms of deadheading that give us more color right in the dead of summer i mean we'd have no problem in the early spring early summer with our garden looking beautiful it's the middle of summer where you kind of start like oh like everybody honestly though some of the annual areas that you've planted look really good it's the combination of color yeah so it's that superbeena imperial blue super tunia vista snowdrift and the sweet potato vine sweet caroline sweetheart line those three plants are like and the two can coral cannas that like that pink color with them um toucan coral cannas you do have to deadhead them for them to look clean yeah i i wouldn't i wouldn't request more of that next year maybe more purple the purple fountain grass looks gorgeous yeah purple fountain grass yeah for sure yeah i agree with the with you i think that color combination looks very clean those plants look clean yeah they're just i think we should we should dot more um we like as a filler we should put more sweet potato vine at different areas where it'd be really easy to put like there either already is an emitter in that location or it'd be easy to put one yeah um because it just it's so vibrant green yeah and when everything else is kind of yellowy right it just i don't know what that is yeah and that blue is so saturated and so like that plant is just a matte of blue blooms like you can hardly even see leaves it's amazing we need to drive by the college and see how those are doing i got a little worried to see well a couple of the pots i noticed i don't know what happened but it looks like they fried well you know they might have been using the same drip tube from the previous year maybe and we've kind of found that quarter inch needs to be replaced every year if you have hard water yep uh heather said we had mite damage on a bobo hydrangea this year stunting the leaves and balloons on half the plant i feel like we got rid of them all but will the leaves continue to look like that year after year or will they go back to normal the next year they should be normal after they push next year it's definitely if you had spider mites in that area you clean the heck out of that area do not let any dead leaves or any refuse be around that plant clean up everything around it and then start a preventative spray program the next year i mean i say that to you but like i do it so yeah you know i'm so dedicated over here but we are not every single year we have this problem and we're just like why didn't we get on it sooner well we've we've been talking about it and i think what we need to do is we need to have just like a clear designated this is our spray regimen and these are like the three products because you want to alternate so like you know one day you do neem and another day you do that other like herbal yeah we've been using one paul really likes it's a rosemary clove and garlic oil extract it's like the most natural spray you'll ever come across just keep alternating between different things and i think what i want to do is go buy a couple of sprayers that we can tow behind the gator with long enough hoses to where you can just you know fill up that sprayer and then go around the garden and just kind of like spray everything down because we have to spray all of our boxwoods and we have a lot of them yeah boxwoods are like might attractors some varieties more than others and it's just you need to do a backpack square it's all i can do to do that backpack square it's like how the weight is distributed i remember the uh first time i tried to put one on and it just like sent me backwards dang it my mic got cut on my knee there anyway yeah there's a lot of weight there and you know it's when you have to go through more than four gallons you have to figure out how to make it easy as easy as possible if you want to have you know things looking nice so i think having a spray tank that you that follows the gator will be the easiest thing that will actually get done yeah yeah you're right uh date girl said i get i get aphids so bad on my hellebore here in 10a we are very dry here also do you deal with that on yours i've used neem oil but it's a battle um aphids on hellevor's yes i have dealt with that try captain jacks honestly it's it's a really good spray it works really well dead bug because remember they're doing there's all kinds of captain jacks now i'm sorry captain jack's dead bug it's a spinosad-based spray and what i would do first is spray the plant spray all of the aphids that you can off the plant kind of clean up the area around it and then spray the plant get the undersides of the leaves the top sides and do this at dusk after all the pollinators are gone and then the ground below it you may need to follow up one time but typically we don't really need to repeat for aphids they're probably one of the easier bugs to get rid of here nina said some of my hosta varieties in zone six have been getting brown and crispy too how do you clean those up i'm always afraid to cut off too much i just clean anything that's affected i clean them off some that means the whole plant is cut back right now and i can see that some are pushing new leaves but that's one of those plants that's one of my favorites i love hostas they look lush they take up a lot of space they look so fresh in the spring if i could keep that spring look through the season i would love it but so many of ours just get so weary and make the garden look kind of tattered like and and messy and then when there's such a bulk in the garden and then by the middle of the the season they're half their size then you're like well i need to plant more stuff in this area when you really don't have the space to do that because you can't accommodate their spring size so that's one plant you'll probably see us plant less of until we have more shade it's just and protection the wind does it too it's not just the sun and the heat it's the wind coming through so anyway i'm i kind of bummed about that but i'm kind of coming to a realization that there are certain things that i just i don't know i'll plant some yeah but i'm going to be a little bit more strategic i think about where i put them next video was tour of the cut flower garden so i got up very early that morning i wish i kind of would have got out there a little bit earlier because i um opened up the video where the sun was just coming up and by the time i was actually looking in the cut flower garden the sun was shining right on it yeah and that morning sun is pretty intense like everything kind of had a yeah it was more comfortable though because it was going to be 109 degrees that day and i thought well it's now or never i'm just going to keep going here but i just wanted to show you where everything was at because we're at a time in the season where i'm doing a lot of transitioning out there you know we're pulling stuff out we're planting new things i think i'm hoping for tomorrow i'm hoping tomorrow i can plant out i've got xenia marigold and cosmo seedlings in the greenhouse that i want to plant out there as well as some more seed crops anyway some things look great some things look like they need to be pulled out and yeah stephanie said love these tour videos i can't watch all at once because i have to go out in my garden and weed or pick things as i watch gives me such enthusiasm that's awesome what are your favorite most sweet strawberry plants okay so i have three standouts out of the five that we planted this spring the seascape have by far well i've really enunciated that by far been the most productive huge berries really good flavor not quite as sweet as the quinoa which are more of a medium-sized berry the plants are showing chlorosis like they're struggling a little bit and it's their first season which kind of makes you think like what are these going to be like going forward but i would not not plant seascapes i like i frozen so many of those and just made a strawberry like the most delicious strawberry pie you guys out of 100 of our own strawberries it was awesome and then i've just been working on freezing as many as i can and then ever sweet is another really good one really sweet berry big berries so yeah i think what were the other ones i planted i think there was an all-star and then a honey eye i don't know sure that's how you pronounce it but those are spring bears right there's two varieties that aren't producing right now and then of course i've got a lot of the buried treasures and i think that the berry treasured pinks produce and reds produce more fruit for me and they're pretty good size really sweet flavor i've got those around blueberry plants those tubs dried out once this spring though and it kind of set the plants back just a little bit i thought they were still tucked in tied in to the drip line because they all have drip running to them but when we were messing with the irrigation in the orchard the drip line got cut i didn't realize it and i just thought they were being watered and i was driving by one night and i'm like those are all brown what in the world anyway um wendy said how often do you have to remoisten the seeds you plant it seems like it would be hourly that's why i started the seedlings in the greenhouse you guys this time of year usually if it's like over 100 degrees i would go out there three times a day well one time a day it would be watered by our tape perfect so i'd have to go out there twice like once in the middle of the day and once in the evening just to make sure that they were moist enough um usually though like twice a day is sufficient through the non-extreme heat but when i start seedlings and trays in the greenhouse it's um once or twice in a day i go out there but i'm doing that anyway to keep everything else that's in there which i need to clean it out at this point a lot of the stuff that's left in there is like like probably not gonna plant that there's not that much left um anyway yeah i can just be more consistent with watering in there i find it to be a little bit easier jackie said what did you do with all the tulip bulbs you planted around the flower shed so i've talked about it a few times because i never actually i mean i didn't show it as a whole i did post a couple of pictures of it this spring they came up like this tall in fact some of the daffodils like if this is the level soil level like the flower would be right here like it just be poking its head out of the soil no leaves no stem just the flower it was the weirdest thing and i think it was a mixture of maybe too mild of a winter not enough moisture all the bulbs are still there i actually talked with color blends and they said they'll naturalize they'll start looking better and better after you know throughout the years irrigation in there has been installed installed and it's running and beautiful and hopefully we can get the grass seated in there i've got uh 2000 more bulbs coming so i'm not gonna do i think we did nine thousand in there this last year we're gonna do 2000 this year of a mix called flora culture i think is what it's called it's beautiful like six different varieties a lot taller ones so we can have a little bit of a of a higher blend of things that will bloom a little later in the season so we can have a multiple weeks of interest in there i'm really excited about it elsa said how much hired help do you have now to care for your garden farm so we've got paul full time and bethany part time that help and amy and amy yeah so amy who helped us at the college she's actually watering for me on weekends she just comes in for a couple hours each day and waters and we chat and it's awesome and she's great at it i love it she uh takes pictures of things like is this getting too much water do i need to give this more water should i come back and do this one again you know just like really honing in on what the plants need and i appreciate it so much so that has been hugely helpful we have been trying to improve our system ever since um we really moved here and you know as we expand the the business and have bought more property and stuff you just have to figure out more efficient ways to do things and then we also try to balance family time too and i think we've gotten really a lot better yeah like evenings every evening i have to come out and re-water so there's like a 45 minutes or so every single evening that i'm rolling around oftentimes so you have the kids on the gator and you're like coming and checking on me and i'm we're chatting and and so it feels kind of like family time i'm working but benjamin gets off and messes around near me or whatever you know um samantha starts eating dirt somewhere samantha eats dirt wherever she's at but every weekend weekends like family time you know saturdays we take the kids out swimming we hang out here at the house but we hang out inside like we play games we just play toys um sundays we have prioritized going to church um and then usually well we have to be home for nap time you know samantha is still she takes like three three and a half hour nap still which is great you know but we have like quiet afternoons and i still have my evening watering but like that weekend time was kind of sacred family time kind of marked that out anyway and we couldn't do that if we didn't have somebody come in here so amy is like perfect because her husband owns a business here in town they in fact he owns the business that did our custom countertop countertop that couldn't think of the word um the beautiful base with the sink and the in the hartley yeah so he owns that they're actually doing a renovation for my parents downstairs bathroom right now and she just wanted to work a few hours here and there so i think she's going to actually i told her whenever you want to like you want to do some plant grooming or whatever like whatever you want to do so i think she's actually going to put in a few more hours this weekend and do some like just light garden work so anyway it's really really a huge blessing belle said those dark potatoes i've never seen them before what are they best used for it's the first year i've grown them they're purple majesties i did a little reel on instagram showing you what it looks like when you boil them and then mash them they taste delicious but they look like kind of like a like gray mask yeah i don't know they're just they taste just like regular potatoes they do so they are like this brilliant purple you boil them the water turns kind of like an aqua blue teal blue instead of the potatoes then you mash them up and they kind of have more of a gray note to them people say to roast them and i think i'll try that next i haven't harvested any more potatoes yet we're getting closer and closer but i just thought it would be fun maybe fun for the kids i don't kids don't care samantha ate a ton of those mashed potatoes she loved them yeah benjamin was like took him a while and then he finally tried it and he was like yeah those are good yeah i'll eat those um anyway it's just fun to try new varieties we have a lot more of other normal potatoes out there summer said how the heck do you keep the birds from pecking those berries and grapes to death it's always a race between me and the birds to stay off my berries so far so good last year we had robins take after our blueberries out there which bummed me out hard we had such an amazing crop out there last year not as great this year great last year but those birds it's like i we had we were harvesting off of them and then it seemed like a whole bunch of them were going to be ready all at the same time and that's when i noticed i saw birds flying around out there and i thought oh i bet you they're after my berries yeah they sure were shelley said did you just climb out of bed your hair looks rough hey now i technically yes i had just gotten out of bed but you know what your personality is kind of rough shelly jtof said is it weird that i think those neighbors should have put a balcony on the front imagine the view the gardens the grass and the trees well eventually they won't have a view if the north pole arbiters grow as fast as our other hedge has grown they won't have a view for long yeah but i wouldn't even mind it because i'll just you know hey you want some flowers let me just hand you a bundle over the fence uh next video was mid-summer perennial and flower bed maintenance mid-summer pr oh yeah i did the west side uh garden so we did both sides of the driveway on that side of the house so the side with the urns the side up against the house i had to water the greenhouse that day that's what i did i think it was quite a lot i think shelly said what do you do for earwigs i use the bug and slug killer i think it's that's what it's called it showed i showed the container in the video it's a bonnie product it's like a little white grain and the active in it is iron which is for the slugs i think in snails and then there's um the spinosad which is for the other bugs it does a really good job if i was diligent with it and actually applied it earlier on i wouldn't have the damage that you saw on those verbascum right now i knew that they were eating a member i think i saw them earlier i think maybe i saw that in a tour and then you know you get done with the tour and you've already done like you've talked about a lot more things after you looked at that and so you kind of forget right anyway michelle said i fertilized my yard when i planted it will it be okay yeah don't worry about it it's just one of those plants that doesn't like heavily fertile soil or being fussed with or you know adding fertilizer around the plant they don't need it but you only fertilize it when you planted it i mean that might help with some root development but i wouldn't worry at all just don't keep fertilizing it gail said wow i'm tired watching you do so much work looks beautiful question what is the name of the fragrant daylily you talked about it's the siloam um peony display day lily and it's just beautiful i mean just big fluffy peach blooms with the best scent carrie said a question about the is still be under the lilac did you cut them completely back the same thing happened to still bees i planted and they weren't getting the water i thought they were two of the five are brown and crispy and i've been wondering if i should cut them completely back a couple of them i did they're totally fine in fact if you look really close if they've been getting the proper water after you notice they were crisped up a lot of times they'll just shoot new growth up and most of mine know all of mine have more new growth coming at the moment but a couple of them i had to take all the way down christy said love all you do why don't you set up a sprinkler system in your greenhouse to water automatic we have hard water so we can't do that and the one nice thing i would love to do that i mean let me just say that that would be amazing and i know down at the garden center it would be so awesome to be able to do something like that too the thing with the greenhouse water you have to get like if you have your if you have your plant this is my pineapple plant right here if you have your plant you have to get your hose and put it right here like you don't water over the head no water on the leaves and we do that with everything that's why we have to drip irrigate everything because it just spots up the leaves so bad and if it's a plant that it's just like not something that you're cutting back or you know maintaining cutting growth off of it'll eventually build up so much on the leaves it can kill a plant so if like there's a sprinkler hitting a boxwood for instance every day when the it's the grass sprinkle you know the grass watering the grass and then it comes over and hits the boxwood um if it does that every day that box was going to eventually just be white here and it will just it will die celeste maria said will the daisies bloom again this season my mind is blown seeing you cut them back with the trimmer i did mine individually and hated it yeah individual deadheading of the daisies is a little bit of a chore but like i said they will bloom a lot quicker the other ones will probably bloom it always depends on the season i did get to that chore like a tiny bit late but not too late so we should be good and last comments from danielle anyone else sending up a round of applause when laura reached for the stakes i know i've staked my delphiniums this year i'm so proud of myself they do look so much better why don't i just why don't i do that the thing is is i don't like like those delphiniums are perennial and they're going to be there next year but i don't like looking at green steaks like i don't like looking at that through the winter so we pull them all up put them away it just needs to be like a day in the spring this is sticking day we go around and stake everything even if it doesn't have growth yet i know the plants there we're going to stake you know so that we can do it quick once the plant's tall enough and that is it you guys for today's recap video thank you so much for watching thank you for all the questions and comments hope you're having a great day have a great week and we will see you in the next video bye

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