I am 62 years old and my sweetest and mot cherished memories are those times spent with my aunt and uncle on their farm. They inspired me, but starting was a problem but with an income of $60k monthly I was able to. My first year farming generated us $142k here in Tynan, TX. We never looked back, agriculture (ranch farming) is a gold mine
Yup, gardening is such a sweet, delicate little job, isn't it..... as Laura is lugging crates of potatoes, digging up roses in soaking wet soil, blowing through drip tube, scraping, and repainting...... but we wouldn't have it any other way!♡ Thank you, Laura, for being so amazing and showing "the good, the bad and the ugly" of gardening. We all appreciate you so much!♡
Laura, my husband’s uncle, a lifelong farmer, had a unique way of planting potatoes that he swore by. He would till up the ground where he was going to plant the potatoes. He would push the sets into the soil, nothing more and then cover the entire patch with a thick layer of straw, 10 to 12 inches. Come harvest time, he would rake the straw back and he was able to grab the plant and pull the plant and potatoes up, none were ruined with the fork that way. Our old timers tried and true way!
I think the chicken coup bed brings me the most joy to see when it gets all planted. We all have a small little area like that that we can use as inspiration. Love the new addition.
Watching this video I was reminded of how much you have inspired my own landscape. Thanks to you, I've put in arborvitae and roses all along my driveway, planted several trees closer to my house, planted a rose garden (and my husband built a fence and an arbor around it, complete with 2 David Austin climbing roses) and I planted 23 supertunia Vista bubblegum this year in my front flower garden. It is stunning and I have received so many compliments. My parents suffered a horrific basement collapse due to heavy rain/mudslide and I brought home the old cement blocks from that disaster and we built raised beds with them. Now, they enclose abundant strawberry plants, candy onions, cabbage, greens and cosmos. And my parents have a new basement while the old materials are still being used 🙂. Anyway, I said all that to say thank you for this channel. Because of you, I have found so much beauty and enjoyment that I always wanted but didn't know how to start.
Gotta love Douglas hiding in the flowers on the truck bed. How satisfying to see Laura paint the chicken coop! Of course, the discovery of the majestic giant potato was my favorite part.
The pot you planted at the chicken coop was absolutely delightful and so refreshing in its color combination. Great eye Laura, as always. Us armchair gardeners live vicariously through you now that our gardening days are gone by. Thank you so much!
The chicken coop looks amazing. I love the hydrangeas there. Sooo glad Bethany is taking the roses. You are sooo giving. I agree with Gwen. Put that huge potato on your dad’s desk. Absolutely. He would get a kick outta that. 🤭🤭🤭🤭
I think sometimes change is good and if you are not happy with an area, I agree you should dig it out and replace with something new. The hydrangea's look great. You definitely have a green thumb when it comes to growing onions and potatoes and garden produce, not just the beautiful flowers and shrubs. Hope you take the giant potato down for your dad to see. I really love starting my morning watching your videos. Have a blessed day everyone.
Laura, it is amazing how the trees have grown up to change the light requirements of the roses! But, you have always made wise choices on plant moving. The coop turned from bright and sunny to shade and dapple sun. And your color and plant choices never fail to make the changes so beautiful!❤
Good Morning from PA. Love,love,love watching you and Aaron plant and create a beautiful garden. Its my dream to be able to plant the wonderful things you plant. With all my friends downsizing, I want to move to a house with alot of land to be able to a quarter of what you do. I want to re home dogs and plant a massive garden for my family and friends. My dad loved to grow his garden and I loved walking thru it a picking cucumbers and tomatoes off the vine and eating them. Such great memories. 😊Thank you for all you do!! ❤
Good Morning Laura and Aaron!!!! I have to admit that I've never had hydrangeas in my yard before and didn't know about them until learning about them from Garden Answer. After watching for some time now I have added 10 of various varieties in my garden. I'm in love with them.
I would love to see Bethany's garden! I would like to see what she has been doing with all these plants! I need a friend like you to help fill my garden 😉
That Douglas - spending time with Laura. Good to see the Chicken Coop area get the re-work you've been talking about. Painting the coop was a good idea. Very pretty. that one potato looks like a gourd.
🌿🌸 Laura I am so enjoying catching up with you through your videos this morning, & yesterday on RU-vid too. Thinking of you & want to say thank you for sharing your life with everyone...You are so special. Take care of yourself though too. God bless you & those you love. 💐❤
I make a to do list everyday(after watching GA). I start on the list and they get distracted with other things along the way. Fall seems to be the time to finish all the little jobs that didn’t happen in the summer. Absolutely love the hydrangeas in front of the coop. It has always been a favorite for me.
Good morning! How pretty the chicken coop area is with the new additions! I’m with you pull the summer annuals and plant the fall plants! So many potatoes. You have quite a crop & the size of some of those! What a great harvest.
Farming and gardening-not always the day we plan but always productive!! Loved the hydrangeas you added to chicken coop and beautiful pot! Make the bed as you want-finish planting it out! And what a potato haul! Thanks for sharing the day as it unfolded!❤❤❤
The chicken coup area has always had a pretty look and the coup itself adds to this garden bed - country quaint. Glad to see it refreshed after a hard summer of pests. The Hydrangea have added life and color.
Your decision to change out the roses for the hydrangeas was brilliant. Love the look of that flower bed by the chicken coop now--much more color. Regarding that potato--Wow!!! Never saw a red-skinned potato that large before.
Good morning, wanted to share that hydrogen peroxide kills spider mites and does not hurt your plants. Someone may have already shared this, I am new to this channel and may have missed the other post. Just spray plants directly or mix with water 1/2 and 1/2 but use daily if diluting until mites are gone. Works on aphids too.
I love the changes to the chicken coop, gardening bed. I actually love the hydrangeas there and almost think that you could pop in some coral sedum to get that pop green around the edges maybe for the fall I love pink in that green together and that bed definitely needs that pink color absolutely beautiful, again thank you for sharing
Your chicken coop garden has always been one of my favorites! I love the addition of these hydrangeas. 😊 Question! If one doesn’t have a root cellar, is there any point in growing root vegetables in bulk? I was thinking of trying potatoes, onions, and garlic, but don’t have a cellar or space that stays that cold… thanks! ❤
This is a great question! I’ve often thought the same thing. I live in zone 8b NC and have no cellar or even an outbuilding to store things in. Hoping they address this in the recap! 🤞🏻
I’m in 6b western nc and kept my sweet potatoes from last year’s harvest in a bottom cabinet in a crate all year. Not a perfect solution but it will work till we get our cellar built. We live in a 325 sq ft camper while building our homestead so I had to get creative to find the space but it was worth it!
I watch lots of homestead videos. If you have a crawl space you can use that as storage for root crops. 😊 There's so many ways you can store/ preserve your produce. Good luck 😊😊😊😊
I store mine in the dark coolest part of my cellar even though it is finished and heated. I keep the sprouted potatoes and plant them in the spring. The onions, garlic, and squash keep just fine. The dahlias are in crates of vermiculite but I do spritz with water. Carrots and beets need to be in the fridge.
In the past living on a farm, harvest time was so much fun being so self sufficient is so gratifying, you don't need to go to the produce market. It's in your own back yard. Growing your own potatoes and digging them up seeing your harvest is so gratifying, great episode!
Good article by Oregon State University about snakes in Eastern Oregon. It lists the varieties and what they eat. There are a couple that actually go down gopher holes a mole and vole holes to get their prey. These snakes are not harmful to people. Might be worth a try. Super potato harvest. 😊
Some days it seems there's more snags than other days. All in a gardener's day Laura. The hydrangeas look gorgeous there!! I also love to change things up, especially when it's nearing the end of one season going into the next. Wow!! That is some potato crop!
I really appreciate hearing about your garden struggles. My garden had a horrible summer with spider mites to the point where I just wanted to give up on it all. Thanks for sharing your struggles.
Hydrangeas, especially panicle and arborescens, are really just that perfect plant to set in for colour and reliability. You really can't go wrong with them, and they are always the first plant i notice in landscapings. So pretty.
Thank you for spurring me on to touching up the one foot of white paint on my porch ceiling I've been ignoring all summer. ☺ I'll put it on my to do list for today!
Those Red Pontiac potatoes are quite a prolific variety! I think I'll give them a try next year. Also glad you found the hole in the drip by the chicken coop! Bonus to changing out the roses- finding an issue and fixing!
I love the new look in front of the chicken coop. There’s something about painting! You come up with new ideas while pursuing the robotic movement of applying paint. At least for me, some of my best ideas came to mind while painting. ☺️🙃
So excited that you opted to put the hydrangeas in front of the chicken coop. I was yelling yes, yes, do it to you from my side of the screen. Glad you also found the culprit to why that bed wasn’t doing great. My! Those potatoes are monstrous. Enjoy your mashed potatoes. My fav.
Oh My Word. 😂. Planting, digging up, planting again, drip fixing, scraping, painting and finishing with potato harvest. I say a very productive day. Must show Dad that beast of a potato.😂😂😂. Thanks again for sharing this with us. Appreciated. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
What a cute compliment to your coop 🐤 This is so bright and cute but, of course my favorite color are those that bring " the PINK to the INK ON MY PALLETTE " 🩷. Thank you Laura , for sharing the tough stuff too . Time for a mind & body break ? Lemonade on a bench over your pond in the shade might be. Ice , call Aaron . Have a beautiful day !
Laura, can you tell us what color a hydrangea will become in acidic and non acidic soil? Do you think that the grass actually likes more water? Could the spider mites be hiding on the back side of the leaves of your climbing plant of the chicken coop? Potato bread, potato casserole, potato soup, potato salad, potato chips, baked potato, shredded potato, and do not forget some mashed potato!
