Planting Potatoes & A Bunch of Groundcovers! 🥔🌿😁 // Garden Answer 

Laura sometimes talks about how certain plants give her nostalgia. For me it is planting potatoes. My dad would walk down the row of freshly tilled soil and toss the seed potatoes and I would follow behind with my bare feet and step on them to bury them in the soil. I remember the smell of the garden and the cool dirt between my toes. Thanks to GA for reigniting my love of gardening and helping me find the peaceful place of having my hands (and feet) in the soil and watching the beautiful things grow ❤

Fun fact, Van Gogh was using digitalis to treat his depression and one of the side effects is seeing yellow more vibrantly, which some theorize is why he was inspired to paint the sunflowers.

Happy birthday wishes to Laura, it was on the 20th. God bless you!!! 🤗🙏🏼😍🎉🥳🎊😘🎂🎁🌹

Just a tip my father taught me when growing potatoes . When your potatoe plant start blooming if you pinch off the blooms if puts more growth into the potatoes instead of the plant . I've did this for years . He would have been 113 this yr .

Douglas is such a beautiful cat!

I'm about to plant my potatoes today--a month later than usual--thanks for the inspiration! We have had a rough winter/spring due to my husband's health issues and it's been hard to find the time and the motivation to get everything done. Happy gardening everyone!!

Laura’s my comfort person for real🫶🫶

That little yarrow is my favorite!!! It's adorable and so dainty😊. The other plants will be beautiful in your garden, but today's plant winner is the mighty, tiny yarrow.

Thank you so much for adding written names of plants you use or plant.

Yay it's time for ground covers! Such a testament to how much you do for your gardens. Finishing touches and hopefully mulching will be less labor after they grow in! I was imagining your cats either taking over your RU-vid tube or really making their own youtube channel 😂. What is it about cats that I'm so mesmerized. Hang in there you are working so hard. I wear your GA sweater and long sleeve shirt at work in the Emergency Department I work in (nurse, here). I love making connections with my patients and there's no better platform than yours!❤❤

Those "Brass Buttons Yarrow" flowers reminded me of Horten Hears A Who 😂

“One four inch container at a time.” My kind of gardener!! 💚💫💚

Missed seeing Benjamin, did you forget to “warn” him…😉

What a productive day you have had. Potatoes planted. Beautiful ground covers in and allowing us to see how beautifully your garden is waking up. Have a blessed day everyone.

I love the ground covered that Samantha selected. I can see a pattern emerging with her plant choices -- anything with flowers, especially pink! 🌸🌸🌸🌸

Samantha has got an eye for beautiful plants like her Momma . 🤍💕

Laura I absolutely love your channel. It’s so encouraging everyday 💚 the flower bed next to the driveway/raised bed area, you planted begonias around the trees, it would be so pretty to plant the same begonias in those gorgeous urns. (My only request) your love of family and gardening inspires me. I get up every morning looking forward to your post and out in my garden I go! Happy gardening…and I’ll see you in the next video 💐😘💚

You planted a beautiful array of ground covers! The varieties are perfect for the edges of the flower beds.

So happy to tune in this morning to find you’re planting potatoes! I appreciate the information. I had thrown some old small Yukons in my compost pile. When leaves started coming up I potted everything. We’ll see how it goes. Thanks for taking us along - GA videos are the first I watch every morning! 💚 🪴 🌹❤️

Laura, you should put the rock crest by the pond area around the rocks and call it Samantha's mini garden .. have her pick out each month her flower of the month .. lol

I never get tired watching you plant. It is okay that you speed it up.

Where was Benjamin on your potato planting day? Missed his excitement of being your helper. I bet he was having fun on his new play area!

I've never found that hilling potatoes creates a heavier yield. Few potato varieties are indeterminate, and good luck finding that info in any way besides trial and error. But, the new potatoes form above the seed potato. So if you are not careful, the soil will erode and you will end up with exposed potatoes. And we all know those turn green and taste like soap. So continual hilling ensures that your harvest is well covered.

Ground covers and winter interest are things I need to focus more on in my garden. Thanks for introducing me to more varieties of ground covers Laura…you are AHHHH-mazing! Very helpful video too.💚💜

The condition of the soil in the South Garden is amazing after planting & mulching from even just a couple of years. When you were planting the wooly thyme, I noticed the dramatic improvement!!!

Good morning all have a safe and blessed day ❤️

I now have all the parts to my Greenstalk, so I have to get it together to assemble it! I plan on doing strawberries, mint, and jalapeños! I'm very excited! I did do most of my deck pots yesterday but didn't get my gardens fully cleaned out. All my perennials that I planted last year came back, which makes me so happy! Peonies, hydrangeas, mini skirt hostas, a fern, lilys of the valley, and more. I still have so many seeds to plant, but I've got to get my gardens cleaned out first! Easier said than done some days!

I have the same coral bells and mine are absolutely huge! Even my son in law who’s in landscaping, said wow your coral bells are enormous for only the second year! The whole bed looks great, with hostas and coral bells and evergreens …coming along beautifully! Very happy with it! Especially my shadowland wee hosta! Such a beautiful plant!

A little unrelated to the video, but was super excited this morning when I got my notification that the kneeling pads were shipped! Thank you to the GA team for working so hard on getting those out!

The groundcover will make a difference in time. Thanks for showing us about planting the potatoes.

Always so nice to see plants waking up in spring! Everything looks so fresh and green, love it! The little plants at around 19:00 are a variety of Epimedium.

I planted Ajuga...it is now EVERYWHERE! In the lawn in my garden beds and across the lane from me. 1 little piece caught on a lawn mower or rake can spread and take. Careful peeps.

You’re so lucky to be able to grow Ajuga without it being invasive. In western WA it becomes so invasive it shows up in the lawn!!

Your garden is so beautiful. Yes, Laura that sweet little plant did look like it was an epic medium. They are such darling little woodland plants.

Funny I’ve just come in for lunch having planted several ground cover plants I took cuttings of last Autumn. Including the variegated Ajuga , which is so easy to propagate. I agree with Laura they are indispensable to stop weeds and retain moisture in the soil.❤️👩‍🌾🇫🇷

Good morning from Delaware Garden Answer friends.

Good good evening to all!

I wish I had started my gardens with groundcovers. I've been adding some the past couple of years and they multiply pretty rapidly. I love having all different kinds mixed together.

Good Morning! 🥔 I enjoy watching the evolution & the growth of your property! I am getting ideas for ground cover! I start my day watching your videos, they put me in a good mood! 😃🌿🥔💚

Thank you always enjoy your gardening videos you are such an bundle of positivity and energy.

Epimedium was the ground cover you couldn't remember... I love that plant!

That sweet little plant at 18:40 is epimedium, it is one of my favorites! Thank you for all the wonderful content.

I have learned so much about efficiency by watching you!

I love ground cover! I suggest trying partridge berry! It’s an evergreen with white twin flowers that produces an edible red berry in winter. A four season native!

Now that you have new areas to plant, I'd love to see an arboretum area of more rare plants

Not sure how I found your page . So glad I did . Been with you before Benjamin’s birthday.‼️❤️🥕🥕🥕

Laura, thank you for bare spaces and how your patient!! I’ve always been so dressed to get a spot planted and filled but this season I had a major ankle/ foot surgery and not walking too good normally I would be so extremely stressed that I have to get areas filled but it hit me in the last few posts of yours it’s ok to let a spot just be! If I get to it this season or not it’s ok. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to teach me Laura patience 💕🌸🌷

That ground cover you weren’t sure is definitely epimedium

I started watching you since I was in the Philippines years ago, now that I moved here in the U.S. Your tips and suggestions are very helpful. Especially the plant you use in your garden!

Надо было делать теплицу с томатами =) Томаты - это витамин А для кожи ! Его надо каждый день есть 😁

What a great idea to use herbs as ground cover plants! I bet the Thyme smelt wonderful 😍 I've just planted some Erigeron Karvinskianus 'Lavender Lady', Geum Mai Tai, Geum Cosmopolitan Cocktails and several Hardy Geraniums (Rozanne, Alaska Rivers, Biokova and Geranium St Ola) so hopefully I'll have less soil for weeds to grow and lots of beautiful flowers for the bees and butterflies 🌸🐝🦋💕

I planted John Creech sedum, a tiny budded ground cover, and it took along a stone edged, street side area, about 20 feet long. I am thrilled, after three other attempts, that it grew, and did a great job. What I find distressing, is the amount of time it takes to take out the weeds that continually grow in it. Unless I do this, the overall look is changed as the weeds fill out. The roots of the sedum are now dense, so to pull weeds sometimes means disturbing the established roots of the sedum, and it is time consuming.

Was watching this video and realized I need to transplant some Ajuga so off I go! Will finish watching this video later😊 😊

I would plant sunflowers in the area that you had the foxgloves. They pull all toxins out of the soil and that should give you peace of mind. I actually tested this out with an accidental oil spill in my raised bed garden… totally worked! It was a really fun experiment.

Good morning from Kentucky 🌻

How do you manage to clean fall leaves out of your beds under your trees and preserve the integrity of your groundcover or other plants? I understand many people want to "leave" the leaves, lol, but we would have 2-4 feet of leaves on our beds if we did so. Raking isn't a great option as it tears up the plants and using a leaf blower takes out the majority of our mulch while many leaves remain embedded in the delicate plants. We are on a wooded property and I have a love/hate relationship with the trees. Every summer I enjoy looking at the beautiful canopy, but in the back of my mind dread the fall clean-up AND my beds are never the same. I find myself looking at your beds and shaking my head in wonder at how "leaf" free they are. Thanks so much in advance 💚🌿!

With such nice, fluffy soil I would think you might plant some carrots or turnips along with your peppers and corn. Your channel is wonderful to watch and learn from every morning. Thank you.

Potatoes are determinant and indeterminant just like tomatoes! Indeterminant will benefit from hilling since they will continue to form potatoes all along the stem but determinant it does not matter since they form the crop in a single layer 😊👍

I've noticed how much the soil has improved in the south garden. The addition of compost over the last couple years has really made a difference. I know you're pleased with it! I saw a comment that someone made about Samantha starting her own little garden maybe in the pond area. What a great idea! 🌸🌼🪻🌺

What happened to your helper, Benjamin? He said to “warn” him (remind) when you were planting potatoes! 😂 Love your channel, and your kiddos…..never miss watching you all. ❤

I love ajuga! So many varieties! The bees go crazy when in bloom. I kept wanting to ask if you liked it, but , some people got a bit cringy saying non native, invasive. It does spread , but not crazy, and so easy to pull and move. Thanks for my daily break.

What a beautiful choice of ground covers in such a smart idea. I love it, enjoying your videos with my cup of tea. 👍🥰❤️Liz in California

Oh my goodness....I thought Burgundy Glow was the only pink variegated ajuga 😮. Those pink blooms are gorgeous, I'm going to have to find some of that for my ajuga collection

It might be appreciated by others than just me but I would like to see more info about tackling typical and “weird” problems related to shrubs, trees and plants. For example what to do when recently planted arborvitae begin to brown and expected outcome based on treatment.

I LOVE THE GROUND COVERS! COUPLE OF QUESTIONS:(1) WHY NO YUKON GOLD POTATOES? THEY ARE THE NUMBER ONE POTATO IN NORTH CAROLINA....(2) IS THERE ANY WAY THAT AARON CAN ORDER THE MERCHANDISE IN PINK? I'VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG.....THE HOODIES & NOW THE KNEELING PADS? I WAS TICKLED PINK WHEN THE TOWERS WERE OFFERED IN PINK!

Good one, I need more ground cover, thanks

Pink Lightening Ajuga Bugleweed is on my wishlist!!

I’m so happy today!!! Over an hour of the tour & now nice & early for another video!!!! Can you tell us what size the tiller is? Ty❤️❤️

Geez I didn’t know it was so easy to grow potatoes. 🙏🏻

😂 Douglas assisting with the tour, going where you point and drawing attention, Adore him.❤❤❤

Happy Birthday Laura!!! Thank you for the tips about potatoes. Trying this tomorrow too!!!

We had a heavy frost in mid-Michigan last night.

What are you going to plant on the other side of the long garden bed with the new ground cover, looks usually bare. Thanks so much for daily videos I’m sure I’m speaking for all of us when I say we appreciate it and look forward to them!

Good morning from Georgia. Weather has bounced from Spring back to winter into summer temps now Spring temps again. Got a lot planted. Still adding more roses. A David Austin arrived just as i was getting in the car to go to radiation therapy. The blooms are a coral color,an i know how much Laura adores that color,so i will name her Laura. Yes my plants have names. Won't be doing a vegetable garden this year, for i will have a lot of down time. Surgery will be coming up after i finish with radiation. I have a sarcoma in my ankle and surgeon is doing limb saving surgery along with a plastic surgeon to reconstruct my foot. Watching GA and being out planting beautiful roses, perrenials,an i even planted two crabapple trees that bloomed . Tho small they are gorgeous. Being outside and seeing everything in bloom is great therapy.

Samantha has good taste 😅😂, I love rockcress. Great plant, very hardy and evergreen for me. I think it grows better for me in zone 5b than creeping phlox

Good pick Samantha >>>> White Rock Cress is so lovely. 💮💮💮

Hi Laura and Aaron, I love your videos and have been watching you for years. Just a curious question are you certified for wildlife habitat since you have the pond now? All these beautiful pollinators and birds around your plants and garden but I’ve never heard it mentioned. i’ve learned so much from your channel and It brought peace to my life when I sincerely needed it. Thank you for all you do.

Your kiddos are getting so big! Time goes by so quickly. Keep enjoying your time with them. I have so many wonderful memories of my 2 sons when they were little like that. They are embedded in my mind. Photos are not necessary. 😊

Thank you, Laura. 😊

Love adds. Awsome Laura😊!

Again a lovely look at planting ground covers. They certainly give a finished look to an area.

No more wooly thyme in between stepping stones. Bees galore, roots so strong that I couldn't get the weeds out. Struggled with it 2 years. Took forever to eradicate it.

Please add the benches in the openings on the West side like you showed yesterday!! It was so pretty!

What about white rock cress in pond area next to rocks?

Ground cover >> What about some > > White Periwinkle (Vinca minor 'Alba') evergreen. Or > ‘White Nancy' > > (Lamium maculatum)

Love you Laura!!! So informative! And you get so very much done! Live the ground covers you chose! So pretty! God bless you! ♥️👩‍🌾♥️

My daughter has a small flower bed for my grandson (8) and my granddaughter (6) and they pick up their own plants at the garden center when she goes and they plant seeds in their garden. That might be fun for Benjamin and Samantha out by their play set.

I planted potatoes today today in between rain

Love love love all the ground covers. Your garden is just so beautiful. The music in the video is so soothing. Thank you to all involved.❤❤❤

I'm catching up on your videos this morning for some inspiration. My front garden beds are taken over by weeds, so I plan to go tackle those today. But first, Garden Answer inspiration!

Yay for ajuga! Such a versatile groundcover. I have a bunch planted below my Otto Luyken English Laurels. It’s my favorite groundcover. 💜

The best part of my day..watching Garden Answer with my coffee..

Laura, I just love your channel! You are a real inspiration! I was chuckling to myself because you brought out how ajuga are “deer resistant…fire resistant!” But did you know they are also “dog urine resistant, too, lol?” Who knew? 😅

Epimedium! AKA Horney Goat Weed. I've done a presentation at my local garden club about this plant.. LOVE it! I is amazing as a cut filler in bouquets AND it's entertaining that it's the primarily ingredient in Viagra ;)

Aww Douglas's white wittle paws are the cutest.

Have you thought about putting gazing balls in your gardens?

That wooly thyme is so cute. I have to find some!

Laura,, Among your so many talents…I love how you explain light source and how it effects the plants. Also I was just wondering where the cats where and Douglas showed up🤣 Do you feed them treats to show up on camera…ha, ha, ha.

Love your ground covers. That is what I really need to focus more on this year also. Thanks for the tips. Your little buddy is very friendly today...lol

Look at Mr. Douglas haven’t seen him in a while😁. Loved all the plants that you planted I can’t wait see it fill in. It’s going to look amazing.