Thank you, Angela. I absolutely love the garden tours. I am so intrigued and amazed at the abundant variety that you are able to grow in your small space. It doesn’t seem small at all, quite large in fact. Keep cool. The hottest days are yet to come. 🥵
I love you video's. You give so much great info. I'm also in zone 8B over here in Monroe Washington. I'm currently building my own food forest. I'm looking forward to seeing what u put out in the future.
Thank you so much, Angela. Your videos are so encouraging to me, though I'm often overwhelmed by everything I don't know! I've decided to try to do one corner of the yard and spread from there. It's so helpful that your climate is similar to ours. It's just me doing most of the planning and work, so it tends to take a while. For the last few years it feels like all I'm doing is fighting grass (but then a berry shows up and it's so delightful!).
Glad to see someone nearby growing aronia (I'm in Camas). I dry most of mine with a bit of honey and eat some every day. I concur with blackcaps as a favorite berry. Although evergreen huckleberry is my co-favorite :-).
We have been enjoying our Allen blackcap raspberries for almost a week now and we should have several more harvests before the last berries ripen. I was so tempted to procure other blackcap raspberry cultivars like Jewel, Bristol, Munger, Black Hawk, etc., but I think we'll just propagate more canes using the new growth I'll be pruning off soon.
I have Munger as it is the only improved variety I’ve been able to find. It is very disease resistant and produces very large crops. Definitely recommend!
@@ParkrosePermaculture Sounds great! And totally different subject, but did you say in a recent video that you were looking for a Carmine Jewel Cherry? I saw one here under their Products/Cherry tab: honeyberryusa.com/honeyberry-plants-2.html.
Looking forward to the video on brassicas. I grew purple sprouting brocolli last years, but it didn't do too well, I did have more luck with my favorite brassica, ragged jack kale. I have yet to try cabbage or brussel sprouts.
Wishing my garden was yielding such abundance!! The insect pests Japanese beetle, harlequin bug have moved in here in zone 7b. How do you keep the bad bugs from eating in the garden?
It looks amazing! How do you have any food left after the animals get at it? I just planted my first garden. The birds are eating the blueberries. The deer just decapitated the tomato plants. The squirrels and chipmunks are eating the strawberries. The bunnies and snails are going through everything else. At this rate, I am spending time and money and eating nada!
I am having terrible deer pressure also. They topped off my tomatoes and hydrangeas and are helping themselves to flowers every day. I planted a vegtable garden in the front yard and everything is wide open. They even got top of my raised beds. We've been having terrible rain in Michigan lately so spraying deer out is not going to work until the 2 weeks of straight rain passes.
Delightful. I love the taste of all aronia berries. I know that’s rare. I wish my aronia bushes actually made some berries. I have red, black and purple and last year the drought caused them to dry up and drop. ImThis year not all of them bloomed and those that did are now drying and dropping although it’s been raining and i collect water and water them regularly. It’s their second full year. I planted them in late fall 2919. I wonder if anything is up with the roots or soil. They’re so hardy it’s hard to tell. The leaves and growth look good. They’re starting to sucker which is what I want. I’m hoping it’s a young plant thing but the fact that all three aronias were in copious fruit when I purchased them in pots gives me pause. I’m in southern Vermont zone5. Thanks for reading my tale.
They’re so good! I don’t know if I would call them better than a homegrown strawberry… They’re just different. I think I couldn’t do without growing both of those… But I definitely like them better than red raspberries…and I LOVE red raspberries
My goal is to get more berries going We got two small honey berry shrubs last year this year it was so dry the fruit dried out after flowers got frosted and not many pollinators when it was cool...same with my apples But this year my goose berry made it the winter and no berries but it flowered too Also our red current is much bigger this year:) Our raspberry bushes moved themselves towards more sun last year lol so i let them and hopefully this year they will do well lol plants are so cool
