How I Plan My Spring Garden | Layout and Timing
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- Опубліковано 19 бер 2024
- Lets take my a walk through my garden and discuss the upcoming spring garden plan! Most of my garden is full but I have to start thinking about where all my spring vegetables are going to go. Here I discuss timing, light, size, and layout of my upcoming garden and how I think about it all.
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Hey Jacques you gave me advice on planting my first fruit tree in clay soil, just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to write me back! Much appreciated
Glad to have helped!
"OUR favorite chard."
Nice save.
😂
You should make a recipe book. I never know what to do with all my produce.
Yessssss this is such a good idea 😵
The Epic Recipe Book!!!
I have thought about it 👀
@@jacquesinthegardenPlease do, I'd love to see what you do with that leaf broccoli.
@@jacquesinthegardenplease do a cookbook!! I would love a chapter on the ridiculously simple things you do. Sometimes you say you’ll pick something and fry it up with butter and pepper or something simple like that and I can’t tell you how much we as Americans need simple, easy, fresh cooking tips that weren’t handed down to us from a rich culture. Your cookbook would sell SO well and would be so worth your time!!
@@brittany8364 Seriously agree!
This was the most helpful garden tour I have ever watched!
Very glad to hear that!
I can't hear "fava beans" without hearing a line from a certain movie from the 90's. That being said, great job, Jacques. Love the love for your garden!
I like the causal videos like this. They are very inspiring. We will finally have a yard to garden with this year and videos like this one give me so much excitement for this season.
Glad to hear this was useful, and best of luck on your new garden!
I like it when you just grab a camera and take us for a walk and talk through the garden. It feels more real than something too planned out or scripted. You speak well off the cuff, so win-win! When you said you put tomatoes in the shorter raised bed, I see why, but funny thing, I just planted out 20 tomato plants we grew from Botanical Interests seed in the house this winter and because they are supposed to have deeper roots than most of the other things in my garden, I have them in 5 different tall Birdies beds. Reaching the top fruits on my indeterminate varies might be tough. I saw this video one day too late. Haha!
A PhD class - this rookie appreciates what an expert can do! 👍
This is only my second year gardening but I’ve got kale, broccolini, cherry tomatoes, bell peppers, and verbena seedlings going ❤ about to start cold stratifying some milkweed and getting some cucumber seeds going.
I love this style of video, it's great to see you walk through your choices and weigh your options and ideas. It feels natural, like you invited us along to look at your garden!
Those cabbages are absolutely beautiful!! Here in Colorado, I'm still in the early stages of seeding/seedlings but my Sunday morning views of your garden keeps me motivated and inspired. Thanks for great content!
I love how busy the garden is even through winter. Hope you have a great growing season this year!
I'm jealous of their growing season lol.
@@twitchy_birdSame! 😂
Winter is for sure my favorite season, it's not quite a break but everything grows much much slower.
I would cry if I found out my asparagus bed stopped producing for some unknown reason. Such a long time commitment to get going. So sad to see and glad to see you taking it so well! Those grubs are the worst and I also have major issues with them here in San Diego. Wishing the best harvest season for all as we come into Spring.
When I dug up the patch I found a lot of the crowns fully rotted. Surprised to have that happen in San Diego.
🖐 Hi! Geologist gardener from Puerto Rico over here! 😊
Hello! What plants are you harvesting right now in your climate?
Am I the only one who wants a video of these two meeting and talking about their gardens together?
Nope, you are not
@@TheWarrior68 answering to salami2020... read a bit above
I like this sort of video, makes me think and consider my own garden plans and to not be too precious about every decision that I make. Thank you from Allied Gardens. I love that you’re in San Diego and that I can measure my choices and success alongside a San Diego gardener.
Hey Jacque, you sure do have a fantastic garden. A tip I learned from Liz Zorab on harvesting carrots. Push the carrot down first before trying to pull it out. I have clay soil too and it has been a game changer. Works great unless it is a really long carrot. Give it a try.
looked like a carpenter bee to me! Thank you for giving her a meal!
I ordered a thousand carpenter bees, and I was so disappointed.
They didn't even help me build my house.
Hopefully I have more luck with the mason bees...😂
I have tons of native bees, living on a creek, near a lake, and a river. We put logs on the creek side and drill holes for the bees, and there is plenty of mud for mason bees, we have a large habitat pile, and hibernaculum for insects, as well as for lizards and such.
Cheers! Happy SPRING!?!! 🎉🎉🎉
I saw a bumble bee moving into my garden faucet yesterday. Could hear it gnawing in there. It's still shut off because of winter but the faucet is in the open position. I have no idea how far it went in there. I will try and lock it out tomorrow, which I'm really sorry for. But I kinda need that faucet. I hope the nest isn't too far along...
Such fun ones to see buzzing around, they love the nasturtiums!
We got 30lbs of seed potatoes in the mail today. We are up North in a 5b zone and I’m so jealous seeing how your garden is going 😅
I love your wild and structured garden. It looks very organic and unbounded 😊
Thank you!
Hey Jacques I’m Australian and we are in autumn, so it’s getting cool quick here, your garden lets me live vicariously through you during our cold winter months! Thank you!
Can you grow through the winter months where you are? Or is it just not worth it?
@@jacquesinthegarden I’m not a huge fan of winter veggies, but I grow a few thing thru winter mainly flowers so the local bees have food!
Hey Jacques, just an idea for future root knot nematode issues, make your mulch into an oyster mushroom bed. They eat nematodes 👍
Woah, that is amazing and sounds oddly delicious haha, I will for sure look into that.
My peppers are now in greenstalks. My son loves to grow a ton of variety and his pepper garden was taking over all my garden space. So now we have 2 lovely towers and the only ones that go in ground are the super tall ones.
That is awesome, I have seen people with pepper loaded greenstalks and it looks super cool.
Hi Jaques 👋 my favorite gardener!! Glad you posted today. Everything is looking gorgeous in your garden 😍
Thanks for stopping by!
Thank you so much for showing us around. I always enjoy garden tours.
Glad you enjoyed
Totally awesome! I envy that you can grow year round!
LOVE this video. Garden layout can sometimes be overwhelming with all the options. I like how nonchalant your approach is. I'm going to try to implement your simple and thoughtful strategies.
Have you tried laying bird netting over the bed where things keep getting pulled out? Or planting dead sticks to poke unwanted animals? I do these to keep cats from digging up my new seedlings, and they're generally pretty effective.
Flash tape
I ended up caging the plants left and they survived. It turned out to be a pair of roving racoons digging for grubs.
@@jacquesinthegardenI haven't had too much trouble with raccoons because they aren't that common in my area, but I know people who do. I'm glad your plants survived.
I like to dry and keep all of my sunflower heads and put them out periodically for the birds, especially when I start planting stuff and making easy targets for wildlife.
Thank you. Helpful to hear your reasoning about what to plant and why a specific spot makes sense. Love that you share successes and failures so i don’t feel I have to be perfect
Nobody is perfect, plenty of problems to go around for all of us!
Really enjoy hearing your thoughts on planning your garden spaces. Keep 'em coming.
Good morning from Australia Jacques 🎉 Always a great start to the day when I wake up & see you've shared a video. Looks like a beautiful day there & the garden looks joyful 😍
Hey Jacques! Have you ever done a water-in nematode treatment for your grubs? You can buy them on a sponge, they’re organic, and they’ve done a great job controlling grubs. We focus on root crops and heavy feeders that seem to struggle!
Even though i live on the dark side of the earth in Australia and winter is coming I enjoyed this video.
Love love the borage - the bees adore it. I'll be using a bunch of the Epic grow bags this year in my attempt to get away from the blight affecting my tomatoes. I am inspired by your garden!
Yeah, borage is such a cool flower and plant!! I love in the mornings when it gets coated in dew. It looks like some new jelly candy. Wish I could share photos!
Grow bags can be great for exactly that situation and get rotations out of certain parts of the garden.
This video was incredibly insightful. Thank you for taking us along while you weed through your ideas and rationale for planting your crops. A fellow San Diegan.
I love garden tours! More videos like this please.
You got it!
Thanks Jacques. I appreciate seeing how tall Borage gets and how invasive Nasturiums are.
Love the space planning tips you provide. It is something often overlooked in suitable climates.
Loved the garden tour! Your cabbages are amazing and I love how you put all the flowers with the veggies. Great for the pollinators but it also just looks so pretty
Thanks so much!
I always learn something from these videos as garden timing is what I'm trying to nail down. So, please, more!
(And my seed-grown asparagus is now flourishing at 5' tall in a Birdies bed, so I recommend trying that.) 💚
That's awesome! Seed started asparagus seems to be way faster
It boggles the mind seeing how much you can mix and match gardens and just add "a few cabbages and beets here and there to fill space". I would forget about them 😅 Jacques has absolutely made the most of his land and grows many types of food I have never tried or cooked with (daheck is a FAVA bean??) Lots of love went into that space ❤ such a pleasure to see!
The garden is looking soo good Jacques!! 😍🙌🏻💚
Thank you for making this video! Really helpful advice! And also your voice is so nice and calming! Thank you again for making this video!
Thanks for sharing your gorgeous garden!
I really loved this video!!
Great tips! Your garden is beautiful! Thank you for sharing. I love seeing how other gardeners think and plan out their spaces.
Hi Jacques, great garden thanks for sharing it with us. Love it
I like listening to your thought process as you walk through your garden. So I say, keep videos like this coming!
I can look into your garden and form assumptions about what’s going on, but I could be completely wrong. Thank you for taking the time to share.🌱💚
Love this video.
Gorgeous garden! 👏🏽❤
I love these kinds of videos. They get me thinking about my layout. ❤
How exciting! Great video as always Jacques! 💚
Thank you for sharing! You given me some great ideas about where and what plant!🌱 have a great day!
Thanks for the slower rate of speech, I didn't have to turn you to 75% speed this week :D Love the videos and garden tour - never lose the hat!
Sometimes I go into shortform talking mode and talk too fast! Glad to hear this pacing was on point.
This video is so colorful! Beautiful garden, cool bracelet
Love this kind of video! So many ideas for next Spring/Summer 😄 Cheers from Melbourne, Australia
There were a lot of paintings of monkeys waving bamboo sticks in the gallery.
Thank you, it was a nice tour of your garden. I liked that you explained why you did what you did, and what you will do, when you clean up an area that is finished. That is what I am working around at this time.
We really enjoyed your video: listening to all the tips and tidbits of the wheres and whys is really helpful! Thank you 🙂
Glad it was helpful!
Nice garden video !! Carpenter bee females are black and robust and lovely. The males are golden with green eyes and just as robust but usually come around next month. Nice garden plan !! Happy Spring-time !!
Nice I like the way you plan things out. Being fairly new at gardening you have given me a few good ideas that I will use when the weather breaks. An aerial view of your garden would be nice to see could help in designing my garden.
I recently discovered your videos and find them so interesting and informative. I love your rapid, engaging style which demonstrates your broad knowledge and experience but in a down-to-earth, understandable way. Thanks so much. Random question: Is there a reason why you have so many large nasturtiums in your garden.
You have such a beautiful garden! Those nasturtiums are so pretty! I liked this style of video, but I love them all anyways! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for visiting!
Great garden tour! Love the idea of "pollinator patches". Great point about short beds for tomatoes. Thanks so much!
Glad it was helpful!
this has been my biggest struggle just figuring out what to plant and where..
Thank you so much Bhai (bro) I love your garden tour always ❤❤ very nice vegetables gardening
hi jacques 🤗
this is another great video. tfs
Amazing! And agree, timing is everything. We have to endure the devastation that Japanese Beetles create. They love
Beans and Pea's. Pea's being cold hardy can be planted as early as you can work the soil. When the ground thaws.
That's normally mid April. This year the frost is gone in most of our garden already. I swear the Beetles have a calendar,
because they show up every year on about July 3rd. Pea's have a maturity date of 60 days. With the frost in the ground
all but gone, way early this year, we were going to plant our Pea Jungle this weekend. But, it's snowing as we speak!
3-5" inches tonight, and more coming Saturday. Oh well, they call it the poor mans fertilizer. Guess I'll have to get my
rototiller out this weekend. lol TYFS
Great content and great info 🌱
I’m motivated 💕 🌱
So glad!
3 years for the kale!?! That’s awesome!!
Tip & trick on the curly kale
Your garden is beautiful and so prolific. I live in zone 3 so totally different gardening out here 😂.
I’m trying something new to me and am wondering if you’re familiar with it. Red orach, supposed to be akin to spinach. It can grow to four feet tall, beautiful burgundy color. Plus you can pick leaves off of it throughout our entire season. Which is May to about mid October.
There’s a trick my mother in law taught me in regards to cabbage. If the cabbage is close to harvest time but you feel you might not have time to look after it, you firmly grasp the head and give it a half turn. It loosens the plant enough to stop growth ( to keep it from splitting) but doesn’t hurt the plant at all.
Enjoyed the garden tour and future layout. I thank you for sharing this with me ♥️🇨🇦
Hey J., I was just reading that growing Nasturtiums and Marigolds with your tomatoes can break up rootknot nematodes. I was so excited to see it! So there is some more hope for your tomatoes. They should be great.
Love the garden updates! Its always helpful to see how other folks plan out their gardens! Did you end up making a video on your irrigation system??
Unfortunately I haven't organized it all for editing yet. Ended up being a lot of files. But I am planning on getting it out within months.
@@jacquesinthegarden haha take your timeee. Happy gardening
Jacques, you mentioned pickling, but you really need to try fermenting!!!
I got a mason jar fermenting kit for Christmas and I’ve been creating some VERY TASTY veg! So far the two that have been the best are radishes and cucumbers (not together!) Oh, and the Giardiniera was great!
Give it a try!!
Carpenter bees are the bane of my existence!
Luckily I don't have major exposed wood for them to destroy!
Nice setup, Jaques strap!
The nematodes will be waiting for you in that bed. They are next impossible to get rid of.
I have a 60 gallon grow bag that got infested by nematodes, probably from a large tomato plant from Costco.
Now I always start the year off with a crop of marigolds in that particular bag, to supress the nematodes.
Followed by peppers or something else. 🎉
I actually bought Shasta daisy seeds because of your patch! Planted out my seedlings just today.
Awesome! It is such a lovely giant flower!
This is crazy lol I am zone 5 and literally just planted peas last week 😂
Id love to hear about your plans for the grape and powdery mildew issue. I have a grape that ive had this issue with two years in a row.
Interesting to see all of the nasturtiums taking over. I’m in central California and I struggle with snails and slugs as the main pests in my backyard garden. I feel like planting them would just invite these pests… but maybe it would work as a deterrent to them eating the rest of my garden. What do you think?
What a fantastic garden and a lot of eating ahead of you!. The big bee you saw is almost certainly a queen bumblebee, emerging from winter hibernation a native spcies and to be encouraged. The queen is the only bumbelbee to survive the winter, all the others die in the fall, they don't have a great life. She is now looking for somewhere to lay her eggs and tend them until the first lot hatch and help with subseuent hatchings etc. Probably not till 3 months from now. They need all the help they can get. They don't get along well with honeybees which are an invasive European species. A honeybee hive could have 10,000 bees and a bumble bee tunnel in the ground 20. Big difference. It's worth getting a bumblebee chart you may have 20 or 30 varieties in San Diego. Many of them have red stripes , it's fun to try and identify them You should know what bees are on your borage.. They like single flowers in abundance like an apple tree, or cosmos, japanese anemone and single dahlias. They starve with the big double dahlias as they can't reach the nectar easily. Love your garden though!
Very interesting read! I will look into it as that does sound like fun and I often see a large assortment of bumblebees here.
squash and cucumbers on the same small trellis....I am betting on the squash to win the race. I was thinking winter squash. which can be Godzilla in the garden. LOL love your channel and your garden is looking beautiful.
Yeah I grow some vining summer squash and it doesn't get quite as massive!
Kind of sad it becomes cold here in winter. In winter you cant do much. It doesnt freeze a lot but you just dont know when it will freeze 😅and it kills everything. I think i might start a bit earlier this year though because weather is quite warm at the moment 🤔
For your potatoes, check out Ben at GrowVeg, he spoke about layering potatoes (for determinate or indeterminate, can’t remember which), which could help max yield in a tall grow bed. Love the channel!
Hi! Do you have any videos on hugelkultur? We are considering that this year and would love to hear about your experience
Is that a martenitsa you're wearing? Happy spring! :)
I started using the seedtime garden planner to help me map out timing and layout. It’s like min maxing but for the garden. All those years of playing strategy games playing out IRL lol.
For those interested, there’s a free version. I highly recommend it as a planner.
I have messed with that but it's simply too much work to update and work on all the time for me.
Saw a Bermuda buttercup weed my most hated weed in the garden lol but the bees seem to like them
Oh yeah, I have some bad weeds but most are kept at edges and so far haven't infiltrated my garden beds.
Thank you so much you are so detailed in everything you do you have help me in deciding buying blueberries and growing my 3 strawberry guavas from seed. You are my go to on what to do with my garden.
That is amazing, hoping you get wonderful fruit harvests in the coming years!
Jacque have thought about a dedicated rhubarb patch ? Or strawberry 🍓 patch
Hi Jacques!! 🤗 Quick question for you. Zone 6 here, 3rd year organic gardening. Would you be able to give advice on growing watermelons? I haven't had any luck.😭 Also, the squash bugs that take over my pumpkins every year. 😵💫 Thanks!! ✌️🫶
Heard you say you'd probably break the carrot if you try to get it out of the bed and might have to fork it. Have you tried pushing them down first and then pulling them up? Usually works for me.
In this part of my yard they still get stuck regardless. I haven't added as much compost here but I probably will after this carrot harvest.
Enjoyed the garden tour and planning ideas. Do you plant eggplants at any time?
I live in Hawaii but in a humid & rainy area but your tips still teach me in mitagating issues in the gardens. Thank you!
He does grow eggplants , the small version, and even overwintered them
I for sure do have eggplant started, I forgot to mention it but I will have probably 6-8 plants in the end.
Watch out for that oxalis!
You need an owl for that pesky crow. 😂
Hi Jacque, what sort of settings do you have for your irrigation? I'm planning irrigation for my raised beds and have no idea of time or frequency 😁☺
I'm so envious! I can't even get in to work on my new garden for another two weeks, and it's just muddy grass. What would you do if you were moving into a blank canvas?
Oh man I kind of hope I do move into a blank canvas at some point to see what I would do. I haven't thought of it much but I would for sure do some proper planning at the start and make sure things are located in the ideal areas for sun.
@@jacquesinthegarden We're moving onto the family acreage in southern Oregon and I've been given a full-sun rectangle of beef pasture that's a little under 1,500 m². The soil is that odd orange sandy hill stuff with veins of chunky white quartz and iron. Iykyk.
Thankfully, this spot has been a garden before and is closer to good garden soil. Thanks!
How big is your property? You have so much going on and I’m jealous. My yard has a lot of shade as well as SE Texas heat. I haven’t been gardening long and it’s been tough trying to find what will work where.
Hi Jacques. How is your solar set up working in the greenhouse? Is a single fan sufficient for this set up? I am building a Costco greenhouse right now but this rain has delayed the project quite a bit.