I grow in zone 7b and have always had problems with vine borers. In the past two years, I finally had success by using radishes as a companion plant. I get the radishes growing, then DON'T harvest them. I plant the squash and pumpkins in and amongst the radish pants. It seems the spicy, spike-y leaves of the radish plants are unpalatable to the vine borer moth and they avoid laying eggs on the radish leaves and the companion pumpkin leaves. It has worked for me after YEARS of fighting the vine borers all the other ways (lots of CZcams videos with other suggestions). I figure a pack of radish seeds is a cost-effective and organic deterrent. Your garden is looking great- good luck with the cutting flowers!
I planted the Carolina reaper one year, and it was the most beautiful plant I’ve ever seen. Those little wrinkled up red fruits were beautiful, but the leaves and the way they layered were just amazing. We didn’t eat any of the peppers. We gave all of them away, but it was a beautiful addition to our garden.
Thank you Bri !!! You have inspired me so much !! ❤ I’m in my 3rd year of gardening and started just experimenting like you say! It’s so much fun and it does bring me so much joy, flowers and fruits and veges !! 🌻🎋🫛🥦🥬🥒🧅 🥰
Bree here's a suggestion with your cauliflower when the heads form and sit on take the closest leaves and tie them over the top. It will bleach it will keep them white instead of them turning purpleish and yellow. It works well just pull the leaves over the top of the head put a rubber band on them or piece of string. Your looks amazingand you did not overwinter carrots so if you just plant carrots now and they just keep them in the ground all winter long they get nice and sweet
Cover the rose petals with a silicon screen when you freeze dry them. That way they don’t blow around and get stuck to the walls of the freeze drier. Ask me how I know that. 😂
I loved seeing the old fashion Mullen daisies. For your melons on trellis you can put little melons in grocery bags with air holes attached to trellis to hold weigh of babies melons
The first time I grew carrots, I forgot about them until mid December. And that's when I learned that homegrown food is superior to store-bought in every way imaginable! The taste - mm!
We planted mint around our back deck, and this year it is growing under our deck. So going out and enjoying some deck time with a smell of mint is the best, it keeps ants away too.
Hello from 🇨🇦 near Sudbury Ontario 😊 What a Great Tour Bri and your camera man Arthur 👍😊 ... Your Gardens, everyone of them are Glorius ✨looking forward to seeing what it will look like in full Fruit and Blooms 😍🤩 WELL DONE ALL, even those Rebel planters 🤭👍😏 GOD'S Continual Blessings to you and yours and all your endeavors 🙏😇🕊️🥰
Bri I just love your garden it would bring me such Joy also ! I love how your children work in the garden also so sweet! I believe one day you'll have a big beautiful garden again at the farm I can't wait!! Much love to you Arthur and the kids...Camille 😘❤ 🥭🍎🥦🥬🫑🌶🧅🧄🥔🍆🍉🌻🌼🏵🌳🌾
This gave me such joy yes. From the doing it to where it is now. So wonderful!! Flowers shining everywhere too are always the greatest. I very rarely remove self seeded things. I think that they did what nature does and almost a crime to tear them out :) Love the little butterfly girl flying around and RoRo trying to put the flower in his ear my heart...love the comfrey plant starting business and all the joy the kids are having and how much they so love the garden too. Bri you are a beautiful goddess Mama with the flowers in you hair. So happy to see you so happy. hugs
I am growing container tomatoes and cucumbers for the 1st time, as well as in-ground peppers, but the thing I'm most proud of is my herbal garden which is really taking off. Next year I'm starting a pollinator patch. SO excited-- thanks for the inspo! 😊
We have Tithonia every year. We had it planted throughout the front garden beds and a side garden bed. Because it is loved by hummingbirds, butterflies and bees, it has self-seeded in the back watermelon garden. We love having such great numbers of varieties within those species, we let it grow everywhere. Watching hummingbirds hover, different stripe patterns and sizes of bees and the unseen before colors of butterflies creates an interesting "I want to be out there," atmosphere. So cheerful! And the beautiful dark red-orange and lighter yellow-orange flowers that just keep coming on until the plant is as tall as our single story house are amazing! Don't forget to compost these towering plants at the end of season to feed your fruit trees and other perennials!
Bri, you definitely inspired me to go plant some flowers and herbs today I even pause your video to do so, 🌻🌱🌿thank you for sharing your beauty of a garden! blessings from ~Idaho~
It's a beautiful garden and I love watching your videos, I started watching when Wilder was just a baby so I'm looking forward to watching all your videos,god bless your beautiful family
I love what mother nature produces gor us from sll our seeds time and energy ee put in a garden. We love out fresh vegs and eating it in the winterßd well from being able to process it in s canner
Wow I ❤ your garden! You are such an inspiration to me. 💕 Thanks for sharing, and I can't wait to see how your cut flower garden does. You ❤️ what you Do that's evident. Bless y'all!
Bri, use milk , spray it on all squash and pumpkin plant for aphibs and bore bugs. Do it in am before the heat of the day and evening. The a water wash next day in am. Then every other day do the milk again, until the bugs are under control
I have a mini garden. Two side by side above ground beds, one that is 3x8 and one that’s 3x16. We have a trellis between the two like you have. We grow scarlet runner beans on the trellis because they are SOOO beautiful!!! We put a chair under the trellis and it’s magical to sit under with the greenery, the red flowers and the hummingbirds flying all around. ❤❤❤ I also have a deck off my bedroom that is my herb and flower garden and another patio with flowers in pots. 🌸🌺🌼 I’m heading out to water and do some more planting. Thank you for the video! So much great information!! 💐
I need to start a garden I have to build some raised beds first I can't get down on the ground. Ihave a spinal injury. So raided beds is the only way I can do it . Your garden is lovely . Prayers and Love 💖 From Oklahoma
Your organic vegetables and flowers are thriving beautifully. Your passion for suburban gardening is inspiring, and your garden looks like a vibrant oasis. Thanks for sharing this delightful tour-it's a joy to see your green thumb in action!
Bri plant some hydrangeas. Thwy are a huge white flower. Great for fill in or just a border . They would look awesome around the front porch to. You won't be disappointed ❤
I was wondering if you have Tuesdays and Thursday free to come over and enthuse my garden. Just kidding (not really.....) Thanks Bri for spreading your Joy with us!
Thank you so much for your wonders videos!!! The ones with you in the garden show you glowing with joy. I automatically hit Like and then watch your videos. I know they will be great. God bless you and your family!
“I’ll leave you here as a reminder for all your friends” 😂 I laughed, but! This really works with aphids. I crush and smear them on the new leaves (gross) and it deters others from bothering the new growth.
To Art and Bri, oh by the way let us not forget the kids and all the help that they contribute to the garden. Awesome job family keep up the amazing work.
I still remember the first ever vireo I watched on ur channel .. was u in ur farm flower field expressing how much flowers and having consistent bouquets in uur home made u feel rich… I completely started viewing flowers in a different way other than just “a waste of space “ thank you ❤ now i love gardening everything from veggies to flowers to even weeds lol anything thats green colored ❤😅
Vine borers= grow tromboncino! Vine borers do not affect its growth! Your kids will love super long size, and fun shapes. ( Think trombones!) You can eat them green/yellow ( taste like zucchini/summer) or orange, winter squash. The orange ones will store well beyond next spring!
Oh we love Silver Queen! I don’t grow corn, but we live close to several Amish farms and once that Silver shows up, they will let me know. We used to buy it by the truck loads. That was for 3 families. I sure miss those days. But I still patiently wait for the silver Queen 😊
Some gardeners remove suckers because they believe that the sideshoots reduce yields by diverting energy from the main stalk and developing ear. However, removing suckers is not necessary and may actually reduce yields. In fact, tillers can lend nutrition to your main stalk and you might possibly get an additional ear or two.
I love your channel and love when you are doing the videos . I enjoy Author’s too . But as a woman I love seeing how you do yours . Why the up high filming though? You are amazing strong lady . Proud of you for putting your family first . God bless you and Your husband
On my tomatoes I've learned if I don't fix a big hill then a large circle of depth around them and grass clippings the won't drown out and the grass slowly released the sponge water out I even put the grass around my pepper plants too. My multiple friend's tomatoes have flooded out but mine survived it all . And they asked how is your garden surviving the rain and I showed them what I did . My tomatoes are just starting too bloom so it may be August before we get ripe tomatoes.
Green house, if it works well for your tomatoes, maybe add some peppers too! It will likely extend your season for peppers. ( I move our large pot of peppers into our porch, to extend our season.)
Beautiful garden! Blessings lovely lady!..and great cameraman job Art! You guys are making me smile! Sending much love and an abundance of blessings your way❤🙏🏻
Bri you and Author makes a great team!, your kids are so amazing the way they help and there love to explore!, what kind of Daisy are they I tried to plant them and they always die!!
You and your kids are definitely green fingered, anything I plant dies if its from seed. I tend to get a plug plant which usually doesn't give me problems. Xx
Bri, I like your cute lil earings. Tulsi got me thru menopause. Its an amazing plant and is an adaptogenic, medicinal ayurvedic herb. I love your lil garden. I'm a lil jealous as we moved from our 1 acre property to the city and live in an apartment for the time being. It has been a real blessing living so close to our daughter and 3 of our grandchildren. But I do miss the country and can't wait to get back to it. thnx for sharing.
Arthur must fall in love with you
Every time your enthusiasm about your garden shines ♥️
Bri, you’re one amazing woman! Your perseverance and strength as a mother is inspiring. Also, your unconditional love for your husband❤
He should unconditional love for her.
Stay outta their marriage @@lovechild6103
I love how the garden has grown and is blooming with you and your family ❤
I grow in zone 7b and have always had problems with vine borers. In the past two years, I finally had success by using radishes as a companion plant. I get the radishes growing, then DON'T harvest them. I plant the squash and pumpkins in and amongst the radish pants. It seems the spicy, spike-y leaves of the radish plants are unpalatable to the vine borer moth and they avoid laying eggs on the radish leaves and the companion pumpkin leaves. It has worked for me after YEARS of fighting the vine borers all the other ways (lots of CZcams videos with other suggestions). I figure a pack of radish seeds is a cost-effective and organic deterrent. Your garden is looking great- good luck with the cutting flowers!
Im drinking tea with fresh mint right now. Awesome gardens. May Jesus bless you and keep you and shine his light upon you and your family ❤️✝️
Your garden is fantastic, you sure know what you're doing! I imagine you have inspired passers-by to plant something in their yards too.
Your joy shine through the camera, Bri!
I planted the Carolina reaper one year, and it was the most beautiful plant I’ve ever seen. Those little wrinkled up red fruits were beautiful, but the leaves and the way they layered were just amazing. We didn’t eat any of the peppers. We gave all of them away, but it was a beautiful addition to our garden.
What a vigorous tour of your gardens. I love the wildness of your flower gardens. Thanks and blessings to all of you.❤
Thank you Bri !!! You have inspired me so much !! ❤ I’m in my 3rd year of gardening and started just experimenting like you say! It’s so much fun and it does bring me so much joy, flowers and fruits and veges !! 🌻🎋🫛🥦🥬🥒🧅 🥰
Bree here's a suggestion with your cauliflower when the heads form and sit on take the closest leaves and tie them over the top. It will bleach it will keep them white instead of them turning purpleish and yellow. It works well just pull the leaves over the top of the head put a rubber band on them or piece of string. Your looks amazingand you did not overwinter carrots so if you just plant carrots now and they just keep them in the ground all winter long they get nice and sweet
Great tip! Thanks
Cover the rose petals with a silicon screen when you freeze dry them. That way they don’t blow around and get stuck to the walls of the freeze drier. Ask me how I know that. 😂
What a great idea!! 1/2 of a GreenStalk would make a perfect garden for a little one!
Just one more thing to love about you and your family. You are Amazing at Raising❤❤
Everything you do inspires me Bri. I just love my time with all of you. Your channel is a true breath of fresh air.🤗👍👍🩷🙏🙏
Beautiful garden- your hard work is showing, it’s good to see you smile again… God is good! 🙏
Bri is so beautiful with no makeup on and all of her hair on the side with flower🥰🥰🥰
I am SO glad you had a garden this year! It’s beautiful and amazing. You’re an inspiration!
I loved seeing the old fashion Mullen daisies. For your melons on trellis you can put little melons in grocery bags with air holes attached to trellis to hold weigh of babies melons
I squish squash bugs like that, too !😅 Long live the family garden !
The first time I grew carrots, I forgot about them until mid December. And that's when I learned that homegrown food is superior to store-bought in every way imaginable! The taste - mm!
We planted mint around our back deck, and this year it is growing under our deck. So going out and enjoying some deck time with a smell of mint is the best, it keeps ants away too.
Wow, the things you can do when you work together!
Hello from 🇨🇦 near Sudbury Ontario 😊 What a Great Tour Bri and your camera man Arthur 👍😊 ... Your Gardens, everyone of them are Glorius ✨looking forward to seeing what it will look like in full Fruit and Blooms 😍🤩 WELL DONE ALL, even those Rebel planters 🤭👍😏 GOD'S Continual Blessings to you and yours and all your endeavors 🙏😇🕊️🥰
Flowers make me happy too❤
Bri I just love your garden it would bring me such Joy also ! I love how your children work in the garden also so sweet!
I believe one day you'll have a big beautiful garden again at the farm I can't wait!! Much love to you Arthur and the kids...Camille 😘❤ 🥭🍎🥦🥬🫑🌶🧅🧄🥔🍆🍉🌻🌼🏵🌳🌾
This gave me such joy yes. From the doing it to where it is now. So wonderful!! Flowers shining everywhere too are always the greatest. I very rarely remove self seeded things. I think that they did what nature does and almost a crime to tear them out :)
Love the little butterfly girl flying around and RoRo trying to put the flower in his ear my heart...love the comfrey plant starting business and all the joy the kids are having and how much they so love the garden too. Bri you are a beautiful goddess Mama with the flowers in you hair. So happy to see you so happy. hugs
What a great tour! You are truly a teacher.
Your garden is full of goodness! I especially love all the delightful flowers, too!
I am growing container tomatoes and cucumbers for the 1st time, as well as in-ground peppers, but the thing I'm most proud of is my herbal garden which is really taking off. Next year I'm starting a pollinator patch. SO excited-- thanks for the inspo! 😊
Beautiful garden ❤❤❤❤
The Mexican sunflowers are a favorite at our house too😊
I love your garden videos❤️ thank you for sharing!
Your garden is amazing. No way would I ever be able to remember what everything was without labeling them. You and Art are amazing gardeners.
I love your garden tours. Thank you Art and Bri!
Bri…you and your garden are just lovely.
This Grammy learns so much from you.
Thanks💕
It’s cute you call art the “camera man” and the. We hear him crunch! 😆☺️
Lots of helpful information. Thank you!
We have Tithonia every year. We had it planted throughout the front garden beds and a side garden bed. Because it is loved by hummingbirds, butterflies and bees, it has self-seeded in the back watermelon garden. We love having such great numbers of varieties within those species, we let it grow everywhere. Watching hummingbirds hover, different stripe patterns and sizes of bees and the unseen before colors of butterflies creates an interesting "I want to be out there," atmosphere. So cheerful! And the beautiful dark red-orange and lighter yellow-orange flowers that just keep coming on until the plant is as tall as our single story house are amazing! Don't forget to compost these towering plants at the end of season to feed your fruit trees and other perennials!
Bri, you definitely inspired me to go plant some flowers and herbs today I even pause your video to do so, 🌻🌱🌿thank you for sharing your beauty of a garden! blessings from ~Idaho~
So glad you're making this video!!
Your garden is so beautiful the different colors of flowers are amazing perfect for the bees🌸🪻🌷🌼🌻🐝
I'm with yall! We gotta give volunteers and struggling plants a chance. And most of them make it
Blessings, julie
It's a beautiful garden and I love watching your videos, I started watching when Wilder was just a baby so I'm looking forward to watching all your videos,god bless your beautiful family
Your garden is just beautiful.
God bless you and your family and your garden- especially those flowers! Thanks for the tour!
Really good video,and very happy to see your smile again
Your garden is Beautiful!!!
Arthur has done an amazing job in your garden this year❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I like to freeze my tomatoes so I can make tomatoe basil soup in the winter. Thank you so much for sharing your garden with us.
I love what mother nature produces gor us from sll our seeds time and energy ee put in a garden. We love out fresh vegs and eating it in the winterßd well from being able to process it in s canner
Inspirational. Such a pretty dress too.
I love picking and eating peas off the vine. Sometimes I just open them and eat the peas, because we have had tiny worms in the pods.
Love seeing your joy❤
I’m growing Luffa for the first time as well. And they’ve just reached the top of my trellis, I’ve got lots of baby luffas all over.
Your garden is amazing Bri❤❤❤
Wonderful garden and wonderful lady ❤️
I love this video. I love the arches.
lovely tour Art and Bri!.. beautiful garden..
So happy to see you start your cut flower journey 🌷🌸🌼🌻🪷💐
It’s definitely your calling!!!!
Perhaps on the old farm……
“Blessed Blossoms” 🫶🏼💫🌈🙏🏼
Great idea!!
Wow I ❤ your garden! You are such an inspiration to me. 💕 Thanks for sharing, and I can't wait to see how your cut flower garden does. You ❤️ what you Do that's evident. Bless y'all!
Beautiful garden 🌽
Bri, use milk , spray it on all squash and pumpkin plant for aphibs and bore bugs. Do it in am before the heat of the day and evening. The a water wash next day in am. Then every other day do the milk again, until the bugs are under control
Oh Bri its so amazing to see u like this , so happy like good few years back ❤❤❤ love your videos! Regards from Poland xxx
Such a beautiful garden ❤
I have a mini garden. Two side by side above ground beds, one that is 3x8 and one that’s 3x16. We have a trellis between the two like you have. We grow scarlet runner beans on the trellis because they are SOOO beautiful!!! We put a chair under the trellis and it’s magical to sit under with the greenery, the red flowers and the hummingbirds flying all around. ❤❤❤ I also have a deck off my bedroom that is my herb and flower garden and another patio with flowers in pots. 🌸🌺🌼 I’m heading out to water and do some more planting. Thank you for the video! So much great information!! 💐
Ooohhh! Scarlet runner beans sound amazing!! I want to try those!
I need to start a garden I have to build some raised beds first I can't get down on the ground. Ihave a spinal injury. So raided beds is the only way I can do it . Your garden is lovely . Prayers and Love 💖 From Oklahoma
Your organic vegetables and flowers are thriving beautifully. Your passion for suburban gardening is inspiring, and your garden looks like a vibrant oasis. Thanks for sharing this delightful tour-it's a joy to see your green thumb in action!
Bri plant some hydrangeas. Thwy are a huge white flower. Great for fill in or just a border . They would look awesome around the front porch to. You won't be disappointed ❤
I was wondering if you have Tuesdays and Thursday free to come over and enthuse my garden. Just kidding (not really.....)
Thanks Bri for spreading your Joy with us!
Blackeyed Susan will take off real quick
❤ gardening close to your front door will always bring joy. ❤
Cilantro seeds are coriander which you can grind up and is a great spice
*UMA FLOR NO MEIO DO JARDIM 🙏🏻👏🏻*
*VALEU 🆗 MAMA👏🏻*
WOW. !
The latest video from
' living traditions homestead' is about the aphids on tomatoes.
Milk seems to help alot !
Thank you so much for your wonders videos!!! The ones with you in the garden show you glowing with joy. I automatically hit Like and then watch your videos. I know they will be great. God bless you and your family!
“I’ll leave you here as a reminder for all your friends” 😂 I laughed, but! This really works with aphids. I crush and smear them on the new leaves (gross) and it deters others from bothering the new growth.
Beautiful couple in agreat garden❤
To Art and Bri, oh by the way let us not forget the kids and all the help that they contribute to the garden. Awesome job family keep up the amazing work.
I still remember the first ever vireo I watched on ur channel .. was u in ur farm flower field expressing how much flowers and having consistent bouquets in uur home made u feel rich… I completely started viewing flowers in a different way other than just “a waste of space “ thank you ❤ now i love gardening everything from veggies to flowers to even weeds lol anything thats green colored ❤😅
Vine borers= grow tromboncino! Vine borers do not affect its growth! Your kids will love super long size, and fun shapes. ( Think trombones!) You can eat them green/yellow ( taste like zucchini/summer) or orange, winter squash. The orange ones will store well beyond next spring!
We love tromboncini!
Oh we love Silver Queen! I don’t grow corn, but we live close to several Amish farms and once that Silver shows up, they will let me know. We used to buy it by the truck loads. That was for 3 families. I sure miss those days. But I still patiently wait for the silver Queen 😊
Some gardeners remove suckers because they believe that the sideshoots reduce yields by diverting energy from the main stalk and developing ear. However, removing suckers is not necessary and may actually reduce yields. In fact, tillers can lend nutrition to your main stalk and you might possibly get an additional ear or two.
I love your channel and love when you are doing the videos . I enjoy Author’s too . But as a woman I love seeing how you do yours .
Why the up high filming though? You are amazing strong lady . Proud of you for putting your family first . God bless you and Your husband
Arthur is 6’3 and I am 5’4. So sometimes that is just the angle.
On my tomatoes I've learned if I don't fix a big hill then a large circle of depth around them and grass clippings the won't drown out and the grass slowly released the sponge water out I even put the grass around my pepper plants too. My multiple friend's tomatoes have flooded out but mine survived it all . And they asked how is your garden surviving the rain and I showed them what I did . My tomatoes are just starting too bloom so it may be August before we get ripe tomatoes.
Hello. thank you for sharing. Wishing you a happy and happy new day 🎉😊😅
Green house, if it works well for your tomatoes, maybe add some peppers too! It will likely extend your season for peppers. ( I move our large pot of peppers into our porch, to extend our season.)
Beautiful garden! Blessings lovely lady!..and great cameraman job Art! You guys are making me smile! Sending much love and an abundance of blessings your way❤🙏🏻
Bri I like the way you put flower on your hair most of the time when you are in your garden. It shows you really do like flowers
LOL leave you there as a reminder:)
Beautiful garden, beautiful family. Asters are my favorite flowers.
Bri you and Author makes a great team!, your kids are so amazing the way they help and there love to explore!, what kind of Daisy are they I tried to plant them and they always die!!
Thank you 😊
You and your kids are definitely green fingered, anything I plant dies if its from seed. I tend to get a plug plant which usually doesn't give me problems. Xx
your dill looks great! chipmonks keep eating my dill seeds before they sprout
I love your experiments! And your willingness to let everything be wild.
Bri, I like your cute lil earings. Tulsi got me thru menopause. Its an amazing plant and is an adaptogenic, medicinal ayurvedic herb. I love your lil garden. I'm a lil jealous as we moved from our 1 acre property to the city and live in an apartment for the time being. It has been a real blessing living so close to our daughter and 3 of our grandchildren. But I do miss the country and can't wait to get back to it. thnx for sharing.
❤❤❤You Inspire Me ❤❤❤
Beautiful garden 🍅🌸🌷🌹🍀🌽🌺🌻🌿..... fence!!!! It will protect your hard work.
Candy onions make great onion rings. I have candy and walla walla this year, and it's going great,