He Built This Garden from SCRATCH in a Year for ~$1000 🤯 | Touring My Assistant's Garden

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    Shoot Jacques a subscribe on CZcams: / @jacquesinthegarden Today I bring you the FIRST tour I've done since the world shut down for a year or so! I've recently hired Jacques to help out with the Epic Garden, homestead, and Epic Gardening in general, and I figured what better tour to feature than the garden that he built in about 14 months, starting at the beginning of 2020.
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    0:00 - Intro
    1:11 - Front Yard
    3:16 - Front of Backyard Garden
    3:38 - How He Built the Garden
    6:17 - Patio Garden Tour
    10:33 - Front Garden Tour
    17:09 - Garlic Patch
    18:30 - Herb Planting Idea
    19:40 - Seed Starting Station
    21:38 - Back Garden Tour Pt. 1
    25:45 - Back Garden Tour Pt. 2
    31:05 - GreenStalk Garden
    31:58 - Wild Zone
    33:14 - Compost Bin
    33:57 - Wheat Patch
    34:30 - How to Start a Big Garden Fast
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  • @EmergencySurvivalTips
    @EmergencySurvivalTips Před 3 lety +2364

    "Girlfriend bought 7 tomatoes - now I own a farm" - realest story ever lol

  • @zoeemiko8149
    @zoeemiko8149 Před 3 lety +691

    My grandpa who always had the most amazing garden ever used to fill old coffee cups with soy sauce & oil then cover with plastic wrap & a rubber band. He cut small slits into the plastic wrap and buried them in his garden just up to the cups rim to treat for earwigs. He was one of those old school gardeners who never used pesticides long before organic gardening was a thing. He also used to keep little ponds made from old kitchen mixing bowls throughout the garden to attract toads who feast on earwigs. I remember going with him when I was little to catch toads at the lake to bring back home & release in the garden. He made it all seem so easy although now that I have my own good sized garden I know it's absolutely not! I've recently been making the switch to self watering grow bags which has been a fun addition.

    • @tcanderson1313
      @tcanderson1313 Před 3 lety +9

      Cool!

    • @Lex-pp7lt
      @Lex-pp7lt Před 3 lety +96

      I'm going to need you to make videos of his old school style of gardening 🥺 please

    • @MeowVicious
      @MeowVicious Před 3 lety +34

      @@Lex-pp7lt I second that.. would love to know more of the old ways.

    • @junesays4123
      @junesays4123 Před 3 lety +16

      I third that

    • @gabrielledennis4103
      @gabrielledennis4103 Před 3 lety +11

      Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

  • @jturtledov
    @jturtledov Před 3 lety +59

    “Seed addiction doesn’t count.” Had me rolling. Darn right it doesn’t.

  • @barbiedesoto7054
    @barbiedesoto7054 Před rokem +51

    I love seeing these casual, pretty, almost messy gardens because it’s really encouraging that you don’t have to have it be all perfect looking. Just keep the plants and pollinators happy, and it’s actually so pretty and enjoyable. Love it!

  • @epicgardening
    @epicgardening  Před 3 lety +333

    I love how I _thought_ I was actually hiding at the beginning 😂😂😂😂

    • @katiehowell1712
      @katiehowell1712 Před 3 lety +21

      Makes me laugh every time you pop up at the beginning of your videos!

    • @sunnyday_lemonbars
      @sunnyday_lemonbars Před 3 lety +9

      @@katiehowell1712 haha right! Like where's Kevin gonna pop up next?

    • @katiehowell1712
      @katiehowell1712 Před 3 lety +16

      @@sunnyday_lemonbars Yep! And then he just starts talking all serious. Lol

    • @Genesis--me8ud
      @Genesis--me8ud Před 3 lety +4

      Looks at the land must be the land or is it the mulch ? Nice use of space

    • @lorirode-off763
      @lorirode-off763 Před 3 lety +1

      Made me laugh out loud as I watch your video by myself. 🤣😂

  • @lisasagmiller156
    @lisasagmiller156 Před 2 lety +35

    "I didn't have the heart to take it out"--that is definitely my gardening philosophy. If it finds itself growing somewhere, who am I to say it can't?

    • @elisabetk2595
      @elisabetk2595 Před rokem +2

      This is why half my garden is poppies and I'm a month late getting my squash in.

    • @saal0
      @saal0 Před rokem

      @@elisabetk2595 the good kind? 🙃

  • @teefawnzee
    @teefawnzee Před 3 lety +290

    Earwig control:
    - shallow dish or small cup (like the size of the plastic ones hotels give you on your room)
    - bury as much of the dish or cup under soil without burying the lip of the dish/cup
    - pour equal parts oil and soy sauce in your container (I didn't fill mine all the way.. Maybe halfway.. And I used olive oil)
    - the trap will lure earwigs. They'll fall in and will be unable to escape.
    -discard after. It's worked for me!! They chewed up all my Swiss chard, flowerbed, cabbage leaves, cauliflower...terrible pests 😭

    • @Mrbfgray
      @Mrbfgray Před 3 lety +16

      Nice idea. I only suffer them on my artichoke 'flowers', can ruin the harvest, but I've had a lot of ladybugs in recent yrs which seems to control them via consuming their eggs.

    • @Moondoggy1941
      @Moondoggy1941 Před 3 lety +5

      Thanks for the tip.

    • @TheSpottedBoot
      @TheSpottedBoot Před 3 lety +6

      Sunflowers as companion plants. I noticed the sunflower planted with the corn and elsewhere near vegetable plants. I recently read that they are alleopathic (sp) and actually hinder nearby plants through a chemical they put off. Do you have any ideas or experience with them being a hindrance in the garden?

    • @blossomvalleylife5503
      @blossomvalleylife5503 Před 3 lety +12

      This is the technique we use too. We live in the San Diego area and the dishes are completely full in the morning! We moved our artichokes to a dryer area that doesn't have as many earwigs and we have 20 artichokes per plant this year.

    • @micheleolson9914
      @micheleolson9914 Před 3 lety +6

      @@TheSpottedBoot Allelopathy, and I learned today that I need to dig out the ferns around my Grandmother's bleeding hearts. 💕

  • @AngelCosta
    @AngelCosta Před 3 lety +106

    As someone from Brazil (who doesn't speak English natively), it would be nice to see the name of the plants on the screen as you talk about them. I didn't understand the name of that beautiful purple flower covered in bees.

    • @epicgardening
      @epicgardening  Před 3 lety +31

      Turn on captions!

    • @nancyhoang
      @nancyhoang Před 3 lety +17

      Had to Google & replay 😅 but the purple plant is Pride of Madeira (Echium candicans or Echium fastuosum)! +1 too on the plant IDs suggestion

    • @AngelCosta
      @AngelCosta Před 3 lety +46

      @@epicgardening oh damn, lol. I completely forgot about those. But I stand by the suggestion I made earlier, Kevin.
      If you put the cientific name it makes easier for non Americans find the local name of the same plant. For instance, pride of Madeira is Massaroco in Brazil.

    • @TheRealHonestInquiry
      @TheRealHonestInquiry Před 3 lety +24

      @@AngelCosta The other thing about common names is, often the same common names are used for entirely different species, leading to much confusion... so the scientific name is the only name that you can be sure of what plant it is

    • @AngelCosta
      @AngelCosta Před 3 lety +13

      @@TheRealHonestInquiry Very good point. I was trying to find out the name of a pest in English and had to use the scientific name cause there were too many bugs with the same common name.

  • @MMuraseofSandvich
    @MMuraseofSandvich Před 3 lety +271

    Garden Hermit sounds like a fantastic CZcams channel name. I'm learning so much from you guys.

  • @simp3204
    @simp3204 Před 3 lety +198

    I'll never understand people giving thumbs down on wholesome videos like this, much love from your I.E. gardening peeps

    • @Jack-jl2vf
      @Jack-jl2vf Před 3 lety +15

      Yep, they thumbs down as tho they have something better to offer.

    • @rachelpuff8979
      @rachelpuff8979 Před 3 lety +15

      Totally agree! He is so down to earth. I’m so glad I found his channel last month. I am slowly catching up on all his videos. Thanks to his tips, my garlic is doing great

    • @SKOLAH
      @SKOLAH Před 3 lety +10

      Envy, maybe?

    • @simp3204
      @simp3204 Před 3 lety +5

      @@SKOLAH It has to be

    • @susanschneider-baker49
      @susanschneider-baker49 Před 3 lety +7

      Language has gotten weird in the last year. Maybe, they are saying that they are "down" with his methods 🤷‍♀️

  • @rickershomesteadahobbyfarm3291

    When I 1st started homesteading I could only afford to buy 1 chicken a week. I would go to the flea market and buy whatever looked cool. I built my 1st chicken pin out of wooden pallets and chicken wire. It looked like crap but it was the beginning of my homestead. I built that homestead up for around 7 or 8 years until I moved. I started over in 2019. It’s starting to become predictive again. Just keep working at it and do what you can afford. It will continue growing.

  • @MarielasSister
    @MarielasSister Před 3 lety +36

    I like how Kevin can't stop himself from touching the produce, I'm the same way 😁

  • @ivacheung792
    @ivacheung792 Před 3 lety +181

    What a gorgeous garden! (And not having the heart to pull out volunteers is *so* relatable…)

    • @thatsalt1560
      @thatsalt1560 Před 2 lety +2

      I have three terrible looking tomato plants crawling across the carrots and root parsley. I feel the tomatoes went through the trouble of sowing themselves there. Can't just pull them out and I do pick tomatoes from them eventhough the plants aren't in as good shape as those I planted myself. I do, however, pull out bonus potato plants as they attract and feed potato bugs.

    • @eklectiktoni
      @eklectiktoni Před 2 lety +1

      Too relatable.

  • @rai55
    @rai55 Před 3 lety +192

    😯🌱🤩 Jacques, that is a bad-ass 3 part garden!! So damn impressive for only 14-months, WOW! Amazing tour and Kevin, you’re a great garden interviewer 🌱💫

  • @cloverdoll1228
    @cloverdoll1228 Před 3 lety +8

    28:00
    I use a teepee in my garden as well. I'm up in zone 5 (Indiana). I plug in lettuces under the teepee in the spring and have pole beans grown up the teepee. The lettuce survives nearly all summer without bolting.

  • @grandpaslakehouse-homestea6113

    We are completely new to gardening. We planted our first seeds February 13th 2021. It is inspiring to see what Jacque has created in such a short time.

    • @juliamartin9047
      @juliamartin9047 Před 3 lety +6

      Yes this is wonderful and inspiring for sure. 😍😍😍😍😍

    • @juliamartin9047
      @juliamartin9047 Před 3 lety +6

      Love a lush garden 🪴

    • @NashvilleMonkey1000
      @NashvilleMonkey1000 Před 3 lety +6

      We started last spring and set up about forty square feet every week or two throughout the growing season, and the last areas planted came up strongly in the spring, so my advice for a new garden is to make a little progress every week, nothing over exerting, dig a narrow trench the first day, and fill it with organic matter on the second day, and plant out the new space as soon as the dirt is in place, and in a week or two start again in the next spot, by the end of summer everything will be in place, and don't worry about it being too late in the season, every prepared space is fair game next spring.

    • @grandpaslakehouse-homestea6113
      @grandpaslakehouse-homestea6113 Před 3 lety +4

      @@NashvilleMonkey1000 Thank you for the great advice. It’s easy to want a full garden on day one but we are enjoying building our small space. Unfortunately our ground is far more rock than soil so we have everything in planters and fabric pots. Hopefully one day we can get better land to grow on.

  • @pay1370
    @pay1370 Před 3 lety +337

    A fellow pandemic gardener i see! I went to get some herbs, "accidentally" left with peppers and tomatos. Now i'm planning to slowly turn my garden into a permaculture, since i already had a bunch of neglected fruit trees and berries. Though this summer will be spent battling the raspberry i stupidly planted years ago 🙃.

    • @epicgardening
      @epicgardening  Před 3 lety +21

      Incredible!

    • @lemonyskunkketts7781
      @lemonyskunkketts7781 Před 3 lety +33

      That's a good problem to have, so much raspberry pie!

    • @jonny1963
      @jonny1963 Před 3 lety +16

      @@lemonyskunkketts7781 Or maybe, even better, a lot of raspberry pi

    • @mrmrlee
      @mrmrlee Před 3 lety +14

      Wild raspberries are more invasive than domesticated ones, and thorny to boot!

    • @micheleolson9914
      @micheleolson9914 Před 3 lety +22

      Birds "planted" my raspberry patch. 😁

  • @randomverse1110
    @randomverse1110 Před 3 lety +87

    "To grow food that tastes great" I just had my first harvest of cucumbers and yep it's way more delicious than store bought. Thank you sir for inspiring me to grow my own food

    • @skippythealien9627
      @skippythealien9627 Před 3 lety +6

      fresh cucumbers from the garden are amazing. Definitely one of my "must-garden" plants alongside tomatoes and herbs

    • @amieeandree1119
      @amieeandree1119 Před 3 lety +6

      First time I gardened I put cucumbers every 6 inches and didn't know how many cucumbers came off a plant 😂 coulda been a cucumber warehouse you shoulda seen the cucumber jungle coming across the lawn taking over it was in sane. Than we planted watermelon and same thing planted so many it was a snake den of watermelons and snakes 😂

  • @Ebonyraeful
    @Ebonyraeful Před 3 lety +155

    This was really cool to see. I loved that Jacques's garden has areas for pollinators, seed saving, experiments, and still lots of food. These are all things I want to do in my eventual garden. So cool to see. Thanks for sharing it with us.

    • @dhesyca4471
      @dhesyca4471 Před rokem +2

      Same, I would love to do this eventually! I'm going to study this winter and plan, and start with an herb potted plants. Then if I stick with it, I'll start growing food crops. :) but this whole concept is beautiful

  • @roxannevilla3174
    @roxannevilla3174 Před 3 lety +61

    Love this. Also a Pandemic Gardener. Since starting last April, I can see my growth. I can also see how I sort of dove in headfirst into the gardening world. I went from killing 3 trees and all plants to now a 18x23 ft area FULL and overflowing. The garden has not only given me food, but hope and delight. I would love to see more Covid Gardeners Like Garden Hermit!!!!

  • @jturtle5318
    @jturtle5318 Před 3 lety +11

    My late father was always famous for his sunflowers, and thanks to his casual approach to fall cleanup he had volunteers of all kinds, and ended up making his own sunflower, tall, multibranched with large heads.

  • @mybelovedchaos
    @mybelovedchaos Před 3 lety +76

    I love Jacque cameos! Its pretty neat to see his own garden.

    • @GardenIdeas01
      @GardenIdeas01 Před 3 lety +2

      Yes sure Jacque's garden very beautiful , happy gardening

  • @OneNvrKnoz
    @OneNvrKnoz Před 3 lety +11

    26:13 a great follow up video would be to go to a grocery store and identify all the produce you could successfully plant in your garden

  • @SuperStruct
    @SuperStruct Před 3 lety +39

    We've got James Prigioni jumping out from behind trees, Kevin jumping up behind raised beds... I'm digging gardener's video styles and energy!

    • @let_uslunch8884
      @let_uslunch8884 Před 3 lety +1

      I have been wondering what happened to him. I haven't seen a new video in awhile.

    • @epicgardening
      @epicgardening  Před 3 lety +6

      We like to keep it interesting

    • @eSheeep
      @eSheeep Před 3 lety +4

      @@let_uslunch8884 He uploaded two videos in the last week.
      James never uploaded anything in his winters the past three years. He does this without announcement, which kind of sucks because people start to get worried.

    • @let_uslunch8884
      @let_uslunch8884 Před 3 lety +3

      @@eSheeep hey thanks, I knew he took off for winter, he's out of NJ. I wasn't aware he had been posting.

    • @angiestimson3886
      @angiestimson3886 Před 3 lety +5

      Don’t forget Tuck digging up a carrot to eat! And, Bubble Beet’s black cat scurrying around the yard. Those animals steal the show! 😂🥕

  • @OscarGonzoJim
    @OscarGonzoJim Před 3 lety +40

    damn i need to step up my garden game

  • @nightshades4656
    @nightshades4656 Před 3 lety +77

    Man this is sweet. Jacques, you're the coolest! Saying hello from zone 3 in Canada

    • @funonvancouverisland
      @funonvancouverisland Před 3 lety +4

      😃

    • @juliamartin9047
      @juliamartin9047 Před 3 lety +7

      I am in Canada 🇨🇦 too. Gardening is great. 😍😍😍 lovely ☺️ hobby for this lockdown junk.

    • @lyndaklassen284
      @lyndaklassen284 Před 3 lety +5

      Zone 3 here in Canada too - Edmonton, Alberta

    • @nsauve7000
      @nsauve7000 Před 3 lety +1

      Zone 3 in Canada here too. Sudbury, Ontario.

    • @mosideas520
      @mosideas520 Před 3 lety

      Ahhh...Zone 3 in Prince George, British Columbia too. Love your channel, and super enjoyed this tour...especially the remarks from Mr.Rooster throughout ;)

  • @Alizardlovesyou
    @Alizardlovesyou Před 3 lety +56

    Kevin: “Yea, let’s tAke a look at those roots!”
    *zooms in*
    Me: *shivers with joy*

    • @epicgardening
      @epicgardening  Před 3 lety +6

      LOL

    • @bobjob3632
      @bobjob3632 Před 3 lety

      Seriously ???!!!! Guuuurl??😑 you need Jesus and some sex in your life. There is no way watching ROOTS gave you shivers. And if it did, that s soooo sad.

    • @lorirode-off763
      @lorirode-off763 Před 3 lety +6

      I was excited to see the roots too!🥰🤷‍♀️

  • @WickedAwesomeGardening
    @WickedAwesomeGardening Před 3 lety +11

    Everything you see on my channel was done from scratch this year too! Took me more like $1500 because wood is EXPENSIVE right now but next year will cost me next to nothing! :D And I will have tons of for this year!

  • @wandafigueroa6281
    @wandafigueroa6281 Před 3 lety +14

    Oh my gosh!!! I’m not the only one with a seed addition 😁

  • @Sarah-iz2nt
    @Sarah-iz2nt Před 2 lety +24

    Brussels Sprouts became an immediate favorite when I grew them at home! Store bought ones always tasted like straight chemicals, but homegrown…amazing!

  • @valerieburkett2903
    @valerieburkett2903 Před rokem +3

    Lol the seed addiction “doesn’t count” 😂. Oh man I can relate to this. I want ALL THE SEEDS!

  • @TooLittleInfo
    @TooLittleInfo Před 2 lety +1

    That seed addiction comment is so relatable, I just received two orders of seeds two days ago that I haven't started yet and just put in another order for more 😫

  • @DingDom
    @DingDom Před 3 lety +34

    love how the camerafocus is set to the plants instead of kevin in the intro :D

  • @juniekalu9340
    @juniekalu9340 Před 3 lety +128

    I love this episode. I’m very slowly (deliberate) expanding my garden. My husband loves his lawn so I’m sneaking plants here and there. It will happen in due time. I love the concept of poly culture. I have plants that are unusual - from trades/swaps or just gifts from loving people. It brings an unconventional look that I find very natural

    • @michaelripperger5674
      @michaelripperger5674 Před 3 lety +20

      I hear the silent evil laugh 😂

    • @mosideas520
      @mosideas520 Před 3 lety +14

      I can so relate! My husband also loves his lawn. I slowly...ever so slowly... widen my garden beds when "weeding" the perimeters to sneak in more plants.

    • @zairabandy8695
      @zairabandy8695 Před 2 lety +2

      @@mosideas520 why do the like their lawns?? is just grass. why not a garden that can feed the fam?

    • @prettypothos4me290
      @prettypothos4me290 Před 2 lety +3

      @@zairabandy8695 Mine likes to mow, and hates to weed.

    • @sanjugunasekara2651
      @sanjugunasekara2651 Před 2 lety

      This was lovely to read, good luck😂👍

  • @HomeEF
    @HomeEF Před 2 lety +11

    I just love his garden story , he has done so awesome and he looks so proud of it and he should !!! 😍

  • @mistylou971
    @mistylou971 Před 3 lety +30

    I too started mine in covid and seed prepped and have a nice lil lush salsa garden alongside with zucchini, squash and lettuces! I love this !

    • @amieeandree1119
      @amieeandree1119 Před 3 lety +2

      My garden started as a salad garden and progressed into a salsa garden now its like a grocery store ❤

  • @just1voice994
    @just1voice994 Před 3 lety +18

    I love that you guys are in San Diego like myself. Maybe someday you all can come to my property and help me out with your wisdom. It would be a cool clip.

  • @agnespm4181
    @agnespm4181 Před 3 lety +30

    A lovely tour. thank you to both of you. Jacques has a lovely gentle approach. hope for return visits and keeping up with his progress too. best wishes from Ireland

  • @legendaryurbangardening1930

    Oh man! The part where you guys said that the seed purchases are not apart of the garden budget is hilarious! Great video style

  • @kmw4359
    @kmw4359 Před 3 lety +10

    For anyone looking for plants to encourage bees: Bottlebrush bushes (Callistemon; zones 8-11) are also bee and hummingbird magnets.

    • @shinsanhughes629
      @shinsanhughes629 Před 3 lety +3

      Absolutely love Callistemon - native to Australia - and it's well named.
      The name comes from 2 Greek words: 'callis' meaning beauty and 'stemon' referring to the stamen of the plant.
      (According to my daughters I'm a mine of basically useless information, lol.)

    • @helenlecornu1651
      @helenlecornu1651 Před 2 lety

      @@shinsanhughes629 We have these lining our street where I live and they can be beautiful, but I prefer the look (not the mess) of Jacarandas that line the footpath around the corner from my street.

  • @lonismith3002
    @lonismith3002 Před 3 lety +11

    PS: As a Cali girl living in Nevada, I can appreciate and miss my SoCal accents! ❤️❤️❤️ it! Lol

  • @dorkeboye
    @dorkeboye Před 3 lety +9

    The cutest intro ever. We all saw the cute top of your head and then u poke out to talk and keep a straight face. Cutie.

  • @cltinturkey
    @cltinturkey Před 3 lety +17

    LOVE this! Those aren't cippolini, they're cippolone! Giants. I love to see gardens done on a budget and built with love and great creativity. Jacques is also doing the most important thing, which is growing what you love. I'm surprised you don't get a ton of pest pressure here, but I guess this is nature at her best, policing herself with the good guy bugs.

  • @conniemcgehee2851
    @conniemcgehee2851 Před 3 lety +14

    love seeing people’s gardens.

  • @epicgardening
    @epicgardening  Před 3 lety +102

    Keep up with what Jacques aka Garden Hermit is up to at his garden, and drop ANY QUESTIONS you have for him down below this comment: instagram.com/jacquesinthegarden/

    • @lovinglife3954
      @lovinglife3954 Před 3 lety +1

      Amazing progress in a little over a year!

    • @borracho-joe7255
      @borracho-joe7255 Před 3 lety +2

      Dude…Jacque’s a frugal-garden-pimp!

    • @bodayshuz
      @bodayshuz Před 3 lety

      is he only on instagram?

    • @ttsang11
      @ttsang11 Před 3 lety +1

      Amazing garden! Where did you get your straw mulch?

    • @shrimpkisser183
      @shrimpkisser183 Před 3 lety

      What do you do with you extra seedling cus i have alot 😂

  • @SpicyMoustache
    @SpicyMoustache Před 3 lety +33

    Looking cool, well done Jacques 👊🏼

  • @mikaylastrong7622
    @mikaylastrong7622 Před 3 lety +8

    Absolutely loved seeing all the over-wintered plants! This last winter was the first time I tried it, because I'm in Texas, and have mild winters...until now! Neg 7 degree for 2 days, and almost 2ft of snow. Needless to say, I'll have to try again, this time in large pots I can move to the barn if we have another freak winter.
    Thank you, btw, for all the info you offer, and thanks to Jacques for sharing his garden.

  • @love_in_an_echo_chamber
    @love_in_an_echo_chamber Před 3 lety +9

    Earwigs!! So that’s what’s been eating all my plant leaves! I could not figure it out; I’ve been looking for snails and haven’t seen any...but I’ve seen countless earwigs. I had no idea...like Jacques, I’m a pandemic gardener and I have a lot to learn. Thank you for all the information on your channel. 💚💚🌱🌱

  • @emmyashbaugh
    @emmyashbaugh Před 3 lety +20

    Garden goals!!! I literally pulled out my garden notebook to write down several of his plants that I now must also have 😂💗✌ the tip for putting a pipe in the ground to hold the gate post was A++ thank you!! Would love an update later in the season!

  • @nickoyler8639
    @nickoyler8639 Před 3 lety +44

    This is so inspiring! I was just blessed to get permission from my landlord to have a 16' by 32' area for my new garden (I currently only have three 4' by 4' beds). This is such good inspiration for what to do, I'll definitely be following!

    • @epicgardening
      @epicgardening  Před 3 lety +3

      Great Nick!

    • @lorirode-off763
      @lorirode-off763 Před 3 lety +1

      Congratulations!👏👏👏👏

    • @katespencer4038
      @katespencer4038 Před 2 lety +1

      Congratulations u must have a nice landlord I am just trying to have a few pots

    • @nickoyler8639
      @nickoyler8639 Před 2 lety +3

      @@katespencer4038 My lord is very generous (considering that we own privately from a family member helps out a lot!).
      Container gardening is what I did before doing in ground, and it works great. I even tried potatoes and they work wonderfully in buckets!

  • @Michelle215615
    @Michelle215615 Před 3 lety +11

    I'm north of you guys and my major pests are earwigs and aphids/white Flys. I have tried so many things and it's like the earwigs come at me with reinforcements. Love the Garden BTW!

  • @vlong7112
    @vlong7112 Před 3 lety +4

    "Can't keep up with booping it" 🤣
    So good to hear more from Jacques!

  • @ltoe199
    @ltoe199 Před 3 lety +14

    legit stood up out my seat when I seen the a whole other garden

    • @nla5307
      @nla5307 Před 3 lety +2

      I didnt even KNOW there was ANOTHER garden. I was so impressed and satisfied with the front yard that I forgot about the back.

  • @lukesopher5368
    @lukesopher5368 Před 3 lety +29

    I love how everyone has their own ways of getting their patch done in how they see fit like this. It gives me that much more confidence in myself. Bc I really need an assistant lol. I'm just glad I got turned on to some major compost making to amend this Carolina red clay in the past year. Can't wait to see more from you guys this season 💚

  • @tizzylynn
    @tizzylynn Před 3 lety +8

    I 💕 that wild corner of his garden.

  • @Alizardlovesyou
    @Alizardlovesyou Před 3 lety +6

    The pop-up intro made me happy ♥️

  • @rebeccabeard2964
    @rebeccabeard2964 Před 3 lety +3

    "Potato Daddy" 😂 Ha! I love it. You guys come up with some great nicknames. 👍

  • @e.walloch590
    @e.walloch590 Před 2 lety +5

    I love Jacques' approach to gardening! It's so "organic" in its process and philosophy. It's innovative and purposeful.

  • @athousandlives7231
    @athousandlives7231 Před 3 lety +8

    It‘s kind of interesting to see what kind of pests cause problems in different parts of the world. We have earwigs too here but they are so few and definitely never caused that type of damage.
    Instead here what I thought would eat my salad: snails
    What actually ate my salad: sparrows

  • @TheCorporalCreampuff
    @TheCorporalCreampuff Před 3 lety +4

    Strawberries and asparagus grow amazingly together. Also, basil and tomatoes next to one another also work wonderful.
    Your canes look like blackberries.
    We use lemon and creeping thyme as ground cover around our flower gardens, keeps the weeds out phenomenally, and just got a lawn chamomile which smells like green apples its so beautiful

  • @SolidGoldShows
    @SolidGoldShows Před 3 lety +10

    Great job in 14 months. Imagine how it will look like in a few more years.

  • @danieldow3094
    @danieldow3094 Před 3 lety +5

    That columnar basil is everything

  • @nahlymaraon4416
    @nahlymaraon4416 Před 3 lety +3

    Love how people take into gardening just like that. It looked effortless, but it’s hard work. It is easy if you love doing it. We’re renting our place but I love to grow things. This year I got a table grape variety growing in a big pot. It’s my first time, building a little trellis, pruning and training its vines. Now it has produced 12 bunches of fruits…can’t wait to taste them in a few months. I enjoyed watching the tour of his garden ❤️

  • @mohamed33129
    @mohamed33129 Před 2 lety +4

    I wish I had the space to do it. But I live in a small apartment and I have 5 plants And I watched Kevin as he had a small space and then moved to a larger place and started his farm in a larger place. This is what gives me hope that one day I will have my farm

  • @vee5032
    @vee5032 Před 3 lety +8

    Jacques it was pretty cool to see your garden, like the idea of you leaving your volunteers grow 🌻🌻 and wow the tomatoes growing for so long yay! than you !!

  • @caniipeopleperson2866
    @caniipeopleperson2866 Před 3 lety +18

    Okay but can we all appreciate that title cuts off perfectly 🤣🤣

  • @JeLLoH1000
    @JeLLoH1000 Před 3 lety +1

    😂😂😂 Kevin these hiding intros. IM LIVING FOR THEM HAHAH

  • @IvanDankinov
    @IvanDankinov Před 3 lety +6

    Kiwi plants actually need to be couple (male female) to give fruit. And with where you live, how much sun you have, you can make a sort of Pergola, so the vines attach to it, to create shade spot for you to drink beer in the hot days.

  • @jackiek4159
    @jackiek4159 Před 2 lety +8

    His garden is absolutely stunning! I'm soo inspired to grow my own food and start my own garden! 🙌🏻🌿

  • @pandorafox3944
    @pandorafox3944 Před 3 lety +7

    Those leeks are insane! 😍😍😍

  • @marksmall7790
    @marksmall7790 Před 3 lety +6

    14 month tomato plant! Mind blown, that’s amazing.

  • @carried9130
    @carried9130 Před 3 lety +9

    Awesome walk through. Very inspiring to see what can be done in a short amount of time.
    Kevin, we just found your channel recently, and have learned a lot from you already. Thank you for your work and sharing your knowledge.

  • @Wolf-E-Romeo
    @Wolf-E-Romeo Před 3 lety +9

    Awesome job! :) i honestly can't wait till my garden takes off this year. We just got our seeds+ seedling in. I put in my potatoes last month and they just started to sprout up, with in a week they have grown about 8 inches.
    Im wanting to do a "before and after" video of my garden. Its been a lot of work, but totally worth it in the end. :) food is so much better when its home grown.

  • @FunAtDisney
    @FunAtDisney Před 3 lety +3

    Great garden! Last year my raised bed looked the same way, sort of unruly, full of zinnias and nasturtiums in between the veggie, yet everything grew so well. The bad part was that it really became a hiding place for rats and mice at night. So this year I am keeping it tidy. I’ve done the same with grocery store Pearl onions in the past, recently though I just use the bottom of green onions that you cut off and still have the roots on it. Those grow fast and huge!

  • @recless8667
    @recless8667 Před 3 lety

    We seem to have won the permaculture composting game in our garden. We took a bunch of 5gal buckets and screw-top lids and drilled a mesh of 1/2" holes into the sides and some 1/4" holes into the lid for aeration, then buried them up to the lids and threw in both composting earthworms and nightcrawlers. Now when we have kitchen scraps to compost, we just unscrew the lid and throw it directly into the ground for the worms (and bugs) to eat. They're slow to break down and can fill up fast, but they take up the space of a single plant and you can have dozens of them. The worms transport the nutrients in the area immediately around the compost bin, and the mycorrhiza do the rest. You have to clean them out every so often and collect all the excess worm castings, but it's like once a year for us.
    Plus since it's going through like 4 types of digestion we throw in our dog poop; no risk of getting the poop on the produce. Our "browns" are just shredded paper (we chip/chop and drop all of our woody stuff into the mulch layer, we do wood chips instead of straw).

  • @shouterthedragon1801
    @shouterthedragon1801 Před 2 lety +4

    I started my garden about 2 months into quarentiene, i had never gardened before but now i got a mini garden in my roof (i dont have a yard) and it all started from one cotton seed.

  • @staceymoniz
    @staceymoniz Před 3 lety +6

    I love this video, Kevin!! Great to know Jacques a little bit and see other styles of gardening. Double the inspiration!! Also agree that seeds never count in the garden budget, I mean the cost is so minimal!! I seem to have quite the addiction myself!!

  • @hopkinke
    @hopkinke Před 2 lety +3

    OK this is one of the most inspiring things I've seen in a MINUTE. What I love about it is the flow and form, I appreciate curves and arcs and circles in bed shape and the functionality of a row for things like trellising and florida weaving. It feels like this garden has a mix of both, possibly due in part to the herb borders? I would love to see an overhead drone shot or a simple sketch giving an idea of basic layout and bed shape. new to channel so will peruse but if something like that exists pon the webs could you point me towards? thank you so much for sharing!

  • @crt9082
    @crt9082 Před 3 lety +2

    Wow i loved this. I just wanna sit down and drink some tea in that garden. Wow

  • @thependulum579
    @thependulum579 Před 3 lety +2

    I also started a pandemic garden from scratch. Same budget, same growth style, tiki torch night time hangout, and here's the twist... under poisonous black walnut juglone environment... beautiful veggie garden Growing non GMO varieties that has really inspired everyone around me that they can make ANYTHING happen if they think creatively, commit, and set their mind to it

  • @aussieanimals2444
    @aussieanimals2444 Před 3 lety +4

    We used to have a bunch of citrus trees and we thought that the lime tree was dead but it was actually still alive. And we were neglecging it but now we know it is still alive we are going to take care of it, the same thing happened to our lemon tree

  • @becw5382
    @becw5382 Před 2 lety +3

    Hey guys I live in Australia I did my own little lockdown garden too last year. I don’t usually watch gardening videos over 4-8mins long (depending on the topic) but this was really great. Loved walking through all the different veggies and herbs your friend is growing and what’s even better is you let him do the talking. Loved to see your passion Jacques. I’m subscribing hoping to see more walk throughs of peoples gardens and your tips, thanks guys!

  • @jeanfitzsimmons7442
    @jeanfitzsimmons7442 Před 2 lety

    I have a rental with a nice front porch facing south. I also have a tolerant landlord. Obviously, porch gardening on an open wood porch requires keeping pots on raised supports, from treated 2x4’s to wheeled supports, to allow the wood to shed water, preventing rot. I winter tomatoes, peppers, kale, herbs, since the apartment also has a huge south facing window overlooking the porch. While i’m sweeping or shoveling snow off my porch, my wintered plants happily overlook the winter scene of their summer home. In summer, beetles, flies moths and a variety of plant loving insects mob my garden. I discourage them by filling a quart spray bottle with water, one or two drops of dish detergent, and spray the leaves under and over to encourage the insects to find more tasty leaves elsewhere. I started doing this with my rose garden, before i downsized into an apartment. It worked for the roses, so i tried it with the porch garden. It works nicely. It kills no bugs, nor does it harm me.
    The squirrels need discouragement, as well, so i use broken wooden dowels pressed into the pot soil, pointy end up, about 1.5” apart in all my pots. Watch your fingers! The squirrels are not happy, but they don’t bury walnuts in my pots any more!

  • @Pixics
    @Pixics Před 3 lety +1

    Wow his garden is a lot bigger than I thought.

  • @suenavivedisfruta558
    @suenavivedisfruta558 Před 3 lety +4

    Wow!! I love his garden. 👍🌱😍

  • @GoodThingsEtc
    @GoodThingsEtc Před 2 lety +3

    fabulous! making me wish I had more space to grow!!! I live in Baltimore city, and trust me, when I tell you, I have utilized every space in my 2x4 patio garden!!!

  • @ImaginaryWear
    @ImaginaryWear Před 8 měsíci +1

    LMFAOOO in the beginning of the vid when he visited the dudes garden, when he said “little front yard garden” the look MyMan gave was classic, “what you mean little” 🤣

  • @Christodophilus
    @Christodophilus Před 3 lety +7

    Wonderful garden. Love the enthusiasm to just try, and let the space evolve.

  • @myancey9573
    @myancey9573 Před 3 lety +10

    Enjoyed this a lot! Love seeing other people's gardens, their ideas, and how they make things work. Yay!

  • @DevinTheGardener
    @DevinTheGardener Před 3 lety +7

    This is amazing! Love to see the passion of gardening. This is what I want to achieve one day. Great content and always look forward to an Epic video!

  • @colbr06
    @colbr06 Před 2 lety +1

    I’ve watched this a few times now. I love the controlled chaos/natural look.

  • @DDinColorado
    @DDinColorado Před 3 lety +1

    Great tour, makes me know I need to move to a warmer climate, 4b is tough....

  • @AussieMaskedOwl
    @AussieMaskedOwl Před 2 lety +3

    I love the detail you go into in this video in looking at and describing all the plants. In a lot of videos I've watched on other channels they skip over describing a lot of the plants and it really frustrates me, as I want to know what I'm looking at. Great video and very inspiring, thanks Kevin and Jacques!

  • @rubyoro0
    @rubyoro0 Před 3 lety +5

    Wow, it kept getting better and better. Impressive!

  • @heathersutherlin6632
    @heathersutherlin6632 Před 3 lety +2

    I love garden tours! I also love all the volunteer plants. Question for Jacques...what depth did you sow the asparagus seeds? Thank you for showing us your transformed space...it’s beautiful.

  • @AmySorrellMusic
    @AmySorrellMusic Před 2 lety

    For earwigs, put a short piece of pvc tubing or a rolled up newspaper by the plants being effected in the evening and the take a bucket of soapy water out in the morning and dump them in. A cap on one end is not necessary but it helps. Make it a habit for as long as you keep catching them to catch the ones still emerging. Whenever you have a pest, don't sit on your hands, look it up, their life cycle, and be proactive. Winter tilling and diotomacious earth is EXTREMELY important in California. It will kill the nits and not allow pests to get a strong hold each year. I highly recommend Rodale's Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening for all new gardeners. Powdery mildew is a pain and it is best to seek out and cultivate resistant cultivars. In your friend's case, once you have good airflow in the affected area on a windy day, a hard water spray can help reduce the pm, but not too late in the day. You want it to dry out before it goes into heavy night time transpiration but really, seek out and cultivate resistant cultivars is your best bet in the long run. Best of luck.

  • @valeriem3644
    @valeriem3644 Před 3 lety +7

    Haha! That pop up for the start of your video made me laugh out loud! Love it

  • @jennifferhurlburt642
    @jennifferhurlburt642 Před 3 lety +6

    Your garden is impressive! I started asparagus from seed a few months ago in a grow bag. I'm going to plant it out in a garden bed soon.

  • @gandhigun2304
    @gandhigun2304 Před 3 lety +1

    I should do another garden tour for ours. We have about 300 square feet of grow space developed in about the same time frame. Wet zone so did flipped sod, digging out around the beds for paths and some height to avoid too much standing water. Amended with some aged cow manure from the family ranch, topped with about $50 for 2 cubic yards of compost, and finally free chip drop mulch. Had to start giving away greens to neighbors.

    • @gandhigun2304
      @gandhigun2304 Před 3 lety

      Alright, a quick one until I can upload the more extensive version. czcams.com/video/BWK1kplXAog/video.html

  • @blueba3286
    @blueba3286 Před 3 lety +1

    No wonder why he is a Hermit! 🤓seems never ending tour! loving the garden and liking much that coney type of massive purple flower plant🐝🐝(cant remember what its called) ... if i have a space like that and with so much greenery i would concentrate more on gardening full time ... still grateful with a small space as growing ur own food taste way better👌for me as long as there’s soil ...anything can grow including weeds 😂... ofcoz the epic homestead also i like n luv😉