Going to Any Garden Shows This year? // Do You Worry About Your Well Going Dry? // Recap 🌿

hey guys how's it going welcome to this week's recap video i am going to answer questions while aaron and i both are going to answer questions from last week's videos yes your mic is on right yeah come on it was so windy this morning i posted some stories on instagram and i probably should have taken a shower because i was out on the new property trying to get everything watered and like i think my hair is probably the most textured it has ever been ever because it's just full of dirt right now i know it's full of dirt but you know you just kind of like have to carry on and get things done and it just died down so if the wind blew for i don't know like four or five hours and now it's just fairly still i've got to go pick up some an obelisk fell out of the big pot and it pulled a bunch of my daffodils out awesome the wind this spring i've been talking to other people in this area and we don't remember the last time it's been so windy i mean we have a lot of wind here but not like it's been this spring it's been dry too yeah really like abnormally dry and i just planted 350 sweet peas you'll see that video this week i planted those two days ago and they were just getting beat up and i don't even know i feel like i cannot win out in that space this year maybe it's like payback for everything doing so well last year i don't know i will see what happens um the roots are probably fine they'll still grow hopefully anyway first video from last week was planting more cabbage and alliums and placing the new trees i've got to like get my brain in the mindset of last week's videos my my brains already kind of moved on i planted another hedge of cabbage in our cut flower garden just to mirror the other side that i had already planted i applied some serendipity alliums and then aaron and i we placed the new trees that we brought home which were like uh forest pansy redbuds with katsura tree and two birches uh lindsay this was the top comment said anyone else get excited for garden answer and coffee in the morning that's a super popular comment actually we see that almost every video and i think that's so awesome thank you to all of you who watch our videos with your coffee in the morning uh stephanie said when is it okay to start fertilizing my annuals when i planted them with biotone um you know it depends on what approach you're going with i think there's two different answers to that if you're wanting to stick with a granulated like an espoma flower tone fertilizer to follow up your biotone which is what we're going to be doing a lot of this year just to test it out they recommend a monthly feeding i think the problem with that is getting the fertilizer down to soil level once all your annuals have filled in and it's really hard to get through that canopy so it'll be interesting to see what happens with that if you're going with a water-soluble approach like i know on the proven winter fertilizer which we have used up to this point on our annuals and we'll still use it this year we're just going to be in a testing phase they recommend every third watering which for us sometimes we have to water twice a day here i mean because of the wind and the extreme heat um so we would be going through so much fertilizer we have just kind of approached it with a once a week kind of we can we can a lot time once a week to fertilize our annuals we can't a lot more than that just because we don't have the time and it works really well so i it kind of just depends on what approach you want to take maria said quick question what is the purpose of all that land and tons of trees just for your family to enjoy or is this where you grow stuff for your mom's garden center so my parents garden center and us like as garden answer we don't really have any business relationship there's what there's no business really right there's no business relationship we don't grow anything for them we order things through them on occasion uh but we do get a lot of us a lot of things sent to us directly to from companies now um it doesn't even like land at the garden center anymore um so there isn't really any association that way but we figured we wanted to purchase the property one because we wanted more space around us it does kind of help us like a barrier between us and neighbors in terms of like further development you know one side of us is being developed and we knew that when we bought our house there were no houses though when we bought the property but we knew they were all broken up into lots they just hadn't started to sell them yet and so obviously they've sold quite a number of the lots and have built on them but we knew that was gonna happen so it's not a bummer because like we jumped in knowing um the other three sides of us so we have one side and the other two sides of us another person owns um that has a house near us so i don't think they have any plans to develop it in fact we'd love at some point in time down the road to get our hands on it if we could but wouldn't you okay so here's a question for you would you develop the land like you're doing it no if we weren't doing it okay so if we got the property right in front of versailles it would turn into a horse pasture but but what about the stuff that we've already got oh this death yeah what do you mean if would you develop it the way you're developing it if we didn't have garden answer yes really yes with the cut flower garden and everything yes i love that garden except for the wind i'm wondering too like because i didn't i wasn't able to get out into that space and garden in it for a cut flower garden until june of last year the weather in april versus in june is a little bit different so i wonder if i just did not deal with the same kind of weather issues like the wind constantly blowing my seeds away or like keeping everything dry or beating everything up i didn't really experience that like i had this window where i was able to get everything up and growing before like any really heavy windstorm set in that happened later after the sunflowers were really tall we got that one where i think it was close to 70 mile an hour wind gusts that was a doozy we had to leave that day i just told there i got to get out of here i can't i cannot sit in our house and watch the wind just beat all of my work to a pulp it's really hard for me to watch that so this morning was a little rough i think aaron was like uh just leave her alone she needs to go water were you having a tender day that's what benjamin said if he's having a rough day he's mom dad i'm having a tender day that's my that was my morning yeah okay um oh i guess the answer to that question is we bought it one for personal reasons but also we bought it because we figured the more space we have the more opportunity we have to show you guys projects i mean our livelihood is from making gardening content for making videos and so more space equals more projects you know and so that's where we pour the bulk of our um like our bulk of our budget i mean our plant budget is pretty good size but it's a business budget it's our business plan budget um so we take the income we derive like clearly goes back into the property more videos yeah yeah i was looking at the state of my clothes the other day and i'm like maybe i should maybe i should a lot a little bit more budgeted to close maybe just a little bit i don't know or maybe like i should get my nails done at some point or something i don't think anybody would want to touch these anyway uh gabby said what do you do with the new trees that are not in the ground when it's super windy we just let them fall well a lot of them are big enough that the root balls are very good oh you see that big blue spruce i don't want that one swan to fall down i watered that one real heavy this morning yeah i wondered if maybe they had just gotten a little bit too dry there was a couple trees down but for the most part they stay upright which is surprising stitch by stitch set at what temperature can we pot up our annuals well you just want to make sure you're well past a frost even a light frost typically for us we wait till like the first or second week of may is is safe safer if you wait till mid to late may every area will be different in terms of when you get your last frost maria said with all the winds why don't you plant more willow trees or big weeping cherry trees well if you want a huge mess you can plant more willow trees willows are awesome but they are huge mess in windstorms like the little branches fall everywhere um big weeping cherry trees how big do we think cherry trees get for us i'm thinking like evergreen like big whoa oh that was weird big blue evergreens or big green ever it doesn't matter what color they are but a big hedge of evergreens like i can see why people in the midwest do that like you'll see farms with the farmhouse and then one side will have this row of evergreens and you'll see that like for every farm and it's as a windbreak and maybe we should have planned that for out here like we do have the houses though it's not really proving to be much of a wind block however i did notice that a lot of the wind was shooting from this side so i wonder once those are built once people build there i wonder if it will be much probably like quite a bit better maybe pamela said i'm curious what is the implement behind the tractor was that the land plane oh yeah and that's for like maintaining gravel driveways right or ish yeah yeah i think that's the main reason that it's used is to maintain that it just um it's like for finish work like if you're trying to finish a gravel driveway to make it look nice and it's not like for leveling out a spot yeah it'll level out your driveway will it yeah but now like a box blade would be better because it would move more material i feel like a land plane is really like just like the finish the tool you'd use for finishing it does a great job too aaron ran it over our gravel driveway where i thought we were gonna have to get a new layer of gravel and it looks like brand new just kind of brings like the biggest um rocks to the top yeah it's like sifting it sort of right yeah jay said no oak trees well here's the thing with oak trees i would like to do a little bit more research and figure out which varieties we want i would like a couple out there we still have this whole big section you guys the one that's going to be kind of coming right up to our house and going out to the new driveway where it will be heavily planted with grass but we're also going to be putting in lots of large shade trees and i would like to put a couple oaks in there but they've got to be types that do not hold their leaves through the winter i'm not gonna do any oak trees that hold their leaves for winter i just i think they're kind of ugly and then they create a huge mess in the spring we had those kind of behind the gazebo you guys might remember those of you who've been watching for a while but we had a hedge of them that had some kind of a viral issue going on and it was starting to spread so we had them all removed but i didn't miss them not even for a second have i missed them in fact i kind of that was the only time i've watched kind of like happily watching trees being removed i'm not usually even if it's a problem tree i don't like to watch that process because it's still a huge like it leaves a huge hole in the garden but those trees were a huge pain anyway next video is setting up our sweet pea trellising which yes sweet peas are out there i don't know i went a lot quicker than i thought it was going to go we set up the trellises using some ranch panels that we had on hand which are only four feet tall and it is best to use like five or six foot tall trellising for sweet peas but i really did not want to go out and buy new stuff i really just wanted to use what we had on hand and i think they'll be totally fine and it's not like we're growing in fact we were talking about this morning we're not growing things for production necessarily like if something fails if the wind takes out a crop it's not our livelihood thank goodness and it really kind of puts it into perspective like you kind of like brought that up this morning as i was lamenting about the sweet peas he's like well listen like it could be way worse i mean what if that crop we were depending on that crop and that's so true and like remember those kinds of things more often and not get so bummed out but i think it's natural too like when you put in a lot of time and effort to get your crops up and you've babied them and put tons of compost and fertilizer down for them and i actually got sore that's our first job this year that made me a little bit sore anyway where was i at oh i haven't even gotten the questions top comment was from men manuela if the sweet peas outgrow the height of the panels you could always create an arch with reeds or some other material between the two rows of panels creating a sort of sweet pea covered tunnel that would be magical that would be magical i think that would be amazing i think i'd have to do it like kind of um not fully like not the full tunnel because i think the only thing that could go wrong with that is that it would shade the interior too much and the ones on the inside may start to suffer a little bit if they didn't get quite enough sun but what if i did like rustle i will pet you if you just stay right there he's trying to get to my glass i think um if we did like something crisscrossing like every once in a while like maybe in three spots down the road i think that would be so pretty adele said how do you guys not have a t-post digger aaron needs a new tool so after i grabbed that comment and then i thought yes why don't i have that i looked it up here's the reason why i didn't see a good implement that goes on the tractor and dewalt doesn't sell a battery battery-operated one you gotta get a power like a gas-powered one and i'm just not how does it work um it's just like um like kind of like a hammer motion i guess you probably just figure you don't do it enough yeah we don't do it enough it kind of feels like it might be a waste because they're they're not they're not a ton of money but they're not cheap either sure and it's just another thing to hang on to i mean if i was gonna do like a big long fence line i would for sure invest in one but yeah so there you go yeah um michael said random but are you guys going to the garden show in michigan this year mackinac island is it going on this year i haven't heard it either you know i know michigan is having a big spike right now in covet cases really so i mean it's just hard to even think down the road you know especially when stuff like that's going on so i kind of would think that it's not going to happen yeah i don't know i don't know either i mean we had we're not going to go either way no well we always like when we had benjamin we took the year off from any traveling and then samantha turned three months old yesterday and so we're not gonna travel anywhere when she's unless we have the kids with us but we don't have any plans to go really anywhere at this point um our montana garden craft said did i miss a dahlia planting video no you have not um it's because we're not planting them yet we had a freezing temperature night last week we're getting really close in fact i'm getting ready i haven't even divided mine yet i haven't cut my um my tubers yet i need to do that um andrea said would bamboo steaks work for supporting sweet peas yes my mom actually uses those bamboo they kind of like fold out like a teepee bamboo tipi um and that's what she uses in her garden i gave her several of each variety of sweet peas that i started this year she came over and got all of those and put them in the garden so we'll get to see them if mine get wrecked at least we'll get to see some blooms in their garden because my parents vegetable garden it's interesting it kind of like sits down and it's very protected and they hardly ever get like a whiff of wind in that area it's like so uh protected so jealous of that space we need to dig out a big old spot out there and make a big sunken garden janie said after amending the soil in your cut flower garden do you do any other fertilizing throughout the year i didn't last year i just lightly amended and then threw this stuff in the ground and just thought well we'll see what happens so i didn't fertilize a thing everything did so great um i plan on i mean we'll see what happens this year but i was kind of thinking of doing like a mid-season fertilizer you know application uh but we'll see i don't know i feel like since this ground hasn't been utilized in so many years that it really does offer a lot of nutrients to the plants like there's a lot out there it doesn't look like it but i do think the soil is better than i initially thought i ordered a lot of extra flower tone by the way oh you did yeah so we've got lots to do we have a lot of flowers okay good patricia said what do you mean pinching some of the sweet peas doesn't that stop growth no pinching them instead of them like so they're coming up with one central leader let's say like just one sprout if you pinch it down right above a set of leaves it creates two branches rather than the one so it creates a fuller bushier plant and so i only pinched about half my sweet peas and then half of them i just didn't have time to do it so they were all stringy and leggy those are probably the ones that are the most beat up out there because they had gotten so leggy in their containers but yeah it tends to when you pinch your sweet peas it just makes them a little bit more stout next video is arranging flowers from our april garden so i just kind of wanted to walk around the garden and talk you through my process of what i gather what i look for when i'm getting branches and like thinking about the structure of my arrangement and i tend to like a little bit more freeform arrangements they don't have like a very uniform structure they're kind of more like i don't know more free i guess i think i just said that anyway uh first top comment was from youtube girl 86 cuda solar who does these arrangements backwards thank you i do come forward a few times just to make sure especially when i'm doing the structure because when you put your structure branches in that sets the tone for the rest of the arrangement if you screw that up then it's going to look off to you like the whole time and the the end of result may not be like quite what you want so as long as i can pop forward just a couple of times which in this case was much easier because i designed on a pillar usually we have a table that spans the exact width of the door right in front of me so i have to crawl under the table in order to come through and look so i didn't have to do that that was nice another couple questions i saw a lot of people were asking was why don't you use a turntable is it just because you don't think about it uh no i don't like the look of them oh so i have a turntable that is marble and i keep forgetting that like aesthetically it needs to be a pretty process for me the whole time and then the other question um people were asking was um is there a mirror set up somewhere or are you looking at the camera display neither no mirror camera display is way too small it's like how how many many feet away from me i don't know it's also like a three inch display not even oh yeah it's three inches yeah from here it doesn't look three inches it looks smaller the rest of the comment she knows what works even though she can't see it from the front this has to be one of the best arrangements i've ever ever seen looks elegant whimsical delicate and just perfection thank you that is such a sweet comment vintage cooking corner said i was curious are there any garden magazines you subscribe to i know you're more of a paper book girl than pinterest and so am i yes so pinterest i haven't been on pinterest for years i don't even know if i can remember my password to get on there um we used to post on pinterest as garden answer right we have a garden answer account yeah on there but it's been years yeah since we've posted a long time like 2015. um anyway i subscribed to victoria magazine and i have for years english garden is one of my favorite gardening magazines which i think i let my subscription run out for some like i think i forgot to renew i need to do that again um and then i do get fine gardening as well um but i like to keep the english garden and the victoria magazines because it's something that when i was growing up my mom kept all of her in particular in particular the victoria magazines and she would have some that dated back into the 80s and so we would go through her stacks and for every month like so let's say it's april you know like it is now we would go through my sister and i would pull out every single year's issue of april and then we'd have we'd put that stack out on the coffee table and so we could look through all the different years and like how the styles had changed and how um the look of the magazine it for a very brief time it took on a different look but then it kind of regained its old old look that's so beautiful um anyway it's just such a fun thing to do and now that we've samantha know that i have a girl um who may enjoy that yeah all my magazines anyway i do like looking through those a lot uh christy said how long before laura gets a deal with master class probably a while i think people might be surprised how many how many people have reached out to us for different opportunities that we have turned down just because um we have so much freedom doing what we do right now that's why we'll never ever get the blue check mark on facebook it probably is true it's probably why we'll never get verified because we are so selective for me i wanted to be able to figure out a way to make a comfortable living doing what i love to do and to where i could stay home and to where i could also have my kids around me speaking of there's one of them hey benjamin are you in here are you chilling those things were the most important to me and when you start saying yes to all these other things and all of a sudden yeah your creative freedom goes down um you're much much more restricted and i feel like my work isn't as good when i'm restricted or when somebody asks me to do something specifically i'm like i know i don't feel inspired to do that and so i have a really hard time i have a really hard time doing that and then i also didn't want to travel like i would like to travel when i want to travel i don't want to have to travel for work and for things like i want to be home so that was really important to me terry said what is the name of the florist who gave you the info on cutting the hellebores that's klaus dalby who i've talked about quite often he's got a page on instagram it's amazing he does little videos on there very informative he's got a gorgeous garden um yeah super full of inspiration and beautiful plants great style we'll link them down below next video was a project gone awry and transplanting a venus dogwood so i was just sure that that beautiful gothic arch arbor that i had in the front of the cut flower garden last year would fit behind our fireplace because like on paper it says it's six feet wide i'm like well six feet isn't that big and i mean it really isn't that wide but when you put it back there it just dwarfed the space and i think just the stature of it com like the the height of it and all of that it just looked wrong but i just had these visions of a beautiful rose-covered arbor that like covered that little pathway leading to our fireplace kind of magical and and such but sometimes i have to actually go through the motions of putting something together like that to figure out that it won't work otherwise like i don't i wouldn't believe somebody like aaron did you tell me you thought it wasn't gonna fit there i can't remember if you actually said those words to me or not and i was like i just like i gotta do it i ever told you that it wasn't gonna fit i can't remember maybe it was like a small voice in the back of my head telling me it's not gonna fit just just you wait i don't know and it certainly did not fit but there's a lot of wins when you go through a situation like that one i now know how to put that arbor together and i will be able to whip it out super fast when we figure out where we want it on the new property um two it did kind of spur us on to one get the venus dogwood planted which was not happy in its spot for a couple of reasons first off when we dug it up i realized the trunk was buried about four inches too deep and i don't know how that happened i don't know if it settled in its hole and i never noticed it or you even planted it no not to blame anybody else well i'm help planting it but i'm fairly certain like i looked at it yeah like as it was being backfilled i was pregnant with benjamin at the time that we had that planted so i it was a 20 gallon tree it was big um but it just kind of sat there and it always bloomed in the spring beautifully and then it was getting nailed by the grass sprinkler so it was always covered in hard water and i'm hoping i you know i know dogwoods especially like that one want to be a little bit more protected and it's right out in the middle of nowhere on the new property i don't know but maybe just getting it out there maybe it needed some breathing room and it'll just have a new lease on life out there that's what i'm hoping for um but we also got the area cleaned up paul came in and like while i was planting the dogwood tree he came in and mulched the area got the um the stepping stones centered because they weren't centered on the pathway and i know why they weren't now i got to thinking about it there was a priv hedge right there and that privet hedge was so wide that it was centered in the walkway because the privets came way over the bricks yeah you're right so there was like a foot of walking path between the fireplace and the privets when we actually pulled them out so it made sense why it was like that but i didn't think of that at the time anyway uh top comment from ann you're doing a great job mama good benjamin be annie cuter love your videos yeah benjamin is so um encouraging he just like he'll say those things all throughout projects or like he just came up to me right before this project uh this video when we were getting ready to film it he's just said i like you mama like oh you're so cute he is like he seems to know too when you need to hear it uh stephanie said i think you could use it in the new property somewhere yes so wait and see what happens with your changes that's exactly what i'm thinking i'm thinking on that the bigger of the two corners kind of on like the high tunnel side we're going to have a big kind of roundish walkway big circle thing and i think we'll be able to really easily tuck it in over there and we can pick out some new roses i don't think that those established icebergs would tolerate a move i mean we could try it but i don't know if it's worth the effort uh pearl said since you live in such a dry area do you ever worry about your wells running dry i i surprisingly don't and i know you don't erin well i think it's because we've never heard of a well-running drug yeah never so like your parents have lived at their house for how long 30 years 31 years yeah so like the 30 years that we have experience you know like i've never heard of anybody is either running dry in our area but i've noticed that comment a lot that question a lot of people are concerned about wells running driving i wonder if that's a thing in other parts of the world where if it runs dry you just dig one deeper right yeah i would think so i mean can aquifers go dry just like completely dry up i don't know how it works i don't either maybe we should maybe we should die research yeah do some learning do some learning about that uh tony ann said will you eventually reface the fireplace to match the brick you're using in your walkways love all the work you're doing and i can't wait each day to see your videos so the outdoor fireplace um i don't know if we'll actually re-face it i don't know how difficult would that be aaron you'd have to smooth out because the stones that are used are actual stones it's not the fascia right um so you'd have to like put some kind of a either like sand them all down i don't know if that's even possible i'm sure it is but you have to get it smooth in order to reface it with anything i don't think we would ever put any money into that project we'd probably tear it down and build a new one because it doesn't actually draw very well and maybe it could be fixed i don't know but we don't have plans though to do it i think it draws okay no there's a lot of smoke that comes out really yeah oh i didn't realize that yeah i wish it operated a little better well you've been out there with this one yeah well i mean there's outdoor fire you expect a little smoke yeah but it is a lot i didn't have any plans to reface the fireplace i don't love the stone that it's built out of but it kind of just fits i like that space either way rachel said how do you always manage to dig the hole for planting a tree the exact right depth i never get it right the first tray i think it comes from years of experience i don't always get 100 right though usually if it's wrong it's a little bit on the deep side and i would rather go a little deeper and that way i can actually just rock the tree in the hole and put soil underneath one side rock it up onto the soil and put a little bit more soil under the root ball until i get it to the right level that way i'm not having to lift the whole thing back out of the hole um but i you know you kind of learn how to eyeball things when you plant a lot of things i think it just comes with time next video was digging up and moving two very established boxwoods which look amazing where they ended up i love it so they were two cone boxes at the end of our gazebo and it was either dig them up and try to move them or let them be trampled to death and so i really i mean if you think about how much it would cost to buy boxes that big at the store it would be it would be expensive and they are beautiful and they were healthy and you don't even see them that big i mean it'd be like a thousand dollars a piece you can order them like i know bountiful has tons of different options that you can order you know yeah especially boxwoods and things like that but it would be it would be expensive um top comment was from veda or vitaveda i'm with all the rest of your fans please please film every single thing you can no matter how mundane you think it is i found you on lockdown started now you have replaced network tv and my 93 year old mom and i watch you guys every day thank you so much for your kind hearts hard work and amazing attitudes that's a super sweet comment yes thank you for that you know every once in a while i you know i'll have my camera out and i'm filming something outside and i feel like you know i filmed this last year because a lot of times we do a lot of the same types of gardening tours every year you know we get to onion planting time and garlic planting time potato planting time and you think well like it is stuff that we're doing every year and i want to make sure to capture especially if i'm moving it to a different spot but then i start thinking but i already filmed this i wonder if people are going to get bored we're going to want to make you guys bored and so i'm always constantly trying to think like is this gonna interest you guys can i film it in a way that makes it interesting and that sort of thing so it's really sweet to read that comment are you gonna come in here and chill with me you chilling you can sit right here if you want okay kelsey said can you tell us what your most watched videos are do you know um well anybody can look it up you can just go to our youtube channel and organize the videos by most of you i would guess that it's our potato planting video i think it's got like three million views really yeah i think it is well okay hold on let's look it up but it depends too like if you're watching on facebook versus youtube because i think our most watched of course on facebook especially a couple of years ago when more viral like small projects were more popular um like we were getting i think i mean we were getting lots and lots of views on those types of projects and i think like the pumpkin snowman or the cinderblock planter got like 60-something million views 60 million million views yeah okay so the antique double planter has four million views that was really pretty i thought yeah a lot of people said it was gonna die and they don't if you take care of them right the succulent tree house fairy garden has almost four million views really um how to plant potatoes is number three with 3.8 million and then succulent tips for beginners and then house plant garden with a water feature so our succulent videos are still our top videos yeah i haven't done much with succulents i have a bunch of beautiful ones in the studio our content has morphed though through the years well it really has we've kind of shifted more toward like landscape gardening but i think it's also a product of just our lives because in the beginning you know we were in the townhouse yeah we did this and so naturally you do more house plant and small things but you still had landscape plants uh you you just well okay you also treated the outside garden like some type of private diary that no one could see do you remember how private you were about that yeah well i just it's weird when you start sharing your your life on camera yeah it's very vulnerable and i'm used to it now i'm used to opinions and i'm used to uh some negativity i'm i'm used to that now it just kind of rolls off and it never really bugged me even then but it was just more of a weird thing you know yeah you didn't want anybody to see what the garden looked like outside and i was i never understood that i never understood why you were so private about i mean you would show in really small sections yeah like you you know you'd film a video and you'd make sure the background was like well even now i like to tour the garden when it's mulched you know sure i think it's just natural for people to want things to it's like when you have company over to your house you want to pick up you know that's natural and that's kind of how i feel when i share things online even now you know okay can you bring a train out here go get your favorite train that just bought us like five minutes maybe we did do a tour though in the very end like right before we left the house we did a tour video it was like a like last chance like there's no other opportunity because we were moving out yeah i think i had already moved containers out and stuff right i i want to say one of the reasons that you felt a little bit more comfortable about doing garden tours in this garden is because it wasn't yours you don't even when you first move into a place it's not it's you didn't plant anything oh that's so true that is very true because it's like they're coming along somebody else's garden yeah making it yours over time yeah but yeah it's like here's this garden this is what somebody else has done here are our plans for it i wonder if um here's a line that kind of like deflects any of the negativity maybe that you may get cause like well hey i didn't do it is that your favorite train that is so awesome buddy you gotta watch out for the camera though bk wood adventures said when you finish your property have you thought of it being a venue area for weddings or family gatherings or rent out for formal pictures for proms or weddings the only thing that i would probably entertain from that list is family gatherings i don't really want to open up our private space for public things because i don't know i value our privacy our private area yeah um a lot so i don't think i would there's a lot to consider when you start thinking about just letting you know anyone come on to your property yeah and nobody cares about your property the way you do right so if you do a you know wedding venue or something um i mean the amount of cleanup you know the grass is always going to be kind of trashed because people are just going to walk on it and set up tents on it well you have to let it dry out a bit too before you do stuff events on it like that so yeah there's a lot to consider and it just the the amount of income that could be derived from that i i just have a heart i don't even think of it in terms of income i just think of it in terms of my piece i do because i'm i'm always thinking about what if youtube goes away and at that point i might shift my thinking you know and we may actually start using our area to be like a production area to actually grow things to sell and you know and it's i feel very thankful that we have that space to do that if we should ever need to um but if you ever see us starting to sell things it's because it's we're hurting because money's a little tight yeah i don't know we're extreme realists i don't know what i just touched but my computer just freaked out um we are realists so in every you are more so than me in terms of future planning um but i don't know where i was going with that anyway yeah yeah okay anita said would your parents consider selling unique stone and have it shipped to our address yes you can contact if you find a piece of unique stone you like my mom can organize to have a drop shipped to your home i think but prepare for a pretty expensive shipping bill yeah shipping is expensive so if you can go to the unique stones website and use their dealer locator put in your zip code and find a dealer that's like close to you that's the best way to go because then you can just go pick it up and you don't have to have it shipped to you uh way cheaper that way but yes you can use um a supplier that has it you know my parents garden center does paula said when is the gazebo going we just heard today it will be gone by the end of the month by the end of april so and we have a date like spoiler alert we have a date for the hartley like an actual number of days okay it ranges you know what though we have a two week range okay it's the first or second week of july perfect that's a pretty narrow range that is a pretty narrow range now what we're doing because hartley sends a crew out to send their or to set up their portion of the greenhouse we will have it excavated so chad who's actually working on gravel right now behind our orchard fence he will be coming as soon as the gazebo's gone and he's going to take the concrete pad out because it's not the right size and then we'll have a concrete outfit come in and they'll i don't think we're going to have a concrete floor but they're going to put in a stem wall so they'll put that in and we'll have our conduit run so we won't even have our gas and electric trench to the building yet um just the concrete stem wall put up and then hartley will come in and install the top part and then we'll have all the finish work done so all the brick work all the electrical all the gas and that's like the only way we could figure out how to do it to where it would be done like in any entirely reasonable amount of time yeah because everybody's just so busy and it takes forever to get everybody out and i think the hardest part is that for a project like this i mean you guys know who have ever built anything that has multiple people that you have to have work on electricians and then you know whatever mason mason's masonry people what are they what are they called mason is it just nice i don't know but it has to be done in a specific order typically and so to organize everybody's schedule that way is incredibly hard so it will be a concrete base with a beautiful hartley top for just a little while until we can get the brick work done which we will have scheduled now we can that we know we can get that scheduled out yeah and hopefully it doesn't sit there very long with a concrete bottom yeah hopefully we can get that scheduled for you know third or fourth week yeah it would be amazing if we had like it operational in terms of air and all of that by the end of august hi thanks for that well you know even inside oh cool i could see you in there i think that we'll get everything done this year it'll i was thinking fall realistically like at the end of fall hopefully like this winter we'll be able to use it which i'm super happy about because i didn't feel pressured to start landscaping around it right away i'll have a winter to look at it in its space and then start dreaming of like i've got some rough sketches of the area what do you got there buddy the branch that's from my flower range and i still haven't cleaned up the floor from the flower arrangement there's just junk everywhere right there oh well um i do think it will be helpful for um when we start doing the process for anybody else who is interested in putting in a glass greenhouse to see the steps yeah honestly because it's a little bit fuzzy even for us yeah well we've never done it before yeah to know the steps and what you should do first and i'm sure that we won't get it right necessarily so anyway hannah said do you think or know if the old homeowners watch your channel i don't think so dennis and mary who we bought the house from i know dennis they've always been the type to want to flip houses and then they move this is the house they stayed in the longest like 10 years before we bought it from them uh another reason they didn't flip it fast is because they just got stuck in that whole 2018 nine to 1809 that weird the recession yeah so housing prices started going down yeah um dennis's dennis does not like to go back and see houses after they've sold it and they did drive through a couple years after we bought it it was right when it was like a 104 degree day and all the pivots had been torn out all the boxes were just sitting there hadn't been planted yet and they were like nothing was really lined up and i was like like i have visions for how awesome this is gonna be it looks like junk right now especially because it's so hot everything has such a hot look here and that's why i don't like hot colors in my garden one of the reasons because it just i want colors to bring the like heat level down visually but um anyway i don't think they do i know that mary i think she may follow on facebook like she may see some pictures and things like that um and we see them often like my parents go out to dinner with them all the time they've actually moved to mississippi or in the process of moving to mississippi from oregon so yeah they've got a really beautiful home there holly said curious why didn't you move the box cones to the versailles garden to match the two bigger of the four corners in the circle then move the two smaller boxwoods from there to the west side interest entrance do you have plans to tear out versailles circle so i it doesn't bother me at all that those boxes are not the same size in fact it looks like a graduation of size like with persephone like having the taller ones in the back and the shorter ones in front it doesn't like even cluck in on my scale of things to be yes we plan on tearing it up yeah yeah it bothers erin i honestly i don't know how these boxes are gonna do and i hate would hate to dig up two perfectly fine healthy boxwoods comfortable in their spots in an effort to move two boxes that may or may not survive when it needs to be like there needs to be four living boxwoods in there no matter what size they are um yeah and it just does more work too it's four extra holes that's just kind of like cruising around and yes we do plan on eventually taking out the versailles garden and creating something similar because i do like the look of that garden it's very tidy it's very formal i like the grass and the gravel and the boxwood hedges and the statuary i like that look it's just so peaceful to me and it looks good all year like the structure never changes it's just and there's not a lot i mean i play annuals around the box once but there's really not a lot that goes away in the winter time and i really appreciate that about that part of the yard um but i think eventually we are going to create our we are going to make that what is the big deal with the table today it's like moving around we do want to make that like our formal entrance to the house eventually i think so we'll do a circular driveway maybe a water feature this table has a mind of its own did you see that is it a ghost oh yeah are you pulling on it from that side sure okay it is a little bit difficult though with the locusts being up there i mean they are off they're well they're planned off i guess you know when you really think about it what's your name just like it when you do it once it should stop doing that right like i don't know why okay one locust split and appears to be healing just fine after being cabled the other one has been hit by delivery trucks and is kind of a little wonky shaped when you kind of start looking at it there's some there's yeah have you ever tried no i'm not going to look at it like that there's a couple branches that don't really make sense and it uh it's like it splits too low does that make sense like there's not enough of a liter or a trunk you like things one way up though so what's that called when uh when all the branches branch out from a really low spot is there a name for that i don't know a low trunk tree yeah multi-liter tree multi liter i don't know uh last video was successes and failures of winter sowing and overwintering bulbs and containers so i opened up all of the water jugs that we did the winter sewing in and kind of shared my um outcome with you and then showed you all of the containers that we over wintered bulbs in and then i moved a bunch of them around and honestly like as i got to watching or looking rather through those bulb pots there was only four that didn't come up um and there were four hyacinth containers none of those bulbs came from color blends by the way all of the containers that are coming up that look amazing most of those bulbs are from color blends um which we don't have like we've worked with color blends but we don't have like an ongoing sponsor yeah they don't like sponsor our channel or anything but i've had such good luck with their stuff their bulbs are really good quality and they always work for me and i could tell in these containers because i knew i saw that some of the other containers where i used other bulbs and i was just like dang the luck just wasn't there with those like it wasn't the others anyway um but as i was looking through the pots most of them all the bulbs are still alive they're just growing at different rates so like you'll have this big container with like a couple of big sections that are up and maybe forming buds and then you'll see some poking through and then some that are still under the soil but they look as healthy as can be so i don't know if it was the location the water the whatever the temperature that we had and i think we'll get flowers from all of them i just think it'll just be very spotty and that's kind of not what i was going for i wanted to go for like a big impact display somewhere which i don't think i'm gonna get but that's okay um i'll be able to use the ones that are coming up spotty for cut flowers which i love to do anyway and then i was able to make a couple of just little displays the little um grouping in versailles and then the ones in front of the greenhouse and once they're all in blue it's going to be really pretty i think first comment was from zero zero seven double o seven totally off topic but this weekend while i was roaming around our local nursery buying up a storm someone approached me and asked me if i was friends with laura realizing we were both wearing garden answer gear of course i said yes via youtube we both laughed and introduced ourselves what a joyful moment afterwards the owner's daughter approached me wanting to know who is garden answer so i explained now she'll be watching the ga vibe that's awesome speaking of garden answer gear i think we're going to start to amp that up a bit like we're going to actually start to um maybe expand our merch line and do a better job with our merch because we do kind of a crap for a job right now we just basically do nothing right now so uh jaclyn said do you keep your clay terracotta pots out all winter do they ever crack i've had one one pot one terracotta pot in all of the years of me gardening on my own in my own garden crack and that's it and i keep them out every single winter winter it is a risk especially because we used to be a zone five we're now technically zone six but it still gets really cold and i've got stuff in them and we um still water i think what helps my terra cotta pots is the way they're shaped you know when you have a pot that's shaped like this like a vase shape when stuff freezes it can kind of like bump up in the pot but if you have a pot that kind of does this like an urn um where the soil is underneath a shoulder and it's you know got water in it and then it tries to freeze there's nowhere to freeze too and it's just eventually going to probably crack that pot so i think um the shape of your pots makes a little bit of a difference but i've had pretty good luck michelle said can you please put more merchandise in your store oh how about a v-neck v-neck ladies t-shirt a long sleeve t-shirt a gardening hat and a zip front set shirt i'm sure it would sell plus mother's day is coming true and yes we are going to be working on it hard here pretty quick uh marty said what will you do with all the bulbs in the pots i would like to slowly work on moving them out to the landscape i really want in our orchard area to have kind of this wildflower meadow vibe and i want to have a bunch of bulbs that come up in the spring underneath the orchard trees wouldn't that be pretty when the trees are in bloom and like a bunch of spring bulbs blooming i just think i'm actually working on a native's list so i want to make a custom blend of wildflowers for our area that are native here um like actually native to eastern oregon uh western idaho and i don't every single wildflower blend i come across has red and orange in it and i i do think it looks pretty in the mix but i don't really want those colors i want it to be like blue pink purple white yellow very soft and cool like i explained earlier because our landscape is so naturally hot that i want it to be a very cool blend so i'm coming up with my own mix um maybe we can package and sell that mix um anyway i'm looking forward to that and if i could move some of the bulbs into that area and then other areas we'll have lots of opportunity on the new property and then also up here where we do our new flower beds to put them i think we won't be lacking space to to plant them all the ice volleys though in the concrete pots lining east side fence along our driveway those are all going to a friend's house they just bought a new property where they're building a home and i thought she was commenting on how pretty they were and i just asked her do you want them because it takes a lot of time too so she is actually doing me a favor like it might seem like oh you're so generous for giving all your bulbs but in reality it's like well yeah i mean it's there are a lot of bulbs but at the same time it would take me so much time to get those placed and dug and you know planted in the landscape that it makes me happy that they're going to a home where they're going to be appreciated and that you know they'll have time to plant them so anyway win-win for both of us um jules said what's the name and make of the dolly hand truck and where can i buy one did you not put the link in the video no i didn't um i'm not sure what the name of it is i'll put a link i'll find out below this video and below the video from this morning i said in the video you would put a link in the description yeah i thought you watched the video did you not watch this video no i did i just missed i edited it well no ken started it and then i finished it it was in the outro huh how did i miss that i don't know i edited that part it's going through the motions um yeah i do like that dolly it it actually is shaped more uh like more pleasing than the other ones what did we use before what was those called oh pot wheels pot wheels those were never shaped right for me yeah elizabeth said i was wondering about the round brick concrete sitting area did you plant that with bulbs if so can we see it we did plant that the top level is just brimming with beautiful i think they're called frosty snow daffodils and then i planted hawaiira hawara hawara whatever uh daffodils below it in the ring below it and they're the ones that don't get quite as tall and they've got like six to eight blooms usually per stem i just posted a picture of one on instagram it has four blooms on the stem but they were so sweet um and it's very pretty except for it looks like the bottom level is not coming up quite as well do you i think that that was a water issue aaron because like the tips are browning out already before they even bloom i think because we pulled all the drip and we were watering the top section like with the sprinkler you put a sprinkler in there a couple of times but i don't i don't think that the water was actually making it down to the second level completely because there's one side where the dafts aren't blooming at all on on the bottom could be i don't know we're getting rid of the whole thing anyway um and we will replant those bulbs somewhere else but it's it's looking really pretty uh last question how do you decide which seeds to direct sow in the ground and which seeds to sew in a container i go by what's recommended on the seed package so you just look on the back and it'll give you two sets of instructions one for transplanting and then one for direct sowing and it usually has in parentheses recommend the word recommended by whichever one of those methods is recommended and so i usually go by that because if that's what's recommended they know more than i do about it so i usually try that first i mean but you'll see like on xenia packages you'll see transplant and direct sow instructions and direct soap does say recommended but you can buy plants at the store of zinnias so i don't know i think it depends too and how many you're wanting to plant honestly like if you're wanting just like four or five zania plants maybe i mean it's easy just to pick up a four pack of zinnias or something if you wanted to plant a whole bunch for cutting seeds definitely the way to go and so it is a little easier takes less space less grow lights less you know supplies just a direct sedum in the ground is pretty easy that way unless you have gale force winds in which case it blows your seeds everywhere and you have to chalk it up as a loss however i was out there last night and i saw aaron i haven't told you this i saw some bee's friend is up i've got some larkspur coming up i've got nigella coming up spotty but still it's coming up um there's clary sage i think there's some baby's breath popping through that makes me excited you don't even care he just told me yesterday that cut arrangements do nothing for him i took some pictures just a little snapshot into aaron's uh interest anyway uh i took a bunch of pictures of an arrangement actually made for my mom with daffodils we went out there for dinner last night and i cut some viburnum branches and some euannomous what else some red bud branches and then a bunch of different types of daffodils and put them all in a vase together and i thought it was so pretty and i was like you know i should take some pictures of this so i did and i was showing him the pictures and he was like cut arrangements do nothing for me i didn't know this and then he proceeded to tell me if he had a garden he probably wouldn't plant a single perennial in it it would all just be shrubs and annuals and trees maybe yeah well that's that's kind of what does it for me like um large well-shaped trees do it for me because i just i like grass well yeah well maintained grass but um you know large large well-shaped trees are such an investment in time it's like someone had to carry for this for like 20 or 30 years to get it to this point yeah so to me that the investment is like you know you did this you kept this tree going and it looks nice okay so that does it i really like like flowering shrubs i think that those are cool like what kind of flowering straps like hydrangeas um and they they seem to go for a lot of the year too a lot of those so i appreciate that the thing that i don't i dislike about a lot of perennials is that they lull for for at least here they low for so much of the summer it doesn't feel worth it like flowering shrubs seem worth it because they're large and they take up a good amount of space they flower for a lot of the year like hydrangeas and then annuals i like because they flower all summer long like from the second you plant them in may till for us like sometimes october that's a lot of the season but what would life be like without sedum and veronica and yeah sedums are cool because they don't really flower um they do flower they flower big time oh yeah you're right but the difference it's kind of like a hydrangea once they flower they just maintain those flowers all through the season you don't deadhead them they don't lull and they just turn a beautiful beautiful color in the fall i do like um hostas houses are awesome and yeah brunner is awesome yeah brunner is yeah okay so there's there's that probably you know what if you if you made a list of a bunch of perennials no oh man rip them all out are you serious i am not a fan of hellebores again that's something when they bloom they bloom down at the ground all of them well many of them but they're like a beautiful delicate like bell shape yeah they bloom toward the ground and then the rest of the season they just are a nothing burger a nothing burger yes they bloom for so long like they start blooming so early in the season and then they hold those blooms you you don't have to deadhead them their balloons will fade out a little bit but they're just like so beautiful for the rest of the time false what about grasses perennial grasses oh yeah i do like grasses how about blue fescue grass no no you know i think maybe there are a lot of perennials that i like i think maybe you would miss him if they were gone yeah you're probably right you're probably right it's good to have a mix of all of them but i think there's just a lot the ones that lull out for a lot of the season the like um dianthus oh man i'm not a huge fan of dianthus myself though anything that browns out like that that you have to deadhead that's just so much work yeah and i think in that case like they come out with a full flush of bloom and then it says you know shear them back for a second set but they already have a ton of buds on them yeah so you're like shearing off a ton of buds for your next set of bloom and i don't know i remember like painstakingly deadheading those at the garden center so that you don't forfeit a single bloom because you know when you're selling plants it's different you think about things differently and you're like these plants need to have color on them because you want them to be attractive and oh what a pain no thanks really yeah it just blooms early in the season then you're done oh the ground cover flocks yeah yeah it's okay a rare look into the mind of aaron as if anybody wanted to know well the fact that arrangements do nothing for you i would at least expect you to appreciate the photography i think you do a great job arranging um and you do a good job taking photos of them too i think i do a pretty good job taking pants the video pans the problem is that usually i take pictures before aaron does any videos because when i take pictures i realize like oh i need to tip the like i need to tilt the vase like a quarter inch to the right or something to catch this bloom at the right stage or whatever and then whenever you take pans before i take pictures i can tell like those little fussy things haven't been done and it bugs me nobody else would know but i do anyway we're like completely rabbit trailing off of i don't even know where that came from it has nothing to do with the last question wow yeah yeah i don't know already then so that is this week's recap on that happy note yeah i hope you guys have a great week and we will see you in the next one bye

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