You're doing a great job companion planting beans with the cucurbits (luffa) because the beans add nitrogen back into the soil and the cucurbits love that!

your videos are always so calming and fun to watch, i was so excited to click on this when i saw you uploaded

@itsbreellis

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

I love your enthusiasm and knowledge ❤ thanks so much for sharing! As a newer gardener I love seeing people utilize their space and share their hard earned knowledge!

Im so jealous! Upper Michigan here and we just hot our last feost date so our garden JUST went in this week! I cant wait for July so it looks like we planted something 😂

@itsbreellis

Ай бұрын

You’re so close!! I’m sure it was nice to get everything planted!!

@jIlLiAnganz

Ай бұрын

I hear you! I'm at 9,100ft in CO. We technically dont even get last/first frost dates because there is a chance all summer. I go intense on succession starting/sowing so that I always have backups.

@Ballsinthesack

Ай бұрын

Check out Luke over at MIgardener! He lives in Michigan and had so much great content for gardening (almost) year-round!! He also has his own seed company with the best prices that any heirloom seed company offers.

@tinctress

Ай бұрын

Northeast Ohio watching in amazement. I should move South.

I can't believe how many tomatoes and peppers you already have!! I'm in the same zone as you and my garden is nowhere near as far along as yours! Everything looks beautiful!!

I’m excited too Bre, can’t wait for Garlic harvest😁 You know to pick camomile when the flower doest’t completely open anymore (the white part).😁 Love the flowers great idea to contain them with strings The Onions look great Bre, you should stop feeding the onions once they have bulbed, they get their energy from the green tops, hence don’t require fertiliser. I’d leave the pumpkin, could be a nice pumpkin.😁🇦🇺

I’m loving your snapdragons! Here I go buying more seeds, now 😂😂

Bre, if you decide to get rid of your pumpkin plant, turn the pumpkin leaves into Muboora or Pucuk Labu. They have a very mild delicious flavor reminiscent of a mixture of green beans, broccoli, spinach and asparagus.

Just beautiful, great reward 🎁 for all your planning,research and work. Can’t wait to see the promised jungle of abundance as the summer goes on!!😂🥳🎉🙌 I’m getting ready to join this life of gardening/homesteading your videos are so helpful, I always take a page of notes ❤️God bless you guys.

The snap dragon snapped.... Love it

Love the snapdragons! Yes, they need to be shared because they are so beautiful!!! 🪻

Your garden is beautiful right now! Loving the snapdragons! The word is pronounced“pu-TOW-mick” like the river/town in the DC area. As a reading teacher, I applaud you giving it a go at some of the names! Learning new words from reading is so important and many people won’t try. You rock!

Your garden is a huge inspiration for me. Thank you for sharing 😊

Yay a Garden tour

Pretty dress Bre. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.

I’ve seen people braid dry arrangement flowers with their garlic. Pretty!

Love your food forest

Those cosmos that you call the bright light I think we’re called the start a Sunburst. I think I’ve heard so many names for them. I’ve been growing those for 20 years. They will produce their own seed so what I do is I put them up somewheres I get like a coffee jar And by the end of the season I’m full of them and I will put them in paper envelopes seeds and I will pass them out to them for the next season, but they are beautiful the bumblebee. I have a lot of bumblebee here love them and they’re great for the veggies for pollination so right now I focused on cucumbers for pickling and I’m doing well, but I have tons and tons of Those cosmos and bring the bees and bring the pollinators and it’s just Lovely 💚💚🌱

Hello! Nice to meet you. I like growing plants and gardening, I find peace and relaxation. Life is increasingly stressful, only the green color of trees can create for us the most relaxing environment and best health.

Love all your garden. This year I added Passion Flower to my garden. It makes a Beautiful Flower Vine and a marvelous tea. You should check into it. I believe you would love it as well.

@itsbreellis

Ай бұрын

Love that suggestion! Definitely looking into it!

If you like tea, you should grow anise hyssop/licorice mint. It's a perennial and doesn't spread by rhizomes like many mints. One plant is enough to grow plenty for tea.

I love your garden, it's so full! Word of warning... Mint will grow through grow bags 😳 Ask me how I know 😂

I have also noticed that if I don’t touch the peppers they thrive better 🤷‍♀️ I did it once and never again. It was the smallest harvest of peppers I’ve ever had. Your garden is beautiful ♥️ isn’t it wild how differ the grocery store produce tastes compared to your own garden? My bf is weird and he won’t eat from the garden only the store and I have never understood why and I don’t think he even knows. I love your garden tour. Loved the video ❤

snapdragons isy 1st year also... i think it will be a new addiction. i also.got bees choice dahlia from fleuret but im in montreal not blooming yet... but was happy to see yours!!!!

@itsbreellis

Ай бұрын

I love that! Adding new flowers is so much fun!

@terriespock5384

Ай бұрын

Love how your garden is looking. You have really done a great job and your rewards will be plenty. Yes snap dragons are one of my favorite. I love the colors you have. My favorite is the orange ones. Can’t wait for your next video.

Love your garden 🪴 is beautiful 💖

If I was your neighbor I would be making friends with you sooo quick lol

🙏🏼❤️ beautiful!

Beautiful looking garden, Its the bees knees.

Geart job watching here thank you for sharing this ❤️❤️❤️

Commenting to increase your numbers because I love your videos! ❤

beautiful snapdragons!

Thanks for sharing all your insight, love your videos! Not trying to skip the beautiful summer growing season but you mentioned you overwintered your sage. Maybe you could share how you do that when you move them in later this year? I am new to having a “full” garden and looking for ways to reduce the amount of work to get it started each year so I want to overwinter anything I can! TIA

I *love* the Supremo tomato! It does so much better than Amish Paste and other Roma types for me (although I also grow traditional Roma, too).

Seeing your garden in June in Kansas makes me feel like mine here in zone 8 is so behind hahaha but we just had yesterday a low of 38 at night and a high of 77 so...our weather is confused.

It looks beautiful. Each year you learn more about what works fo you. I am in GA and was wondering what kind of eldeberry are you growing? Thank you

It looks like the (new) soil in your tomato grow bags may have some persistent herbicide contamination, like aminopyralid. It causes leaf curling and “stringier” leaves (instead of lush foliage). If you want to check, you can do what is commonly called a “bean test”. Good news is the herbicide does eventually wash out, just takes a year or two.

@itsbreellis

Ай бұрын

I had that thought but all my other areas I have the same new soil are thriving. I did have a neighbor spraying a few weeks back and I wondered if there was a drift because prior they looked beautiful for the first few weeks they were planted. This just started about a week or 2 ago after I saw spraying but I figured more areas of the garden I would see affected. Honestly not to sure. Not ruling any of it out!

I felt my tomatoes are not doing great this year.. I love your garden❤

It’s crazy how far along your garden is compared to mine over here in Washington zone 8b. My elderberry has just started making the buds that will become the flower cluster and my onion aren’t even close to bulbing! Definitely no tomatoes yet either, it’s only just gotten warmed up enough for them to flower 😅

Where do you get your grow bags? Lovely garden.

Check the soil ph in those areas to me it looks like high alkaline. I had that issue and have been able to correct it using a soil acidifier. Alot of people contribute it to herbicide damage or spray damage but my native soil is high alkaline so if I don't acidify it my plants look like your tomatoes or my beans don't sprout well. It has very similar affects.

@itsbreellis

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing! I will definitely check the ph again! Appreciate the help!

There's things that one may not eat much of in its basic form but eat a lot as an ingredient in processed foods. Tomato is one of those things. Therefore Tomato is an important crop to grow.

Your volunteer squash vine I would leave it. It could surprise you and it will work out. Beautiful garden especially the snapdragons. Growing different things mostly in my compost pile. Using the volunteer tomatoes and potatoes. Will be harvesting soon for the first time my garlic that I planted last fall. Also growing watermelon again. It's the best tasting ever! You should try it. Hopefully the raspberry patch which is soon to be picked will do better. The last few years the berries have been very tiny. Check out on KZread how to braid your garlic. ❤ 🎉

I have a melon / squash tunnel. It’s 16 feet long with 2 16x2 beds. How do you space your luffa? I also want to grow my cucumbers and cantaloupe in it

Make sure you keep your garlic seperate when you pull them this year I know last year you were sorry you didn’t. I planted Mexican sunflower last year they were stunning about the colour of your orange cosmo and grew into a big multi branched plant with heaps of flowers for quite a few months well into autumn . Why not try lettuces against the shaded side of the fence. And maybe look at shade plants for that area cleaned by the hens. Love your garden and quite annoying as we are in winter I have rainbow chard lettuce, radish,onions, garlic,and cauliflower in at the moment the marigolds and calendula are still in flower and herbs are ok. But that is me for winter in Victoria Australia

Garden looks beautiful. The tomatoes w curled leaves looks suspicious for herbicide damage - could you compost have been contaminated?

Ruda graveolens should be planted next to rosemary, just a suggestion

Love your content. May I ask where you got your Supremo Tomato seeds from? I too have noticed only my paste tomatoes have the leaf curl as well. Both the Amish paste and San Marzano. So odd.

Potomac refers to the Potomac river that we have in DC, MD, and VA! There is also a town in MD called Potomac. It’s pronounced puh-TOE-mic.

Do you plant cantaloupe and winter squash 1ft apart on the trellis?

The garden is GARDENING!

Camomille is good your hair as well ... will make it blonder hugs!

I’m from Potomac! we usually say “PUH-toe-mik”. it’s a native American word so the english pronunciation is questionable at best. The spelling we use if from the word the Powhatan people use to refer to the Patawomeck people.

How long was it from planting your blueberry bushes to when you saw fruit?

Where did u buy those metal cages or trellis

Can you grow sunflowers in your garden? I saw online that it can deter growth of other plants.

My garlic leaves are starting to die back, but suddenly there are new leaves coming out at the bottom. Does that mean they might be splitting?

Out of curiosity. Why the raised beds and not planting in the ground?

Do you watch Planted in the garden so many great ideas on that show

When is the best time to transplant strawberries?

bre , what size is that cattle panel by your cantalope? (sorry spelling wrong i think)

I will say with the paste tomatoes ive have the same things happen with how your plants look and I'm so confused?? I will say i have some in grow bags this year and some in ground and the ones in grow bags look just like that but the ones in ground look fantastic.. not sure if that has anything to do with it but would love to know. My paste tomatoes are always my problem child from all the other tomatoes for some reason

where did u get ur garlic from?

I have always been a big fan of snapdragons, but I am gaga over your snaps! 🤤 Do you recall if you purchased the Potomac Sunrise mix or the Potomac Custom mix? I have both in my cart though 😅. Also, it’s pronounced Poe-Toe-Mick. It's a river in Virginia ☺️. I would still be mispronouncing it if my brother hadn’t married a Virginian and moved to the state. 🤣

Its pronounced like pa toe mic. Like the Potomac river

I love your trellises. So sad because we did this and our city forced us to take them down.

@jIlLiAnganz

Ай бұрын

That is so sad! What city? Did you fight them on it?

What are you planting after onion harvest?

@itsbreellis

Ай бұрын

Some of that area might stay blank for a few weeks before some fall things go out. Once they are harvested we have around 100 days give it take. We can grow a good amount! I’ll more than likely be planting some more carrots,okra, and maybe one more round of green beans!

Hi! Im wondering how much money it cost you to have a garden like this. Do you have to buy new soil each year?

PUH TOW MICK ❤

Just a random question.Where's the rooster?How do you get your ladies to lay eggs without the rooster?Do you take them somewhere or bring a rooster? How does that process work?I would like to own chickens myself, but not sure really how to go about doing it since I live in a residential community

@kimberlyearly8918

Ай бұрын

You only need a rooster if you want to hatch eggs for more chicks. Hens lay without a rooster.

@Janette314

Ай бұрын

@@kimberlyearly8918 🤯 what! Lol thanks

@kimberlyearly8918

Ай бұрын

@@Janette314 You’re welcome haha!

I also have Potomac snapdragons from Johnny! But I had to let my seedlings die because life happened :'(

@itsbreellis

Ай бұрын

I’m sorry! Try again next year! Until then maybe plant some zinnias or cosmos! They come up quick!

@kermitdafrog444

Ай бұрын

Great suggestion! I love zinnias and sunflowers

Your tomatoes look suspiciously like grazon poison. I had that last year and my leaves look curled just like yours

Omg I sooo Love your garden!looking so beautiful and amazing over there 🌱🌱💚💚 wish I could garden out the entire back yard but have to consider other family members opinion at the cottage

@itsbreellis

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

Your tomato at 18:37 looks like it might have herbicide 2,4 D drift damage.. the leaves look non-symmetrical. Maybe your neighbor treated their yard? I usually see this every year in May/June due to neighbors treating their yards. Plants usually recover in a few weeks when it heats up.

@itsbreellis

Ай бұрын

That’s exactly what happened. I saw a neighbor treating about 2 weeks ago. Makes sense to me. I was worried when I saw them doing it. It was a super windy day the day they did.

@lettucesalad3560

Ай бұрын

@@itsbreellis It's lucky if it's only on one or two tomatoes.. 2,4-d drift has more severe impact on pepper plants stunting growing for a month and reducing yields. Also check your beans/peas/eggplants nearby.

@melbee1000

Ай бұрын

I agree. I would consider getting rid of soil. Watch roots and refuge they dealt w this in a hoop house. They used mushroom compost to deal w the soil but didn’t grow in it for years. If it got in your raised beds I would consider replacing soil or at least planting a green bean. Apparently green beans will show signs quickly. You could plant a green bean in each bed to see how it does or if contaminated? Just a thought

@lettucesalad3560

Ай бұрын

@@melbee1000 2,4-D is different than Grazon that Roots and Refuge had. Nightshade plants are particularly sensitive to phenoxy herbicides even at super low levels. After 2 weeks, the 2,4-D wouldn't be detectable. The phenoxy herbicide mimics plants natural growth regulators, which tell the plant to grow more.... so the plant grows so much it dies, at the low rates that's why tomato plant grew like thin and twisty leaves and branches. Since phenoxy herbicides affect how a plant grows it take 1-3 week after exposure to show the abnormal growth. This is my 4th year with 2-4,D drift on my garden, even though I don't treat my yard by my garden.

@melbee1000

Ай бұрын

@@lettucesalad3560 how do you know for sure. What if it is soil in grow bags. There has been contaminated compost.

my apartment has a north facing balcony that doesn’t get direct sunlight but i’m thinking of growing some vegetables/fruit. are there any plants that do well in shade? the internet says lettuce, potatoes, carrots, raspberries, and cilantro could potentially do well. i’m loving the longer videos sm!!

@itsbreellis

Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching! Yes most greens like lettuce should do well! In my experience cilantro doesn’t do well for me outside of the fall season. I find it very sensitive to heat. Potatoes and carrots may be a bit trickier but it’s worth a shot! Never know until you try! Just know if it’s shader things may take longer to produce than what it says the mature time is since it’s not getting as much sunlight. Hope this helps!

@cindyyan848

Ай бұрын

yes thanks for the advice!! i’ll give it a try and go with the flow

lol po-toe-mic ( like Mickey Mouse “ . City in Maryland

@itsbreellis

Ай бұрын

Thank you! I knew someone would know! lol

Potomac = puh + toh + muhk

@itsbreellis

Ай бұрын

Thank you!!

@cmasters01

Ай бұрын

You’re welcome!! I love your videos but I was really happy to see your flowers from Floret. I’ve been looking at them online but wasn’t sure if I wanted to spend the money! Now I think I might because those flowers are beautiful!