Welcome to my vlog channel and thank you so much for watching! I've been wanting to make a raised bed and grow fruits and vegetables in my garden...and finally did it! A lot of our neighbors are farmers and they give us vegetables they grow all the time so I'm hoping I can give my fruits and vegetables back soon!
Looking forward to seeing your first harvest 😁Please make sure you get bird/animal safe netting!! It is very sad seeing birds and other creatures getting tangled, hurt and killed by the wrong kinds of netting being used
Thank you for the video. It's allways amazing to see, just how much effort goes into these projects. I feel like a lazy person, my appartment doesn't get much sunlight and while I want to grow flowers and such, there isn't much that I can do here. 😭 It's just my opinion, but I think, just using the vegetables your neighbors give you, is already something you "give back". If I would grow more, than I can use and sell, I would be happy to know, that it's not going to waste. There is only so much you can use yourself after all. Seeing vegetable becoming bad, is rather sad. And knowing that the person I give those vegetables to, is a good cook, would make me rather proud. And who knows, maybe they saw some of your videos and enjoyed the recipes you shared?😊 I can understand your view too, that you want to give something tangible back. Well, give it time, I'm sure it will come. (I really need to start to listen to my own advice... I'm rather impatient over something and need to wait too 🙃 I'm a lot less graceful about it, than you. I'm just glad, that noone seems angry about it) The rised bed looks great. No wonder Haku likes it. Well, I wish you a great harvest. 🥰 Lots of love from europe🤗
I know the struggle of getting produce from neighbors and not knowing how to repay them, lol! I had a neighbor at my previous apartment who worked at a food bank and sometimes gave us fruits that the bank still had. I once turned some plums she gave into a plum cobbler. I had never made a plum cobbler before, only a cherry cobbler, but the ones she gave us were so sour, I figured baking them was probably the best use for them. I gave her a large plate of it and hope she enjoyed it. It tasted better on day two and beyond, once it sat in the syrup and became sweeter.
You could always give back to your neighbours with your cooking! I would make chutney and jams from the chilli and fruit my neighbour gave me! A great way to build community 😁
Man, Rachel and Jun have built such an idyllic life. I wish I could spend all day with adorable cats, making videos and doing random DIY projects that please me 🥺
what is stopping you from doing that? Like you could work at a animal shelter. make video with the cats there. plus there is always something that will need to be maintained.
They have day jobs, I'm sure, given the infrequency of their videos. This is probably just the side hustle. Still, seems like a very pleasant life and I'm happy for them 😊
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley I don't think so. I think they have enough subscribers in their channels combined, even with infrequent uploads, to make a living. Also, they're on the countryside now, so life is cheaper.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley also, out of curiosity I checked. 600k on this one, 1M on Rachel&Jun's adventures 2.5M on Rachel&Jun and 5M on Jun's kitchen!!! Obviously UA-cam is their only job! 😂
@@Hitogata I think their house is paid for, too! They got tons of sponsors so they could pay for the house so UA-cam can totally support them even if they don't post frequently
That’s so nice that you’re thinking about giving back to your neighbours too! Your vlog channels are really nice and I hope the veggie garden goes well 🌱
I've had the pink lemonade blueberries before, they don't taste lemonade-y per se, but they do have a sweet-tart flavor with a hint of lemon? They're really good! Hopefully your bush does well and you can try them for yourself 😄 Good to see the bed frame is Haku approved, too.
Careful with planting paprika and peppers next to each other, they are cousins and when the pollinators come they may cross pollinate and the plants will hybridise
Maybe this is what you mean, but that's only true if he plants the seeds from these plants' peppers. The plants that grow from those seeds could be hybrids, but the peppers produced this year will not be.
paprika is just a word used for peppers in the Balkan and some other European countries :) it is always so funny to me...cos, here we have- hot paprika, sweet paprika, bell paprika, chilly paprika and so on :)
I've said it before, Jun and Rachel are the dream team; there's nothing they cannot do, and Jun, you and Rachel make it look effortless. I hope you have a terrific harvest; how nice that you're slso thinking about giving back to your neighbours too! Cheers from Southern Ontario 🇨🇦
The garden bed came out really good, it's great you remembered the arbor to repurpose as a bird net, keep an eye on your blueberry bushes as some birds will try to eat the berries even before they ripen. One thing I learned about growing any sort of peppers is fruitflies love them and also citrus, since you have both planted in your garden you will probably have to spray to keep the fruitflies away (I've had to do that every summer, even the hottest peppers don't deter them).
I love that you built your beds! Just a suggestion for the future: Peat moss is a non-renewable resource and you could use multiple other materials like coconut coir, mulch/wood-based products, compost, pine needles, rice hulls, or leaf mold.
Jun i watch a lot of UA-cam and I've reached a point where a lot of the time I'm worried that I'll watch a video and not enjoy it because I'm not in the mood and it'll be a waste of a video. This has never happened with you and Rachel's videos. You guys never cease to lighten my mood even when I'm in a depressive state. I love you guys
Glad you remembered to guard the blueberries! A long time ago, I was driving past a blueberry farm and a bird pooped on my window. They must have eaten a lot of blueberries because the poop looked like a bloodsplat! Scared me 😂
Jun is so innocent, “Rachel loves spice, so I’ll just buy the Trinidad scorpion, the literal spiciest thing on the planet” 😂 I love the raised bed! I really want to make something similar but cedar wood is so expensive in the US…I bet it’s much cheaper in Japan. So I have been working on a ground garden instead!
Thank you Jun (and Rachel too) these videos are so entertaining and informative and on a personal note really have motivated me to act on my own projects and getting to them. Typically a procrastinator, seeing the diligence and commitment to what you put your mind to is inspiring and gives me focus. I adore your beautiful cats and all the cool things you two come up with! ❤😊
Yes! Blueberries are native to the americas, and are common in the southern US! They're called 'Rabbit Eye' because the white to pink-ish berries can look like an eye with an iris, like a big rabbit's eyes. There's lots of different varieties, but these are some of those most common for producing big fruits. You may want to consider bird netting- as they're very popular with wildlife! Good luck with them!
Love this. Can't wait to see how the blueberries turn out. Especially those unique pink ones. It was so fun to see your kitty out on his harness enjoying the yard safely. What great enrichment for them!
I've seen lots of people use the method of painting rocks the color of whatever fruit they've got planted (in their case it was strawberries) so that when the birds go down to try and eat them, they learn that they're not food, and so they left the real fruits alone. It could be worth trying out :)
The garden is amazing and if I had a yard it would inspire me to plant my own veggie garden! 💕 Proof that Haku really is a normal cat: *-After a nice warm walk-* Jun: Okay I'm getting hot, lets head inside! Haku: *-immediately lays down-* Jun: *-walks ahead a tiny bit and tried to ps ps ps-* Come on baby Haku: *-begins purring and flops-* Jun: *-resigns himself to the heat and begins giving pets-*
I have always loved having a big garden, one year I had over 40 tomato plants and half a dozen types of pepper/chili plants (about 12 of each) A one-acre garden is a lot so I ended up paying the neighborhood kids to help. Plus I gave their parents many bags of veggies and jars of canned salsa and canned tomatoes.
In America we prune the bottoms of our pepper plants 12 inches up and pinch off the bottom leaves to improve pepper production as well prevent root diseases. The important distinction is to pinch the lower leaves off, and not snip them off as that will leave the capillaries of the leaf open and the plant will “bleed”. In any case, I hope this information is useful to you! Your garden looks incredible, and I got some ideas of my own from it for my future plans. Happy Gardening sir!
Love your videos , your cats are lovely ❤ , have you considered having a cat patio, a area that is attached to your entrance to garden that’s has a cat door so your cats go thru cat door maybe in window out to a small or up to the roof meshed in room that they can sit and play in that is sheltered from rain or sun and it’s just big enough for them to sit around and play and watch the birds and is safe from other cats and you can lock the cat door at night ad keep them inside ❤❤❤❤, bless you , your garden is looking great
Jun, in a raised garden, you want the soil all the way to the top. The soil does settle a bit after awhile so you want to allow for that settling by initially bringing up the soil to the top. Also, look into no-dig gardening. By cultivating, you're bringing up weed seeds up into the raised bed.
every time you upload, it's pure wholesomeness and happiness.. these videos make me feel at peace in such a stressful world. thank you for your hard work!!
I always love what they are showing us in videos: recipes, diy projects, home building and decorating. My husband and i are in the process of planning our own landed house. And i do included things like cat friendly house, big window for a lot of natural light, wooden interior and also lots of plants in the garden/yard. So, thank you Jun and Rachel😊😊
Love the raised bed. My mother planted a garden in the front,side and back of the house,she also began with 1 raised bed. Now, 10 years later,we harvest avocados,mango, loquat,raspberries and many different herbs.
This type of videos are probably the most calming ones on the whole youtube, makes me feel nostalgic for my parent's garden. They grow all kinds of things and really put a lot of effort into it, it's a great hobby for them. Thank you for sharing this quality content with us, Jun! I wish you to have a good harvest this year💜
This got me so emotional all of a sudden, I used to do this with my grandad when I was little, I was lucky to have him in my life till I was 18 years old. I became known as the green Gardner in my family because I used to do stuff like this with my Granddad. The nostalgia hits me hard ahaha.
That bed came out really nice. One thing I thought of though, is that you can also use the frame to grow some climbing vegetables like peas or runner beans, which would give you more variety for the same area
That looks amazing Jun! Please give us an update as to how things grow! Highly recommend feeding those peppers ocean mix fertilizer once they start producing every 6 weeks or so. Also, since Rachel loves peppers, maybe dry them to make spices or ferment to make your own hot sauce? Super easy and delicious!
Trick I learned from my mother for keeping local animals from munching on your garden: put the shed fur of a dog near it. The smell of the dog will spook most rabbits and deer and keep them from nibbling off the new growth of your plants in spring. My mother had a Chow and spun his fur into rough yarn after brushing him. She then used the yarn to surround her veggie plots. The rough yarn falls apart by late summer, and various other animals will take it for nesting and burrow material.
I started watching your videos a couple of years back. Glad to see you guys are doing well. Basically your videos inspired me to keep on trying on cooking, having my three crazy cats and try enjoy life more often. Thanks.
You must have been good in school. Since, I have been watching, Rachel has taught you very well. She is your sensei and you wax on/wax off very well! Yay, Jun!
Love the new raised Bed! If you worry about birds you can hang some knickknacks which reflect light on the Frame. A CD or anything wrapped in foil. It worked for our blueberries and red currant, which i could also recommend if you wanna share some fruits with your neighbors. They yield so many fruit!
You guys truly found a great place to live. I love all the projects you show us. The attention to detail with the slight angle on the ledge so fruits and veggies won't fall out of the raised bed was *chefs kiss *
Oh, and blueberries LOVE WELL DRAINING SOIL so you might have to keep an eye on how much water they get where you've put them. Ideal place for them is on the side of a hill, but second to that is a somewhat rocky place, and not having that around, little watering sessions many times over one big soak and they do well, they do love water, they just don't want it all at once like that too often.
the frame can also be used as a structure for your plants to have support from so you can get a larger yield and the plant will be healthier.. good job... love your content
10:30.... Idea. Not sure if either of you knit or crochet but there are bags you can make to hold produce. Maybe while these are growing, you can give out the bags as gifts?
Good Afternoon 🌞 💭☕️ Jun’s Kitchen 😺, Hey 👋 Yay 👏👏👏 I’m so glad y’all are back. We’ve missed you. Unfortunately, there is no way to do a video response. But my girl cats 🐈 and I love watching your videos. It’s gotten to the point now where when I go into the kitchen they expect me to cook for them. And my one girl, cat has started sitting in the barstool as well. Because she saw your cats 🐈 doing it on your videos. Please keep posting on this channel. Please do not stop. I have been watching videos on your other channels as well. But this one is my favorite, and the cats 🐈 too. I am watching all the videos on RNJ Adventures, I’ve watched all the videos on your RNJ channel, but again this one’s the best. Please do not stop. I hope ❤️ and pray 🙏❤️ that all is well with y’all and your cats 🐈 Be Well, Healthy and Blessed 🙏❤️😺
Wow, what are the chances? I was just thinking about making a raised bed when I got back home, and after many months, Jun comes out with a video! Thank you!
So much fun! I have a container garden on my deck and I've learned a lot in the last year. Blueberries really do need acidic soil. They also need a certain number of chill hours, so don't worry about protecting from the cold unless the flower buds have started to swell and open. Winter is the best time to prune because you can see the flower buds. With peppers, they are actually perennials if you can protect them from cool temps. They start to pout below 50F/10C.
Remember you can always sprout peppers from the seeds of peppers that taste good. Peppers also grow like crazy once you get them right. And bell peppers come in all kinds of colors.
thank you for uploading videos, whether it is from this channel or the other ones, i've always enjoyed every single one of them. your and rachel's videos always makes my day brighter and better. once again, thank you so much.
Had to laugh when you enthusiastically said “Let’s go baby!”to your kitty and it just plopped over on its side! Apparently not in the least threatened or motivated 😂😂😂
I love watching your videos. it gives me inspiration for when i finally move into my own home,how I can make it nice and if I'm lucky i will get a garden, even a sliver i will be happy where i can do this sort of thing grow things i will enjoy. I have to be careful though as i can't have flowers i always end up sneezing all the time so succulents and cactus are my friends. right now I am living in supported housing due my disabilities but they are helping my to get things on track and sorted so i can live in my own home with floating support which means someone will come in once or twice a week to check in with me and do whatever i need help with. my disabilities are mental and physical but we are slowly getting there with the help i need now. I really need somewhere near a park if i don't have a garden as i will have a support dog by the time i move out as well.
Pink lemonade blueberries! I had a potted bush on my balcony when I had an apartment, but it didn't make it to being planted in my yard in my house unfortunately. But I got a new baby pink lemonade plant this year, along with several others to make a hedge row along the side of my property. No stores near me sell them anywhere near as grown up as yours are though. I could buy older ones online but I kinda got overzealous at the store when I was picking up mulch and just got a bunch of babies. Since I live up against the woods, a long term goal of mine is to get a ton of different kinds of native fruits for the area (crabapples, serviceberries, huckleberries, american cranberry bushes, etc) and plant them all along the area there my property meets the woods. I'm hoping it'll be an acceptable offering for the wildlife and they'll eat those berries instead of coming down into my garden, but if it isn't enough I'm also hoping it'll make a decently tall and well-filled in barrier to deter at least the deer from wandering through my yard. Of course I have to get enough of the plants, and get them big enough to survive being monched on, before we reach that point, so right now my garden is still kind of hit or miss for what I get to gather for myself and what ends up eaten by the animals.
Looks wonderful! Please keep us updated. Would you do a box to grow different rose plants? Decades ago all roses smelled like roses, very very nice. Recent years it is not easy to find roses sold as cut flowers that have any pleasant rose scent at all. This has occured in the US. I guess the heirloom roses that smell like roses are not grown for cut flowers to be sold. Growers prefer newer rose breeds that grow easy but lack rose scent. Generally all roses are quite easy to grow, in my opinion, and year after year are reliable with abundant blooms. I can imagine a walk in your yard with the scent of rose, and cutting flowers to adorn and scent the living space if desired. If you decide to grow roses, be sure it is the true scented rose. You are so talented and skilled. Thanks for sharing the videos, the work is interesting to watch. And the projects are enviable, as most people would want to attempt. I also like the fish tank with the driftwood tree. The cat tree made from driftwood years back is also very nice, and the cats like it. Hello Haku ...😚
I think you should just have everything on the Rachel and Jun channel. I love everything that Jun does. But it’s nice to have Rachel whenever she wants to be on too. I already know it’s Rachel and Jun whatever the channel is called.
Several people in the comments seem confused that cross pollination between your hot peppers and your sweet peppers will make your sweet pepper fruits hotter. This is not true-it will make the peppers grown from seeds of your current crop (so, next year’s plants) hotter. I would recommend not saving your own seed if you don’t like the heat.
I absolutely love your videos, and seeing the subtle language differences come through is so cool! Where I live the task you called "weeding" is "mowing" or "trimming" :)
I am growing a garden for the first time this year. ❤️ I have a Japanese cucumber that taken off, and is producing like crazy. There are so many tiny cucumbers. I originally had it in a pot, but recently got a raised bed and large trellis for it. Earwigs have been nibbling on most of my plants (my poor peppermint especially), but this one seems to be surviving okay. I'm so excited! I love how the plants respond to love and care, and have their preferences. The Japanese cucumber apparently does not like water on its leaves, as it wilts when it's watered from above. So I bought a wand to water at its roots. 😊 I'm looking forward to your future videos and seeing your garden flourish. I hope you have a great harvest!
I also have some blueberry bushes, but they are in their first year. They still kind of look like a few twigs. haha I kind of want to plant some catnip and see if the local bobcats come by to enjoy it. haha
sweet peas, tomatoes and lots of lettuce types are also very easy to grow. I got some sweet peas, forgot the seeds in winter outside, they rained on and actually sprouted in the pot filled with water from the rain and snow, just dunked them in thr ground, planted them 10 to 15cm apart and now its just one ginormous bush of individual plants hanging on to each other (cuz they're crawlers, they sprout those little entangling branches that hold on to everything for their dear life) They really took off around April/May and are now about 40cm from being seeded in March. Idk the specifics like ph value of them but used veggie soil I could buy here locally. Also use eggshell powder and coffee leftover, but be careful with the last one because it can easily spoil and that's kinda bad. just put some in a little hole close to the roots. The sweetpeas are actually giving a ton of harvest despite it being their first year. Hope your harvest is also bountiful, but those bushes may take up to 3 year before they give plenty of blue berries as they're in their growth stage. Also strawberries is something everyone loves and enjoys.
Apparently, if you're making raised beds, you don't need to worry about the weeds in the ground. Laying down a layer or two of cardboard at the bottom before adding soil will take care of them and prevent regrowth. Just a food for thought for the future :)
Welcome to my vlog channel and thank you so much for watching! I've been wanting to make a raised bed and grow fruits and vegetables in my garden...and finally did it! A lot of our neighbors are farmers and they give us vegetables they grow all the time so I'm hoping I can give my fruits and vegetables back soon!
Looking forward to seeing your first harvest 😁Please make sure you get bird/animal safe netting!!
It is very sad seeing birds and other creatures getting tangled, hurt and killed by the wrong kinds of netting being used
Thank you for the video.
It's allways amazing to see, just how much effort goes into these projects.
I feel like a lazy person, my appartment doesn't get much sunlight and while I want to grow flowers and such, there isn't much that I can do here. 😭
It's just my opinion, but I think, just using the vegetables your neighbors give you, is already something you "give back". If I would grow more, than I can use and sell, I would be happy to know, that it's not going to waste. There is only so much you can use yourself after all. Seeing vegetable becoming bad, is rather sad. And knowing that the person I give those vegetables to, is a good cook, would make me rather proud.
And who knows, maybe they saw some of your videos and enjoyed the recipes you shared?😊
I can understand your view too, that you want to give something tangible back. Well, give it time, I'm sure it will come. (I really need to start to listen to my own advice... I'm rather impatient over something and need to wait too 🙃 I'm a lot less graceful about it, than you. I'm just glad, that noone seems angry about it)
The rised bed looks great. No wonder Haku likes it.
Well, I wish you a great harvest. 🥰
Lots of love from europe🤗
❤❤❤ I missed you all. Love you. Beautiful video and great building. Love Rachel laugh
I know the struggle of getting produce from neighbors and not knowing how to repay them, lol! I had a neighbor at my previous apartment who worked at a food bank and sometimes gave us fruits that the bank still had. I once turned some plums she gave into a plum cobbler. I had never made a plum cobbler before, only a cherry cobbler, but the ones she gave us were so sour, I figured baking them was probably the best use for them. I gave her a large plate of it and hope she enjoyed it. It tasted better on day two and beyond, once it sat in the syrup and became sweeter.
You could always give back to your neighbours with your cooking! I would make chutney and jams from the chilli and fruit my neighbour gave me! A great way to build community 😁
You know life is good when Jun uploads a new video
Life good
So true, so relaxing
I know life is good when I see a comment like this.
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Man, Rachel and Jun have built such an idyllic life. I wish I could spend all day with adorable cats, making videos and doing random DIY projects that please me 🥺
what is stopping you from doing that? Like you could work at a animal shelter. make video with the cats there. plus there is always something that will need to be maintained.
They have day jobs, I'm sure, given the infrequency of their videos. This is probably just the side hustle. Still, seems like a very pleasant life and I'm happy for them 😊
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley I don't think so. I think they have enough subscribers in their channels combined, even with infrequent uploads, to make a living. Also, they're on the countryside now, so life is cheaper.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley also, out of curiosity I checked. 600k on this one, 1M on Rachel&Jun's adventures 2.5M on Rachel&Jun and 5M on Jun's kitchen!!! Obviously UA-cam is their only job! 😂
@@Hitogata I think their house is paid for, too! They got tons of sponsors so they could pay for the house so UA-cam can totally support them even if they don't post frequently
Jun: "Alright lets go"
Haku: flops over
Quintessential cat behavior 😂
That’s so nice that you’re thinking about giving back to your neighbours too! Your vlog channels are really nice and I hope the veggie garden goes well 🌱
Jun could make an hour long video of literally anything cooking or planting related and I’d watch it
THIS!!!
His presentation is extremely calming. ❤
I've had the pink lemonade blueberries before, they don't taste lemonade-y per se, but they do have a sweet-tart flavor with a hint of lemon? They're really good! Hopefully your bush does well and you can try them for yourself 😄 Good to see the bed frame is Haku approved, too.
3:17 Haku: *"I have waited for you since yesterday, human-!!"*
Careful with planting paprika and peppers next to each other, they are cousins and when the pollinators come they may cross pollinate and the plants will hybridise
So you might get a spicy paprika and a less spicy chilly
Maybe this is what you mean, but that's only true if he plants the seeds from these plants' peppers. The plants that grow from those seeds could be hybrids, but the peppers produced this year will not be.
paprika is just a word used for peppers in the Balkan and some other European countries :) it is always so funny to me...cos, here we have- hot paprika, sweet paprika, bell paprika, chilly paprika
and so on :)
It won’t affect the fruit that year only if your seed saving
I love Nagi's little rabbit kick at the beginning, when your scratched his ear. haha I've never seen a cat do that before! 😊❤️
I've said it before, Jun and Rachel are the dream team; there's nothing they cannot do, and Jun, you and Rachel make it look effortless.
I hope you have a terrific harvest; how nice that you're slso thinking about giving back to your neighbours too!
Cheers from Southern Ontario 🇨🇦
The garden bed came out really good, it's great you remembered the arbor to repurpose as a bird net, keep an eye on your blueberry bushes as some birds will try to eat the berries even before they ripen. One thing I learned about growing any sort of peppers is fruitflies love them and also citrus, since you have both planted in your garden you will probably have to spray to keep the fruitflies away (I've had to do that every summer, even the hottest peppers don't deter them).
I love that you built your beds! Just a suggestion for the future: Peat moss is a non-renewable resource and you could use multiple other materials like coconut coir, mulch/wood-based products, compost, pine needles, rice hulls, or leaf mold.
Jun i watch a lot of UA-cam and I've reached a point where a lot of the time I'm worried that I'll watch a video and not enjoy it because I'm not in the mood and it'll be a waste of a video. This has never happened with you and Rachel's videos. You guys never cease to lighten my mood even when I'm in a depressive state. I love you guys
Glad you remembered to guard the blueberries! A long time ago, I was driving past a blueberry farm and a bird pooped on my window. They must have eaten a lot of blueberries because the poop looked like a bloodsplat! Scared me 😂
Jun is so innocent, “Rachel loves spice, so I’ll just buy the Trinidad scorpion, the literal spiciest thing on the planet” 😂 I love the raised bed! I really want to make something similar but cedar wood is so expensive in the US…I bet it’s much cheaper in Japan. So I have been working on a ground garden instead!
Like, is that what it seems like to people who can't handle spice? They think we're out here eating ghost peppers on a daily basis? LOL
Glad to see you and the kitties again❤
Thank you Jun (and Rachel too) these videos are so entertaining and informative and on a personal note really have motivated me to act on my own projects and getting to them. Typically a procrastinator, seeing the diligence and commitment to what you put your mind to is inspiring and gives me focus. I adore your beautiful cats and all the cool things you two come up with! ❤😊
Yes! Blueberries are native to the americas, and are common in the southern US! They're called 'Rabbit Eye' because the white to pink-ish berries can look like an eye with an iris, like a big rabbit's eyes. There's lots of different varieties, but these are some of those most common for producing big fruits. You may want to consider bird netting- as they're very popular with wildlife! Good luck with them!
A Jun gardening video after I spent the weeked updating my own garden is the cherry on top of my weekend.
Love this. Can't wait to see how the blueberries turn out. Especially those unique pink ones. It was so fun to see your kitty out on his harness enjoying the yard safely. What great enrichment for them!
I've seen lots of people use the method of painting rocks the color of whatever fruit they've got planted (in their case it was strawberries) so that when the birds go down to try and eat them, they learn that they're not food, and so they left the real fruits alone. It could be worth trying out :)
Have you guys ever thought of like... making pickles with the daikon you get, then giving the farmer some pickles? That's sorta the similar vibe.
A notification for a video by Jun around 2 am? Say less, I'm watching it now.
お疲れ様でした ！ Excelent. I love you both and cat s life. Thank you very much.
The garden is amazing and if I had a yard it would inspire me to plant my own veggie garden! 💕
Proof that Haku really is a normal cat:
*-After a nice warm walk-*
Jun: Okay I'm getting hot, lets head inside!
Haku: *-immediately lays down-*
Jun: *-walks ahead a tiny bit and tried to ps ps ps-* Come on baby
Haku: *-begins purring and flops-*
Jun: *-resigns himself to the heat and begins giving pets-*
You know life is good when Jun uploads a new video. Glad to see you and the kitties again.
I have always loved having a big garden, one year I had over 40 tomato plants and half a dozen types of pepper/chili plants (about 12 of each) A one-acre garden is a lot so I ended up paying the neighborhood kids to help. Plus I gave their parents many bags of veggies and jars of canned salsa and canned tomatoes.
In America we prune the bottoms of our pepper plants 12 inches up and pinch off the bottom leaves to improve pepper production as well prevent root diseases. The important distinction is to pinch the lower leaves off, and not snip them off as that will leave the capillaries of the leaf open and the plant will “bleed”. In any case, I hope this information is useful to you! Your garden looks incredible, and I got some ideas of my own from it for my future plans. Happy Gardening sir!
Love your videos , your cats are lovely ❤ , have you considered having a cat patio, a area that is attached to your entrance to garden that’s has a cat door so your cats go thru cat door maybe in window out to a small or up to the roof meshed in room that they can sit and play in that is sheltered from rain or sun and it’s just big enough for them to sit around and play and watch the birds and is safe from other cats and you can lock the cat door at night ad keep them inside ❤❤❤❤, bless you , your garden is looking great
Jun, in a raised garden, you want the soil all the way to the top. The soil does settle a bit after awhile so you want to allow for that settling by initially bringing up the soil to the top. Also, look into no-dig gardening. By cultivating, you're bringing up weed seeds up into the raised bed.
*pat pat* "please grow well" I'm going to do this to my plants now when I'm transplanting them. So sweet 🥹🌱❤️
every time you upload, it's pure wholesomeness and happiness.. these videos make me feel at peace in such a stressful world. thank you for your hard work!!
So glad you and Rachel have this home to enjoy. The two of you have worked hard for some time and it’s well deserved.
I love that he uses "he" instead of "it" for his plants
I always love what they are showing us in videos: recipes, diy projects, home building and decorating. My husband and i are in the process of planning our own landed house. And i do included things like cat friendly house, big window for a lot of natural light, wooden interior and also lots of plants in the garden/yard.
So, thank you Jun and Rachel😊😊
You can always bake your neighbours something! ❤
We used coconut husk mulch for our vegetable garden this year too. It's making such a difference in the moisture level of the soil. It's great
That's super smart with the bricks underneath!!! And also the plastic inside to keep the wood fresh for longer
Love the raised bed. My mother planted a garden in the front,side and back of the house,she also began with 1 raised bed. Now, 10 years later,we harvest avocados,mango, loquat,raspberries and many different herbs.
This type of videos are probably the most calming ones on the whole youtube, makes me feel nostalgic for my parent's garden. They grow all kinds of things and really put a lot of effort into it, it's a great hobby for them. Thank you for sharing this quality content with us, Jun! I wish you to have a good harvest this year💜
This got me so emotional all of a sudden, I used to do this with my grandad when I was little, I was lucky to have him in my life till I was 18 years old.
I became known as the green Gardner in my family because I used to do stuff like this with my Granddad.
The nostalgia hits me hard ahaha.
That bed came out really nice. One thing I thought of though, is that you can also use the frame to grow some climbing vegetables like peas or runner beans, which would give you more variety for the same area
That looks amazing Jun! Please give us an update as to how things grow! Highly recommend feeding those peppers ocean mix fertilizer once they start producing every 6 weeks or so. Also, since Rachel loves peppers, maybe dry them to make spices or ferment to make your own hot sauce? Super easy and delicious!
Trick I learned from my mother for keeping local animals from munching on your garden: put the shed fur of a dog near it. The smell of the dog will spook most rabbits and deer and keep them from nibbling off the new growth of your plants in spring.
My mother had a Chow and spun his fur into rough yarn after brushing him. She then used the yarn to surround her veggie plots. The rough yarn falls apart by late summer, and various other animals will take it for nesting and burrow material.
❤ I always wish we had a word for Komorebi. I love hiking and being outside under the tree canopy bc of this.
I hope the crows leave the garden alone. I remember Jun and Rachel saying the ones in their yard were really smart.
So exiting to se your diy house updates 💙
I've been watching Jun's Kitchen and Rachel and Jun for a long time, but I had no idea this channel was a thing! YT just suggested it.
I started watching your videos a couple of years back. Glad to see you guys are doing well. Basically your videos inspired me to keep on trying on cooking, having my three crazy cats and try enjoy life more often. Thanks.
You must have been good in school. Since, I have been watching, Rachel has taught you very well. She is your sensei and you wax on/wax off very well! Yay, Jun!
I'm really interested to see those pinkish blueberries grow
Ahhh little Naggi ❤ I bet the kitties would love a catio so they could hand outside and still be safe
Jun and his golden hands never dissappointed 👏🏻
Haku is such a cute and curious cat! ❤️
Love the new raised Bed! If you worry about birds you can hang some knickknacks which reflect light on the Frame. A CD or anything wrapped in foil. It worked for our blueberries and red currant, which i could also recommend if you wanna share some fruits with your neighbors. They yield so many fruit!
You guys truly found a great place to live. I love all the projects you show us. The attention to detail with the slight angle on the ledge so fruits and veggies won't fall out of the raised bed was *chefs kiss *
Oh, and blueberries LOVE WELL DRAINING SOIL so you might have to keep an eye on how much water they get where you've put them. Ideal place for them is on the side of a hill, but second to that is a somewhat rocky place, and not having that around, little watering sessions many times over one big soak and they do well, they do love water, they just don't want it all at once like that too often.
the frame can also be used as a structure for your plants to have support from so you can get a larger yield and the plant will be healthier.. good job... love your content
10:30.... Idea. Not sure if either of you knit or crochet but there are bags you can make to hold produce. Maybe while these are growing, you can give out the bags as gifts?
Good Afternoon 🌞 💭☕️ Jun’s Kitchen 😺, Hey 👋 Yay 👏👏👏 I’m so glad y’all are back. We’ve missed you. Unfortunately, there is no way to do a video response. But my girl cats 🐈 and I love watching your videos. It’s gotten to the point now where when I go into the kitchen they expect me to cook for them. And my one girl, cat has started sitting in the barstool as well. Because she saw your cats 🐈 doing it on your videos. Please keep posting on this channel. Please do not stop. I have been watching videos on your other channels as well. But this one is my favorite, and the cats 🐈 too. I am watching all the videos on RNJ Adventures, I’ve watched all the videos on your RNJ channel, but again this one’s the best. Please do not stop. I hope ❤️ and pray 🙏❤️ that all is well with y’all and your cats 🐈 Be Well, Healthy and Blessed 🙏❤️😺
Wow, what are the chances? I was just thinking about making a raised bed when I got back home, and after many months, Jun comes out with a video! Thank you!
So much fun! I have a container garden on my deck and I've learned a lot in the last year. Blueberries really do need acidic soil. They also need a certain number of chill hours, so don't worry about protecting from the cold unless the flower buds have started to swell and open. Winter is the best time to prune because you can see the flower buds. With peppers, they are actually perennials if you can protect them from cool temps. They start to pout below 50F/10C.
Jun playing stardew in real life ahaha xD the weed mowing was so satisfying
Remember you can always sprout peppers from the seeds of peppers that taste good. Peppers also grow like crazy once you get them right. And bell peppers come in all kinds of colors.
Man massive respect for the bird measures. Id probably try to throw together a scarecrow and call it a day lol
I have this kind of garden in my family back yard. Really nice for gardening!! I'm so happy for you Jun!!
thank you for uploading videos, whether it is from this channel or the other ones, i've always enjoyed every single one of them. your and rachel's videos always makes my day brighter and better. once again, thank you so much.
パプリカ = red bell pepper (and ピーマン = green bell pepper). in english. paprika is the name of a spice powder made from dried red peppers.
You both are truly kind and thoughtful people. Bless you, Jun and Rachel! Love all your content.
Blueberries love acidic soil!! So make sure the soil around the blueberries has a low pH! Love you Jun!! You and Rachel's home is so beautiful!!!!
Nevermind you're on it!!!
Had to laugh when you enthusiastically said “Let’s go baby!”to your kitty and it just plopped over on its side! Apparently not in the least threatened or motivated 😂😂😂
Love the garden content :)
I think Haku approves of the new addition to your garden. 👍
it's really neat that y'all have this space now to do what you want and plant want you want... some day I'll have something too
Your videos are always so peaceful and wholesome ❤. Blessings to all from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷❤️
I am having a really bad day and this video just made me feel so much better
I love watching your videos. it gives me inspiration for when i finally move into my own home,how I can make it nice and if I'm lucky i will get a garden, even a sliver i will be happy where i can do this sort of thing grow things i will enjoy. I have to be careful though as i can't have flowers i always end up sneezing all the time so succulents and cactus are my friends. right now I am living in supported housing due my disabilities but they are helping my to get things on track and sorted so i can live in my own home with floating support which means someone will come in once or twice a week to check in with me and do whatever i need help with. my disabilities are mental and physical but we are slowly getting there with the help i need now. I really need somewhere near a park if i don't have a garden as i will have a support dog by the time i move out as well.
Pink lemonade blueberries! I had a potted bush on my balcony when I had an apartment, but it didn't make it to being planted in my yard in my house unfortunately. But I got a new baby pink lemonade plant this year, along with several others to make a hedge row along the side of my property. No stores near me sell them anywhere near as grown up as yours are though. I could buy older ones online but I kinda got overzealous at the store when I was picking up mulch and just got a bunch of babies.
Since I live up against the woods, a long term goal of mine is to get a ton of different kinds of native fruits for the area (crabapples, serviceberries, huckleberries, american cranberry bushes, etc) and plant them all along the area there my property meets the woods. I'm hoping it'll be an acceptable offering for the wildlife and they'll eat those berries instead of coming down into my garden, but if it isn't enough I'm also hoping it'll make a decently tall and well-filled in barrier to deter at least the deer from wandering through my yard. Of course I have to get enough of the plants, and get them big enough to survive being monched on, before we reach that point, so right now my garden is still kind of hit or miss for what I get to gather for myself and what ends up eaten by the animals.
Looks wonderful! Please keep us updated.
Would you do a box to grow different rose plants? Decades ago all roses smelled like roses, very very nice. Recent years it is not easy to find roses sold as cut flowers that have any pleasant rose scent at all. This has occured in the US. I guess the heirloom roses that smell like roses are not grown for cut flowers to be sold. Growers prefer newer rose breeds that grow easy but lack rose scent. Generally all roses are quite easy to grow, in my opinion, and year after year are reliable with abundant blooms. I can imagine a walk in your yard with the scent of rose, and cutting flowers to adorn and scent the living space if desired. If you decide to grow roses, be sure it is the true scented rose.
You are so talented and skilled. Thanks for sharing the videos, the work is interesting to watch. And the projects are enviable, as most people would want to attempt. I also like the fish tank with the driftwood tree. The cat tree made from driftwood years back is also very nice, and the cats like it.
Hello Haku ...😚
Please built a big outdoor catio for the kitties so they can enjoy the outside too :) can't wait to see them chatting to the birds
Never clicked so fast on a notification 😂
Same!
I think you should just have everything on the Rachel and Jun channel. I love everything that Jun does. But it’s nice to have Rachel whenever she wants to be on too. I already know it’s Rachel and Jun whatever the channel is called.
Komorebi is the word I didn't realize I needed in my life.
Next project should be a catio por the kitties! They would love an outdoor space!
What a wonderful, relaxing video. Cheers from East Coast Canada.
Several people in the comments seem confused that cross pollination between your hot peppers and your sweet peppers will make your sweet pepper fruits hotter. This is not true-it will make the peppers grown from seeds of your current crop (so, next year’s plants) hotter. I would recommend not saving your own seed if you don’t like the heat.
After seeing Haku hopping like that, the next project may need to be a catio for the boys and Miss Pichi
I absolutely love your videos, and seeing the subtle language differences come through is so cool! Where I live the task you called "weeding" is "mowing" or "trimming" :)
this was so relaxing to watch 😊
i like the way you always say 'next!' before each new step
omg it has been a while since i’ve checked in! no longer in the apartment :) glad you guys got more space for yourselves and the cats 🎉
Looking forward to Jun baking pies using the berries he harvested from these trees in the future.
Can't wait to see the update, love this channel vech much
Definitely need updates on how the garden grows !!! 💗🫐🌶🌿
Blueberries and peppers are what I give out as gifts in stardew valley
I am growing a garden for the first time this year. ❤️ I have a Japanese cucumber that taken off, and is producing like crazy. There are so many tiny cucumbers. I originally had it in a pot, but recently got a raised bed and large trellis for it. Earwigs have been nibbling on most of my plants (my poor peppermint especially), but this one seems to be surviving okay. I'm so excited! I love how the plants respond to love and care, and have their preferences. The Japanese cucumber apparently does not like water on its leaves, as it wilts when it's watered from above. So I bought a wand to water at its roots. 😊 I'm looking forward to your future videos and seeing your garden flourish. I hope you have a great harvest!
I also have some blueberry bushes, but they are in their first year. They still kind of look like a few twigs. haha I kind of want to plant some catnip and see if the local bobcats come by to enjoy it. haha
So cool to see Jun become comfortable with DIY now.
sweet peas, tomatoes and lots of lettuce types are also very easy to grow. I got some sweet peas, forgot the seeds in winter outside, they rained on and actually sprouted in the pot filled with water from the rain and snow, just dunked them in thr ground, planted them 10 to 15cm apart and now its just one ginormous bush of individual plants hanging on to each other (cuz they're crawlers, they sprout those little entangling branches that hold on to everything for their dear life) They really took off around April/May and are now about 40cm from being seeded in March. Idk the specifics like ph value of them but used veggie soil I could buy here locally. Also use eggshell powder and coffee leftover, but be careful with the last one because it can easily spoil and that's kinda bad. just put some in a little hole close to the roots. The sweetpeas are actually giving a ton of harvest despite it being their first year. Hope your harvest is also bountiful, but those bushes may take up to 3 year before they give plenty of blue berries as they're in their growth stage. Also strawberries is something everyone loves and enjoys.
Apparently, if you're making raised beds, you don't need to worry about the weeds in the ground. Laying down a layer or two of cardboard at the bottom before adding soil will take care of them and prevent regrowth. Just a food for thought for the future :)