Laura really is a different breed! I spent 45 mins cleaning up after tulips yesterday, and my back was hurting and I'm younger than her. 😂 She does this on a daily basis! Amazing to watch her do her thing!
You & your family are a breath of fresh air! With so much negativity on social media, I look forward to your smiling face and positive attitude each & every post. As a side note, we live near St. Cloud, Minnesota (south central-ish) and my sis and I have such a grand time planting her tiny condo flower bed and walkway area each year. I am 72, pretty healthy. She's 67 & suffers so from fybromyalgia. So, we plop our bottoms down in the dirt (bad joints at this age, ya know) and laugh, visit and plant. Such fun and we are making wonderful memories. Thanks again so much for bringing joy! She's actually going to grow a tomato in a five gallon bucket on her porch this year too!!!
I would call the new land "the farm". Fun place to have corn and create a corn maze in the fall. And a pumpkin patch and have a fire pit area. Fun fall harvest party space.
Honestly reminded me for my minecraft farm when I was smaller with all that natural weeds and straight rows running through it.. very wild yet charming
Boy, that Paul is a gift!!! I love how you always tell us how he & Bethany are such self-starters and excellent employees. I just so appreciate the hard work they put in to help you and Aaron. I do wish I had a Paul & Bethany though...😂
My best friend owns a semi and hauls food from Boise to Oregon and WA. He's in Ontario right now loading carrots. He just delivered a load of potatoes. Your area is a natural breadbasket of vegetable goodies! I can't wait to see everything take hold and grow. God Bless you for feeding the needy. I have a good recipe for onion soup!! 🧅🧅🧅
I am lost...where or when did she say she was going to feed or donate all this extra stuff to the needy? Give away yes..but to who.. More and more I am missing the simplicity of her gardening..Those days are long gone needing to keep the viewership up..At times I am not sure who I am watching anymore..
@@barbaratbennett9201 She said they will have so much produce to give away @10:21. They have been giving away produce and flowers for years now. Laura and Aaron are blessed to have some of the best soil in America. I'm assuming they will donate food to the food bank, her parent's nursery and to their church. That's been the pattern for years now and I love the fact they feed the needy. We are all needy in one form or fashion. My friend drives his semi to pick-up produce for a national food bank. I've learned a lot about produce over the years.
@@darlenemc3586 Yes ..I have been watching Laura since the beginning when she sold their town home and moved to this property..That said some of the needy agencies have so many restrictions on what they can accept ..I think she mentioned that many shows ago about that..but they are generous to friends and neighbors..And she does take things to her parents business
@@barbaratbennett9201 the restrictions were set when covid first started, didn't they? I always assumed they were put in place while we still knew very little of how the virus worked, and (like most covid regulations) have been lifted now
When I saw the dirt on your face at the end of the video, I smiled. Yes, gardeners love dirt and we aren’t afraid to show it! It is the sign of a good planting day. Thanks for keeping it real and for starting my day off with a smile. Now, I need to get out there and get dirt on my face too. 👏👏👏
Oh my gosh, when she said the tractor tiller was set to till 8” down I swooned with envy. I have about a foot of clay and colichi (rocky) soil before solid limestone; it takes forever to dig! He’s just drivin’ along enjoying the day!
May I ask what state ur in? I’m in west Tx, and I had to comment bc we have caliche too. It’s very rare to see ppl have this same kind of soil, and most don’t understand just how hard it is to dig holes here! An auger isn’t an option unless u want a broken wrist! My hubby and I just installed rose arbors that we built ourselves out of 4 x 4 timbers so we had to dig down by hand 18” to sink 10 timbers and concrete them in bc we get such high winds here. Then we had to dig 20 more holes for all the climbers I got for the arbors. It took us about two months to complete the project, and it was back breaking work, but I’m so thrilled with how it has turned out!
Same here!!!! We have gravel and stopped using glyphosate 5 years ago due to cancer. Now it’s a nightmare of weeds, I have to weed wack the drive and it’s PAINFUL.
@@rayodelsol80 ha mine isn't that impressive. It's a propane tank with a torch attachment. Ours Is just "the dragon". Maybe next year, if he does a good job eradicating kochia this year, we'll give him a proper name 🤣
I am first year veggie grower and I’m so excited. I just received 125 onion plants and 20 lbs of potato’s. I’m so so anxious about this. I love how you make it so easy. Thank you for your inspiration. I am beginning a small homestead journey this year so Happy Growing and keep sharing all of your knowledge!
Just remember there will be "failures" and never let that discourage you! Each will become a lesson for the next crop. I love hearing from people starting this journey, everyone should get their hands in some dirt! 🌱
OMG! How are you able to get up the next morning!! What a great idea for that space. I know it’ll be producing a truck load of food before the summer is done.
You are the epitome of industriousness, Laura! What excitement lies under this patch of soil. I love that Paul came in and left a surprise for you while you ate. Fairy Godfather.
🤣😂. I'm crying, I'm laughing so hard. I was scanning through comments and thought your's said half-baked potatoes. I know Laura said that phrase in the video and it made sense when I reread it, but you made my morning.
The saying “if you do something you love, you’ll never work a day in your life” oh my goodness it’s clear Laura loves what she does, her enthusiasm is infectious but wow does that lady work xxx We need more Laura’s and Aaron’s in the world xxxxxx Laura can I ask what you had for lunch? I need some to give me some of your energy xxxx
Good morning Laura, I'm so excited about your new project. Gosh , it's so great to have a tractor to tille the soil. I only have a small gas one and it takes forever. I love watching your channel. It makes me inspired to keep going. I have cancer and two weeks ago was rear-end after leaving the hospital. I was hospitalized for a week. But I never missed any of your projects. Keep up the good work. The world needs more people like you and Aaron❤
WOW! Looks the GA crew will be feeding Ontario. Everywhere one looks there are dire predictions for the near future. Thank you Laura and Aaron for all your hard work for the community. 🥰
No music- I love the sound of the breeze and birds in the background. I can see why you don’t listen to music or podcasts. Thank you for bringing peace in our lives.
Your half-baked projects, and my half-baked projects, are two completely different kinds of half-baked. My projects are more like the first time your kids make brownies by themselves, and you tell them their delicious (while you’re crunching on egg shells). 🤣🤣 keep doing your thing! Love it.
I appreciated the phrase- half baked projects. Sometimes you just have to make a START. Do something rather than being frozen by the need for immediate perfection.
Can't wait to see the sunflowers! However, next time I suggest the order for the other bed starts with tomatoes. Those need more attention and notice than onions and potatoes, so should be closer to the house so you are more likely to see and visit them.
I love that I have half baked projects every year! It's the creativity and seeing what I imagine coming to fruition! I feel that I am actually working instead of maintaining.
I love this spot for gardening already I can’t wait to see all the sunflowers lining the fence and the vines having tones of space to stretch out. It reminds me of when you first planted the old property,Aaron must feel like a real farmer tilling up all his new land and ready with the torch for weeds😊
Laura, you are an amazingly talented Gardner . ❤ I so enjoy your videos. I am 70 with lots of arthritis issues that prevent me from gardening anymore. When I was younger, I did all our landscaping and gardening. It would have been so nice to have a “Garden Answer” to draw inspiration from. You, Aaron, and your beautiful family are a light in this dark world. I am so impressed that you love to grow food to share with others. 🥔🧅🌽What a blessing you are. I am excited to see all your projects buttoned up this year! But we know you have many more in your mind!😂 May God continue to bless you in all things!🙏🏻
Good morning Laura and Aaron! Great North Garden Vegetable Garden. Looking forward to seeing Aaron with the torch and the high tunnels going up. Yea Laura! So much accomplished with this. Feeding others. Great content for us, freeing up space in the south garden so you can plant really lovely things over there and store your annuals safety. Amazing! Hugs from N.C. ❤️
Laura last year: we won't be planting on the new pasture. Laura this year: I'm planting 800 feet of the new pasture with food crops. 😂 Love it!!! You have the space and it is perfect for this huge crops. Keep thw cut flower space for flowers and use the huge pasture for food production. Your town LOVES you. You keep them well fed.
I love how you just popped all those onions and potatoes in the newest area. I like your idea of putting sunflowers along the fence too. Nice job Laura and nice tilling Aaron!
When I looked into my family ancestor history, 90# of whom have been farmers I learned, I understand why I am so fascinated by the opportunities Laura and Aaron have worked so hard to create for themselves, their family, and ALL of us who have had the chance to learn SO much from watching them over the years! I follow all sorts of gardeners online now and am grateful when they reply (Claus D. 😊) but GA was my very first! There really is NOTHING in human experience that could be more important than what the earth and seas give humans in our experience of life on this planet. Thanks Guys!! 😊
I knew Laura couldn't keep her hands off that land...😊 And Aaron that strip of lawn down the driveway looks wonderful! I can't wait to see what other ideas you two have for the bare land.
Good morning, Laura ☕️I too love projects 🙌🏻Those high tunnels are awesome 👏🏻 Can’t wait for them to be installed and the sunflowers 🌻 planted; going to look amazing! Have a Blessed Day 😊🐈
There is gardening and there is Garden Answers gardening. I love seeing the tractor tilling the soil and the immense length of drip tape. All of this and it is still a home garden planted with love and for the family’s enjoyment. thank you for providing us with such beautiful lessons in gardening. ❤
Hi Laura and Aaron, This video inspired a question about seedlings and plant starts, but first I want to say, Thank you. On April 30, 2022 my 93 y.o. father died. Surprising to me, one of the ways I've coped with my grief is watching RU-vid Gardening channels and applying my learnings in my own garden. Your channel is one of my favorites. I have learned so much. Thank you! Now for my question. I have always struggled with seedlings. I love growing plants from the little miracle that is a seed, but I probably only have 10-25% success in getting perennials from seed to an established plant. This year I started seed in trays with 1" by 2.25" cells. These were hardy varieties that I hardened off starting on about March 30 in my zone 8b garden (bringing them in if the forecast was at freezing or below). In spite of regular water and fertilizer, they stopped growing as soon as the hardening off started. After last hard frost date (4/15) I set many of them in the ground, and they still aren't putting on growth. What am I doing wrong?
I love watching all these new spaces - Aaron's sisters, Laura's sisters, now high tunnels and planting space on the new property - so many adventures👍👏❤️😊
I love how you toss the potatoes (and the bulbs last fall) so they land approximately where they will be planted. In my small garden, I drag along the package and put items in one at a time. You seem so efficient.
I’m glad you’re going to grow pumpkins again! I think it’ll be magical for your kids and you’ll have a lot of them to decorate with. Have you considered growing gourds?
Hi Laura! So exciting to see a garden on the new property! A word of caution about the flame weeder, we used one for a couple years, and it did work on seedlings, but not on perennial weeds. Also we have decided not to do it anymore as I am convinced it destroyed alot of the beneficial insects/nematodes that were in the soil, so now I have a bigger problem with soil borne pests that eat my plant roots, killing alot of my seedlings. The flame weeder also killed some new hydrangea plants that were near where it was used. The heat is so strong, it seems you need a pretty wide radius of protection around any plants you want to keep. I think from now on we would only use the flame weeder in a gravel driveway or something, where none of those problems would be an issue.
I wondered about some of this. I did not consider the beneficial insects. Omg, worms. Thank you very much for sharing your experience with these torches.
I need Laura’s energy and creativity and I would like a Paul🤣. What a great place to have that doesn’t need to be picture perfect and still be fun and productive.
My husband laughs at me. I have about a dozen projects I work on randomly this this bounce bounce. It’s just who we are honey. Love with it after 43 years he doesn’t even bother anymore.😂
It never ceases to amaze me how Laura makes everything look easy. I’ve been gardening for 50 years and never once have I felt it was easy. Lol. That’s part of why I still get inspired watching this wonderful channel. Does the drip tape have a maximum distance to get even watering? And does it have a GPM rating? If so, what is it?
Very exciting! How deep does it loosen the soil. Lol, I think Aaron also likes it when you need him to drive his big tractor. Such a great idea, this will look amazing with sunflowers along the fence and then pumpkins and such. So much fun!
🧅 🌿 🥔 So many are going to benefit from all this work you do and harvesting all these takes time and work! A labor of LOVE, the places you donate to are going to be so BLESSED! Laura & Aaron THANK YOU ❤
Good Morning! 🌷 How exciting to start fresh new project on the new property!! Love the sunflower plan!! I always enjoy watching you create in a new space & make that space beautiful!!🥰🌻🥔🧅🌿
How satisfying that must be. I spent yesterday getting a waist high raised bed cleaned out and planting veggie seedlings I started indoors planted. Then I concocted a place for my cucumbers to grow up by using a pallet and some clean scrub netting (those balls you use in the shower) and I spread across the pallet to give the cukes something to hang onto. I placed that in a cinder block raised bed and planted the cuke seedlings I started indoors. Then I transplanted some flower seedlings I started indoors. After all that, we got a huge thunderstorm (not in the forecast) with huge rain drops. From the sound I thought it was hailing and I feared for my new transplants, but it looks like they all survived. I'm not finished yet, but boy what a work-out. I'm 68 and yesterday did me in. Today I'm prepping for the pathway I'm putting in throughout my backyard. Pea gravel gets delivered this afternoon. Thank you Laura, for the inspiration to give it a go.
So excited about this space! I was nervous we wouldn’t get a very large one this year with the changes in the cut flower garden😅 the harvesting videos are always a fave 😊
Love this half baked plan Laura! If I was a child I would spend my whole summer in this area. What an amazing space for Benjamin and Samantha Grace to play, dream, and snack
I LOVE this so much Laura! It’s amazing to see people giving to others; I wish I could do this but I find other ways to give back. Watching the video chocked me up the same way as the first time you and your Mom gave away flowers in jars. Good job everyone! ☺❤
Sleeves up! Whew❤ sometimes we, the viewers, forget that all of the beautiful results you achieve are only possible with the tough prep work. Thanks for showing the job from start to finish. It really helps me just get on with it when a project seems daunting. Wishing you great success!
Good morning!! I would be interested in knowing if you are getting good water flow to the ends of the tapes that are the longest. Especially after you add the poly with the emitters. I’ve thought about using 1/2” poly in a similar situation, but just don’t think there’s enough flow to support it… was thinking of 3/4 or possibly 1”. We’ve got plenty of pressure to support a bigger line. Looking forward to seeing all the produce! 👩🏼🌾
Hi Guys, I heard Laura mention the possibility of getting horses next year. As a lifelong horse person, I just wanted to give you a head's up. Please be careful about what you are dumping in the compost heap and planting out there if you are planning on keeping horses there too. For example, boxwood clippings and onions are both highly toxic to horses. Thanks!
And black walnut, which they have trees down by the creek. I would also build the barn where they are putting the high tunnels. You never want the barn way far away - I think most of us would connect our barn to the house if we could lol. But closer is better to check on the horses or if one is sick.
Also, horses do not even need to eat black walnut to get poisoned. A tiny amount of black walnut wood shavings is enough to kill them if ingested or founder them if they stand on them.
Laura you are amazing I still love watching it? I stopped for a while cause of illness. I'll be doing all the gardening that I used to but I'm still gonna watch you and Aaron and the children. I love your family. Thank you so much for letting me have the opportunity. Do all the wonderful things and sharing? Thank you.❤❤🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
I was wondering why she didn’t plant them in hills. I’m in New Jersey and they plant them in hills, not many grow them here but the few that do plant that way. I’ve been wanting to try but I have sandy soil that isn’t the greatest nutrient wise.
@@kimmy0868 the hills I believe are for depth and to keep the root area out of compacted soil for better potatoes. Since they tilled deeper than they planted that is not necessary. If I'm remembering correctly. Haven't had a big garden for about 20 years.
I'm not an expert on potatoes, but I think the idea is to mound gradually up and around the green stalks. Newer potatoes will form where the stalk meets the new soil. Also it's important to keep sunlight away from potatoes, so that extra depth protects the potatoes as they grow and heave upwards. Pinching flowers is also recommended if one has the time. If I ever grow potatoes again I will make bouquets of those pretty flowers! A friend grows them in potato bags that allow her to open up and see the roots without digging. The bag also expands to allow soil to be built up at the top. This way she can harvest the largest potatoes below without disturbing the newer growth. I would like to try this method, especially because I have limited space. Hope this is helpful🌷
