Bulgarian culture is fascinating. It’s really not talked about much and I love when you share little pieces of your culture with us.

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

It is fun to stay connected with it!

@akis1544

5 ай бұрын

i second this!

@hopegardens

4 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing!

@pedromunoz4468

4 ай бұрын

I like these comments 😅

@ninavandenabbeele9667

4 ай бұрын

I lived in Bulgaria and a lot of the trees are decorated with the little red and white bracelets 😊

i immigrated to san diego from bulgaria when i was very young and my boyfriend always sends me your videos when you mention the country or some fun parts of the culture. it makes me so happy to see our culture represented in such a cool way

@jacquesinthegarden

4 ай бұрын

I love hearing this! There are for sure a decent amount of Bulgarians in San Diego for sure, love to hear it!

I’m 66. In paid off home that is same age as I and it has a terrific back yard and I’ve carved out a garden 87 feet x 30 feet and I LOVE IT. I’m here to learn more about the next level of gardening. That’s homesteading to me!

@IjeomaThePlantMama

4 ай бұрын

You're living the life!!

Ugh perfect timing to keep me going. I literally just finished weeding and remulching my 2nd year veggie garden and started a new succulent garden bed where grass (weeds) used to be. Happy spring everyone!! 🌱🍄🌷

@RachelTsTime

5 ай бұрын

Nice work! Keep it up ❤

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

Awesome! The slower growing succulents will appreciate the weed free growing space.

I love planting wildflower patches. It's brings so much beauty, attracts pollinators, and becomes a little homes to some wildlife.

@Wyndham21044

5 ай бұрын

Does wildlife like to live in patches?

@trayvixk4642

5 ай бұрын

@@Wyndham21044 Obviously the bigger the patch, the better but some little pollinators like to live in tall grasses and meadow-like environments.

Jacques, you garden so smart. Keep on keeping on, and sharing your wisdom!

Been removing fencing(gonna repurpose in to archways), dividing perennials, planting tons of forsythia, harvesting rivercane, laying down pine straw mulch and pathways.... Laid down grass seed... I'm so ready for the warm weather to stay around! Thanks for taking us along!🥂🌹🏵️💐 ☘️

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

Such a busy time of year in the best way!

@RealBradMiller

5 ай бұрын

@@lessonologyplants3064 Yes! Had to do that after my mother took over my original Facebook and KZread. She was pretending to be me... Creepy, huh?

Your timing with this video is perfect! I literally just set out a tray of tomatoes to pot up tomorrow!❤

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

Awesome! Get those tomatoes in their happy new homes!

Love you addressed fertilizing. I feel like videos don't really address this often enough and some of us (me included) thought I had bad soil after a couple years and production reduced drastically. This year we are fertilizing, even our seedlings.

@jacquesinthegarden

4 ай бұрын

It makes a big difference!

@1MzSyd1

4 ай бұрын

I can't wait to see it 😍

Great video Jacques! Lots of good info, and motivation to get outside and get ready for spring! I love that you are including native plants in your garden.😄

@jacquesinthegarden

4 ай бұрын

Trying to include as many as I can!

Thank you for the video. I wanted to tell you that your Bird Of Paradise is really beautiful. I love your Blanket flowers too.

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

Thank you, the Bird of Paradise loves San Diego.

@nancywells5626

5 ай бұрын

They do well here in Central Florida too.@@jacquesinthegarden

I love watching your videos because it reminds me of a trip I had to san diego - beautiful weather, beautiful greenery, all the birds and bees...such good memories that inspired me to have my own little garden back home. Your videos are invaluable in helping me do that, as well as a huge nostalgia hit. thank you!!

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

I am glad I can help!

This is right on time. I was topping off my raised beds last weekend here in zone 8a Georgia. I have several native flower varieties I want to plant in the front yard between shrugs but I wasn’t sure on the best method. I’ll definitely try the rack, scatter then step on method you used. Thank you. Happy Spring everyone 🐝🦋

I started my pastel alyssum from BI today to plant along with my tomato bed and as a cover for my front yard. This is my first year growing it 😊

Thank you for using native plants! Excited to see you get more into that :)

Fun fact about a chicken diet: you can feed them dried marigolds which will fight diseases with their natural antioxidants? The marigold also makes their egg yolk more golden!

I wow great timing with this video, i just bought 2 different blueberry plant varieties (Biloxi and emerald) and just finished potting them up yesterday, planted them in a 5 gal smart pot with an acidic organic bagged soil mix specifically for blueberries, they were already flowing when i planted them, cant wait to enjoy some fresh blueberries straight from the garden again 😊

@BigboiiTone

5 ай бұрын

Do you live up north? (The real North, aka central Canada and above) I'm in Alaska and the wild blueberries we pick in the mountains are truly a rare and exquisite gift.

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

Fresh blueberries really are something special

@earthisflat

5 ай бұрын

Nah I live in Phoenix Arizona however I know what u mean I'm originally from Fredericksburg Virginia and used to have a trail behind my old apartment complex lined with wild raspberry (or wine berry) and wild blueberries used to just walk around the trail puffing on my gandolf pipe and harvesting them, the wild raspberry was pretty good but the wild blueberries were absolutely amazing 👍​@@BigboiiTone

@earthisflat

5 ай бұрын

​​@@BigboiiTonehowever I was only about 2 hours from the blue ridge mountains and I been hiking down in that area and would love to harvest the spicebush berries, smells just like allspice and is good to eat fresh or some people around the blue ridge area will make spicebush ice cream that's supposed to be really good I would always just eat them fresh though lol

@BigboiiTone

5 ай бұрын

@@earthisflat places like that are so special. Glad you know of such a place friend 😌

We do the same with the bracelets in Greece! But we use them so the warm sun won't "give us a sunburn" !

@jacquesinthegarden

4 ай бұрын

Haha I love that connection

Thanks for the tomato seedling tips I'm going to repot mine soon.

Love watching your videos. You do such a good job with all the info given. Your gardening practices help me to know that I'm doing it the right way. Of course gardening for the last forty years has also taught me a few things. I too am only organic. Early on I guess we didn't know the science behind building the soil. I admit to not being organic back in the early eighties.

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

Organic is also great because it is honestly easier! No need to chase extremes like conventional products push.

By far my favorite gardening channel Jacques. Really well done in how well you research and explain so thoughtfully. Keep it up my man!

I gave my blueberries more soil, fertilizer and mulch mid-November and they're as happy as the bees buzzing around them.

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

Fall is an ideal time to fertilize and refresh them for sure!

One of the most important principles of rose pruning is to try and prune just above a bud node that faces out away from the center. That encourages growth toward the outside of the plant and keeps the center from getting crowded and diseased. 💚 Don't hold your breath waiting for the first stork! 😄

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

Haha, yeah I am not waiting on a stork that is for sure!

I’m right on time then (except with my tomatoes) I pruned my mulberry, tulsi and mini rose yesterday and today and I’ve been potting up plants and adding compost.

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

Nice, it is so satisfying to do all the busy work!

Thanks for the demo on fertilizing the garlic in between the rows! I went out and fertilized mine that way the next day after watching this. Brilliant!

My yard/gardens are not even that big, but the thought of those spring cleanup tasks feels daunting. I like to divide it all into tiny tasks. I'm more likely to keep at it if I trick myself into thinking I completed ten tasks versus one or two.

I am finally planting in ground this year. I am not waiting to have the right soil or the right fertilizer or the perfect raised bed. Sunflowers 🌻 sprouted, and corn 🌽. I have too many plants and I still need a whole lot more. But now I am planting my baby seedlings 🌱 and I am so happy! Thank you for all your great knowledge! 🎉

Enjoyed video! Love from Lakeside, ca!

Look forward to updates on your rose 🌹 ❤😊

@jacquesinthegarden

4 ай бұрын

It is doing well and had a few blooms and a lot of new growth!

Jacque, you have so much good content, and I really appreciate how easy your explainations are to follow.

Can't wait to see that CA native flower strip in full bloom!

This segment is so educational #PBS ❤

Greetings from Bulgaria and thanks for the nice videos. They are helping me a lot, in my new journey of gardening.

Just planted some native wildflowers a few weeks ago - should have done it in the fall, but didn't happen. We've had some quite cold weather and now a few feet of snow, which is actually perfect for winter sown seeds here in Colorado. Hoping for a nice showing in a few months. Am going to borrow the idea from your Bulgarian tradition and use it for the Ostara/Spring Equinox coming up next week - will make a little bracelet and then hang it on one of my fruit trees/bushes when they bloom later this spring. Nice video, covered a lot of ground.

Learned the 5 leaf method when I volunteered at Hershey Gardens in Pennsylvania.

Excited to see those Phacelias come up! Make sure you show them to us in a future episode. Thanks!

I LOVEE the smell of alyssum!! One of my favorite flowers right behind zinnias :)

Romanian here gardening in MA. Love that you’re trying to grow some Bulgarian peppers. I’m doing the same with some Romanian peppers and had moderate success last summer with them. Giving it another go this year :) got my red and white string ready to go for month end too although I don’t think I’ll see blooms on my fruit trees until April :)

Love the in depth look into your fantastic garden and seein’ the lil chickens. So sweet. I’d love advice or info on bird of paradise plants! Very inspiring garden

@jacquesinthegarden

4 ай бұрын

My advice on bird of paradise is cut it down to a stump and watch it regrow! It came back much better than it was before and I dropped it to the ground.

Roses are all about the type and what you want. I deal with Winnipeg that you cut back to the ground each year and thet grow back to about a 3 foot bush each summer. So just know what rose you get.

I’m sure there’s a never-ending list of topics, but it would be interesting to see how native plants fare in a space that is being “customized.” Your gardening style seems like it would allow for the soil to remain closer to its native characteristics than say, Kevin’s, so it would be interesting to see if certain natives fare better, worse, or differently in more treated vs untreated spaces!

My first spring crop is germinated under frost cloth in raised beds, I'm looking forward to eating it all!! The native soil has had standing water off and on for a few months but it should start to dry sometimes in April, when I can put in potatoes!!!

We saw some storks in Spain last month, but they were getting San Diego Temps.

Neat trick on tomato transplanting with the loose soil and just pushing it down, I'm definitely going to try this! However, I start seeding tomorrow and I'll just look longingly out at my garden beds that currently have 14" of snow on them! (Denver 5b) Great video and I appreciate your tips!

What a fun bit of Bulgarian lore! Thanks for telling us about it.

gardening is so relaxing

Very excited for your shade native garden!

I use the coffee for my blueberries. I just water it down so it’s not so strong. I can’t afford to buy fertilizers. So, I use what I have and make my own.

Great video!

Excellent tips! I'm also doing lots of those tasks in my garden. 😊Great video.

Um I mean Hello 😊 Weeds, I despise them & sometimes they are a true pain.. so I find myself constantly weeding.. so happy growth of your veggies and fruits 😊😊❤❤❤

@jacquesinthegarden

4 ай бұрын

The early cleanout will pay off in the long run!

Row basil, row tomatoes, row flowers: calendula, marigolds, nasturtiums; row tomatoes, row basil. Excellent for the full size birdies bed.

I just made my first trip to Theodore Payne. Lots of great native plants and people there to answer questions. It's very off the beaten path.

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

It is a super cool spot up in LA, I really enjoyed walking around the established manzanitas alongside the canyon.

Lol the marigold packet popped up while I was holding that packet!

Espoma granular ferts are amazing! They're organic so you don't have to worry about toxins or chemically burning the plant. They're also pet safe and kid safe!

@Wyndham21044

5 ай бұрын

You are wrong if you think you cannot burn your plants with organic fertilizer

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

Espoma fertilizer is awesome, I ran out of my BioTone so I used what I had on hand!

Do you recommend planting tomato seeds in their ‘final home’? If so, can you do the same stem burial concept by adding more soil in the container once the seedling is big enough?

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

You for sure can, I just like to start early and bury deeply every time. You could in theory hill it up as you suggest and get the same outcome.

Thank you! Your videos are the BEST!

Hey love your videos, as a fellow San Diegan, love yours and Kevin’s videos. So jealous of your sun golds, my seeds have not yet arrived and you have plants already wow. Please keep me mind if you have extra Sun Gold Seedlings to share, I would love to grow them 😊😊

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

The nice thing about San Diego is that we can start tomato seeds basically up to June and still get a harvest out of them!

This weekend for me it will be mostly enjoying the spring blooms. And continue cleaning up the mess from fall. Dug a massive hole to throw in worth of roughly 3 containers full of oak leaves that were still rolling about between the plants and behind leftovers of the fence we moved to the back of the garden. I'll try to more properly store away that fence too, remove green algae from the sheds walls Saw cheap bark mulch too so may get that too for the new border. I'd need over 10 bags tho😂

@jacquesinthegarden

4 ай бұрын

These little tasks are the ones that make life much better in the end!

Tons of useful info! Thx!

Great video, very thorough! I fear ive messed up my tomatoes already with overfertilizing 😅 I'll have to wait and see

Hey I just had a suggestion, can you make a video on celery , I'm trying to grow it this year and realize there's not a lot of professional videos on growing it

Thank you for the fertilizing tips. And all other tips really.

Just about to seperate and pot up my tomato seedlings.

This was a great video!! More fertilizing tips please.

God im still workin my compost pile trimmin hedges cuttin brush and grass when its not wet burnin 9n the pile adding dirt from digging plant beds. I just had seeds arrive and more this next couple days. I just went and stuck a themometer in the ground to check when its above 55° so I can plant

I have a hay bale with stinging nettles growing, the roots are very beneficial

@jacquesinthegarden

4 ай бұрын

Stinging nettle is a wonderful nutrient dense plant for sure.

I love this format

So I can do some of this in April, probably May when the snow has melted. I can preplan right now..

@jacquesinthegarden

4 ай бұрын

It will get here in no time!

Thank you a lot for your timely advice!

Excellent Sharing 🎉 I subscribed to your channel 🙏

@jacquesinthegarden

4 ай бұрын

Thanks and welcome!

@Godisincontrol325

4 ай бұрын

@@jacquesinthegarden you're welcome 😁 Happy to be here 🙏

Good Morning Jacques. Curious, it amazed me when you were discussing companion planting your tomatoes, that we have 2 out of 3 of the exact same varieties I have on my grow racks right now. However, you didn't recommend whether they should be direct sown, transplanted, or just in pots/buckets simply set in between the tomato plants, making them moveable. Allegedly, the Emerald Tower Basil can grow up to 36"s tall. All good tips once again, TYFS

Thank you!❤

Hi Jacques, love all of your videos I always learn so much, I have a question, what kind of avocado tree is that you have in a pot? I can only do container gardening since I don't the the space for in ground & would love to try growing one. Any tips much appreciated Thank-you!

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

This one is called "Sir Prize" I don't actually recall if it is a variety usually recommended for containers. I know there are some like Gem that are more dwarf in nature and better for containers.

I prefer liquid fertilizers because they go to work immediately & are absorbed by the roots immediately.

Hi, Jacques! Can you tell me more or direct me to where I can learn more about your eco flow? I have a greenhouse that was just installed and I hope to have functional for next spring’s seedlings. One of the things I need to figure out is how to keep my fans running at all time. I want to buy a solar battery but I don’t know what is overkill. The greenhouse is plumbed for electricity, but if I can do fans with solar (heat mats and lights with electric) that would be great. I’m zone 9b, Sierra foothills. Thank you!

I done ran out of space in the backyard 😅 I’m starting to plant some trees in the front yard but I fear I’m running out of space there too 😂

@quiinzhive2774

5 ай бұрын

Year 3 here 🙂

@jacquesinthegarden

4 ай бұрын

It is a real problem!

Can you make a passion fruit vine plant care video? Fertilizer, soil, pruning tips.

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

I have thought about it, maybe I will work on it through the season.

Those beautifuorange and yellow flowers by the garlic--what are they? Thanks for the tips! Living through your videos as up here (Northern Canada, zone 3) it's still very much winter!

@Playitagaindian

5 ай бұрын

Blanket Flowers (Gaillardia)

I love your videos! Question: where did you get your greenhouse from?

Great video! Can we repot citrus trees that are growing the pot? Or whens the best time to do that?

Compare Berry Tone and Holly Tone. Exact same composition, just different color bags and different price.

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, lots of fertilizers just get relabeled, I haven't looked at these in particular but I believe it.

Is that clover I spy in your blueberry pot? 👀 looks awesome!

@jacquesinthegarden

4 ай бұрын

It is a clover that sort of appeared on its own and I've been running with it to see how that works. So far I don't see any issues!

Romanians have that bracelet too :) boys gift that to girls on the 1st of March, to celebrate spring ) (unless the year when Feb is 29 days, when girls have to give the bracelet to boys :) ) We also have a tradition of the 8 "old ladies" :) you have to choose 1 day ("old lady") between 1-8 March and the rest of your year will be the same as the day you chose :)

Hi Jacques. I overwintered 2 sweet pepper plants. I'm in Quebec so I won't be planting outside till sometime in May/June. When should I start fertilizing my plants? This is the first time I've overwintered them. Thanks in advance!

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

I would wait until you plant them out, you don't want extra growth until they are ready to go in the ground.

@cherylmartin9994

5 ай бұрын

@@jacquesinthegarden thank you so much for the reply. Love your channel! I'm a big fan of epic gardening too. You and Kevin are very entertaining together 😂

We are in central Florida, previously zone 9. We just experienced root knot nematoads in the tomato bed & all 5 plants were affected. I pulled them out. My son ordered, what he calls, "good nematodes". I have to add them; however, this was quite upsetting experiencing this problem. I did get french marigolds. Please speak about what I should do to make our beds healthy. Thank you in advance.

I'm curious if weeds have young seeds already once they have flowered? Mine literally just flowered so I'm wondering if I can still use it as green manure or if I should toss it. Thanks 🙏🏼

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

It is hard to tell with some, I've even seen some continue to develop after pulling. If you aren't sure it is probably best not to risk it.

@withlovefrommariah

5 ай бұрын

@@jacquesinthegarden yup, probably not worth the risk! Thanks for your reply ☺️

Could you use mealworm frasse as fertilizer for fruit trees

Do Nasturtiums really grow so well everywhere or only in your garden, Jacque? Your garden is an Oasis of nasturtiums and mine never ever look like yours? Mild Southern Cali winters? My seedlings just got nipped by 28 degree overnight weather. Try try again. I love watching your garden. I look forward to the Native projects.

@jacquesinthegarden

4 ай бұрын

I had a few patches that got wrecked by two nights earlier this year when it dropped under 30. They do well across San Diego in general though. There are canyons all over that are FULL of nasturtiums every spring!

Any fertilizer recommendations for an established strawberry bed? We're about to have another snow tonight, but I'd like to plan ahead.7a 6900 feet.

What variety of flowers are those orange flowers near your garlic?

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

I think you are asking about the Blanket Flowers. They are really great because they are zero maintenance, they even deadhead themselves.

Depending on your soil conditions, it may not be a good idea to break the lower leaves off tomato seedlings. Several years ago I did this before planting them out, and all it did was create open wounds. I lost half of them due to infections. I've had much more success simply burying the lower leaves and branches.

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

This year I mostly just buried the whole tomato with leaves. I think most ideal is to trim them off the day before and let them scar over but I always forget

Speaking of competition with garlic I placed garlic beside my year three Asparagus 😢 I was unaware of them being competitor and now I have no shoots. I wonder should I pull the garlic early or has the damage been done? I feel like theres not enough information anywhere on what causes this lack of growth with the asparagus near alliums, seems to be more than just nutrient uptake. Any thoughts?

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

Hmm I am not sure about that interaction. The only companion plant I usually see with asparagus is strawberries but asparagus is a weird one regardless. You can try to dig down a bit and check on the asparagus root crowns to see if they are active at least.

@caseyinnature

5 ай бұрын

@@jacquesinthegarden I ended up looking deeper around the crown and saw some grass had came up through the crown hoping since I removed it didn't do permanent damage.

Spring has barely begun and I already feel behind 😂

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

Don't worry it is technically still not spring!

Great video Jacque. Whats the name of the flowers next to the garlic? They are beautiful

@jacquesinthegarden

4 ай бұрын

They are blanket flowers! Wonderful flowers that even self deadhead, they are basically zero work to maintain

@nildaotero2933

4 ай бұрын

Thanks

I live in France and I have never seen french marigolds. Here, they call them oeillets d'Inde or rose d'Inde (rose of India). They get about knee high and flower prolifically. Is that the one?

Thanks Jacques! How many hours/days do you get out of the Ecoflow battery? Are you charging it routinely?

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

I have it hooked to a 220 solar panel so it is just passively charging all the time. When it is sunny the panels charge just as fast or faster than the fan draws so it ends up basically at 90% all the time.

@JPToto

5 ай бұрын

@@jacquesinthegardenThat makes sense. Thanks a lot!

Is the equal parts fertilizer balanced if most soils don't need that ratio for their plants? What is it balanced for?

How do you keep gnats out when you have sitting water in the trays?

I’m assuming I should be a month behind you since my last frost date is April 28, right? The advice on what to tackle is really helpful, thanks Jacques!

@jacquesinthegarden

5 ай бұрын

That sounds about right!