When I watch Garden Answer I so look forward to seeing Russell. I never considered myself a cat person but you can see how much Russell loves Laura and its adorable. I know I'm going to enjoy watching your newest family addition in your videos as well.
Oh Jenny this video made me smile and laugh out loud watching your puppy in the cottage garden. She’s into absolutely everything isn’t she? I had forgotten what puppies are like as mine are 9 now, she’ll definitely sleep well tonight, as you will as you got so much done. It looks so lovely and tidy now. I’m trying to keep on top of mine whenever weather permits, as I just know how busy it’s all going to be in just a few weeks when Spring arrives. A lovely video 😊
I was able to rake the leaves out of my garden beds December 26 in Michigan. It felt so good! Now we have snow ❄️ Watching you clean the bed for the winter makes me excited for spring ☀️🌸🐝
Hahah look at all the help you had with this! I was dying laughing the whole time - made my day. She is so cute - but you're right, puppies are like toddlers.
Happy to be back watching your videos. I have been in the hospital due to a fall which I broke my left hip. Love you and your husband, you both are so great together. I had to get wi-fi so I could get back to watching. Have a great day.
Jenny, I live in Raleigh and prune back my Miss Huff HARD each winter and she keeps coming back! I even prune her midsummer to help contain her...she is a beast!
The puppy! We just got one this last spring. She loves being with me when I am working in the garden, but she got so excited that she broke plants,so I taught her to lie down in the pathways while I work in the beds. She keeps me company while I am working. 😄
Looks great! I loved watching Brynna help you. She’s so adorable. Brought back memories of mine, she just turned 4. It goes so fast. I was lucky and she’s been very good about not digging in my beds, although she still tries to attack my rake! 😆
That is the most fun I have ever had watching someone clean out their garden. My German Shepherd that is 10 still chases leaves that blow in the wind and my 8 year old German Shepherd still loves to pull the sticks out of the plants debris piles in the fall when I throw them aside. So cute. I'm going to love this journey with Brenna.
So envious of your lovely gardening weather. We should be doing the same in PNW, but Nov. we had rain and now our garden is buried under snow. So happy you got a puppy as a home is not a home without a dog. Our Golden Retriever loves helping with garden projects, especially jumping for pruned branches or weeds. Your clean up looks great.
Good morning from the uk 🇬🇧 and happy new year to you all. Sorry but I couldn’t stop giggling at your puppy digging holes, she is helping her mummy whether you want her too or not 😆 I also had this problem and still do at times with my dog who is now 2 years old. Good luck with the gardening and be ready for relocated plants in your gardens xxx
Hi Jenny love Brynna helping you, our German Sheppard helps with our gardening to she is 8 yrs old and still love to help us she is absolutely beautiful. thanks for sharing your day with us.👍👍💖💖
Isn't that so rewarding to have your flowerbeds all clean and tidy and put to bed for the winter and fresh and ready for spring? Oh my, I'm loving Brenna! Looks like she's going to be a big help in the garden! 😁
That sweet baby is helping mama! She is a beautiful animal. We have had high 70's east of you in Greenville as well and I worked in my yard pulling pesky weeds. It is raining today and falling temps into the 30s this afternoon.
Loved watching Brynna "help" with the garden chores this morning. We were blessed with "Charlie," our yellow lab puppy, this year and he has been a "wonderful helper" in the garden. So many re-plantings, ugg! Love him to pieces, but training is a constant endeavor. Your videos are always encouraging, I'm always learning new things and adapting to my own Pacific Northwest garden.
Your pup is so cute. My little Weiner dog walks in the garden with me and digs in the garden with me, he's learned good and bad over the years. Everyone loves to watch him out there with me. I'm sure your dog will be the same. Best of luck
As much as I always enjoy watching you and Jerry, today I loved watching your sweet pup!!! What a beauty! My chocolate lab fancies herself quite the gardener! I can't imagine being out there without my Sassy Girl!
Love the puppy!! My mother found the perfect teether for puppies when our pup Arrow was chewing everything in sight. Cold raw carrots straight from the refrigerator. The cold helps ease the pain of teething and the hardness of the carrots helps the teeth come through. Sweet puppy helping you dig!! 😂
In Indiana, I've had several annuals make an unexpected appearance the next year. Had I pulled them out in the fall/winter time, I would not have had the pleasant surprise of their presence, flowering the next year. Snapdragons, Victoria Blue salvia, a million bell, a gerbera daisy to name a few. The last two were the most surprising. The more I leave standing, the more leaves get caught and the more protection everything in the flower beds has.
Jenny, I always cut my Mrs. Huff back after it is killed by frost. Mine has always come back. But you are absolutely right about trying to move one it's impossible.
OMG Jenny you definitely have your hands full with your beautiful puppy. So funny to watch your new helper.😂😂😂 Great video I really enjoy it. Thank you so very much for sharing.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
The puppy needs his own RU-vid channel! I will have to go back and watch again to see what you did and said!! Lol. Sourisly, thank you for all the fabulous content!❤
It looks beautiful! I think it might be a good idea to get rid of the lantana. With lower plants, you can see the garden beds, rocks, and concrete urns so much better. That area looks spectacular! 💜👍
There’s always something to be done. If possible I’ve taken to cutting annuals at soil level because it’s less messy and the rotting dead roots provide good organic material for the soil life. I also will then “chop and drop” the dead foliage (annual and perennial) but that’s not everyone’s cup of tea. It’s easily hidden with a layer of mulch and it’s just more organic material that helps to break up clay. Sort of a “compost in place”situation.
Oh the joys of gardening with a puppy - I've done it many times myself !!! I live in N. Atlanta (7b) and have always cut back my lantana after the first freeze, and then heavily mulched them - never had a problem and they always came back bigger and better than ever (same with my banana trees) !!!! Cleaning up a garden bed is very theraeutic and gives one a sense of peace, plus the planning and anticipation of the coming Spring/Summer bed is always enjoyable! Always, always, ALWAYS something to do in the garden for sure ... wishing for you & yours a glorious New Year - even in these trying times we ALL have so much to be thankful for ...
Just love this video. Brenna is absolutely adorable and so playful. Now if you can just train her to pull just the weeds you will have a great helper. Can't wait to see more of her.
Had to watch this video twice; the first to watch Brynna, the second to concentrate on what you were doing Jenny. 😃 Love your videos but Brynna stole the show in this one. The cottage garden looks great, cannot wait to see in in the Spring. 😊
1st time bulb planter here...With all this warm southern weather, I am worried about planting my bulbs now. (GA-Zone 8a) (Crocus, Daffs, Tulips, Allium, Hyacinths) I was going to do it over Christmas break, but was afraid they will start too soon and get nipped in the bud. Advice? Thanks for your channel--between y'all and Laura, I'm learning a LOT! 👍🏼
Brynna is SO adorable. Just love watching her prance and play with those big paws of hers (she is going to be one big dog!). So I unfortunately ran out of time to get the large leaf debris out of my garden before everything froze and the snow came. I guess I’ll have to leave all this clean up until spring and hope it doesn’t cause any disease (MA zone 5).
That dog is so cute! I've been doing the same, here in South Louisiana, cleaning up my beds. We finally had a cold snap, last night. Got around 32 degrees, felt like 22 with the wind chill factor. But I supposed to be back in the 70's, later today. So, as usually, there is always something to do, in the garden. And I love it!
Good morning! Yes, I enjoyed our 70 degree days this past weekend. I was finally able to get out and rake the leaves in my backyard. Still have some planting to do but need to create the beds first. My Lantana is still green, it never even died back but I've got mine in a pot.
I'm in zone 8a eastern NC and I cut my lantana back every year after the frost bites it (usually right around Thanksgiving). I also moved a very well established lantana last spring as it was beginning to wake up and it grew almost as big as in years past. I know zones can have little micro climates but I have always done this in my area with tremendous luck. I think Jenny will be pleasantly surprised, at least I hope so!
Margie- Jenny I have been wanting a German shepherd for a long time and your patience with her is so cool to see. We are expecting snow again here in 6a Kansas city this Thursday so I should probably delay cleaning up the gardens at this time but I will remove weeds and the big leaves that are just sitting there and I will use my blower. Thanks so much Jenny you have motivated me!
I have cut back to the ground my lantana forever with no issues. I also use my battery powered hedge trimmers for all my perennials. Makes quick work of this process even on my hardy roses.
I was hoping to see the continuation of Jerry's Landscaping project. I am excited to see how it is coming along. 2- It was so much fun watching Brenna I nearly forgot to pay attention to the video, so I had to back it up. I forgot what fun young dogs were like, Our's are all older now. I'm thinking we need a few new ones. 3- Jackson's treehouse is coming along just fine,, but it seems a little small for him. he should do a video of his treehouse and how he built it. 4- When I dig out plants, I beat/pound that root-ball to death getting all the soil out of them, then they [ root-ball, woody stems, etc] are burned for the pot ash, which goes back into the gardens. The rest goes into the compost. We also rake out the leaves, mulch it with the lawnmower, which goes into a bagger, and it goes in the composting bins. We have nearly zero waste from the gardens/farmland.
So much fun watching your sweet puppy sidekick, Jenny!! How blessed she is to be yours! I adore all of your videos and never fail to learn something new in each of them. Hugs from Houston, Texas!
Giiirrllllll. I feel your pain with the puppy digging while your working… Mine does the exact same thing….. or pulling the weeds out of my hands ……. Thinks were playing.
I always enjoy your maintenance videos since as a beginner I need that kind of information. I’ve learned so much from yours. I like your raised beds with the steps leading up to them. Because I can’t see it in person maybe I shouldn’t make any suggestions but have you considered a picket fence around them with a arbor at the top of the steps? Love, love watching your puppy. It seems she thinks you’re playing a new game in the garden and trying to participate. Thank you for sharing her with us to enjoy.
Looking good! Love all your helpers! I have a huge ham & eggs lantana that I would love to move but just keep cutting it back. It’s such a butterfly magnet!
It's always nice to have some extra help (or hinderance) in the garden. In my zone 5 garden I leave the maple leaves on my heucheras as an insulation against the cold. Keeps the squirrels out of the tulips too. I've never had a problem with disease. Just remove them in the spring.
Oh it's coming along so nicely. I can only image that with each year it will only become more beautiful. Love it and your cute little pup! And I just can't get over Jackson and his tree house. Good job for encouraging your boy to learn to work with his hands and learn a trade. It'll pay off for him. So glad that he enjoys it.
I need to do this!! I’m planning to go out tomorrow and put some areas to bed here in California zone 9b! I love to slowly work though everything in anticipation of the garden season starting in the spring! Love your new gardening buddy!! 🐶
This is my first winter with kniphofia and I was surprised to see it still green here in the north (barely a z7 for me). Glad you mentioned it. Some unexpected evergreen in my front bed is nice.
I love watching the before and after. Brenna is wonderful. Can you tell me the brand and/availability of the fork you use for mulch? We’ve bought a few for hay and they break or bend. Yours looks much sturdier. Thanks.
I trim my lantana every year. I have lost a few , but 9/10 of mine return. A neighbor has a giant lantana more than twice the size of yours. It gets cut to the ground every year. It comes back every year and blooms nicely. I’m guessing that trimming yours will be fine too.
The puppy is having a good time. Is it a boy or girl? Looks like a glorious day to clean up. We are now in the 20’s our 50-70 days are over. Thanks for sharing.
