In the areas where I didn’t use cardboard last year when extending my flower bed, I have had to pull weeds and grass already! In the new flowerbed where I placed cardboard then mulch chips over it, I have just a few weeds come up, but nowhere near what I’d have if I hadn’t have used cardboard. I’m going to extend another area and will be using the contractors paper. Cardboard and paper work for me!👏👍
Cardboard or contractors paper and wood chips absolutely does work! All of my beds (and I have a lot of gardens) have been created this way! So excited to see all of the progress coming this spring with the roses, pumpkin patch, and even your adorable porch swing!
They say you get a peach crop once every 7 years unless you plant them really strategically or have an ideal micro climate. I work at a local orchard. Last year we lost all but a few peaches but then orchards half an hour from us had peaches. It’s really hit or miss deal. I love the idea of Collette climbing on your swing set. Swings are such a great thing for kids… I have fond memories of a tree swing in my childhood backyard.
Thank you for showing your trees! I love seeing the flowers but I also enjoy seeing the progress of your trees/shrubs. Love your swing set, glad you kept it! When I grew out of my swing set as a child, my mom put a porch swing on it and we enjoyed it for many years, brings back wonderful memories 💖
Love that you’re keeping the swing set! I turned the ends of mine into a trellis for scarlet runner beans because the flowers are orange and hummingbirds love them! I sit letting the hummingbirds fly right in my ‘space’. ❤
Wow! What a difference you've made in less than a year! It's coming along so well- and I can't believe how much you've accomplished already!!! Thanks for posting, i love following your progress. Happy gardening. ❤
I'm trying to convince my 71 yr old husband that we need a swingset. A real one, heavy duty and tall, like yours. It's got to be good exercise, cranking those legs to get really high up! He thinks I'm nuts! I know for certain, no flowers that bees or Japanese beetles love, would be growing near my swings! 😂 Love seeing your new garden budding out for Spring!!
I have successfully used cardboard on top of St. Augtine grass here in Florida. I put a mixture of topsoil and compost on top of the cardboard. I'm on my second year and very pleased. I am working on a second area. Highly recommend.
It all sounds exciting! Can’t wait to watch it all develop! Hey Matthew, I think Colette roses do have thorns. I know Laura on GA has them climbing her arches at her vegetable beds and I’ve watched her prune them a cpl of times over the years and she definitely talks about them having thorns… just an fyi friend. 😊♥️
I love the idea of a 6 foot privacy border of shrubs and evergreens around the pool on the outer side of fence! My back yard has 6 ft stockade and I’ve planted my mixed evergreen on the inside of my fence. Not on all sides. It’s been there since 2003. Soo tall, so mixed and varied, and I love it. I’m actually limbing up some things and creating little paths and secret seating areas inside it now. It’s pretty to sit between cedars, holly, and 20 foot tall bloom covered camellias in 3 different shades of pink, walking on soft mulch paths. Birds will come soo close if you’re very still. It’s a reprieve from the full sun around the pool.
I found Hellibours at Lowe’s yesterday! I grabbed 5 with white flowers to pop in the front yard where the house really blocks the sun because I heard they like shade. ❤
I love the swing set and you could plant climbing roses on the end as well as Clematis. You read my mind when you mentioned this! I’m 67 years old and would love to have a swing set in my yard/garden, but my yard isn’t big enough.
Hey, Matthew. I’m so glad you’re keeping the swing. Each time I see it, I picture swings there. I have the gray polywood swing, and we love it. It stays out year round. A bucket of warm soapy water, a scrub brush, and the hose perks it up in a matter of minutes each spring, I got so tired of repainting outdoor furniture. We’ve replaced our rockers, porch table, benches and all. It is an investment and we did it over several years. Everything is looking great!
We planted several magnolias trees out on our property two years ago and I was so looking forward to their blooms this year, they all budded up well. And now we’re getting all of these cold freezes this week. We tried to wrap some in freeze fabric, but the wind was so fierce. It was just damaging the trees so we left it off. Let mother nature have her way.😞
I have the Bonfire peach tree, too. Love mine, but the fruit are quite small and are wonderful as preserves. They are not that good if eaten raw. The flowers are gorgeous and the pollinators love them! The lovely plumb foliage is also quite nice.
Matthew, love everything you have done. I want to thank you for telling us about the farmers defense arm sleeves. I was diagnosed with heat rash and I bought a pair. I decided I’m not going to give up gardening in my Texas zone 9. So arm sleeves, and a sun hat at apart of my new gardening attire.
Matthew, your garden is looking beautiful, I can't wait to see it in its full glory !! My husband and I were in Ohio last week to dog sit for our son. The weather was crazy, from snow flurries to tornado warnings to the north and I thought Louisiana weather was wild !! Lol Love the swing set , I'm a kid at heart when it comes to swings !! Have a great week ❤️ !!
Purple Crocus is the Provincial Flower of my Manitoba province! Love the idea for the swing set, keep your inner child going🙂. Sorry about the trolls 🧌🧌🧌. They’re everywhere, sure wish they’d go back under the bridges where they belong!! 🌷🇨🇦❄️
I adore that you like to swing, I do too! Our inner children are kindreds ;) I'm so excited to see how your cut-flower garden does, I am trying my hand at one for the first time as well.
Hi Matthew! The daffodils and crocus are so pretty. I checked out the Bonfire Peach tree on Fast Growing Trees site and they said: unavailable because of agricultural restrictions in your state of Idaho. Another site didn't mention this, but said they are better for preserves because the fruit is small and "rubbery". I hope it does well for you, and I'm looking forward to your review on the taste, etc. I'm glad you're keeping the swing set, and like your plans for adding a porch type swing. The 6' shrub hedge behind the fence will be so pretty. Adding a hoop house will be nice. Thank you so much for sharing!
Loved your tour! Yes, we in Ohio are cold this week, but it will officially be spring in a couple of days! I have been dividing and moving hardy established perennials like daylilies, coneflowers, and Nippon daisies. They’ll be fine 😊
Hi Mathew, Just remember to thin your peaches as they tend to rot if touching, also the branches can snap with the heaviness of fruit.(happened to me) My dwarf peach and nectarines are in the soil and dont grow any bigger than 6 foot high and 5 -6 foot wide. If you do want to plant fruit trees in the ground, a protective spot near your brick house would be an awesome place and you can always wrap them with a protective cloth, if you do have a frost. Lovely sky at your place today.😊Jo from New Zealand Gypsum powder is great to amend clay soil with added compost too.
Love the idea of garden beds on the backside of your wrought iron fence. You said 6’ deep - maybe consider deeper? Like 8’ or 10’ deep? You have so much land and deep garden beds give you so much greater flexibility. Whatever you do will be great though. About cardboard mulching. Boy, people are stridently against it where I live (northern Nevada, east of Tahoe.) Militant! What is this, a nationwide fad? Regardless, I have had good results doing it and I will keep sheet mulching with cardboard! It has been beneficial for my sandy desert soil. The plants love it and it keeps down puncturevine and tumbleweeds.
I’m loving the early springtime colour 🌷 you can actually get a woodland daffodil 🌼 I have the beautiful ‘Jack Snipe’ and he’s naturalised lovely 🥰 gorgeous peach tree I’m waiting on one myself and I cannot wait 💐
I don’t currently have a way to get water over there and there are numerous utilities that run from the road and enter that side of the house that impair the ability to dig over there without calling 811 regularly. Until the pine is removed and the driveway to the barn rerouted, I’m not planning anything on that side of the driveway.
Happy with what you are doing with the swing set!!! I always look forward to your videos. I'm getting ready to try drip irrigation for the first time. I don't totally understand it but I'm tired of watering every day in the summer. I understand laying the main hose and around shrubs, etc., but what do you do when you have a group of plants planted close together? I ordered limelight prime because if you are planting them, I want them in my yard also.
I have several videos on drip irrigation on the channel you can search and likely find what you need, including some very detailed ones about specific parts. Groupings of plants can usually be addressed with emitter tubing that has pre-installed emitters every so many inches. Those are available in all sorts of spacing including 6 inches to I believe 24 inches.
I got the same peach tree last week. I’m in upstate SC in Zone 8a. I have mine in a container and it’s sits on my deck, however tonight it will spend the night inside. Our temps are dipping to 28 degrees tonight. Your blooms are beautiful. Love your videos.
I said "no more roses this year", after accumulating over 20, but here i am using your discount code as an excuse to buy 6 more 🤣. Love everything youre doing in the garden. In time it will be so different and utterly magical!
Mr. Matthew, are you thinking of Zepherine Drouhin? Collette is the 2nd most thorny rose I grow. Gertrude Jekyll might have her beat, but not by much. Zepherine also takes a fair bit of shade.
It always scares me a bit this time of year because my roses are mostly leafed out already and yet I know we have freezing temps still, in fact 27 F this morning. I'm in the Bluegrass area of Kentucky.
Hi Matthew im sorry to be the bearer of bad news but unfortunately the bonfire patio peach is strictly ornamental. I have 1 in nw ohio and its lovely and grows tons of peaches but they are small hard and mostly pit. I just hate to see your southern heart broken thinking you will get to have fresh peaches and then being unable to eat them.
LOL... those 'armchair trolls'. Clearly, they have nothing better to do with their time than to go around and criticize the accomplishments of others. Just remember how fortunate you are not to have to live with such a person.
I'm here to tell the trolls your garden beds are fantastic every year. Matthew knows what he is doing😊
Haha! It’s typically the people who don’t appear to have seriously gardened a day in their life. 😂
We second this! Matthew creates gorgeous garden beds. It’s so exciting watching this new garden come to life.
Daffodils are looking great and I'm excited for the roses. Thank you for a garden walk.
In the areas where I didn’t use cardboard last year when extending my flower bed, I have had to pull weeds and grass already! In the new flowerbed where I placed cardboard then mulch chips over it, I have just a few weeds come up, but nowhere near what I’d have if I hadn’t have used cardboard. I’m going to extend another area and will be using the contractors paper. Cardboard and paper work for me!👏👍
Incredible progress, excited to see all the new projects
Cardboard or contractors paper and wood chips absolutely does work! All of my beds (and I have a lot of gardens) have been created this way! So excited to see all of the progress coming this spring with the roses, pumpkin patch, and even your adorable porch swing!
I love that you’re keeping the swing set.
Hi! Love your videos. Great idea about having a swing for adults. Have a great day everyone!
They say you get a peach crop once every 7 years unless you plant them really strategically or have an ideal micro climate. I work at a local orchard. Last year we lost all but a few peaches but then orchards half an hour from us had peaches. It’s really hit or miss deal.
I love the idea of Collette climbing on your swing set. Swings are such a great thing for kids… I have fond memories of a tree swing in my childhood backyard.
Interesting! I had the same issues with my pears, cherries, and apple trees at the last home. The last frost and freezes are the worst.
Thank you for showing your trees! I love seeing the flowers but I also enjoy seeing the progress of your trees/shrubs. Love your swing set, glad you kept it! When I grew out of my swing set as a child, my mom put a porch swing on it and we enjoyed it for many years, brings back wonderful memories 💖
Love that you’re keeping the swing set! I turned the ends of mine into a trellis for scarlet runner beans because the flowers are orange and hummingbirds love them! I sit letting the hummingbirds fly right in my ‘space’. ❤
Love that you are keeping the swing set!
That sky ❤
Great job with everything. Your inspiration is so appreciated!
Wow - l love your house and grounds - what fantastic potential you have to further plant.
Wow! What a difference you've made in less than a year! It's coming along so well- and I can't believe how much you've accomplished already!!!
Thanks for posting, i love following your progress.
Happy gardening. ❤
I love your new peach tree. I had bought the same variety a couple of weeks ago! I will be putting mine in the ground though.
I'm trying to convince my 71 yr old husband that we need a swingset. A real one, heavy duty and tall, like yours. It's got to be good exercise, cranking those legs to get really high up! He thinks I'm nuts! I know for certain, no flowers that bees or Japanese beetles love, would be growing near my swings! 😂
Love seeing your new garden budding out for Spring!!
I have successfully used cardboard on top of St. Augtine grass here in Florida. I put a mixture of topsoil and compost on top of the cardboard. I'm on my second year and very pleased. I am working on a second area. Highly recommend.
That’s great to hear because St. Augustine is persistent!
I’d never considered crocuses before but the way you have yours is what I want to try planting this fall - if I remember.
When my grandkids were younger I would take them to the park, I love getting on the swings.
It all sounds exciting! Can’t wait to watch it all develop! Hey Matthew, I think Colette roses do have thorns. I know Laura on GA has them climbing her arches at her vegetable beds and I’ve watched her prune them a cpl of times over the years and she definitely talks about them having thorns… just an fyi friend. 😊♥️
I think I was thinking about Zephirine Drouhin instead. It’s nearly thornless.
Hi Y'ALLLLL!
I love the idea of a 6 foot privacy border of shrubs and evergreens around the pool on the outer side of fence! My back yard has 6 ft stockade and I’ve planted my mixed evergreen on the inside of my fence. Not on all sides. It’s been there since 2003. Soo tall, so mixed and varied, and I love it. I’m actually limbing up some things and creating little paths and secret seating areas inside it now. It’s pretty to sit between cedars, holly, and 20 foot tall bloom covered camellias in 3 different shades of pink, walking on soft mulch paths. Birds will come soo close if you’re very still. It’s a reprieve from the full sun around the pool.
I found Hellibours at Lowe’s yesterday! I grabbed 5 with white flowers to pop in the front yard where the house really blocks the sun because I heard they like shade. ❤
I love the swing set and you could plant climbing roses on the end as well as Clematis. You read my mind when you mentioned this! I’m 67 years old and would love to have a swing set in my yard/garden, but my yard isn’t big enough.
Can’t wait to see more videos🙌
Hey, Matthew. I’m so glad you’re keeping the swing. Each time I see it, I picture swings there. I have the gray polywood swing, and we love it. It stays out year round. A bucket of warm soapy water, a scrub brush, and the hose perks it up in a matter of minutes each spring, I got so tired of repainting outdoor furniture. We’ve replaced our rockers, porch table, benches and all. It is an investment and we did it over several years. Everything is looking great!
I have a Polywood chair I love, so thank you for your comment! I’d like to get a bench and swing together.
Oh sweet can’t wait to see how the swing turns out 🥰
We planted several magnolias trees out on our property two years ago and I was so looking forward to their blooms this year, they all budded up well. And now we’re getting all of these cold freezes this week. We tried to wrap some in freeze fabric, but the wind was so fierce. It was just damaging the trees so we left it off. Let mother nature have her way.😞
I have the Bonfire peach tree, too. Love mine, but the fruit are quite small and are wonderful as preserves. They are not that good if eaten raw. The flowers are gorgeous and the pollinators love them! The lovely plumb foliage is also quite nice.
Matthew, love everything you have done. I want to thank you for telling us about the farmers defense arm sleeves. I was diagnosed with heat rash and I bought a pair. I decided I’m not going to give up gardening in my Texas zone 9. So arm sleeves, and a sun hat at apart of my new gardening attire.
Thanks for an awesome video and sharing your gardening knowledge.😊
Oh Matthew it’s all so so beautiful!!!
The Colette roses will be stunning on the swing set!!! 😍
Matthew, your garden is looking beautiful, I can't wait to see it in its full glory !! My husband and I were in Ohio last week to dog sit for our son. The weather was crazy, from snow flurries to tornado warnings to the north and I thought Louisiana weather was wild !! Lol Love the swing set , I'm a kid at heart when it comes to swings !! Have a great week ❤️ !!
Totally works👍🏻
I decided last year to try your method of paper/cardboard and mulch method. ❤
I love that ur having swings❤️ how fun! Now I want one 🧐
I like the swing too, it seems really solid and roses and clematis would look gorgeous on it. Blessings 🙏🏻🕯️
Purple Crocus is the Provincial Flower of my Manitoba province! Love the idea for the swing set, keep your inner child going🙂. Sorry about the trolls 🧌🧌🧌. They’re everywhere, sure wish they’d go back under the bridges where they belong!! 🌷🇨🇦❄️
So pretty!
I adore that you like to swing, I do too! Our inner children are kindreds ;) I'm so excited to see how your cut-flower garden does, I am trying my hand at one for the first time as well.
You have a beautiful piece of property, and oh how I love your trees.
Love the shade garden, everything is looking great.💚💚💚🌷🌷
Beautiful
Hi Matthew! The daffodils and crocus are so pretty. I checked out the Bonfire Peach tree on Fast Growing Trees site and they said: unavailable because of agricultural restrictions in your state of Idaho. Another site didn't mention this, but said they are better for preserves because the fruit is small and "rubbery". I hope it does well for you, and I'm looking forward to your review on the taste, etc. I'm glad you're keeping the swing set, and like your plans for adding a porch type swing. The 6' shrub hedge behind the fence will be so pretty. Adding a hoop house will be nice. Thank you so much for sharing!
Loved your tour! Yes, we in Ohio are cold this week, but it will officially be spring in a couple of days! I have been dividing and moving hardy established perennials like daylilies, coneflowers, and Nippon daisies. They’ll be fine 😊
Hi Mathew,
Just remember to thin your peaches as they tend to rot if touching, also the branches can snap with the heaviness of fruit.(happened to me)
My dwarf peach and nectarines are in the soil and dont grow any bigger than 6 foot high and 5 -6 foot wide. If you do want to plant fruit trees in the ground, a protective spot near your brick house would be an awesome place and you can always wrap them with a protective cloth, if you do have a frost.
Lovely sky at your place today.😊Jo from New Zealand
Gypsum powder is great to amend clay soil with added compost too.
Love the idea of garden beds on the backside of your wrought iron fence. You said 6’ deep - maybe consider deeper? Like 8’ or 10’ deep? You have so much land and deep garden beds give you so much greater flexibility. Whatever you do will be great though.
About cardboard mulching. Boy, people are stridently against it where I live (northern Nevada, east of Tahoe.) Militant! What is this, a nationwide fad? Regardless, I have had good results doing it and I will keep sheet mulching with cardboard! It has been beneficial for my sandy desert soil. The plants love it and it keeps down puncturevine and tumbleweeds.
woah, impressive irrigation skills! 👏
Oh how funny. I almost commented on Instagram about growing climbing roses up the swing set 😆😆
Looking good! Keep up the amazing work!
You will love a regular porch swing there!!! I was just thinking the same thing. Your property is beautiful!
I’m loving the early springtime colour 🌷 you can actually get a woodland daffodil 🌼 I have the beautiful ‘Jack Snipe’ and he’s naturalised lovely 🥰 gorgeous peach tree I’m waiting on one myself and I cannot wait 💐
Oh thanks for the variety name!
That’s so funny…I’ve been wanting to ask about the swingset frame!
I hope you will bring us along as you put in the irrigation. I'm doing the same this year and would love your wisdom!
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You should definitely look at the Bidfta I told you about before to try to find a hoop house. I saw a Bootstrap deal a few weeks ago that was amazing.
Saw your IG post about the swing set - instantly jealous 🙂.
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Man, I applaud your ambition! Is there any reason that you haven’t mentioned trees or plants for the other side of your driveway to balance it off?
I don’t currently have a way to get water over there and there are numerous utilities that run from the road and enter that side of the house that impair the ability to dig over there without calling 811 regularly. Until the pine is removed and the driveway to the barn rerouted, I’m not planning anything on that side of the driveway.
So excited to see what you will be creating this season!💚💚💚
Thank you Matthew. Happy Growing ! 🪻💚🙃
I love that you're keeping the swings! I would totally keep them too.
💕💗💕 Enjoying watching your progress in your landscape. God bless.🌱🌱🌱
Matthew everything looks lovely. The porch swing sounds good but I don't think you will have much time to sit.
Happy with what you are doing with the swing set!!! I always look forward to your videos. I'm getting ready to try drip irrigation for the first time. I don't totally understand it but I'm tired of watering every day in the summer. I understand laying the main hose and around shrubs, etc., but what do you do when you have a group of plants planted close together? I ordered limelight prime because if you are planting them, I want them in my yard also.
I have several videos on drip irrigation on the channel you can search and likely find what you need, including some very detailed ones about specific parts. Groupings of plants can usually be addressed with emitter tubing that has pre-installed emitters every so many inches. Those are available in all sorts of spacing including 6 inches to I believe 24 inches.
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I got the same peach tree last week. I’m in upstate SC in Zone 8a. I have mine in a container and it’s sits on my deck, however tonight it will spend the night inside. Our temps are dipping to 28 degrees tonight. Your blooms are beautiful. Love your videos.
Have you considered Mock Orange bush? Wonderful aroma, beautiful late spring flowers. (MI 5b Zone)
I have a Proven Winners variety out front called Illuminati Arch.
I said "no more roses this year", after accumulating over 20, but here i am using your discount code as an excuse to buy 6 more 🤣. Love everything youre doing in the garden. In time it will be so different and utterly magical!
I approve. 😁
Mr. Matthew, are you thinking of Zepherine Drouhin? Collette is the 2nd most thorny rose I grow. Gertrude Jekyll might have her beat, but not by much. Zepherine also takes a fair bit of shade.
It always scares me a bit this time of year because my roses are mostly leafed out already and yet I know we have freezing temps still, in fact 27 F this morning. I'm in the Bluegrass area of Kentucky.
The roses will be fine. Many of them are even evergreen in some locations.
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How does your crimson sentry maple look? Just curious as mine is brand new as well and it hasn’t started waking up yet.
No leaves yet, but it does have buds. It’s in the thumbnail photo of the video behind the daffodils. :)
Hi Matthew im sorry to be the bearer of bad news but unfortunately the bonfire patio peach is strictly ornamental. I have 1 in nw ohio and its lovely and grows tons of peaches but they are small hard and mostly pit. I just hate to see your southern heart broken thinking you will get to have fresh peaches and then being unable to eat them.
Good news is I planted mine in the landscape and it's done beautifully for 3 years now.
Just out of curiosity - how many acres are your grounds?
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@@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden Amazing - I would love to have that amount.
I’ve also heard that as long as you don’t incorporate fresh wood chips into the soil it’s perfectly fine. Just use it as a mulch and it’s perfect. 🪻💚🙃
LOL... those 'armchair trolls'. Clearly, they have nothing better to do with their time than to go around and criticize the accomplishments of others.
Just remember how fortunate you are not to have to live with such a person.
😊😊