First BIG Spring Harvest | The Orchard | Addressing Snake Comments (All My Life I Had To Fight LOL) 

Kale picked in the warm months (and this goes for collards as well) will become sweet if you put it in the freezer for 10 minutes after harvesting.

Asia, please do not let your fears prevent you from doing what you enjoy. I used to be very afraid of snakes but I enjoy gardening and have been gardening for over 10 years. Love your content. You're doing a great job!

This is why i grow my brassicas in container pots and my chinese napa cabbage. I put vaseline all around the middle of my pots to stop slugs etc ftom crawling up in the pot to eat my brassicas and napa cabbage. Especially when it rains is when all these gross slugs like to come out. But putting vaseline outside of the pots work really really good!

I am fairly new to the channel. To be blunt, there are so many things that make it worth watching. This will be my first gardening cycle with you. I have learned a great deal of tips, here and there. I am mostly seeing the principles practiced and learning from the outcomes. My indoor grow bag gardening has improved because of you. I also want you to know that something about the way you harvest makes me feel just as happy as if I were doing it. I love that everyone who chooses to garden is able to. While you were not the target of my goals, being able to share your garden shows that WE ALWAYS had the right to garden. In some states, they "tried to pretend" people were not allowed to garden anymore. Many older residents told me how the state of Florida forced them to STOP sharing and trading food. It was a way to force people to go to the supermarket and eat foods of lesser quality. I am happy to see you in this space. Just wanted to tell you...enjoy all that hard work! And girl, you are a tough woman...machetes are for snakes as snakers are for falcons. LOL. I know it sounds crazy but I love a good story about how I ran down a snake with a machete as a "opening joke" when people say gardening is boring. Like NO...not when snakes show up and try to be friends. LOL. Everyone loves squirrels but snakes...yeah not happening. LOL.

Loved the harvest tour! Thank you 🪴💚

Girl I missed you, you were just what the doctor ordered. The garden was hot and I was sweating bullets, but came, sat down tuned you up and instantly got laughter, thx for being you. Asia you're a breath of fresh air on a crispy hot day.

I see snakes multiple times a day at my job and in my home garden. We have tiny brown snakes which are good garden friends. As long as snakes are nonvenemous, they can stay. Venomous ones I will try to call someone to relocate.

i can hearr the excitement in your voice about this harvest and it makes me feel so excited about starting my own garden! i love seeing this so much! congrats about your harvest!

WOW!!! what a harvest 🤩🤩🤩

Hey sis you ever tried plating marigold flowers mixed in with your greens. Most bugs dont like it and it worked very well when I had my garden. Your garden looks amazing.

I am a huge fan! I love your garden and warm personality. I agree with the snake situation. I had many in my yard in upstate NY. You encouraged me to take more of an interest in my garden ( I live in Pennsylvania now). Keep staying real....and funny.

Your garden looks absolutely amazing❤. #goals

So glad that I found you! How did you make your raised beds from scratch? I finally have a yard to start a garden!

So proud of you!! Amazing harvest. You are going your thing❤❤

Great harvest ❤

Ooohhhh comfrey fertilizer!! I never knew you could do that!! I’m excited. Thank you!!

Love your garden! You keep me laughing! 🍅🫛🌶️🥕🥦✨

Beautiful harvest. Thanks for sharing.

Asia Basia!! Lol that Kale looks so beautiful! Wow! Enjoy eating it 🌱🥰😋

Asia, I love your garden.

You are very inspiring! Thank you!❤

What I want to know is how do you keep your pants white in a garden....If I dare wear white pants in my garden they would be black when I was done...lol

It's such a pleasure watching you in your garden! Nice harvest🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

Great harvest love those herbs you are doing it Love 👀 your videos 👍👍

Your nails are beautifully that color is beautiful on you 😊

Looks nice and peaceful

Hey Asia! I love your channel and I’m learning so much from you. I’m a beginning gardener and I curious about how to properly clean your food after harvest. I know you said you soak your kale in salt water to kill bugs but I’m curious about the proper way to clean other things like mint, herbs, etc.

Your videos are very inspirational. Would love to see how you preserve and cook with some of your harvests (especially leafy items and herbs)

I jinxed myself asking about snakes last week. Girl, I was planting out the last celery seedlings in mom's garden, stuck my hand trowel in, and pulled out a curled up baby one. The scream I let loose! And her back yard is wide open...geez. Dad found big momma a couple days later in a bale of straw he was saving to reseed bare spots in the lawn as they arise during summer. Nope, not for me. I buy a bale of anything and it goes out right away. Fingers crossed thats it for 2024 sightings 🤞

Heyyy Asia! Beautiful hair and nails! You were out there harvesting all the things. 👏 I love drinking mint tea from the garden, however, I’m also enjoying thinly sliced mint and lemon balm leaves in my scrambled eggs. I enjoyed hanging out with you in your garden. 🤗 Have a terrific week ahead!

You should post the slow motion video with the song by Plies 'slow motion for me' 😂

Our neighborhood notorious for rats. And we recently lost our cat, and now these things got all my lettuce and pepper plants and tomato 😑 I need me a snake lol

Loved the harvest tour! You're blessed with an extremely long growing season. My last frost isn't for another couple of weeks. Our growing season can be as short as 87 days in 5b CO mtns.

Love the video i put in ground cherries a few days ago

Moved my strawberries to a greenstalk this year. Turns out I have 3x as many strawberry plants than I thought. Glad I moved them otherwise I wouldn't have known why I was getting so little fruit. They had no space to grow.

Awesome video as usual!!

Beautiful garden!!

If your kale and collards are a little bit bitter put a little tiny bit of sugar in them when you cooking them

I’m terrified of snakes as well. 😩

Hi… Where did you get your garden bench? How long does it take to dehydrate your herbs?

Slow motion for me Slow motion for me, move in slow motion for me Slow motion for me Slow motion for me, move in slow motion for me…😁

I've been back yard gardening for ages and praise God I've never seen a snake. I also 7rs ago started a Hugelkultur bed which I never got to put soil on it but every once in a while I throw some "snake away" over it 😂😂

So is the fertilizer good to where you don't have to use anything else?? NPK? I just started growing the comfrey so I'm excited 😊

I think I missed how long the comfrey has to ferment for?

LOVE YOUR BRAIDS❤

When you first started filling up your beds and bags, where did you get your dirt from?

Great Video!❤

Make yourself a kale Waldorf salad!! Girl!! It's.so good. Be sure.to make the dressing yourself and (chef's kiss)

Did you use transplants for your lemon balm in your garden or did you plant seeds?

Love your channel. First view and like today😊

When collards go to seed, how do you stop it?

Sweeeeeet ✊🏾😎🥰🥰🥰

New sub here. Hi where’s the yellow door?

Hey Asia, I didn't get a chance to Garden at all this year, I've spent the last 3 months in Michigan working on some properties that have purchased, trying to get them ready as rental properties. Do you think it's too late to start gardening now in Georgia?

Good morning, my first time watching. What are the name of your strawberries plants?

Sluggo Plus is an organic pelleted pesticide that kills pill bugs. I put my strawberries in the green stalk planter this year.

You could dehydrate the kale, and blend it into a powder and add to soups etc, to disquise bitterness, if their is any.

Do you dilute your comfrey fertilizer?

Parsley is biennial so you need to start it again every other year

Hey Asia! What a harvest!!!😊 Beautiful! I'm with you on the snakes. If I ever come across a snake in my garden. It's a wrap 😂 I'm done! Anywho 😂 As always, thanks for sharing!😊

Soooo nice.....go sis....Side bar....my cilantro always bolts quick.....just heard u say they do in the heat......1 PEOPLE....1 MIND.....1 LOVE ❤️.....1 NATION....1...

Do you have tomatoes and bell peppers?

Hi! Do you have space for a Grrenstalk? You could grow your strawberries in those...

Your strawberry bed is beautiful, what type of strawberries 🍓 do you grow, and also what do you do to get beautiful strawberries 🍓

Loved the video! Thanks for the valuable advice! Hello from NY! 👋🏽❤️

None of my roselle seeds germinated don’t know what I’m doing wrong or the seeds are bad😩😭might have to get new seeds from someone or somewhere else😂

Asia i sure did enjoy this video. I learn a lot as well. Thank you.

Hello Asia . Where do you get your comfrey from? I live in romulus, MI, and can’t find it anywhere. Thank you for all of your education.

Hey Good evening Asia I love your videos when you are in the garden with your wine and a glass of it look like the movie badyboy.

I use long soccer socks as arm/sleeve defense. Just cut off the toe area. Saves me money 💰😁

I think my arugula bolted already. But that's okay, I really want more Chinese broccoli or Yod Fah

Gurlllllll, im getting rid of my chickens after over 10 years, this has been the worst year for me. A snake for the first time in the nest box, swallowing eggs. It's been bad ever since.nothings right anymore, i could tell you some stories that has happened in less than a year. The gods are tellint me , no more chickens right now. Im so afraid of snakes.

My alpine strawberries have yet to sprout. Ughhhhh

I have my rosemary planted right next to my marshmallow too 😩😅

Put the lambs ear in a pot or one of your bags to control it’s growth

How did you get your strawberry seeds to germinate?

Hey Asia we need the strawberry seed video pleeeease

I have my Lamb's ear in pots

Snakes are a lot smarter than people give them credit for and can be trained to avoid humans who don't like them. You just need a sound system that's durable enough to set on the ground. If the music is loud enough to hear across the yard, the vibrations will annoy them, and they'll be gone long before you see them.

Use food grade diatomaceous earth on your strawberries. It is the only thing that saves my strawberries.

You can’t smother the kale down with onions just like you do with greens. They are good :-) I am down. Where are you garlic season meat I like to cook them with neckbones. They are good cook fresh.

Cut away the bad places from your strawberries and give that to the chickens.

Great harvest 😊

Oh Asia, I'm SO sorry you encountered a serpent!😢😱 I've been extremely nervous about getting my tiny garden started for this very reason. I only do containers and elevated raised beds (can't stand slugs, groundhogs, cats, etc., touching my food🤮). Still, be encouraged and know that you are Such an inspiration to So many of us!♥

I've heard if you plant Sage it repells snakes. It worked for over 35 years. Thank you for sharing this journey. This is about the size I will have to work with.

I love the back round nature, there is so much life in one space ^_^ I also enjoy the experimental details that really sets you apart from other gardeners. I dear to dream if you did this full time what your garden would look like with more space and time. I have been reading and watching vlogs cents covid start from different sources and by far you and Mr. Charles Dowding are the most organic gardeners in my option. even though you are doing it all from testing and fun you are doing grate that's very inspirational. I let fear stop me and working full time lately sickness slow me down but all excuses aside I have still made time to grow flowers for the first time and an albino avocado tree she is a small girl but strong. My cat's seam to leave her, but they are loving taking the head off my male avocado baby no matter where I move it smh. Anyway ^_^' I love your channel, and your content keep up all your wonderful sharing it really makes a big difference to someone like me (different out the box thinker pushing boundary's and making my own way). oh, and I got chicken to lol because I saw your pretty girls living so happy I love that she just started laying her fairy Egg's and a lot surprisingly but I love her Thank You so much for the inspiration.

I think snakes should stay away from your garden because you have chickens :)

Your videos are so fun!! I love your personality! 🩷🩷 great garden!

Asia i would loove to see how yoiu cook or store your food after u harvest it

Great harvesting video Asia. Thank you. I need garden boots. Where did you purchase yours if you don't mind.😊Also, where do you get your comfrey

You’re truly making a difference

Try the lemon balm in your tuna salad. You're welcome 😋 Just discovered your channel..LOVE IT!

I am living vicariously through you right now! I moved and left established garden, and am in the process of creating another, so no Spring harvest this year. I make my own fertilizer as well, and yes it STINKS! But it works great!

You might want to move your mint plants into containers. Mint and mint relatives have a way of taking over garden beds. Save your Lamb's Ear in a large planter. It's good for wound care.

Your garden is very green and productive. I make organic compost tea with my fruit peels . The garden loves it.

Do you like Thai food??? I use up a ton of fresh mint & fresh basil when I make larb w/ ground chicken or Turkey (I do not like ground Turkey- but the strong Thai flavors (you must use fish sauce & lime juice) plus all the herbs (I at least double the amount of mint & basil in any recipe 26:03 ) totally disguise the Turkey!) … anyhow Google “easy larb recipe”… it freezes really well too- then I add more fresh herbs & lime juice when I reheat. I like it served like tacos but in fresh cabbage leaves (I put the leaves in over the hot larb right when I finish cooking, put the lid on & turn off the heat… let the leaves soften 5-10 min… so they’re not cooked- just softer than when raw…. Omg! Soo good!!! If you think you don’t like fish sauce… get a little bottle & try it…. It grows on you!!!

Enjoying your garden schooling.❤

Nails were giving red hot chilli peppers 🌶️ 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Hi Asia! You are so funny. I only use mint for tea and medicinally. I definitely am still germinating seeds in house. I'm in Philly so I also have a long growing season. Squirrels keep digging up my onion pots on my back porch.. but not the ones that are on the ground in pots.. thinking because those have longer onion strands. Who knows. My collards and sugar snap peas survived the winter and came up and are now flowering and going to seed. I love gardening!

Comfrey tea is called liquid gold fertilizer and is great for us to drink as well