Do You Get Nervous Knowing How Many People Watch? // How Do You Make a Living? // Recap 🌿

hey guys how's it going welcome to this week's recap video it is a beautiful blustery day outside here in eastern oregon today i went out this morning to film a video planting some spring containers and i like lasted what 10 minutes yeah i was like nope i'm not doing this today so here we are in the nice warm sun porch to film this recap video um i'm just gonna jump right in i think we had several did we have a video every day this week uh six six videos we skipped oh we did skip one day yup cause we didn't get our act together it got too late to get the video up anyway okay so the first one was pruning hydrangeas shrub and tree form hellebore cleanup and more sweet pea planting so in that video i just did all those things um and we've done specific videos like more concise um like condensed versions um talking about each one of these things which i think we linked below that video we can link them below this video as well because when i do a mashup of a bunch of projects in a day it's like the only way i can get a lot of things done all at once but i'm never really as thorough in my information so anyway we did go over a lot in that video irene said can i use rose tone on potted paniculatus i have four limelight trees in pots and two strawberry sundaes and pots as well would you recommend rose tone or use a liquid fertilizer because my particulates are in pots i would use rosetone with the potted plants there's instructions on the back that tell you how much to use based on the diameter size of your pot and i do it often in fact i'm starting to use this year i'm experimenting with flower tone and mixing that into the soil like into the root zone of my annual plants as more of a slow release fertilizer because i just want to see how long it lasts and see if i can reduce the amount of weekly fertilizer applications i need to make because if we can figure out how to make that more streamlined and and faster and just better all the way around i don't know just we're just trying to improve things every year so i will be reporting on how that works uh kathleen says what does old wood mean so when something blooms on old wood that means it flooms flumes what in the world it forms forms and blooms at the same time it flooms its blooms it forms its blooms on the wood from last year so like let's say a lilac for example it blooms in the spring after it's done blooming it works for the rest of that season on forming the buds for next year's bloom so something that blooms on new would say like a paniculata hydrangea when it starts forming new wood in the spring then it's automatically forming new new buds new blooms for that specific year does that make sense yeah so it's kind of like the the blooms or the buds and the stem grow at the same year for new wood and the stem and buds have already formed the previous previous year yeah for old wood blue so anything that blooms on old wood you have to be very careful not to prune it um or let things eat it right or like a bad winter can can ruin your blooms um so like in a video recently where we pruned roses i also pruned nine barks because they were out of control and they are uh old wood bloomers which means i cut off all of their blooms for this year which didn't make that much of a difference to me i don't really lean on nine barks as being a heavy bloomer or like a huge bloom interest in my garden um but i knew i was cutting off the blooms sometimes you want to sacrifice blooms for shape anyway michael said i plan on planting supertunius in my beds this year should i use the starter biotone or the flower tone for this anyone have advice um i think you could use either one of those and have really good results like i said i'm going to be trying flower tone on my annuals this year we'll see what happens you'll probably be using a lot of biotone as well i use biotone like it's i don't know it's like the lifeblood of my garden yeah kind of so alyssa said do you add new mulch to every flower bed every year if so how does it not end up mounding up higher than the surrounding ground mulch just disappears i mean there are several different factors first off some of it gets cleaned up when we do flowerbed cleanup it's inevitable you're raking uh leaves and stuff out of your beds you're gonna rake some mulch up there's no way around that um also some of it breaks down over time like you know mulch breaks down and we use a pretty fine mulch i don't use a thick mulch in terms of like the shred the shred is pretty small so it breaks down pretty quickly and so it kind of works its way into the soil when we turn on our drip system so our drip lines drip lines are all underneath the mulch whenever we turn it on the whole drip line it kind of like shakes and vibrates and it kind of shakes mulch off and like that's how come our drip lines are always showing they show like that you know unless you do a super thick layer of mulch over the top of them it's just going to shake that mulch off eventually and then um the earth is just constantly moving too like the ground there's vibrations all the time and i think just general movement i don't know well there's microbes moving things around there's you know grubs and worms and i mean everything's kind of in a constant state of uh you know of movement that's why like you see rocks come to the top every year you know after after you have a hard winter or something you'll have like where do these where do these rocks come from well you know the earth is moving and and bringing those things to the top yeah and freestyle freestyle like it's heaving stuff up i mean there's just constant just activity going on whether or not it's caused by us or you know just in general uh sarah said is there a reason that you wait till spring to remove the spent hydrangea blooms no you can remove them at any point in fact every year i tell erin ugh i'm just gonna i'm gonna remove those because i don't wanna look at those big brown flower heads but i tend to leave them because i end up using them in decorating projects i'll paint them and use them in something or i'll just gather up a bouquet of them for something i don't know i mean it is i think it's better to prune in the late winter early spring for peniculated and arborescens but it there's no harm in going and just removing the spent blooms after they're done like in the fall or whatever i just don't prune too far down into the shrub if you're going to do it that way and wait to do your major pruning until later when the buds start to swell in the early spring um like i kind of explained in the video keeping it real with jess says do you ever get nervous knowing how many people watch you now um i don't think i really get nervous i mean not in general uh usually i'm excited to share whatever we're doing the only time i i guess i could say i get a little bit like oh is when i'm talking about anything to do with insecticide fungicide anything that that has a lot of different opinions surrounding it um well sometimes it's misinformed sometimes it's not sometimes it's a learning experience for me um so i'm because i think that we we all have room to learn different things and sometimes i'm doing something in a way where i could be doing it better or sometimes i'm doing it in a way that i know it's the best way and everybody can just get stuffed who doesn't think that way you know i don't know i just i don't it doesn't really make me nervous though because i feel like i have grown a little bit more bold i used to get really nervous about it when we were going to post a video about something and i you know to do with an insecticide say and i tried my best for writing works or writing palette forks or whatever the case may be i'm just a little bit more bold just to live my life you know and do the things the way we do it here um that have worked the best for us and um like i'm totally open to learning new ways to doing things but i'm also not going to live in fear or not do the things or not show the way that we're doing things around here we're just showing it like it is and if you need to get on the pallet forks to carry an evergreen around that's just what you do because that's what i did at the garden center for you know ever yeah i don't know if that's exactly the answer you were looking for but there you have it well don't you think though in terms of just anxiety like there's really none of that um and like you don't think about people watching when you're filming no most of the time i'm excited i mean we're just in the backyard filming our videos like it's not like you're getting up to speak in front of a bunch of people oh that's totally different right that's way different yeah does that have anything to do with the question well i think cause she was saying do you feel nervous and i i think maybe she was asking like do you feel nervous in the same way oh i kind of forgot where we were my mind was true if somebody was feeling nervous to go like speak in front of people i think maybe that's what she's asking is oh sure like that makes sense anxiety making videos is way different than getting up in front of people like i don't know i feel like when i'm talking to the camera i'm just talking to you guys that i get to read the comments you know i just feel like it's more personal whenever i have to get up on a stage and talk in front of people oh that's the worst uh let's see christine said rose tone instead of holly tone for hydrangeas please explain so i used to use holly tone for hydrangeas and i still would if that's the bag that i had on hand um but i was talking to the growers at proven winners the peruvian winter's color choice shrub division and i was talking to the gal um she's super knowledgeable if i ever have questions i email her and she was just explaining to me how well rose tone works for the hydrangeas because it is formulated for woody shrubs that flower as well and so i started using that in our hydrangeas i mean they looked like i wouldn't say equally as good with either fertilizer i think polytone though for holly time's probably easier to get a hold of right yeah probably um is it more of an acid base it's for us more acid loving plants right more often than not wouldn't you say hydrangeas would prefer on the neutral to to acidity that most plants do i wouldn't think that they would be on the neutral task so i think you could use either one of them and be totally fine okay so next video was planting pots herb starts and begonias and studio and seedling tour i did a lot in that video and when i was watching it back i thought oh i could have made this into like two or three videos i need to quit trying to put so much in um because it gets like long they get so long there's so much going on right now so what did i do in that video oh i remember they were the pots by our parking area oh yeah yeah yeah okay so sarah said uh you said the herbs will be moving out to the greenhouse in a few days how is it warm enough for them so i'll be moving all of them except for the basil out there was things like um sage and parsley dill oh dill will stay in too dill and basil are a little bit more uh cold sensitive so those will stay in the studio for a little while longer but the other ones the thyme lemon balm oregano the other parsley that i mentioned in sage those can all move out to the greenhouse because it stays really warm in there and they're cold tolerant so i think that that will help free up some space inside the studio amy said i like how you measure fertilizer i had like a little galvanized pot i was just dipping into the bag yeah yeah it's actually better not getting it on your hands well i still get it on my hand so i had benjamin i'm like hey benjamin smell my hands and he get he one day though our kids are gonna smell that smell and they're gonna be like oh mom yeah childhood yeah childhood smell of our mother um off topic but was wondering does a crew from hartley come out and assemble the glass portion of the greenhouse or does your contractor that is building the brick foundation so they actually send a crew out so hartley has we have a contractor who is like facilitating the whole foundation and the masonry work around the bottom and then hartley sends their team out to install the metal and glass portion and it's on its way hartley posted a picture of it being loaded up into its crate uh jennifer said laura i have been reading mixed reviews with the seedling trays from gardner supply people say that the mats keep the soil too moist and mold grows on top how do you gauge when you put more water in the reservoir when it's completely empty or when there's a little water left in the tray i wait until they're completely empty and i do find that it does keep the soil quite moist so if you have things like say lizianthus that don't want to be super wet what i do is i fill that reservoir i let the water soak up i mean i'm checking on my seedlings every day so nothing can get out of control if i notice that the the soil has met its moisture level like it's moist enough actually pick the the seedling tray part up and then just like kind of um kitty corner it i don't i don't know i pop it up on top of the reservoir so it's not sitting on the mat and i just let it sit like that for a couple of days and then i'll put it back down on the reservoir and let it soak up again it's really it does beat the overhead watering because it's really consistent it does very consistent moisture and then everything else seems to really benefit from just sitting on them and i don't have to water like hardly ever but there are those crops what were the other ones um straw flowers stuff like that that don't want to be super wet you just want to make sure you know which ones that you need to kind of monitor for moisture level and then i use vermiculite on top of almost all of my ceiling trays and that helps ward off any algae issues so yeah i would start using vermiculite it's awesome stuff when you're starting seeds jim said your seedlings are looking great did you do anything special to get your magic fountain delphinium to germinate i didn't i planted some and so far none of them have germinated that's weird i mean it might take a little while so you want to make sure that it's warm enough in your room and that they haven't dried out if you got your seeds wet and then you let them dry out you may have lost the germ on your seed so those are a couple of things to check out but i haven't really had any issues with delphiniums germinating they typically have done pretty well for me kelly said did you add fertilizer when you planted the herb seeds or does the seed starting mix have everything you need i just use the seed starting mix they don't really need anything until they're up and going will you fertilize again yes i fertilized that day so the day i well i fertilize once they start getting their true leaves and start putting on a little bit more growth i usually do a half strength fertilizer on about once every week to every two weeks kind of schedule and then i when i potted them up after this video i did fertilize them that day and then i'll start if i keep them containerized i'll keep them fertilized probably every week i'll fertilize them on schedule with everything else will they ultimately be planted outside maybe in the raised beds i have no idea but probably so dorothy said studio looks great thank you my first year of planting snapdragons mine are three weeks under grow lights they are just they are so small just starting to get their true leaves is this normal i would say so i would just make sure it's warm enough in your room they do need warmth in order to get growing but it does take them a little while because mine are still i mean i have one variety i started them what when did i start them in january i have one variety that's up about this far but the other ones are like this big and i started them all at the same time so i don't know what the difference is if there's a difference in variety or what but i would just make sure you've got enough warmth they're getting adequate light and then you can start fertilizing with half strength fertilizer once they're up a little bit so that will help too rebecca said i saw your plans for the new property it's going to be amazing i love the idea and placement of the future pond i know you said it's down the road but for something that large and potentially messy to build what about doing it now money budget yeah we we don't have the money for it right now i mean we were thinking about it we were planning on it in fact greg you know what stock the pawn guy he and his design team they've already come up with a design for it and everything um we had plans to do it and then we decided i mean we didn't have firm plans to do it we were just talking through the the initial steps and then we decided to do the harley greenhouse so anyway it's it's definitely on the radar and it would be nice to get it done when it's just completely open and you know whatever out there and because it is going to be a big ol mess when we do that but we work with some really professional people like because chad would come and do all the excavation for it and he would come in and do the job dig the huge hole and you would never even know other than the whole being there that he was there i mean don't you think aaron like we have some really professional like really good at their job with the equipment and everything you know i also have some reservations about doing the pond at this point in our lives with kids and everything sure um well we wouldn't be able to afford it for a few years anyway well not the affording just the whole um you know like little kids around ponds and all the scary things that go along with that you just gotta have an eagle eye on your kids yeah if you're gonna have any water around so there's that consideration too it's on my mind yeah it's definitely something but the kids are around swimming pools or benjamin has been you know with my parents have a swimming pool and he's getting swimming lessons this year um so i think like i was too swimming because my grandparents had a swimming pool and so my parents were like you know yeah and that's the thing is that we would just have to be really honest when it comes to making sure safety kids know how to swim but also they're going to have friends and you know you got to make sure that uh you're taking care of everybody else that's at your home as well yeah but then you have to like decide like do you let fear it's like one of those things you know do you let fear run your life or and and forego some of those things that would make amazing childhood memories for our kids it's yeah you're right you know i don't know i i totally understand where you're coming from though on that because it is a scary it can be a scary thing for sure but i lived around canals and ditches like since i was tiny and we would cruise across those things like on a two by four we'd have a two by four bridge built across the ditch yeah and we did a lot of things back then like hunting with shotguns when i was a little girl whoa anyway okay uh jay glee said do you like the new pruners from falco i haven't tried out um like the curved pair i actually didn't like how those felt in my hand as much as i liked the the largest pair i can't remember what the number is on those um 320 321 321 and 322 i think 322 is the longest one i think so straight handled straight blade and it had the longest blade and i've used the heck out of those pruners already so i have a pair in our kitchen and a drawer and i i got those out last night and i cut back all of our hellebores right there in the bed while benjamin was playing with bubbles and then um i have a pair in the studio and i just find myself reaching for those all the time already so i think that those that pair 322s are definitely a good investment i don't even they're not even out yet are they not quite end of this month uh janelle said i noticed that you have a drain hole in the urn do you place a clear plastic tray under it so in the urn i put the begonias in there is a drain hole and because it's an odd shape and it's kind of a fancier container i like to use like a gold charger you can get those chargers the large plate looking things from the dollar store and they work really well with saucers under things and they kind of look a little bit more elevated because that really beautiful urn would look really weird with a clear plastic saucer under it even though it's clear you can still see it you know what i mean next video was an easy easter project winter sewing update and placing trees so i cut a branch from our lilac tree spray painted a white hung eggs from it and it's sitting in our landing and i'm loving it i think it's the sweetest little thing and um so inexpensive and then i showed you guys inside of our water jug showed you how the seeds are coming up in there and then we place trees on the new property erin and i 11 trees they're still sitting there exactly where we placed them uh amy said thanks for showing the drawing it helped so much imagining your vision cute egg tree nice easy project off topic but where did you get the chairs in benjamin's loud playroom so um it's his loud playroom slash back parlor um i have some gray tufted chairs i don't remember the brand i got him from people's furniture in weezer idaho so they they would probably know what they are uh margo said seeing aaron getting the blue spruce from the front of the house with the forklift makes me wonder have you ever considered using the versailles area as a semi-circular drive yes we have in fact and tell me if this is a weird idea but you know our portico where it's the portico where we've got the two black benches and the window boxes and it's the balcony area you know underneath it would it be weird like architecturally if we somehow like built that in to be part of the house like a like an entryway because right now when you go through those double doors you pretty much are standing right in the back of our couch because our couch faces our fireplace there's no entryway that's my only my only uh what's that what's the word you could have couches that face each other though they don't have to face the we could it's my only question though about making that a formal entrance because there's no formal entrance there's no place for people to put their coats there's no like i feel like an entryway needs to have a place like a little bit of a dumping ground for shoes or coats or what we don't make people take their shoes off to come in our house but it's nice to have a place i know what you're saying i just think that you need to find a photo or something or have some like commission someone to sketch it out even if it's like more glassed in like almost more of like a sun porch kind of i know i just i can't see that looking good i i think it would look very it might look weird like you would still need something else as the porch right yeah i totally get that um because it might look weird but it sure would make a nice like a very gentle welcome into the house because you would enter that portico area would now be interior and you could have a chandelier over a table in the center with beautiful flowers and then you would have like a coat rack and you know you could have things where people could feel like okay get ready to enter the house there's enough room though to to have people come in there and you could arrange the furniture to where there was a little bit more of a landing maybe but you would still be walking straight into a seating area yeah yeah that's true yeah i don't know i let me know if you think that would be a weird thing to do because i i feel like that's only way to make it work as a formal entrance if anyone watching this knows how to sketch things i'll send you i'll send you a photo and then you can uh yeah you can draw it out for us landscape matter says i think i'm starting to see the new space just know it's going to be amazing can you share the paint color in the new studio space yes that is sherwin-williams webb gray it's definitely like a navy definitely like a very blue-gray color and it is growing on me when we very first i very first got that first coat done which that's all i've done i mean if you look close you can still see white wall through it in a lot of places um i was just like i don't know i don't know if a blue is the way i want to go in here i was kind of thinking more green and i wanted it very deep and kind of moody looking because that's kind of what i'm drawn to and i do have a navy room in our house that i love and i do think that the green plays off that blue beautifully don't you think aaron like it's such a nice backdrop to green plants i don't know i won't get around to painting it until next winter anyway at this point so it's probably going to stay that color at least for the next year uh jay says jay says yay jay says yay says love to see the planning out of the trees you can really start to see it begin to come together i'm assuming the placement of the blue spruces will be sort of a secondary wind break as well for the lawn yes it will definitely help to break the wind for sure have you got any ideas of what trees will go where the corinthian lindens were going to go so behind our gazebo we're going to line the driveway with corinthian lindens um or due to the construction and such in the area will you hold off until at least all that settled yes so the corinthian londons are now going to live out on the new property which i knew we were going to do anyway because i ended up deciding i didn't really want that particular shape back there i wanted something more rounded that could create more of a canopy over the driveway but i think um getting the hartley installed i think we're going to be kind of putting a halt on a lot of landscaping projects around that vicinity until the hartley's in and we can live with it for a little bit i think i need to see it there to envision the big stuff which makes me happy because i was aaron wants to roll with stuff and i think you would like to see plans like today of what plants we could order so that we had them on hand for once like the second the greenhouse is done we could get them in the ground don't you think yeah well i i like i like big things and so any large evergreens or trees i would rather get those planted now so that they have an extra year to grow for me i'm like well let's leave it as open as possible for everybody that needs to get equipment in everybody that needs to work in the area and that that way are you ready to go the second that it's completed no because i need to live with it forever okay well and i can respect that i mean i get that you kind of want to like get a feel for it because things that on paper versus things yeah it always changes in real life or not it really does always change even if you draw it to scale it changes a lot uh lisa said off topic but we want to install a frost free water source and have a well do you does yours run straight from the well yes right uh i think so you know i'm not that well versed in things like that i think if you know what you need and can do it yourself then you wouldn't have asked the question if you need to ask the question like i'm a person that needs to ask the question right so i just talked to a pump guy talk to a well guy like all the people that you need to get lined up to do stuff like that those are kind of the questions that you really need to talk to them and i've seen that prices are like wildly different depending on the part of the country you live in so it's not even worth it to say how much we paid for things because um you might it might cost you half as much or it might cost you twice as much yeah so you really just need to talk to people in your area ask them what you need for your setup and get a quote on it mm-hmm but that's great but she's asking about um uh how does it have enough pressure if it's not going through a tank um i think that you have a tank so like ours i think we have an in well uh pressure tank i think that's what we did but you can do external you can do external ones too so i think that's the answer to the question is that you do need one and it needs to go somewhere you either get an external there's some that you can bury and there's some that also go in the well and i think those are the most expensive but we opted to go with the one in the well um because then it took up because then he takes or pump house or anything like that it's just all all that contained in the ground brian and tammy olsen said first i must say the angles of the video shots were amazing this was full of fantastic projects how big will that blue spruce get and how long will it take to reach maximum size i think those are aren't those hoop size spruces erin let's see 50 feet tall and the spread of 20 feet it's a good size yeah they get and spruces like our area so we definitely like we gave them a lot of space out there lb said is this a new sketch of your property actually it's one of the first ones the first one i did was on your ipad and then i did this one on grid paper because it's actually the scale like i well really close i got on google earth and i was able to measure out and kind of figure out um how things were and it's pretty close the only thing that was wrong on it was the trajectory of our driveway because we ended up shaping that just a little bit different but i put that driveway in kind of as a loose plan um this is the first time i've seen a big pond in the middle and i so hope you decide to do that yes we may still be doing that we'll see this land just begs for a pond a big one how big was that pond do you remember you know i don't i don't remember it was big yeah it's pretty good size yeah um it would give purpose and be an anchor for everything else and i feel like it would help the whole property look cooler yeah like ins i mean the grass cooler temperature but like it'll just make it'll bring a coolness vibe a cool vibe to the property um like it'll seem cooler even when it's really hot i still think that we could just add a pond we'll probably need to remove you know or transplant a couple trees or shrubs or something maybe but we don't have a plan really developed for that space other than grass at this point right we are going to be developing more of it in terms of adding big shade trees and flower beds along the edges and things like that but um veronica said who else had a heart attack when laura was standing on the forks of the tractor because i did i think i don't think that you were alone in that veronica i think there were a few people who were either like having a heart attack or were triggered by that i it's just the way we do things around here i don't know we just don't um i don't know i'm not saying advocating that that's proper behavior that anybody should do it um but i don't know we've we've tried to like as we've gone with making videos and stuff we share just more of what we do in our life we used to shelter a lot more of that stuff and be like well let's just not show that but it's like how everybody does stuff you know um so well you're just trying uh not to like increase controversy or right you know what i mean bring up things that people are going to get triggered by right anyway uh beth said treat area with no structure just bring something pretty and plop it in a spot who are you and where is our laura just kidding it's all really looking great it is true this area is going to be a little bit of a interesting one because i have zero plan on really i mean i in the plan i showed you i put a bunch of circles like you know for trees and stuff but even that is not even really true i was just putting those in as kind of placeholders just to kind of get an idea of what it would look like and we truly are just going to plop stuff in and around however we feel like it because we've got the main stuff in place like we'll have our orchard with the shed and our cut flower garden the high ten will have a spot we're gonna have raspberry beds developed on this side so the north side of the cut flower garden and then as long as we have our big structured trees so our big evergreens and our big shade trees place to where they aren't competing for space and all that business then we can just fill in with whatever else like everything else has its place and so it's just going to be interesting leanne said good morning laura little birdie over at hartley botanic said they are shipping your greenhouse yesterday well we see a video on this soon um i don't know well first you'll see videos about the removal of the gazebo which i'm hearing is like the first week of april at this point they were slated to do at the end of february and then we got like eight inches of snow just like right before the week before they were supposed to move it and then it pushed everybody out about a month yeah i don't know it's gonna be a long process we're gonna you know the gazebo is gonna get moved we'll do a video on that um we need to remove the slab um we'll probably film that'll probably be like in a vlog or something and then we need to prep the area which means chad will come in and level a bunch of you know bunch of the area out and then i don't really know we're trying to get a bunch of water and gas and electric over there yeah i don't know when that's going to happen in relation to everything else then we have to have a new foundation poured then the br the mason work done and then the greenhouse will go on top of that i realistically it's going to be fall you guys like it will be a long process because i don't know with everybody's schedule and the weather kind of being the way it is um or was i don't know how like one storm can push everybody out like a whole month yeah and then it pushes everybody else's projects out a month because then they have to reschedule stuff and anyway it's all good though it's going to be a really exciting process to watch next video was planting the pre-sprouted ranuculus and anemones and tilling the new cut flower gardens so we had pre-sprouted those verniculus and anemone corms down in our basement and they had grown well most of them the renuculus in particular had grown huge roots they were ready to be planted outside so we got that done and then aaron tilled up the cut flower garden space all four corners it's beautiful like it's going to look so good i can just see it i don't know if we're gonna have time to work on some irrigation today maybe maybe pretty windy out there though it is pretty windy but i mean like i'll just go work on it um you know our water isn't run to that space yet but benny our landscaper who does all of our water work for for us he's planning on coming here really soon so i thought if we got the water lines all kind of set up i could go ahead and seed some stuff and just water with by hand for a little while until our water is actually set up because i have a stack of seeds that are the type that you can start as soon as the soil can be worked which is now for us it's warming up big time so i could get some stuff going like today if i wanted to which is really fun uh chris said you guys chris said you have a guy to shoot your videos look like someone was shooting at 19 minutes yes so that's ken our editor he edits like almost 100 percent of our videos i mean you hop in and if you need to and aaron and i always go back through like i usually watch them after ken edits them and i make any small like minor adjustment edits and then you don't even watch a lot of videos anymore well once they've gone through you like if you've watched a video and you say it's good often times i'll just upload it as is and i won't because there's an occasion there's a camera time where i'll be like hey could you watch that back through like i was either really tired or i think i got it all you know make sure it like all makes sense because everyone smile like a clip will get out of order and i won't catch it or something and so it makes like the project like excuse everything anyway so ken hopped out really quick to help um erin uh film cause i wasn't here that afternoon i was getting my hair done so anyway aaron was up in the tractor flying the drone while he was in the tractor working in it and then he asked kenneth you come get a couple of shots otherwise i would have been out there with you yeah but you got a sacrifice for the hairs every once in a while uh diane said i just planted ranuculus as well have you used soaker hose for irrigation in any of your raised beds i have in the past i'm trying to decide what would be best for my eight by ten raised cut garden so i did use the quarter inch soaker hose in our raised beds for a few years like two years maybe before i swapped it out um i feel like over time especially it wasn't emitting water in a very even manner um and then it got really brittle really quickly like that second year i had a lot of holes in it i think just like the the sun maybe and then the constant water i don't know like it was breaking down a lot faster than my regular stuff so now i use a quarter inch brown drip tubing that has the emitter holes every six inches you can find it every six inches or every nine inch emitter holes either one works fine and i've been using that for the last few years and i really liked that better i feel like it's more consistent that's just personal opinion but i feel like the coverage is very even and it's predictable and that is what you want from drip andrew said i thought tilling is damaging for soil do you not believe in the no dig no-till method you know what i know very little about the no dig no-till method i haven't done a whole bunch of research on it um i do know that i mean we've been telling for a lot of years my parents have been we live in an agricultural community and that's that's kind of like what we do and we've met some pretty good success with our methods but not to say that no dig no till i know that a lot of people i think it's gaining huge popularity especially recently and there's a lot of success in that method too i think when it comes down to it it's just it's interesting to see all the different ways people go about doing something and kind of to find that success and i think there's a lot of different ways you can do it not none of them are wrong or right or whatever it's just like the way that you want to go about it because i think some people's idea of success like you could have a garden or one person can have a garden full of weeds but they're growing amazing produce and that to them is success they don't care about the weeds they don't see that because success to them is this amazing produce and then you have another person who wants an aesthetically beautiful like weed free very tidy very formal whatever appearance and that to them means success in the garden so everybody's got their different approach i think it would be an interesting experiment don't you think so yeah like to like a lot a little plot out there and just do a no-dig no-till the only problem with the experiment is that it's gonna require one of us to do the research research that's not gonna be me i just need somebody just to give me like a step a stepped out guide on what to do and like get i don't know eliminate the fluff i don't wanna know any of this stuff just give me the steps i'll do it that's how i learn i have to do it i don't research it i'm a doer um mw i think i think the research part gets after me a little bit and i can see why some beginners get frustrated because there's so many different opinions like i just said you know there's so many different methods to doing something and some people are very staunch in their opinions yeah and i think that that can be very discouraging when you meet all of these different ideas online especially and you don't know which one to choose or which one to trust or whatever because some people fight their methods so vehemently yeah like oh when when different areas deal with different amounts of sun different soil structures um different water types yeah you know i think yeah i think there's just so many different different ways to have success and and you do talk to people in your area yeah and people that have been successful in your area because um i think one method may not be as successful for someone else with different conditions right uh mw said how do they make a living besides youtube books sell plants i'd be surprised if advertising from uh for other companies is enough so that's awesome um so i feel like answering this question every once in a while is probably good because i'm sure that you're not the only one wondering we do make the bulk of our money from you guys watching videos and watching the ads that you play before the videos both on youtube and facebook i mean that's probably the biggest source of our income we do work with a few sponsors a few companies that we've worked with for a lot of years they are a very small portion of what we make but we like to work with them because we like the people we like the companies that we work with in particular and what they stand for uh and so we find those relationships very beneficial um maybe a good way to put it is that we don't have to no we don't have to work with the company we could uh we could continue garden answer without you know we probably wouldn't do as many projects or as bigger projects but um you know we scaled down maybe just a little bit but but we could we could easily continue doing what we're doing without sponsors but we like working with the people we work with we feel very um lucky to work with well there's some there's some brands or things that you promote um you know whether you have an audience or not like i like sono speakers yeah like anybody who comes to the house will be like hey check out my sonos speakers phillips or my phillips here check out i can check i can change all my lights to red yeah or the purple look who wants to do the things that you get excited about because you you know they work for you or you've had success with it or whatever i feel like that's the way kind of our sponsors are is that um you know when you've had success with something you kind of are excited to just tell people about like this is how it works for me you know like you do you but this is yeah like i've tried a lot of different annuals throughout the years do you want to have success plant supertunia vista bubble gum yeah just plant it just trust me you know um so you land on stuff that really either speaks to you um or has worked well for you you know spom organic we've worked with them for a lot of years now um and it's something my parents have sold in their store and use in their own garden forever for as long as i can remember so that to me was like no an easy like yes absolutely let's work with this fomo organic because i believe in their stuff it works well for what we're doing and i mean the proof's in the pudding you know um so anyway we also make some income off of uh affiliate sales so like um when people purchase things on amazon um some of the latest that must be real small it's very small yeah it's like a like very tiny um and we we put no effort we could maybe try to make a little bit more if we put we also put no effort into merch yeah we make a little bit off of merch very little bit um yeah we put no effort into that uh what is there anything else there's only so many areas you want to put effort into you know yeah and i just feel so lucky that we get to do what we do and the projects we get to share with you guys i mean it's it's kind of like living the dream i mean we get to work on our property and i mean a lot of the projects we wouldn't do if we weren't making videos about it yeah i mean there's no doubt about it the answer to the question is the advertisements that play uh in the video on youtube and facebook that is the biggest that's the bulk yeah uh charlotte said i'm assuming you get most of your palletized items from your parents garden center but how would you recommend purchases uh for bulk pallets of things for those of us who have large gardens or projects i would love to have some tips on buying bags of compost biotone etc okay so we get our things three different ways um like for example we work with this foam organic so a lot of times we can get palletized items from them but they don't sell to like they're not a retailer so that's how we get a lot of our help palletized items my parents garden center of course we can order things in from them and i think you can order a lot of people you guys could order things from your local garden center if you just get with the whoever's doing the ordering a lot of times they'll do special orders and we'll order in whatever you want and sometimes it will arrive on a pallet if you're ordering enough stuff um and then sometimes the garden center can't even get what we need and we can't get it from a smoma or whatever like aaron ordered all of our seed starting mix which we've got a huge pile of it in our greenhouse through our local true value like ace hardware true value you they they drop ship right is that what the term is they ship to the store and then you pick it up at the store and so that's how we got a hold of the bigger bags anyway of the seed starting mix which was a much more efficient way for us to buy it instead of the small bags so you can also get some items from uh like home depot and lowe's too i think they're more limited i don't i think there's a lot of smaller products that you can't get at the start with your local garden center first though because they usually have a line on getting whatever most of the time whatever you might need yeah okay next video was spraying our fruit trees so i used a dormant oil like a horticultural oil it was all seasons horticultural oil and liquid copper for overwintering insects and disease so i just talked through our process here in our area how the people we've got a lot of orchards in our area and how they do their schedule of spraying um and then i sprayed our tiny little trees in our new orchard um anyway jennifer said can you talk about the bing cherries i wanted one who was told that you have to have two for it to grow due to germination you might need two in order for it to for them to cross-pollinate to get cherries let me look really quick yeah so you would want like a stella a montmorency or a rainier cherry to pollinate with your being otherwise you won't get fruit there are some trees that are self-fruitful or self-pollinating meaning you only need that one tree in order to get fruit from it and then some of them like the bing cherry require a second variety in order for that cross pollination to happen in order to get fruit so i think that's what you were meaning uh marianne said quick question why no cherry trees climate zone or you don't like cherries i do like cherries cherries are a lot of work first off you have to spray the heck out of them to keep the worms out here anyway you have to net the trees to keep the birds out of them so there's like two things you have to really be on top of and then they do take a long time to pick and i just don't i don't know we have so many orchards like i said in our area i almost didn't do apple trees for that very reason because it's very easy for us to get our hands on apples and cherries and things and all the other fruits that we have growing honestly like i could buy from local growers here but it is fun to be able to produce some of the things on your own property but cherries just wasn't on the top of my list i don't know about you erin no i'm not a huge fan of cherries yeah it just wasn't worth the effort for those i'm a big fan of raspberries though i know you've been pushing for the raspberry when are you gonna mark that out yeah let's go figure out the raspberry beds i don't even know if we're gonna get raspberries this year like the actual plants we'll have to see if we can cheryl said do you spray both the dormant oil and copper fungifi i'm just signed up pungified oh my word on the same regimen november january march or is there a different schedule for the copper fungicide so i do believe that you're not supposed to spray the copper fungicide when it's below 40 degrees just check the label um so it does say as a dormant application to use it in late november our order guys say to use it definitely end of february beginning of march and that's the reason why i used it this time around in this spray regimen you might skip the january one if your weather is too cold some winters were in above 40 some winters were not um but i did do it this time around because we are definitely warming up um kj said didn't know that you could grow a miniature peach tree in a pot looking for the video about that tree we have a specific video when i planted that tree yeah we do okay we'll try to link that down below it's called a pixie miniature peach i think it tops out at like six to eight feet tall and wide so anything that stays that small is much easier to keep in a container you could do a semi door tree if you wanted to if you had a giant container and then just knew in a certain amount of years you would either need to to put it out somewhere or bump up the size of container but when you're growing smaller things they live in containers for a lot longer and they're a lot happier christina said i saw that the liquid copper is good for black spot can i spray this on my hydrangeas so i just wanted to cover with that liquid copper it's a copper soap is the active and it's an incredibly low amount of copper which copper you know there's different opinions on that i find and it can be detrimental if you use it wrong so what i wanted to say is just depending on what you have check the label just read the label and i said in the video you know depending on what you're spraying at what time of year it's going to be a different spray ratio too you won't be mixing quite as much of it maybe or you may be mixing more of it depending on what thing that you are battling what thing you are spraying um but it is labeled to spray right up to harvest like you can use it in season and spray it right up to harvest on some things so anyway yes just please when you're spraying anything look at the label and it might work for black spot that was the question let me look let me read the label really quick i haven't ever used it on hydrangeas with black spot is that what the question was or did it say roses let me see that would be a weird thing i would take a leaf of your hydrangea into your local garden center and have them id what's going on that's that's what i would do i would whatever is going on with your hydrangea take a sample to your local garden center have them look at it and have them determine what's going on it could who knows what it what it is but then you'll be using the proper thing for what you have going on tina said when using your sprayers do you have a specific sprayer for just this or do you wash and use for other applications um i only use once i've used a sprayer for an insecticide or a fungicide that's the only thing i will use it for going forward so i label it insecticide slash fungicide if i have sprayers that are for water only like for watering my seedlings it says water only on it and then any kind of herbicides that can spray burn out and stuff like that we write on the sprayer herbicide or burnout or whatever and then we keep them very organized because you don't want to cross there are neutralizers you can put in tank sprayers to help clean and neutralize any chemical that's in there and then you can use it for something else but i don't even feel comfortable doing that i find just having designated sprayers for designated things is the way to go because then you can't screw it up heather said so you mix the dormant spray and copper spray together and applied i did and that's something else i would definitely recommend reading the label because i do know that you're not supposed to mix copper with other some other things it can be very detrimental to your plants so read the label um maybe i should have done two applications like i should have done my oil and i should have done my copper and then there wouldn't have been the question um or you know kind of like to do as i say not as i do i need to not do that in videos yeah because then then i feel like oh the responsibility i should feel more responsibility at the moment of spring instead of having to explain later on like oh you know maybe double check before you do this carolyn said didn't you have a pear tree behind the cold frame yes i do and i totally forgot about it so i appreciate all of you guys who reminded me because i would have forgotten to spray that the next video was planting red flowers and mulching the cut flower garden we just put that video up this morning the story behind the red flowers so i am actually really liking it but i had blue flowers initially we went down to the garden center i picked out all the blue and lavender pansies and some blue pear callous which are like blue daisy looking flowers and they were so pretty i left them all in the back of the truck with the cover over it it's kind of like a cold frame um for the night and i came out the next day and the pericallis were completely frozen they were all mushy and i was so sad about that because i thought it was gonna be so pretty um so we went back down to the garden center to get something else i wanted something that was you know different than the pansies and i walked by those flats of fernaculus and i was like oh this is kind of my opportunity to try something new and maybe the para callus perishing in the back of the truck was my sign just to try something different um and so we did that and then we started to mulch the cut flower garden so aaron was in the tractor mulching there was some some people who were like why wasn't aaron raking why weren't you in the tractor i would rather rake honestly like i like that kind of work it makes me feel like by the end of the day like i can put this big giant check mark of like i was super productive i worked hard today that does it for me well you know i finished the the rest of it um and i actually enjoyed the raking part of it like i was doing both i would take low so satisfying don't you think it really is satisfying and it's um it's it's not hard it's not like super hard it felt hard to me it didn't feel hard to fix spots like because a couple of times like you accidentally dumped the whole load instead of like most the time he was kind of like dropping it in small amounts so it was easy to spread but a couple times well probably like i don't know most of the time well i think i was doing the same thing when i was spreading it big amounts and it was like so heavy to were you tired from something else in the day no what are you saying well i don't know i'm just i didn't get sore i felt it was very relaxing to actually go out and and spread the mulch like it was satisfying yeah but if you go out and look at my half versus erin's half my half is like real thick with mulch yours is like already starting to show the the dirt underneath it did you see that you know what maybe i'm trying to save a little bit here trying to stretch stretch ourselves a little bit yeah exactly yeah that's it's not free anyway it looks really good um i've ordered another truckload of mulch and we'll do a 15-foot pathway around the whole thing and then we'll start in our flower bed so it looks won't look so much like a landing pad right now it's like if there was anything flying above you'd be like come land right here nice soft landing pad for you big ol x marks the spot anyway and amy said curious why you guys didn't put landscape fabric under the mulch if it will be used more as a pathway i wanted to put landscape peppercorn in the mulch i just think that i i really want it to be grass eventually and i just didn't want to pull up the landscape fabric but landscape pulling up landscape fabric in that area would be so easy well it's expensive though too i mean that's a lot of landscape fabric not really i mean 15 you can order in 15 foot bolts i'll bet you're looking at like a thousand dollars in landscape fabric no way oh yeah oh no i'll price it out you know what on the screen on screen i will price it out from where should i where would i buy it from from retail price oh well don't do it on retail prices i'm just saying that would be an expensive thing and i think that in a year or two maybe not even a year like we might be able to yeah but a year or two of battling morning glory and bindweed and um i think that the mulch will suppress the weeds okay well i hope it does because you can reuse landscape fabric the kind that we put down it's the do it pro it's the best um and we i think we will end up doing grass at some point but i am kind of the mindset of just letting things be for a little while and i i don't know deciding if you like that shape or if you want to make it rounded or if you want to make the pathways a little bit more narrow like do we really need 15 foot wide pathways or can you do 12 and then once you decide how you actually utilize the space then put in your permanent stuff which we do the subsurface irrigation so we bury the drip line we plant the grass and that seems so much more permanent to me you don't really change that it's not as easy to change anyway but amber said are your future plans to have mulch area eventually be grass and pavers or gravel once you have the space defined um so like we said probably grass and pavers i would probably like gravel it's no maintenance and i am such a it would be a ton of maintenance because the gravel would get into the planting beds notice you had a border you'd have to have a border and then gravel kind of like the bricks and gravel thing i know it would seem hot but no more hot than the dirt was this last summer i don't think that a border will work because of the weight of the tractor i don't think that a tractor could go over that border whatever type of border that you're talking okay i think that the tractor would ruin any border so how would you propose to keep the grass lines straight because they need to be straight and i like hedgers grass edgers grass edgers yeah it's like manually yeah yeah you're just just an edger i'm also the type two if grass isn't really tidy i feel like if it looks mangy then everything else kind of has a mangy look to it and so we mow a lot to keep it very tidy and it does look better but i feel like in a case out there where you have pathways i feel like i would need to be mowing it all the time to keep it as short as i would like it to be i don't know i mean this whole space is going to um evolve and i think our ideas will evolve as well like you know how we were talking about the uh pathway leading out of the house i think that maybe because when i explain when you explain something differently to somebody like i explained to you i feel like it needs to go out a little further because the scale of what we're doing the scale of our house and the scale of the huge grass path we need to have not this tiny little like the way you wanted to do it under the trees sounded like super quaint and cozy but i think it would be too small for what we're doing i agree with you we have to do it bigger yeah i agree otherwise it just wouldn't look to scale um so i think i think talking through things several times and really kind of i don't know like we went out this morning to talk about dahlia spacing like doubt all of our we're putting in our dahlia structures today and i i just told aaron like i know you don't really have interest in this part but can you please come out with me and just like let's talk this through because you'll think of things that i won't think of and you did yeah what was it that oh it was the spacing i had my math all wrong what is my problem uh and then what else did you oh no it wasn't the spacing my mouth was wrong in the spacing but it was the watering because i was going to do dahlias for half the way and then do something else the rest instead of doing dahlias the length and you were like but the watering that'll be impossible to water not impossible but definitely pain in the butt yeah because you'll have to separate and you can't separate whatever's in that same row it's got to be on the same watering schedule so we totally it changed my mind on having longer dahlia rose than than shorter ones because it'll make the water so much more practical anyway i wouldn't have thought of that i always think of things with like design first and the practicality second so it was a really good thing anyway i don't even know where i got off on that anyway lee said did you add any starter fertilizer to the pots or did i miss that part oh i did not add any you know did i i thought about it and i forgot dang it i'll have to add some of that today thanks for the reminder uh jaylee said laura do you have any knowledge on rain barrels also if you can hook up the drip to them i have zero knowledge on rain barrels we get an average of nine to 11 inches of rainfall here in a year which doesn't mean i couldn't collect some rain your mom does how does she use it she hooks a hose up to it i think and uses it that way i'm not sure how much she actually collects i should ask her she's on city water though too and i think it makes a little difference city water's so expensive yeah it's very expensive yeah when you have a well it's kind of like feels like free water kind of yeah i'm sorry i don't have that much knowledge on rain barrels uh rosie said i was just wondering what mulch is made from in the uk i don't think that i've ever seen bags of mulch for sale normally people would just use compost or wood chippings to mulch but with but as far as i'm aware you can't buy mulch thanks um so mulch is just i mean it's made of several different things around here um a lot of times it's just from like the wood mills like forest materials forest materials yeah um a lot of sometimes like the cheaper stuff is made from i've heard like shaped up pallets and stuff oh yeah which that would make me a little nervous like any chemically treated pellets that's not what we're using um it's just like byproduct from the forest the mills the wood mills and things like that so to my understanding and then dyed with chemicals we'll talk about that some people though there's so many different options some people will use like rubber mulch some people use rocks as mulch you were just telling me about a rock type of gravel with clay in it yeah uh bonding gravel yeah that has nothing to do with mulch but that's just kind of interesting yeah they use in the uk a lot like that with the clay in it so when you get it wet or bound gravel maybe that's what it was binds together yeah um and linda said how is samantha grace time for pictures i just posted one this morning she fell asleep she was laying on her blanket in the middle of the great room which she does on occasion you know we'll get over her and sing her songs and stuff and she just kicks and just moves around and smiles and she just like promptly fell asleep and i've never seen i remember like benjamin never did that like i think one time one time i can remember that benjamin did that really yep yeah i was just like so surprised and amazed that this baby could fall asleep in the middle of a room with a bunch of activity going on around her because benjamin was just so different we were different though then too i mean we were a lot more like nobody make any noise and now we're like everybody can just live normally live normally like maybe try to you know not do anything like hang pictures get your hammer out or whatever like maybe save those projects for later but like vacuuming regular noise of walking around and just living life we just do around samantha and i think she's much more chill because of it yeah i think anyway she's doing great she just turned eight weeks old today she's smiling up a storm she's starting to coo she's also starting like um she notices these and she grabs on to my strings she also grabs onto my hair like big fistfuls benjamin didn't do that but she is just like oh there's the hair i love it and then also we have one of those activity gym things and she's making connection with the toys on those now like i can tell she's like thinking about it now um before you layer under and it was kind of like you know she wasn't really focused on it but now she's focusing more it's just she is just a sweet sweet baby anyway that is it you guys for this week's recap video i'm hoping to get outside i've got a couple hours of time where i can go maybe run some irrigation yes you're looking super enthused if you guys could just see aaron's face behind the camera right now the sooner we get irrigation down the sooner you get your raspberry patch [Music] does that do it for you yeah it does it that does it all right guys thanks so much for watching i 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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