Those sheep following you cracked me up. I have to use landscape fabric to help get rid of Bermuda grass and Johnson grass but will remove it as soon as it gets under control. Thanks for the video.
The sheep are cute, but they aren’t eating my plants. My zone 8 garden moves along. At 76 with arthritis and knee replacements, I’m concentrating on flowers and decorative trees. It’s too late for lettuce, which I love fresh from the garden, but I will grow it in the fall along with garlic. Summer is our tough season so I am trying to put everything in the ground as fast as possible. Count me among the I-hate-plastic mulch club. You and Charles Dowding have bind weed. I have Bermuda grass, a pernicious plant prevalent in my subdivision. I have a history of reducing lawns in favor of garden beds. I still consider it my mission.
Thank you! I am in Steamboat Springs, originally from Maryland. Growing is a challenge with such a short season. I love your care for the environment! Thank you again!
Man, I did soil blocking this year and liked it a lot... Until it was time to harden off, and it kept being rainy randomly, and I had to take everything across the yard, up the stairs, and into the other side of the house so it could keep getting light but not be completely washed out into mud by the rain... Wish I had a nice greenhouse nearby like you!
We're also removing all our landscape fabric, bit by bit. It was mostly under pathways, but also under our newer raised beds. Interesting to see that so much survives your winters! We're a 7b so not nearly as cold. I purchased four different chrysanthemums from Bluestone this spring and have them in the ground--sounds like they should overwinter just fine here. P.S. The sheep were cracking me up! They looked like big happy dogs running along behind you.
That was so cool you mentioned Bluestone Perennials. They are about 45 minutes away from my house. I went there last week and picked up some bushes. I plan on getting some mums from them this year too. You mentioned 3 of them that are on my list. Thanks for sharing your gardens with us!
I like the yarrow tip about the nesting pollinators in the hollow stems. While I leave the old stems up over the winter, it never occurred to leaved it up for the spring/summer.
I have learned so much from you. Thank you so much! I now live in NH and we got as much cold as you did. Coming from VA I have to relearn how to garden. Great tip about using native plants.
We used wool (dags) around our dahlias and in rows this year as a mulch... no earwigs or slug snail damage whatsoever. I hate landscape fabric too. Thanks for video.💚
Your little sheep are SO STINKIN’ CUTE!! Thank you for another fantastic video! I love how much great information you include in your videos about preserving your soil and pollinators - for instance, I had no idea that pollinators nest in yarrow stems… I need to stop cutting mine back. 🤦🏻♀️ Thank you for all your helpful, well done videos!
So glad I found you... Living in Colorado for 30 years and first year I am paying as much attention to flowers as I do to the food I plant. Thanks for all your info as your great videos give me the confidence needed to invest the time and money. Telling all my farming friends about you. Thanks so much.
Hey, u would probably be interested in watching the No-Till Growers channel vlogs about a couple farms in CO too, the one is a collectively rented property on which 1 of the renters/partners is growing flowers. Sorry, I can't thing of the farm name ( pretty sure it starts with a V...) so you'd have to scroll through their playlist of interviews. They may have done an audio-only podcast episode as well ( which are incl. on the YT playlist) but the ones I'm thinking of had video, so, you'' see a picture with the title... . They talk some about what they have to do considering your elevation out there ( I'm in WI), intensity of the sun.
Woohoo! Way to go on letting people know about pine needles giving acidic soil being a myth! Two years ago I did a test on my garden and mulched half the tomatoes with pine needles and the other half with straw and there was no change both sides did amazing. So glad to hear it confirmed here. 🎉
I would love to know what cover crop blend used that winterkills as I am trying to decide on mine in a similar climate. Thanks for all the info! Love your approach!
Hi - thank you so much for sharing. I am learning so much! I have a very random question - do you have a plan for the wool after you shear the sheep? I am a fiber artist who lives in Denver and I recently bought a spinning wheel to make yarn from wool. I would love to try to spin your sheep's wool into yarn and make a sweater but also totally understand if you have another plan for it!
The fabric also kills insect life underneath and in the end develops it’s own layer if shallow soil that’s perfect for weeds. i pulled all mine up in my front garden that previous owner installed. It is so bad for the soil, insects, birds and just the environment in general.
I have a question. How often do you run your irrigation in this cold weather? I started some early veggies thanks to you and others. I am not sure how often to water. They are direct seeded. If I transplanted seedlings, like your Listhianthus, how often do you water?
How far apart are your emitters on your drip tape? You mentioned that phlox is hard to germinate, I 100% know that to be true! You said you pre-sprout them, in the frig? Thank you for all your videos, So informative!
Wind chill is what human skin feels as the cold air blows on our skin. Plants don’t “feel” wind chill. Has no additive effect to damage the plants. The actual temperature is what the zone is determined by. It wasn’t-40 because of wind chill it was actually -20 in Colorado this winter.
When do you seed that winter kill cover crop? I can’t figure out how to do cover crops when our first fall frost is around September 18. I’m up in weld county.
I see your garden rows are not mounds. Is there a reason for that (I'm not sure of the benefits of mounding one way or another but I'm also in colorado so I'm not sure mounding would be a good idea.
I am a bit concerned about how close you planted baptisia. Mine are 5 feet diameter and 6 feet high! and this plant once established you cannot dig out to replant even divide and I am in zone 4 a.
my snaps are two inches long by the time I get to pinch them for after the second set of leaves, I grow them under lights about three to for inches from the light. What happened
