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Two Saturday morning videos in a row! Thank you. What a treat to wake up to. Last year I planted two blueberry bushes in containers and although they were small to start, I have high hopes for greater yields this summer. Your videos always make the process clear and they are great reminders of the things I need to put on my gardening TO-DO list.
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Same! I’m going to prune my blueberry bush today! Had to remove one last year that I’ll need to replace, but hoping to get an actual harvest this year.
So I’m assuming this will also apply to my raspberry bush
Watching with two of my boys today (3 and 4.5), I'm asked first thing, "Where's Benjamin?" They had gone off to play when he made his appearance so I called them over to watch him. They get really excited to see him helping his mama like they help theirs and then start telling me their garden plans for this year. Thank you, thank you, thank you all for your hard work. It inspires so many including the next generation of gardeners.
Check your acidity levels- strawberry and blueberries may have different needs!
Also sterilisation of seed trays is important to prevent pathogen transfer, and failed seedlings.
I love your enthusiasm!
I love GA and I love gardening but the only thing that matters now is🇺🇦 Greetings from Poland
All my prays to Ukraine and God Bless Poland.
@Marta Kapela I believe we create our reality, so if all I focus on is what's going on in Ukraine, I believe it strengthens that negative event. So, I say a prayer a couple of times a day for the sorrows in all parts of the world. But, all that matters to me is spreading love, joy, and connectedness, the way GA does!
Some people, like myself, have extreme anxiety and depression so light hearted videos like this in the midst of world crisis events keep us sane and keep a sense of normalcy.
All the love and prayers for the world right now but this normal content is what some of us need. Keep the gardening content coming! 🖤
Sending positivity and prayers to you guys from the US 🙏 Hoping against hope for wisdom from our leaders.
@@alisonwise3444 Our "leaders" (both sides of the aisle) are hopelessly corrupt. They only care about Ukraine because it has been "money laundering ground zero" for them. Those poor people caught in the middle...God bless them.
So sweet watching Benjamin standing next to you planting seeds. That is something, I bet, he will always remember❣️
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Whaaattt! Another Saturday video?!? Glorious!! 🥰🥰🥰
This video scared me. I thought today was Friday and not Saturday. All I could think was I’m going to be late and my students will be in the classroom going crazy! 😅 What a happy and special bonus to this already beautiful weather weekend. Thanks for all the great content and just your wonderful personality.
OMG that was a good chuckle! Whew!
GA is one of the only consistent garden vlog that viewers can depend on to wake up to w first cup of coffee..ahhh. We know it is hard work. Thanx.
Your pruning wisdom is such a big help. Gives me confidence and very poignant direction to knowing what to keep, and what to remove. Great visuals, camera angles, and your trademark instructions, thank you! 🤗
I enjoy how you don’t mess around when filling the trays. Pile, spread, tamp down and level.
I can't wait to see the cut flower shed to be all done ❤️
And all those tulips!
The way you explained and demonstrated the pruning was the best and most accessible I have seen. You described it in a way that matches how a regular person would look at and describe the branches.
Sitting here contemplating how nice it is to be near planting time. My son in laws father passed away and we are going to the funeral today. Makes me realize how much we should enjoy Gods beauty and bounty while we can. Life is so short! Thank you for the videos to help get inspired and ready to enjoy our spring that will be here soon! Love your informative info on so many varieties of plants. I do have to adapt some things because I am in zone 6b. But usually not too much changes needed. Keep up the teaching of your kids…they will be blessed!
A pleasant surprise of a Saturday GA video! Thanks for always inspiring and motivating us to grow beautiful plants too! 💕
❄️Great Saturday morning with Laura and coffee, and Benjamin is a sweet little helper! It’s cold and dreary here in Michigan, so doing some springtime dreaming today. Thank you for this extra treat, Laura. Enjoy a safe and happy weekend everyone ☕️🫐🍓🌷
I’m enjoying my coffee and Laura and
Learning how to spear
I'm with you, Dee!
Watch out for the mint, it's a beast! The garden shed is coming along nicely, I am anxious to see it all done and prettied up! Thanks for the lessons Laura! The kids will teach you to work with others in the garden! 😉😉😍 This growing season will see more of Samantha as well, good thing you have Paul helping you, with the kids and filming is going to take 10 times as long.....it would be at my pace now a days, I used to be speedy Gonzalez like you! Oh well I am hopeful that will be again one of this days.🤗🤗❤🤗🤗
The pruning instructions for blueberries came at just the right time. I've been confused about how to prune my three blueberry bushes and this is a big help! Mine are in the ground and over 5 feet tall. I'm a visual learner so, thank you!!
Mine are 5 feet tall as well and have been producing for at least 10 years. Do you prune the height on yours? Thank you
@@maryschlotter108 I’m happy for you having this variety of blueberries.
Can you please tell me the type,
I wish I can grow some of those in my garden 😊
Thank you and sending blessings ❤️
I planted blueberry bushes in containers last year because of the critters that were eating them , the deers groundhogs and squirrels, I had tried for years to grow the in the ground .This past summer I had a wonderful yield so I plan on planting more in containers. By the way it is a treat seeing your vide this morning , does this mean we’ll get to see you on Saturday again , lol , my coffee taste better when I have a video of yours to watch and learn from , thank you ❤️🪴🌻🌸
What a good helper Benjamin is! So sweet!
I have learned a lot from watching you prune different things. I am 72 and now just catching on. You really do like to get your hands right down in the dirt. It is your passion. Your little helper gets right in there. Your kids look alike don't they! so sweet. thanks Joyce
How wonderful for your neighbors to have so much beauty to look at and not worrying about another home going in there. Can’t wait to see it in spring!
Laura it is such a joy to see you working with Benjamin in these videos. I love how you just let him do his thing and you simply support him. I can’t wait to watch when Samantha Grace gets to join the mix!! 😂😬😂. When I saw you were planting lavender, I wanted to post. Could you consider an episode about lavender? When we had our house in Texas (planted in the ground) and Oklahoma (planted in containers), well, let’s just say success is not even in the mix when considering the proper word choice. Could you give tips for both please. We have moved to Ohio and I do not have any outdoor space this year so can lavender inside? Because of you I’m researching grow-lights so I can have a small herb garden in my kitchen area. I feel confident with some creativity, and shelves, I can have a few of the herbs I use the most when cooking. Thank you! Your show is one of the highlights of my day!
I think you have graced us with a video every day this week... Perhaps not last Monday morning here in Australia. Will have to take more notice tomorrow morning. We have been very blessed so thank you Laura, Aaron and Families x🌲🧡💛🧡👏😁🇦🇺
Actually, it would have been 7 days because of your sit down together videos in recap ... Also, I learnt very recently, possibly this week from a fellow Australian commenter that we actually get your videos 10pm the night before, I'm usually asleep although I must admit if I can't sleep I have noticed your video, sometimes I may have watched but also I may have wanted to save the video for the morning x🧡💛🧡👏😁🇦🇺
I have always looked forward to pruning and shaping season every year. Gives an enormous feeling of accomplishment. I read the most amazing book many years ago called... The Royal Horticultural Society, Pruning and training by Christopher Bickell and David Joyce. I found it to be the most valuable book I have ever read besides of course The King James Version of the Holy Bible scriptures. Fortunately I have obeyed the directive of Jesus the Christ to be born again of water and of the spirit, so the Holy Bible is an open and understandable book to me x🧡💛🧡😁🇦🇺
Shed? Are you kidding? Way too gorgeous to be a shed. Another of your followers on Instagram has named it "The Cut Flower House" and I'm going with that xxxxxxxxxx🧡💛🧡👏😁🥀🇦🇺
Another wonderful video, thanks so very, very much for sharing your precious time with us 🧡💛🧡👏😁🥀🇦🇺
Very early! But now, I want blueberry cobbler to go with my morning coffee!
ahhh, yes, pruning mine is on my list for this week.. great instructions and explanation 🙂 i only have 2 bushes; it's risky here in my warm climate (zone 10b) but i have had good luck with them... last year was phenomenal, i think because we had a cooler winter... i get enough for me and some to freeze usually, plus i share them with Herr Grossbeak (one of my favorite wild birds, he visits me especially during blueberry season, lol)... there is nothing more satisfying than picking fruit from your own garden (well yeah, veggies, flowers, etc, too, ha)... maybe i'm going about it wrong, but i find pruning just satisfying and somewhat relaxing, lol... no stress for me; i enjoy it - i feel like i'm helping my plants do their best to give us both what we want! 🙂love seeing Benjamin learning 'at the knee' and helping you plant (did he wash most of those seeds out with the hose?? lol) ... and boys and sticks, lol... 🙂 ❤ thanks for the video!! 🙂 ❤
Aw bless Benjamin's heart helping , he's a cutie too
Good morning, Laura☕️ I’m all about the raised beds for sure. Thanks for all the info on Blueberry 🫐 bushes. Have a Blessed Day 😊🐈
The close-up look at the branches is very helpful. Thank you Laura!
So happy that you pruned blueberries. Now I need to prune mine
Another surprise treat! Benjamin planting his own tray, so sweet, big boy now!
I'm a different climate than you, but similar soil, alkaline challenges, so thank you for all the blueberry information! I might give these a try in containers in the near future.
Thank you Laura been waiting for the blueberry pruning video. I brought a bush when you did as you gave me the confidence to try something new, so far I’m having great success! 🫐🫐🫐
You have just encouraged me to try my hand at growing blueberries. Same thing happened 2 years ago with strawberries---and I love it! Thank You Again. An Ohio piddler/gardener. :D
Did you plant any blueberries? If so, which variety and how did it go? From another (NE) Ohioan. 😊
@@M4R1N4 I didn't! My time is divided in many ways, so I decided to not try them. Did you?
@@stephanieblume5448 I am just starting to watch videos, I'd love to try this year - blueberries are my favorite! Time to do everything is the hardest part. Thanks for replying!
@@M4R1N4 I planted 40 geranium seeds this week. First time. Praying that they germinate and I can keep them alive for planting. 🌿 Best wishes with your berries!
Your hair looks amazing in that light when you were pruning giving off major summer vibes! My grandparents had blueberries lined up along their fence and it was a beautiful lush green hillly front yard I loved it we’d roll down the hill, picking blueberries for snacking or filling up yogurt containers for my grandma and grandpa(they always had yogurt containers for storing food always recycling 👍)☺️ I’ve always wanted blueberry bushes like that for my kiddos. And knowing I can pop them in some pots is hopeful for the coming season I’ll keep my eye out for some more berries bushes! We’ve had about 5 years experience with outdoor gardening but were a traveling family we move because of work every few years and only have done raised beds, a few front yard annuals and a few shrubs and bulbs. So investing in perennials hasn’t been something I’ve considered because it’s not a permanent home and we wouldn’t be there to reap the benefits. But recently I’ve learned planting perennials only make the world prettier so we’ll be planting away this new house even though we won’t be here permanently to enjoy everything we plant but maybe the next family that moves in will find joy in the blooms like we do 🤞❤️🥰
I must say that I LOVE watching your 2 cats, Cheddar & Russell, interact with you in the garden!! They make me smile & laugh! I can't tell them apart, but loved seeing Russell (?) in the blueberry bed just looking for attention :o) Several times I have seen them in the background when you are talking & they are doing such funny antics! I just adore seeing them in your videos! They are such special cats with fun & funny personalities. More cat interactions please :o) Bless you & your sweet, hardworking family! You have the BEST content & I love how Laura, Aaron, Benjamin, Samantha Grace, Russell & Cheddar all work together to create the very best gardening channel! Blessings from Laura in Orange, CA. - Zone 10 A/B
Laura I have just found you. I so enjoy sitting down in the evening, and watching what happened in your world today. You have a beautiful family. Yes you do inspire.
Russell certainly loves to be in the sun and the center of attention!! Love him, he wants to cuddle.
"GO SPEAR THE GRASS" Is my new life motto
Goodness! Another GA video on Saturday? This is shaping up to be a great day! Thanks guys. Have a great weekend everyone!
A great weekend?
We might have a nuclear event at any moment
Russia China Iran are all demonically possesed
I'm trying to learn how to grow in containers to feed my family
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@@jerrymccarthy5826 You choose not to have a great weekend? Your choice. You do you :)
Good afternoon everyone
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We bought our house 2 years ago and it came with blueberry bushes. I’ve pruned them a little but will do more this year after watching this. Thanks!
Thanks for showing this!! It seems like pruning the blueberries follows similar rules for pruning as my crepe myrtle, or multi trunk lilac. Snipping “suckers”, competing branches, and taking a little “off the top”!?! I so appreciate you and all the things you think to share with us. I have always been interested in gardening, but never knew what I was doing. So I consistently was getting inconsistent results with my projects. I came across your channel about a year and a half ago when I was looking for help with my hostas. I have learned so much from your videos. (I too am a visual learner!) you have helped me take my garden from surviving to thriving!! Thank you so much!!
I haven’t grown blueberries as of yet. Gonna give it a shot. I don’t have a big property but it’s beautiful and I am willing to try. Shed is looking amazing. Benjamin is such a big helper. Amazing. Be blessed. See you in the next video. 🌟🌟
Good morning! Can’t wait to see how well the blueberry plants do.
Good morning from Michigan, thank you for this video I’ve been thinking about getting a few blueberry plants.
♥️ "good morning from Michigan"
Your helper is so sweet!!
Laura, you never cease to amaze me with your fountain of information. You just did such a huge brain dump on blueberries that I will need to watch this several times to be able to absorb it all. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. I was just going to grow on my one little blueberry bush (which, I'm not even sure what kind it is) and be happy with its measly harvest. Now I'm off to the garden center to find more! I love blueberries and think I'll do something like what you've done in the galvanized tubs. My garden gets prettier with every idea you inspire. My neighbors think I'm a genius. I tell them, "I've learned everything I know about gardening from my friend Laura!"
Let’s hear it for another Saturday video 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 🌱🪴
Good morning everyone 🌱🌱🥰💞☕🌄
This is such a helpful video! cutting back and getting everything ready for the season is something I seriously struggle with and makes me nervous. We read and hear about it, but seeing it in video form is really helpful. End of winter early spring garden instruction is so helpful, even if its not all beautiful and green, because it sets us all up for a great season ahead! without handicapping our plants before they get the chance to flourish that year. especially since like new and old growth cutting can make a difference! thank you for taking the time to make this type of video laura
Thanks, Laura! I was in my garden this morning looking at the blueberries I planted last year and wondering how to prune them. I walked inside and sat in front of my computer and there you were answering my question! Great timing on this video!
One of my relatives in New Brunswick is a blueberry farmer. I’m also a beekeeper just for a hobby. Many beekeepers from Ontario will transport bee hives to New Brunswick to do pollination for the season. As many people know pollination can boost fruit yields up to 4 times so the blueberry farmers feel it’s worth the cost.
You have the most wonderful little assistant❤
Greetings, Laura, from Windermere Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 We have several blueberry upicks close by. We walk by one each morning. They usually open up by Easter
Happy Gardening Everyone 👩🌾👍
I’m watching Laura and looking out the window. Snow so high, the rabbits have pruned all my young trees through the winter. Zone 3b having an old school winter.
We plant for ourselves, friends, neighbours , thieves and animals.
mama and benjamin side by side at the potting bench is seriously one of the cutest things i've seen
Hy Laura, I am lucky enough to grow blueberries in ground. Your video is a lovely reminder that it's the perfect time to me to grab my pair of secateurs and get pruning. Thank you for another great video. Daniel
Two Saturday videos in a row. Yay!!!!
Yay! Another Saturday video! I have to assume you’re antsy for projects as winter draws on. Whatever the reason, I consider it a bonus! 💚💚💚
Mint in the ground??? That scares me 😱 haha. I keep mine in containers because if not contained it tends to try to take over everything. Hope that isn’t an issue for you in your area. I love that you’re adding in some edible landscape out on the new property. I’m so excited to see the orchard meadow take shape this spring and all the other areas you are developing. So exciting 🥰!! I’m in the process of relocating and can’t take any of my plants with me. There is some fun in starting over, but this year will be limited. Living vicariously through your beautiful space. Thank you 🙏
It should scare you, lol, at least if you are in a climate similar to me. I knew better, but about 20 years ago I planted a single mint in what was an area nothing else would live in, dry and hot with reflected heat from the driveway. That mint is a beast and spreads like wildfire by a zillion underground roots. I kick myself so much for planting it in the ground. 😀😀😀 now, I would not even plant mint in a container unless the container was sitting on concrete.
Mountain mint is in the mint family, but isn’t aggressive like true mint is. It’ll still spread, but it’s controllable. True mint (Mentha) should NEVER be planted in the ground.
Wild bergamot is just about as bad. It spreads everywhere, it's tall and crowds out everything else. I finally got rid of it but it wasn't easy. zone 4, too.
@@karinchristensen220 Yep, it’s also in the mint family.
@@GardenKath lol, I just Googled it and came back to add that it wasn't a mentha and wouldn't be as bad. Thanks for also sharing that!
Such a treat to enjoy you video this Saturday morning. Thank you for all the great information
What was Benjamin planting? I saw him put his own tray of seeds together.
The cutting shed is looking good! By spring it should be gorgeous surrounded by all thos bulbs you planted.
Oooh! So happy to see videos posted today! I made a quick run to a hardware store today, and I saw beautiful Lenten Roses! Okay. I didn’t just see them. I went home with one.☺️
I started pruning, but rain stopped that.
I enjoyed the music that was playing while you were planting. It’s soothing. Some songs played over videos can be really annoying. Thank you for this video. It reminded me that I need to get outside and prune my blueberries.
And just like that blueberry sales went up! Great explanation!
So glad you were back this Saturday and with pruning blueberries and strawberries which I desperately needed help with. Thank you guys so much.
Love watching her gardening skills, and Ben is the highlight!!! 🥰👍🏻🫐
This was such good information about blueberries! I got 2 top hat seedlings by mail 2 weeks ago. They were doing excellent at first but the instructions said to keep them in the shade. They are now having browning leaves and some leaves died and dropped off. I see yours are in full sun so think I'll do that too. I hope they survive and grow so I have an opportunity to prune next year. If you have fig trees it'd be great to have a pruning lesson on those too not to mention citrus trees. Thanks Laura.
I've never grown blueberries but bought a bush and it didn't have a chance because I was lazy and working not paying much attention!
Now I have my own property and I can plant them in the ground! Notable is Rabbit eyes! Zone 8b north central Florida. Soon, just moved so this year will tell. TFS Laura, enjoying watching while planting
I absolutely loved your tips about where to prune the plants! Thank you so much for this content. I love your channel so, so much
Seeing you prune blueberries was super helpful and informative. I have a couple of young blueberries I'm going to ge pruning up once the snow melts, as well as 5 acres of 10-15 year old blueberries that have been badly neglected for a while. Looking forward to seeing how the herb seeds turn out, as well as how the garden shed looks when completed
Thank you for all you show us, Laura.
love watching Benjamin plant.
Our property came with 6 high bush blueberries - two different varieties. I feel validated with your video! I pruned mine a couple days ago - I just felt it was time. We think ours haven’t been tended to for 3 years, possibly quite a bit longer. Last year, our first, we just put some berry tone on the soil and hoped for the best. They grew to just shy of 7’ tall and we had so many berries!! I knew they had to be pruned this year or else we’d have no chance of being able to pick the new growth. It was really tough pruning off some of the berry buds! I was so worried I was going to prune them wrong, but 1 bush in I kept hearing your voice telling me “just try it and see what happens, there’s no rules.” Thank you for your words of encouragement and letting us know we really can’t make catastrophic mistakes.
I haven’t grown blueberries yet, but definitely planning to grow some in the future. So I’m sure I’ll watch this again to take tips and notes 📝
I have 2 blueberry bushes in the ground for about 3 years didn't know about pruning. At my previous home we had 4 old high bush blueberries which produced every year for 30 years with no pruning and we had gallon bags full in the freezer every year. So delicious. But now I have better information for the new bushes. Thanks.
I want some blueberry bushes! I live in berry country. There are farms all over the place and we usually ride up the street to our Great Grandma's house to raid her bushes. I'm hoping to put some of my own in the yard this year. Thanks for the pruning tips. Very helpful!
Great info on the blueberry pruning. It's only my second year growing them and I was inclined to just leave them alone. But now I have some great information on what to look for in pruning them. Thanks!
Thank you so much for the information on blueberry pruning. It is 8:35 am here in BC 🇨🇦, so I paused the video got my boots and coat on and out I went to prune my blueberry bush. Thanks again 🙂
I made my first valerian tincture this year. It's been a very welcomed gift.
One valerian plant grows very big. I had one plant and started two more plants from seed this year. You started a lot of valerian :D ! It smells incredible when in bloom though so you will enjoy it a lot.
This is the kind of video I needed today, my blueberry plants need work done around them and to be fertilized/ fix the acidity. I struggle with this, I got my 1st blueberry last season and I’ve had my plant for almost 2 years and it has not grown much either. I have a new variety that I hope does well in my zone 9. Perfect timing for this video, I’m enjoying these Saturday videos 💜
Perfect timing for me to see the blueberry pruning! I also have strawberries in the claw foot tub I plant in so I followed your lead on working that area. Thank you so much for sharing your valuable information! Much love!
HELLO FROM TEXAS - GLAD FOR THE INFO CONCERNING THE BLUE BERRIES. THEY ALWAYS SEEM TO BE THE HARDEST TO GROW AND KEEP. THANKS. LOVE TO YOU ALL.
The arbs have really put on growth!!
Thank you for your tips. They are very helpful. I'm in Florida zone 9b and had a blueberry bush in a large pot for many years then it started to get old and then died. After some research to see what I did wrong I found they don't live long in pots. I did everything right. Repotted, fertilized and kept it bug free. It was heart beating when it passed but I learned a ton. This year I have 2 that will be planted in the ground. I will be taking cuttings to make more. Hoping for 20+ plants someday🥰
Thank you for the extra video:) I do have blueberry bushes in the ground. They are fun, but maybe even more for the birds. I also let wild strawberry serve as ground cover. Berry palooza here in the summer.
Benjamin watering his pot 🤣🤣🥰 I wonder how many of his swam out and will be growing in the poltunnel floor 😁
Great video, I like the cat hanging with you
I'm excited to have found your channel! I am a newbie to gardening and considered myself a "plant killer," but I decided to stop using that negative self talk and try hard things. I'm starting with some veggies in containers and maybe a couple flowers. We get extreme heat in southeast Kansas, so that has always held me back. I thrifted some beautiful baskets and a big planter today, so I watched some of your videos regarding those things. Thanks for taking the time to share with us! Your property is beautiful.
Wonderful gardening with son~^^❤
Thank you for good sharing 😊
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I’m SOO excited to see this space this year! Ugh.. come on spring ♥️♥️
Bergamont is my FAVORITE!! it’s so pretty!
It's interesting about the theory of blueberry pruning. I wonder if that is specific to certain types of blueberries? The reason I ask is that growing up, we had basically a field of half wild blueberry bushes. This was on our farm in NW Florida so I think they'd be highbush, but possibly rabbiteye, blueberries and they were approximately 5 feet or so tall. I feel like they started from just a few bushes planted before I was born, but then they basically spread themselves around this 40 acre field they were in after we weren't using it for crops, whereas earlier it was one of the fields we used for various things like cotton and sugar cane. Anyway, we certainly never pruned them but they kept producing. Because the field was half wild with weeds, tall grasses, etc. That he would just bush hog around once or so a year, and this was rural Florida with a lot of venomous snakes, Daddy would drive the truck in with us in the back, drive up close to the bushes, and we would just pick the blueberries without getting out of the truck bed, lol, then he would drive on to the next bushes. 😀. They sure were delicious and I miss picking all the various kinds of fruit we had...well, actually I miss eating it more. 😀 Anyway, I am sure the blueberries would have been in heaven if we'd fertilized and pruned, but they always had heavy and delicious yields so I guess they were able to thrive on their own because they were in a situation they liked which us a good tip if you are looking for less maintenance. Plant what will thrive in the climate and situation you have, then they can more or less take care of themselves and you have more time for a few special things.
If you have deer they probably did the pruning for you. At my parents house we have a bunch of wild blueberry bushes in a swampy area. We never pruned them either. They were 4-5 feet tall and wide. They are at least 4O years old and still producing.
@@amysgardenstead2879 it's funny, but in the country deer are not nearly as bad a problem as they are in urban areas. It actually does make sense in that 1) they simply have more habitat and natural food sources, 2) they have more natural predators, and 3) hunters also kept population in check. The deer never bothered the blueberries or any of the crops we grew on hundreds of acres, nor did they bother any of our other plants. You rarely ever saw a deer because they also retained their natural fear if humans. But, now I live in the suburbs in western Washington and deer here are are a huge problem. So many people have moved here so rapidly that their habitat loss has been staggering but they didn't have the chance to move. Their predators have been nearly eliminated, and there's no hunting in the burbs, so they are forced to feast on any garden that isn't protected by strong 8 foot fences, which I can't afford. Sprays don't work here and I have tried them all. They also are so used to humans, that they don't scare off easily even if you are out there yelling at them. So, it's been extremely disheartening trying to garden here because, with a few exceptions, the deer destroy even plants that are supposed to be deer resistant. So the deer didn't prune the blueberries on the farm, but they sure do kill a lot of things where I live now and vegetables, among most other things, are nearly impossible for me to keep from the deer. One day I hope to have fencing or move back to the country. 😀
I live in NW Florida and just wrote an article about blueberries in our area. Did you know we have some of the best blueberries in the country? We can also harvest from May through July. I have visited blueberry farms and many of their bushes aren’t pruned. Pruning will help production and esthetics, but wild blueberries do rather well on their own.
Aw, what a special memory! My dad used to take us hiking and we would pick wild raspberries that were delicious! I wish I could grow some that taste that good
@@andreaschnapp6454 that's awesome you are in the Panhandle! You are probably also familiar with the absolutely delicious wild plums and, my favorite, "scuppnins, which is the vernacular for scuppernongs, a type of muscadine grape? Muscadine grapes are the only grape native to the USA and I love them so much. We had the wild form as well as the cultivated varieties growing and they are one of the many things, along with, for example, zipper cream peas, i miss that i can't get where i live now.
I'm excited to see your herb seeds grow and get planted out. I'm starting a bunch this year and plan to deck my flower beds with herbs throughout. The German Thyme is one I'm starting too and the site said they can be harder to grow so I'm happy we'll be on the same journey.
Update: I'm pretty sure I have 100% germ on my German Winter Thyme and they all popped up in just a few days! I'm so pleased!
Perfect timing...and what a treat - video on Saturday! I am getting ready to prune my iceberg rose bushes and watching and listening to you today I am now confident to do the job correctly (even if I still get squeamish). In a few weeks the bush will be sending out beautiful white buds again!
Those pruning tips are extremely helpful 💚
Love your cut flower shed it is going to be so pretty when it is finished
So much great information! I’m a visual learner so having you show us is so helpful!!
Will go ahead and plant blueberries🫐this year, because I realise they can be planted in front of our rhododendron patch!! Happy dreams and thoughts 😊
Imagine my surprise! I am getting do excited to get started. I started some seeds yesterday and planted a spring bulb basket. The daffodils bloomed already this morning!
I do have blueberries in containers that I have let go because I didn't know what to do. Now I do - thank you! You know Spring is about here when GA Saturday videos are back - exciting!! 😃🌸💚🌿🫐🍓
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