Market Garden Tour - Exploring Our Market Garden: Techniques, Tips, and Tricks
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Thistles, the Scottish flower.
For the blueberries make a couple foot thick wood chip mounds and plant the blueberries in the mounds. Then use the azealia fertilizer.
I might give that a try. What I've been doing so far definitely isn't working. Thanks for the tip.
Your garden is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for the tour.
Thanks for the encouragement!
And starting the day with Edward Griegs «morgenstemning». I love that tune, but nice to come across in a us video. Hello from Norway here. Snd I love your garden.❤
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!
Beautiful!!
I do most of my gardening in the morning as well... here in Texas it's been crazy hot, between all tornadoes...
I freeze dry all my Lemon Balm, as it looses it's potency so fast. FD keeps up to 98% of the original Constituents.
Thanks for sharing
I "melt" in Pennsylvania heat, I can't imagine the heat in Texas.
I'm hoping to harvest a lot of my herbs and freeze-dry them.
For our blueberries, check the roots. Groundhogs, moles, voles, pill bugs, and other pests love our blueberry roots (from underground). That is how we generally loose them. One of our best years-old shrubs died. When I pulled it for replacement, there were no roots and a giant ground hog hole beside it. Also, they are native here in the rocky App Mountains and don't like soggy feet. I noticed you have a irrigation line near them. I rarely water ours, only when we have a full week without rain. I don't fertilize much either, only a little in the spring after the blueberries start to show. I generally spread a cup of sulfur (powder form comes in a 50 pound bucket - relatively cheap) to a 50 foot row around the base and water. Also, we put but a three foot wide barrier of thick fresh cut pine bark mulch all down the row and now they are thriving (plus minus one groundhog). Father-in-law also planted geraniums down the row in the middle of the shrubs. Not sure why, but we don't have a pest problem above ground. Blueberries in containers have not worked for me. They don't have a large root system and no taproot, and don't like their roots disturbed. I have found that winds, heavy stems, etc., move the base of the shrub too much when in containers - lack of support maybe? Trial and error of the things above have worked best for our blueberries. Hope one or more of these tips might help yours.
Thanks for all of the tips. I definitely have a lot more to learn about blueberries. They are definitely not native here. We are in limestone territory and our soil is very alkaline. I did things to acidify it, but other people in the area said it's hard to keep it acidic enough. I may take the 1-2 that are the healthiest (but still in really bad shape), and try a container. I guess I don't ahve anything to lose because I'm not sure they will surive in the ground. Thanks again for the info.
Beautiful Lemon Balm its great for Anxiety, calming effect, I dry mine for tea!
I just need to find time to harvest it and dry it. There are so many things I want to do. I'm looking forward to using is in tea and maybe in a tincture.
She’s awesome and her garden is lovely
Thanks!
Wascally wabbit! Your garden looks great!
We have a small live trap, but they are impossible to catch. Hopefully he won't eat too much.
I am imagining Don in the Elmer Fudd hunting outfit.... lol
Beautiful! Great work. Looking forward to your high tunnel greenhouse tour. We are in zone 4b and we planted our garden this week.
Thanks!! We'll do a tunnel tour in a few weeks. It always feels good to get the plants in the ground. I hope you have a great growing season.
Wat een geweldige tuin het ziet er prachtig uit, net als alles in en rond de boerderij.
Bedankt voor de vriendelijke woorden. In de lente ziet alles er altijd geweldig uit, maar het kan een uitdaging zijn om dat zo te houden tijdens de hitte van de zomer.
Thank you for the tour! New subscriber!
We're so glad you found us. Thanks for watching and for the kind words.
Gorgeous garden!!!
Thanks!!!
So inspiring!!! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching and for the encouraging words.
love your garden 🙂
Thanks!
I wish my garden looked looked lush! Your herbs are at least twice the size of mine. I'm still in the process of moving them from a raised bed to grow bags. I agree that bags keep them under control. God bless y'all and keep growing!
We've had a fairly warm spring so they have really taken off. I need to make time to harvest many of them to dry . I'm hoping the mints don't break through the bottom of the bags and spread. That's the only thing I'm a little nervous about with the bags. Thanks for the well-wishes.
The mystery herb looks kind of like feverfew from first glance!
I think you're right! I looked up pics online and that's exactly what it looks like. Thanks!
I think you're right! I looked up pics online and that's exactly what it looks like. Thanks!
Absolutely beautiful! I would love to see a how to on pruning black berries 😁. I just planted my first one this year it’s still a baby. Next year though I’m hoping to be ready
I'll try to do a video this fall when I prune them. It's not hard once you get the hang of it. Blackberries are so yummy and make amazing jam. My favorite is BlackBerry Lime jam.
Your garden is gorgeous! Do you know what variety red raspberries you have?
Thanks! I'm sorry, but we don't know what they are. We bought them 5 years ago when we bought the farm and don't remember what kind they were. Sorry!
Brenda, where did you get the hoop wire to hold up the white cloth that covers your broccoli and cabbage.
It's actually the wire from some fencing we removed when we bought the farm. We just cut it into lengths that we needed for the garden. It's a very heavy gauge wire.
When was this video made that so much is either large or harvested already? How large is this garden area?
We filmed the video on 5/29. We are in South Central Pennsylvania... Zone 7a. We've had a fairly warm spring. The herbs have really grown quickly. I need to harvest a lot of them to dry. The garden is roughly 50' x 50'. The orchard adds another 100' to the overall length.
Hi! You can make a wonderful summer drink with some of those elderberry flowers. 6-7 large florets, 3 lemons (juice and all), 5 liters of water and sugar or honey to taste (aprox.100g per liter of water). Add flowers and sugar (or honey) to a large glass jar, squeeze the juice of the lemons then cut the rest into smaller pieces and also add them into the jar. Try to squish a bit all the ingredients with a wooden spoon then add the room temperature water (unchlorinated). Mix and cover the jar with a coffee filter and let it stay in full sun for 2 to 3 days, or until it ferments. Then strain the juice and keep it in the fridge. It's wonderful served cold during hot summer days. This was the "juice" I grew up with and I hope you will like it too.
Thanks! I'm going to have to give that a try!!!
What type of fertilizer y'all use
We do use a little bit of fish and kelp fertilizer, but mostly it's our compost which contains both cow and chicken manure.
Did you plant mugwort? It has a square stem.
I haven't played mugwort. Does it have a lot of medicinal benefits?
Historically, mugwort has been used in traditional systems of medicine in different parts of the world. Today, mugwort taken orally is promoted for digestive problems, irregular menstruation, and high blood pressure. It is also promoted as a sedative, laxative, and liver tonic. By the National Center for Complimentary and Integrated Health.
With Hyssop the parts that grow above ground are used to make medicine.
Hyssop is used for digestive and intestinal problems including liver and gallbladder conditions, intestinal pain, intestinal gas, colic, and loss of appetite. It is also used for respiratory problems including coughs, the common cold, respiratory infections, sore throat, and asthma.
Other uses include urinary tract infection (UTI), poor circulation, HIV/AIDS, and menstrual cramps.
Some people use hyssop as a gargle; in baths to cause sweating; and on the skin for treating skin irritations, burns, bruises, and frostbite. In foods, hyssop oil and extract are used as a flavoring. In manufacturing, hyssop oil is used as a fragrance in soaps and cosmetics.
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Wow! I need to harvest and dry some Hyssop. Thanks for the info. There is SO much to learn about herbal medicine.