😊 yes, and for those of us who are old school, we might use the word, smart, crafty, frugal, always studying and evaluating What works. 😊Of course, these are the basic principles of empirical science, however, main stream scientist are not a big fan, mainly because we don’t use their chemicals, That lines their pockets. 😮
@@Godsglorygarden-v6r Let me make it even more clear for you. You certainly did 'profile' scientists in your comment. You have an image in your head of what a scientist is. Your use of 'mainstream'. There are all types of scientists in the world working in different disciplines. They are not selling anything to you.
I know this is possibly not what I was meant to take away from the video, but seeing the repair in Anne's jeans as she was crouching down to show us stuff made me so happy. It's not the point of the video at all, but it shows that Anne is the same person and carries the same values through all aspects of her life. Huge respect.
I learned as a kid, 40 years ago, how to do patches to trousers using fabric from older trousers. It has saved my husband's trousers time and time again, but now I do them from the inside, reinforcing the fabric before there is a hole. Invisible patches.
@ the good news is, the best way to remediate chemical contamination, even if it is present, is adding more organic matter, so add lots of leaves or straw or wood chips or whatever other mulches you can over winter and they should, for the most part, clean it up by spring. Our farm used to be sprayed multiple times annually with all kinds of garbage when the prior owners “farmed” it, but there aren’t even tiny traces of any of it left today.
I’m hoping Anne of all trades Will share more about the spiritual origins of her bold, fourth right, honest and no nonsense Approach to gardening and her life. Her and her husband are in a position to influence a lot of people.
I grew up on the mission field and attended seminary as an adult. I’ve found I have far more opportunity to influence the kinds of folks that most need to be influenced by living what I believe out loud rather than saying it out loud. Unfortunately, so many people who claim to share my faith have taken the Lord’s name in vain through unloving behavior, while proclaiming their “beliefs” loudly for all to hear, that much ground needs to be re-covered by rebuilding trust in the folks who have been injured by that unloving behavior through loving, welcoming actions long before truth can actually be revealed in a way that will actually have a positive affect. You may disagree, and that’s ok, but I know my mission and my calling and I’m doing my very best to walk in accordance with it.
@@Godsglorygarden-v6rThere’s no reason to be bringing a bunch of religious baggage to everything someone does. Many of us appreciate you guys keeping it to yourselves and just being decent people.
@@Godsglorygarden-v6rIf you look back through her videos, she really has shared a lot about her/their personal journey - in an appropriate and authentic way. Those videos will break your heart, bring you to tears, get you laughing a bit, give you a quick emotional kick-in-the-pants & boost your courage. ❤❤❤ Totally worth digging through!
"There's always a way to rectify your laziness" is honestly just about the most empowering statement I've ever heard, and I'm planning on using it as a daily affirmation.
He has made everything about the channel better since coming on board. We are all lucky to have his perspective and talent added, most things he touches turn to gold.
@@AnneofAllTradesbtw former Tennessee resident now in Washington, a fantastic cover crop (the roots are edible) for Western Washington is Silver Leaf plant. I planted very tiny ones in my bed and they spread vigorously! They are also native to Washington so won’t take over but they are definitely a must for the lazy gardener out here (along with strawberries of course!)
I am overwhelmed by "lazy gardening!" You have an amazing garden. It is beyond my capabilities but it is certainly something to strive for and dream of 🤗💕💕
Do what you can, with what you’ve got, My grandpa always said. I do lazy gardening because gardening all day sounds like a bit of a nightmare to me because of all the other things I’d have to stop doing to make time for it, but I’m all about chasing dreams ❤️❤️
As always I love the gardening content (fellow lazy, ADD, nerdy gardener here) but Anne I just wanted to tell you how happy and healthy and beautiful you look. You are glowing! ☀️
I have adopted some of your methods, like leaving the tool where you use it. I live in an RV park, the manager saw it and said, "Clean up this mess!" Then I explained why the tools were there, and she said, "Oh, that makes sense!" She has not mentioned them again.
I use a style of gardening called, plant once, eat forever. I don’t know if it’s a ‘thing’ but it’s what I do as I am mega lazy and an engineer by trade. So, in two of my beds I grow Jerusalem Artichokes. Two weeks back I just chop and drop. That, with the leaf fall, gives me a great nutritional winter soil protector. My polytunnel is a different beast, obviously, where I allow anything and everything to grow over the winter months alongside my Tree Collards and i’ll then pull out what I don’t want ready for the tomatoes and peppers end of Spring.
As a lazy gardener, I plant peas in the fall, and then I harvest them and toss the spent dried vines into the compost, and then I threw the compost on the bed when I planted it next I also cover crop with turnips because you can eat the greens in the spring And then you can eat them again a month or two later and then when you wanna replant, you just pull out the turnips and you’ve got turnips.
This is the way to go! In my last garden video I broadcast seeded between all my perennials with spinach, winter kale, turnips, daikon radish, garlic, and snow peas for the exact same reason. Easy to clean up come spring and added food with whichever of those seeds end up being successful among the other stuff.
I agree with what you said about cover crops accept one kind. I live by the Wisconsin Illinois border and need a good cover crop. My answer was Austrian peas. They add nitrogen all winter long and simply cutting them in the spring gives you instant mulch still high in nitrogen. They don’t come back once you cut them. I love your tips.
Love this video!! Your baby goat is adorable. My favorite part, though, was watching you fly through your self-made obstacle course with a quickness to get that garden gate closed!! 😂 It's all truly on the way, in the way!! 😂
Sometime next year, I hope, I'll be moving to a home I own, with space for gardening in more than just 35 gal totes on a 3rd floor balcony. I use as much of your lessons as I can in my container garden, but boy I can't wait until I can do a full Anne-of-All-Trades-style Lazy Garden and grow all the things that don't do well in containers! 💚
Im so happy you put out this video. I was feeling really down because im trying to grow food in my tiny apartment and to try and kill some bugs i saw i put soap water on my tomato plants. It killed almost all of them in less than 20 minutes. I had 25 healthy happy tomato seedlings, and now only 3 are alive. So, seeing that sometimes plants just don't survive made me feel better about messing up.
Tip for the unripe tomatoes at the end of the season: put them into jars, don't cover with lid, place the jars inside the house on windowsills where they get as much sunlight as possible. They'll ripen over time. They won't taste as good as the ones from the middle of the season, but still better than storebought tomatoes. Also, you reassured me that I didn't plant my garlic too late today.
I love the color and texture of that soil around the lettuce you transplanted. It's an awesome illustration of the power of building soil (through heavy mulches, etc.)
We love your videos, your spunky personality, your ability to teach and demonstrate so wonderfully and with great entertainment. Thank you for all you do. Perhaps it seems like lazy gardening, but you are wonderfully industrious!
Loved your article in Homesteading Magazine, Anne! Cover crops grew too well for me (6a), in a tall raised bed a couple of years ago. Larger in-ground beds have comfrey now which provides rich leaf matter, compost tea rich in nutrients. Great throughout the garden!
A book that helped me w/ composting was small and short. Title was Compost Happens. Greens, browns and water. Compost happens in nature with no help from humans. Also if you get regular cold/snow I'd suggest oats as a cover crop. Oats are not winter hardy, I broadcast my beds mid/late August and hope to get a stand of 8-10 inches. Come spring the beds are covered w/ a flat tan mulch. It works for me quick and easy. Thanks for the reminder about fear.
I love watching your videos and that baby goat is sooo cute! Thank you for sharing your gardening wisdom with us! I learned a lot from you and I love the lazy way if only I can apply it in my garden I would do what you do but we have an HOA so I do what I can get away with. I planted fruit trees in the front and blend them with flowers so it’s not obvious. By the way, those sweet potato leaves are good for soups . We ate those in the Philippines and now that I’m here in the US, I plant sweet potatoes for the leaves. I freeze some for future winter soups. That way I have free organic leafy greens to eat from my garden when they don’t grow in the winter. ❤❤❤
Dear Anne I am so glad I have found your channel! You are so inspiring and lovely to your animals! Thank you so much for sharing! Big hugs and Hello from Switzerland! 🤗🫏❤🌱🌾🌸❤️
Absolutely love your enthusiasm for your gardens. Very motivating. Doing a little bit in my garden but much smaller scale. I think ive watched all you videos and shared them to friends. Your zest for life shines through even though your struggles are real. Keep hanging in there as a team. Love your work. All the best.
I am SO here for the silver hair, and I always click on the videos to chart its progress! ;'D I also happen to be learning a lot about gardening and homesteading, but that's beside the point. ;)
I like to use solarization to kill off spore producing issues in the garden. I'm backed up to swamp land, molds and such are common. I'm seeing much improvement ,fewer losses for it. If I have a super wet winter it prevents my nutrients from leaching out. I get into ground water at about 3 to 4 ft most of the year. Loving your content.
I love your videos so much! I am trying to be a lazy gardener and work as an intuitive herbalist at the same time. Oh and I actually work as a medical intuitive and work in relationships, I do interviews of people I think are making the world better in some sort of way, and I sing for assisted living facilities. So my garden often gets a bit neglected but I love watching how I can still get good results without tons of work. Man I was drooling over your figs. My last house that I sold about a year ago had an amazing huge fig tree, after watching how easy that was, I am contemplating how weird it would be to ask them if I could get some twigs for propagating.
I took your advice and transitioned my beds! Put compost, dried leaves, pine shavings from the used duck's bedding on my raised beds, got the lettuce garden going, brought some herbs inside, topped my strawberry plants then piled leaves and pine shavings around their pots and on top of them. Thanks for all the great information and cute goats. I'm in Hermitage TN. Howdy, neighbor
Love loved loved this video. Almost makes me want to do an in-ground garden again. My garden is all in containers. Age has snuck up and beat the snot out of me. I loved your article written in Homestead Monthly. It took me through all the emotions. Thank you that saying self reliance is a farce. We tried getting there for so very long only to realize that we can’t do it alone and all need community. Not something you hear often enough. Have you seen JusttheBells10 here on UA-cam? They are not homesteaders, but farmers. She started her page with a goal in mind. It may not be what you have in mind, it isn’t for everyone, but hope you enjoy it. A great big cyber hug to you.
What an amazing video! I'm a second year beginner in suburbia. My hubs says I like to pretend I live in the country... Prolly because I have been so inspired by YOU! Please keep doing what you're doing! You are a difference maker on so many levels! 😊
I love your channel you have inspired me to start a garden with my neighbor and sometimes my mom and I watch your channel together. Thank you so much ❤
I’ve always wondered about this. I don’t do cover crops because I worry about having to fight them the rest of the year. Maybe next year I’ll do an experiment in one of my large beds, just to see how it does…without having to tie up too much space!
Love your lazy method of gardening! I do have a seed saving tip for you though, which will give you better germination and prevent any accidental carryover of diseases for your tomatoes and other juicy vegetables/fruits. It's called wet processing, and basically involves soaking your fresh seeds in a small glass of water for a few days (longer for cucurbits) to allow the slimy seed coating (which inhibits germination) to ferment away. Then you wash off the seeds (all the nasty stuff floats to the top and the good seeds sink to the bottom, so decant with a few changes of water then strain) and dry them on a labeled paper towel as you have been doing. You would use this for seeds like tomatoes, cucumbers, watermelon, and squash. It's not necessary for beans or leafy greens. It does get really stinky when you wet process things in the squash family, and it takes a long time (weeks), but tomatoes are usually done in 3 days. You can tell when they are done if you gently rub a seed and it does not feel slimy.
I wrap my outdoor buckets and pots in bubble wrap 😅 over winter because I've no space to cover them in mulch I don't fancy covering the concrete / slabs in mulch. But bubble wrap works. Here in Ireland als the UK and a lot of countries in Europe do what you do with the cardboard. Cardboard here is a natural product you just take any tape ect off it. It's also put into compost bins.
Using cover crops requires knowledge on how to use the cover crops you plan to plant. Jessie Frost who is a great source of information for market farmers using regenerative ag. techniques give a good rule of thumb about planting a cover crop for the fall, and that is, if you don't know what you're planting in that bed next, don't plant a cover crop. On the other hand if you don't plan on using that bed until later in the Spring or early summer then you can use cover crops. For any other situation like you plan to plant a money crop in early Spring then you need to understand what cover crops you can plant, how to terminate them, WHEN you can plant that cover crop, etc...... The problem with not using cover crops is you need a source of food for the life that's in the soil during the down time. If you can mulch that entire area you're good, and for small beds that's easy, but for larger scale market gardening that will depend a lot on access to mulches that will be acceptable to what it is you're trying to do. As should be common knowledge, if you aren't feeding the soil which is best done by living plants, the soil is feeding on itself. Cover crops are often the most cost effective way of putting stuff back in the soil that it needs and feeding the soil over the winter.
Don't tell anyone else, but I LOVE winter cleanup too, a little piece of me is like THANK GOD THIS IS ALL OVER TILL NEXT YEAR ;) but then sometime during the dead of winter I start to miss it and get excited for spring.
I use buckwheat and red clover and lacy phacelia and never had to terminate those cover crops, I just let them live and die on their own. I love seeing doves collect the dried lacy phacelia stems for their nests. its the sweetest
It is funny that you mention growing things in NW Washington (Lynden, WA here). It certainly has is challenges and see myself moving to your neck of the woods at some point 👊🏻🍉👊🏻
Something that shocked me this year in my garden was that a pepper plant grew from seed from the previous year. I am in zone 6b, I don't direct seed so I know I did not put it there but it showed up where they were last year. Also, the amount of volunteer tomatoes I had this year was insane.
As a lazy gardener, I plant beans in the fall, then harvest them and toss the dried vines into the compost, which I later spread over the bed when I plant the next crop. I also use turnips as a cover crop because you can eat the greens in the spring, then again a month or two later, and when it’s time to replant, you just pull up the turnips, and you’ve got turnips ready to use
AAAAhhhhhhh!! I miss my caprinies... I am trying not to stare at Anne's.... BTW, caprinies is a term for Caprine, aka Goats, for anybody who went astray. I have a goat barn that no longer have goats since my family claimed the milk was just "ok." "Ok" was not esteeming enough. Also, Anne has a great point regarding composting. A slightly off compost is TOTALLY better than a no-compost!! Keep it going Anne! ❤🤍💙
You're gonna have vetch in there forever, not the best choice. I love low clover and purslane, but vetch doesn't uproot well, the roots break. Vetch is aggressive, it climbs around on whatever you plant in there. Looks pretty, but it can easily get out of hand. Much better to pick specific plants to use as cover crops, not buy a seed mix unless it only has the specific stuff you need. Each plant behaves differently, and some are a real problem. You basically put a plant equivalent to horsetail into your garden, an occupant that you will always be dealing with there.
That’s great! If it’s an annual-only bed, solarizing it in the spring won’t be an issue, and you should have great results having used it. The reason I don’t do that here is because we interplant perennials and annuals everywhere, and we don’t have a hard enough frost to kill it all, so without a way to smother or hoe it in come spring, things like vetch, to the commenter above’s point, can become more of a pain than a helper come spring.
Oh, thank you for the belly-laugh-inducing baby goat hopping. Oh, my! I compost in place all year by blending food scraps with water in my Vitamix (or if I'm really lazy that day I don't blend them at all), moving the mulch aside, pouring it onto the soil, putting some shredded paper or cardboard over it, and replacing the mulch; this allows the weather and worms to feed my garden. But I compost humanure in a bin for two years before using it. I seed save in place because of my very lazy tendencies, and I have proudly lazy gardens after discovering Ruth Stout's books
What a GREAT video, lots of helpful information, cute animals, and great entertainment. I just subscribed and am looking forward to watching your videos. THANK YOU!!!
I make beautiful compost. Horse manure with micro pick wood shavings for bedding. Then I add all the green clippings from the tops of my garden and turn once. I let the rain and natural heat in the pile do the rest of the work! I put kitchen scraps in there too. It produces the most gorgeous compost. I totally agree with using compost and zero cover crops! I do not till and have so many red wrigglers with super healthy soil!
Same here. pelletized sawdust bedding for browns, manure, pee, kitchen waste and all the other cut brush for greens. used to sell it but with fertilizer so expensive we now use 20-30 cubic yards a year on our pastures. how long do you let it compost before using? usually i wait for it to cool down to the point the worms take to it. but for .. reasons we generated a lot of fresh stuff this fall. am wondering if it is better to let it cook over the winter, or spread it before it's fully composted...
You are the most energetic lazy person I have ever seen! So I’m not quite buying the whole lazy premise.😂 Lots of GREAT tips though! Thanks for making these videos.
I’m a lazy gardener so I can grow great food but also have time and energy to do the 10,000 other things I’d far rather be doing than weeding and watering, and spend my money on things with more lasting value than chemicals and fertilizer ;)
I also have 4 out of 10 but I have preserved food only by freezer or dehydration only, I can grow my own food and I can bake bread thanks to you. I do have carpentry skills because I do home repair for work...I still have a long way to go
National Center for Home Food Preservation and University of Minnesota Both have excellent and proven safe canning recipes. If you have salt, acid, or sugar content high enough, canning is very safe.
Thank you!!!!! I love every tip and experienced multiple “Ohhhhhhh!” moments. May God richly bless your work. I truly appreciate your perspective and values. I look forward to learning more from you.
If you have a room to store compost, you have room to store mulch. Every fall I get a truckload of mulch delivered for free from a local arborist. I let it sit all winter and by the time the spring comes it is beautiful black gold. I plant almost exclusively in mulch and hardly use any dirt at all. My plants love it
A friend brought me a dump trailer full of wood chips earlier this summer and he dumped it for me in the back of my property out of the way. It’s been sitting out there for a couple of months and the pile has diminished in size significantly. I haven’t “stirred” or “turned” it, but I had high hopes that it would break down for me over time. Is there anything special you do with your mulch pile to speed it along? I’d love for this to be beautifully composted mulch by spring.
Thanks for the tip about using a collander to sift out the seeds! I don't know why that hasn't occurred to me! I haven't been able to figure out how to get the stems out of my dried thyme leaves either, and I think that will work for that too!
Hi kiwi fr9m Newzealand but living in Australia🎉 just found your channel..love it!!! So much awesome info!! You could try some Feijoas ( they dont mind frosts and or cold w8hters/snow) great fruit and alot of fruit!!! Trees make awesome food hedges ( awesome wind breaks or an area for shade or keep small many options) grow as trees in pots or ground.. im subtropics so no frost here but alot of critters 😂
It’s not “Lazy”, it’s “Strategic Effort” Gardening.
😊 yes, and for those of us who are old school, we might use the word, smart, crafty, frugal, always studying and evaluating What works. 😊Of course, these are the basic principles of empirical science, however, main stream scientist are not a big fan, mainly because we don’t use their chemicals, That lines their pockets. 😮
@@Godsglorygarden-v6r Don't blame scientists ;) It's industry that pushes the chemical line, not science.
@@Godsglorygarden-v6rWhat does your mind conjure up when you think of a 'scientist'? Some evil 'mad scientist' working in a chemistry lab?
@@Godsglorygarden-v6rI absolutely loved that phrase, empirical science! Well said!
@@Godsglorygarden-v6r Let me make it even more clear for you. You certainly did 'profile' scientists in your comment. You have an image in your head of what a scientist is. Your use of 'mainstream'. There are all types of scientists in the world working in different disciplines. They are not selling anything to you.
I know this is possibly not what I was meant to take away from the video, but seeing the repair in Anne's jeans as she was crouching down to show us stuff made me so happy. It's not the point of the video at all, but it shows that Anne is the same person and carries the same values through all aspects of her life.
Huge respect.
Patches for life!!
@AnneofAllTrades heck yeah!
I learned as a kid, 40 years ago, how to do patches to trousers using fabric from older trousers.
It has saved my husband's trousers time and time again, but now I do them from the inside, reinforcing the fabric before there is a hole. Invisible patches.
Great info about Rxsoil cause I really think duke power messed up our garden when they sprayed weeds last spring under power lines
@ the good news is, the best way to remediate chemical contamination, even if it is present, is adding more organic matter, so add lots of leaves or straw or wood chips or whatever other mulches you can over winter and they should, for the most part, clean it up by spring. Our farm used to be sprayed multiple times annually with all kinds of garbage when the prior owners “farmed” it, but there aren’t even tiny traces of any of it left today.
Who ever is lucky enough to know you personally,is blessed,you are such an amazing person ❤
I’m hoping Anne of all trades Will share more about the spiritual origins of her bold, fourth right, honest and no nonsense Approach to gardening and her life. Her and her husband are in a position to influence a lot of people.
I grew up on the mission field and attended seminary as an adult. I’ve found I have far more opportunity to influence the kinds of folks that most need to be influenced by living what I believe out loud rather than saying it out loud. Unfortunately, so many people who claim to share my faith have taken the Lord’s name in vain through unloving behavior, while proclaiming their “beliefs” loudly for all to hear, that much ground needs to be re-covered by rebuilding trust in the folks who have been injured by that unloving behavior through loving, welcoming actions long before truth can actually be revealed in a way that will actually have a positive affect. You may disagree, and that’s ok, but I know my mission and my calling and I’m doing my very best to walk in accordance with it.
@@Godsglorygarden-v6rThere’s no reason to be bringing a bunch of religious baggage to everything someone does. Many of us appreciate you guys keeping it to yourselves and just being decent people.
@@AnneofAllTrades Mind-blowing....True.....and SO well said!
@@Godsglorygarden-v6rIf you look back through her videos, she really has shared a lot about her/their personal journey - in an appropriate and authentic way. Those videos will break your heart, bring you to tears, get you laughing a bit, give you a quick emotional kick-in-the-pants & boost your courage. ❤❤❤
Totally worth digging through!
"There's always a way to rectify your laziness" is honestly just about the most empowering statement I've ever heard, and I'm planning on using it as a daily affirmation.
a good anxiety reliever to hear!!
@@TDC7594 i like that as a daily affirmation!
Let me just say, Adam does a great job filming and editing these videos. You both do a great job.
He has made everything about the channel better since coming on board. We are all lucky to have his perspective and talent added, most things he touches turn to gold.
I’m the laziest of gardeners. I just use fall leaves 🍂 as my “cover crop.” And I am ok with my garden being whatever it is.
We use lots of leaves as well, and I’ve truly found the less I care the more things thrive 😉
@@AnneofAllTradesbtw former Tennessee resident now in Washington, a fantastic cover crop (the roots are edible) for Western Washington is Silver Leaf plant. I planted very tiny ones in my bed and they spread vigorously! They are also native to Washington so won’t take over but they are definitely a must for the lazy gardener out here (along with strawberries of course!)
I am overwhelmed by "lazy gardening!" You have an amazing garden. It is beyond my capabilities but it is certainly something to strive for and dream of 🤗💕💕
@@18elleinad just keep experimenting, failure is but a learning opportunity! 12 years of that got me here!
I dream of gardening all of the time... no energy. I'm going to keep trying, though... it all starts with a thought, doesn't it? 🌾🌿🌻🍀🌱
Do what you can, with what you’ve got,
My grandpa always said. I do lazy gardening because gardening all day sounds like a bit of a nightmare to me because of all the other things I’d have to stop doing to make time for it, but I’m all about chasing dreams ❤️❤️
Didn’t hear a single word you said every time I saw the baby goats 😍😂
Focus, concentrate, L O L.😂😂😂They are so cute.❤
@@workingkelpie that’s the goal, really. I mean, they say it better than I ever could.
Who doesn't adore baby goats? 🐐🐐🐐
You are amazing Anne! No moss grows under you. You learn so much. No one will ever say you wasted your life. Respect!!
As always I love the gardening content (fellow lazy, ADD, nerdy gardener here) but Anne I just wanted to tell you how happy and healthy and beautiful you look. You are glowing! ☀️
leaves, grass, newspaper, cardboard, coffee grounds & egg shells. thats all I use and it works great and easy for my lifestyle.
That’s all you need!
I have adopted some of your methods, like leaving the tool where you use it. I live in an RV park, the manager saw it and said, "Clean up this mess!" Then I explained why the tools were there, and she said, "Oh, that makes sense!" She has not mentioned them again.
I use a style of gardening called, plant once, eat forever. I don’t know if it’s a ‘thing’ but it’s what I do as I am mega lazy and an engineer by trade.
So, in two of my beds I grow Jerusalem Artichokes. Two weeks back I just chop and drop. That, with the leaf fall, gives me a great nutritional winter soil protector.
My polytunnel is a different beast, obviously, where I allow anything and everything to grow over the winter months alongside my Tree Collards and i’ll then pull out what I don’t want ready for the tomatoes and peppers end of Spring.
The hardest-working, most resilient, talented lazy gardener in the world. ❤ exhausting just watching😂
Just wanted to tell you how much I am enjoying your videos! You seem like such a sweet, kind person, the kind of person that all of us want to know.
Thank you so much!! Glad you’re here.
As a lazy gardener, I plant peas in the fall, and then I harvest them and toss the spent dried vines into the compost, and then I threw the compost on the bed when I planted it next I also cover crop with turnips because you can eat the greens in the spring And then you can eat them again a month or two later and then when you wanna replant, you just pull out the turnips and you’ve got turnips.
This is the way to go! In my last garden video I broadcast seeded between all my perennials with spinach, winter kale, turnips, daikon radish, garlic, and snow peas for the exact same reason. Easy to clean up come spring and added food with whichever of those seeds end up being successful among the other stuff.
Thank you for the baby goat parade; I needed that!
I agree with what you said about cover crops accept one kind. I live by the Wisconsin Illinois border and need a good cover crop. My answer was Austrian peas. They add nitrogen all winter long and simply cutting them in the spring gives you instant mulch still high in nitrogen. They don’t come back once you cut them. I love your tips.
Smart!
This is literally the best gardening video I’ve ever seen. I’ve sent to every garden friend I know lol ❤❤❤❤
@@nikkid1038 well that makes my heart sing.
Love this video!! Your baby goat is adorable. My favorite part, though, was watching you fly through your self-made obstacle course with a quickness to get that garden gate closed!! 😂 It's all truly on the way, in the way!! 😂
😂😂😂😂😂
As a fellow zone 7b gardenerd, I'm BEYOND THRILLED to find your channel!!
So glad you’re here!
I love how you love what you do and teach us. You have a gift.
@@bonnieleehen well shucks. I’m so glad you’re here. Thank you for taking the time to encourage!
I needed the baby goat parade! Lol
Sometime next year, I hope, I'll be moving to a home I own, with space for gardening in more than just 35 gal totes on a 3rd floor balcony. I use as much of your lessons as I can in my container garden, but boy I can't wait until I can do a full Anne-of-All-Trades-style Lazy Garden and grow all the things that don't do well in containers! 💚
Im so happy you put out this video. I was feeling really down because im trying to grow food in my tiny apartment and to try and kill some bugs i saw i put soap water on my tomato plants. It killed almost all of them in less than 20 minutes. I had 25 healthy happy tomato seedlings, and now only 3 are alive. So, seeing that sometimes plants just don't survive made me feel better about messing up.
@@alexcaplan9271 there is no such thing as failure, just new learning opportunities! Keep that chin up ❤️❤️❤️
Tip for the unripe tomatoes at the end of the season: put them into jars, don't cover with lid, place the jars inside the house on windowsills where they get as much sunlight as possible. They'll ripen over time. They won't taste as good as the ones from the middle of the season, but still better than storebought tomatoes.
Also, you reassured me that I didn't plant my garlic too late today.
You are the AA of gardeners. You make it all ok!! Thank you so much😘
I love the color and texture of that soil around the lettuce you transplanted. It's an awesome illustration of the power of building soil (through heavy mulches, etc.)
I use lamb lettuce as a covercrop in winter. It covers the soil and we can eat it during the winter. In spring it is very easilly removed.
We love your videos, your spunky personality, your ability to teach and demonstrate so wonderfully and with great entertainment. Thank you for all you do.
Perhaps it seems like lazy gardening, but you are wonderfully industrious!
Just watched you for the first time and realize that this is what I am - a lazy gardener! Got a few nice tips here.
Loved your article in Homesteading Magazine, Anne! Cover crops grew too well for me (6a), in a tall raised bed a couple of years ago. Larger in-ground beds have comfrey now which provides rich leaf matter, compost tea rich in nutrients. Great throughout the garden!
Little hopping baby goat kids are just absolutely the best thing in the world.
A nice and surprising showing of a baby friend 08:45
Hi Anne, just wanted to let you know I love you and your videos! i learn something in every video. Keep those videos coming, god bless
Liked, subscribed. Love your loud and clear delivery. Also enjoying hearing your opinions and point of view.
A book that helped me w/ composting was small and short. Title was Compost Happens. Greens, browns and water. Compost happens in nature with no help from humans. Also if you get regular cold/snow I'd suggest oats as a cover crop. Oats are not winter hardy, I broadcast my beds mid/late August and hope to get a stand of 8-10 inches. Come spring the beds are covered w/ a flat tan mulch. It works for me quick and easy. Thanks for the reminder about fear.
I love watching your videos and that baby goat is sooo cute! Thank you for sharing your gardening wisdom with us! I learned a lot from you and I love the lazy way if only I can apply it in my garden I would do what you do but we have an HOA so I do what I can get away with. I planted fruit trees in the front and blend them with flowers so it’s not obvious. By the way, those sweet potato leaves are good for soups . We ate those in the Philippines and now that I’m here in the US, I plant sweet potatoes for the leaves. I freeze some for future winter soups. That way I have free organic leafy greens to eat from my garden when they don’t grow in the winter. ❤❤❤
@@Pausereflectandbreathe I have some secrets about getting around that HOA 😅😅
My heart definitely needed a baby goat parade 💙 🩷
Dear Anne I am so glad I have found your channel! You are so inspiring and lovely to your animals! Thank you so much for sharing! Big hugs and Hello from Switzerland! 🤗🫏❤🌱🌾🌸❤️
Thank you for the baby goat parade! My heart needed that
❤❤❤ Every video is a frickin gem. I learn so many things from each one 🥳🙏
Absolutely love your enthusiasm for your gardens. Very motivating. Doing a little bit in my garden but much smaller scale. I think ive watched all you videos and shared them to friends. Your zest for life shines through even though your struggles are real. Keep hanging in there as a team. Love your work. All the best.
OMG! My heart DID need a baby goat parade! Thanks so much!
I am SO here for the silver hair, and I always click on the videos to chart its progress! ;'D I also happen to be learning a lot about gardening and homesteading, but that's beside the point. ;)
@@jennhoff03 ha! Glad, because it’s not going anywhere 🤪
I have Borage that comes up after the Asparagus. The bees love it.
I grow Borage every year, it's hardy and takes little water!
I like to use solarization to kill off spore producing issues in the garden. I'm backed up to swamp land, molds and such are common. I'm seeing much improvement ,fewer losses for it. If I have a super wet winter it prevents my nutrients from leaching out. I get into ground water at about 3 to 4 ft most of the year. Loving your content.
I love your videos so much! I am trying to be a lazy gardener and work as an intuitive herbalist at the same time. Oh and I actually work as a medical intuitive and work in relationships, I do interviews of people I think are making the world better in some sort of way, and I sing for assisted living facilities. So my garden often gets a bit neglected but I love watching how I can still get good results without tons of work. Man I was drooling over your figs. My last house that I sold about a year ago had an amazing huge fig tree, after watching how easy that was, I am contemplating how weird it would be to ask them if I could get some twigs for propagating.
5:49 omg! Your compost sifter looks identical to mine! I mean like exactly the same! Size and everything! ❤
Great minds 😜
You answered my thoughts about cover crops. I am going to just do a boat load of leaves and straw.
I took your advice and transitioned my beds! Put compost, dried leaves, pine shavings from the used duck's bedding on my raised beds, got the lettuce garden going, brought some herbs inside, topped my strawberry plants then piled leaves and pine shavings around their pots and on top of them. Thanks for all the great information and cute goats. I'm in Hermitage TN. Howdy, neighbor
So glad to hear it! Can’t wait to hear what you grow next year!!
You are so hilarious ... shavings from hubby's shopping habit😂😂😂 On a serious note, I have learnt a lot, thank you!
Good grief 😅 So many great tips. Thank you!!🌵🐓🥑🌱🍊
My sungolds came back too this year without replanting this year, too!! Love them ❤😊
Love loved loved this video. Almost makes me want to do an in-ground garden again. My garden is all in containers. Age has snuck up and beat the snot out of me. I loved your article written in Homestead Monthly. It took me through all the emotions. Thank you that saying self reliance is a farce. We tried getting there for so very long only to realize that we can’t do it alone and all need community. Not something you hear often enough.
Have you seen JusttheBells10 here on UA-cam? They are not homesteaders, but farmers. She started her page with a goal in mind. It may not be what you have in mind, it isn’t for everyone, but hope you enjoy it. A great big cyber hug to you.
You are amazing. Thank you for all of the advice!
green and brown makes the world go round
You are inspirational. Thank you!!
How does anyone concentrate on what you're saying with that adorable munchkin to look at
Just LOVE this gal, her goats and all her animals! Great show!
What an amazing video! I'm a second year beginner in suburbia. My hubs says I like to pretend I live in the country... Prolly because I have been so inspired by YOU! Please keep doing what you're doing! You are a difference maker on so many levels! 😊
@@MWDoodleDaizy that makes my heart sing!!
Ahh, we all LOVE...FOFREE!!!!!
I love your channel you have inspired me to start a garden with my neighbor and sometimes my mom and I watch your channel together. Thank you so much ❤
Families watching together is a huge goal! That makes my heart sing.
Love your videos so excited to start a garden with my wife and will totally use the lazy method!
I’ve always wondered about this. I don’t do cover crops because I worry about having to fight them the rest of the year. Maybe next year I’ll do an experiment in one of my large beds, just to see how it does…without having to tie up too much space!
I miss my baby goats! Thanks for the goat break😂
Love your lazy method of gardening! I do have a seed saving tip for you though, which will give you better germination and prevent any accidental carryover of diseases for your tomatoes and other juicy vegetables/fruits. It's called wet processing, and basically involves soaking your fresh seeds in a small glass of water for a few days (longer for cucurbits) to allow the slimy seed coating (which inhibits germination) to ferment away. Then you wash off the seeds (all the nasty stuff floats to the top and the good seeds sink to the bottom, so decant with a few changes of water then strain) and dry them on a labeled paper towel as you have been doing. You would use this for seeds like tomatoes, cucumbers, watermelon, and squash. It's not necessary for beans or leafy greens. It does get really stinky when you wet process things in the squash family, and it takes a long time (weeks), but tomatoes are usually done in 3 days. You can tell when they are done if you gently rub a seed and it does not feel slimy.
lol one year I forgot my tomato seeds in the jar and they all sprouted in there. Sadly, it was late fall and couldn't be saved.
I wrap my outdoor buckets and pots in bubble wrap 😅 over winter because I've no space to cover them in mulch I don't fancy covering the concrete / slabs in mulch. But bubble wrap works. Here in Ireland als the UK and a lot of countries in Europe do what you do with the cardboard. Cardboard here is a natural product you just take any tape ect off it. It's also put into compost bins.
Smart!!
Using cover crops requires knowledge on how to use the cover crops you plan to plant.
Jessie Frost who is a great source of information for market farmers using regenerative ag. techniques give a good rule of thumb about planting a cover crop for the fall, and that is, if you don't know what you're planting in that bed next, don't plant a cover crop. On the other hand if you don't plan on using that bed until later in the Spring or early summer then you can use cover crops.
For any other situation like you plan to plant a money crop in early Spring then you need to understand what cover crops you can plant, how to terminate them, WHEN you can plant that cover crop, etc......
The problem with not using cover crops is you need a source of food for the life that's in the soil during the down time. If you can mulch that entire area you're good, and for small beds that's easy, but for larger scale market gardening that will depend a lot on access to mulches that will be acceptable to what it is you're trying to do.
As should be common knowledge, if you aren't feeding the soil which is best done by living plants, the soil is feeding on itself.
Cover crops are often the most cost effective way of putting stuff back in the soil that it needs and feeding the soil over the winter.
You’re absolutely right, and I totally agree. Jessie is a fantastic resource for all things market gardening. I love his book.
Once again, your videos fascinate me. They are my favorite showertime entertainment. 😅
@@chabelameneses4661 uhhh? Showertime? 😂😂
I think it's just me but I like the end of season pre winter clean up in my garden.
Don't tell anyone else, but I LOVE winter cleanup too, a little piece of me is like THANK GOD THIS IS ALL OVER TILL NEXT YEAR ;) but then sometime during the dead of winter I start to miss it and get excited for spring.
I use buckwheat and red clover and lacy phacelia and never had to terminate those cover crops, I just let them live and die on their own. I love seeing doves collect the dried lacy phacelia stems for their nests. its the sweetest
It is funny that you mention growing things in NW Washington (Lynden, WA here). It certainly has is challenges and see myself moving to your neck of the woods at some point 👊🏻🍉👊🏻
Something that shocked me this year in my garden was that a pepper plant grew from seed from the previous year. I am in zone 6b, I don't direct seed so I know I did not put it there but it showed up where they were last year. Also, the amount of volunteer tomatoes I had this year was insane.
5:47 A whole lot of cuteness going on in the background. 😍
As a lazy gardener, I plant beans in the fall, then harvest them and toss the dried vines into the compost, which I later spread over the bed when I plant the next crop. I also use turnips as a cover crop because you can eat the greens in the spring, then again a month or two later, and when it’s time to replant, you just pull up the turnips, and you’ve got turnips ready to use
I take an end of season tomatoe plant and pull from the ground. Hanging upside down in the glasshouse it continues to ripen the tomatoes on it.
AAAAhhhhhhh!! I miss my caprinies... I am trying not to stare at Anne's.... BTW, caprinies is a term for Caprine, aka Goats, for anybody who went astray. I have a goat barn that no longer have goats since my family claimed the milk was just "ok." "Ok" was not esteeming enough. Also, Anne has a great point regarding composting. A slightly off compost is TOTALLY better than a no-compost!! Keep it going Anne! ❤🤍💙
@@RobertoJuanSurMontana I knew exactly what you meant!
That baby goat is the most adorable creature I have ever laid my eyes on. It's official. Im gonna get me some goats
The baby goats are super cute.
I just sprinkled a cover crop in my annual garden last night, buckwheat, vetch, and rye. This is my first time trying this.
You're gonna have vetch in there forever, not the best choice. I love low clover and purslane, but vetch doesn't uproot well, the roots break. Vetch is aggressive, it climbs around on whatever you plant in there. Looks pretty, but it can easily get out of hand. Much better to pick specific plants to use as cover crops, not buy a seed mix unless it only has the specific stuff you need. Each plant behaves differently, and some are a real problem. You basically put a plant equivalent to horsetail into your garden, an occupant that you will always be dealing with there.
That’s great! If it’s an annual-only bed, solarizing it in the spring won’t be an issue, and you should have great results having used it. The reason I don’t do that here is because we interplant perennials and annuals everywhere, and we don’t have a hard enough frost to kill it all, so without a way to smother or hoe it in come spring, things like vetch, to the commenter above’s point, can become more of a pain than a helper come spring.
Oh, thank you for the belly-laugh-inducing baby goat hopping. Oh, my! I compost in place all year by blending food scraps with water in my Vitamix (or if I'm really lazy that day I don't blend them at all), moving the mulch aside, pouring it onto the soil, putting some shredded paper or cardboard over it, and replacing the mulch; this allows the weather and worms to feed my garden. But I compost humanure in a bin for two years before using it. I seed save in place because of my very lazy tendencies, and I have proudly lazy gardens after discovering Ruth Stout's books
I love that limp my plants through winter
What a GREAT video, lots of helpful information, cute animals, and great entertainment. I just subscribed and am looking forward to watching your videos. THANK YOU!!!
Welcome aboard! Glad you’re here.
Well I missed fall prep, but I’m still a newbie and I feel like a huge part of learning is winging it and observing.
Never too late to do now what you might have done last fall ;)
I make beautiful compost. Horse manure with micro pick wood shavings for bedding. Then I add all the green clippings from the tops of my garden and turn once. I let the rain and natural heat in the pile do the rest of the work! I put kitchen scraps in there too. It produces the most gorgeous compost. I totally agree with using compost and zero cover crops! I do not till and have so many red wrigglers with super healthy soil!
Same here. pelletized sawdust bedding for browns, manure, pee, kitchen waste and all the other cut brush for greens. used to sell it but with fertilizer so expensive we now use 20-30 cubic yards a year on our pastures. how long do you let it compost before using? usually i wait for it to cool down to the point the worms take to it. but for .. reasons we generated a lot of fresh stuff this fall. am wondering if it is better to let it cook over the winter, or spread it before it's fully composted...
Love your strategies. Very helpful, I'm new to gardening.
You are the most energetic lazy person I have ever seen! So I’m not quite buying the whole lazy premise.😂 Lots of GREAT tips though! Thanks for making these videos.
I’m a lazy gardener so I can grow great food but also have time and energy to do the 10,000 other things I’d far rather be doing than weeding and watering, and spend my money on things with more lasting value than chemicals and fertilizer ;)
I also have 4 out of 10 but I have preserved food only by freezer or dehydration only, I can grow my own food and I can bake bread thanks to you. I do have carpentry skills because I do home repair for work...I still have a long way to go
National Center for Home Food Preservation
and
University of Minnesota
Both have excellent and proven safe canning recipes. If you have salt, acid, or sugar content high enough, canning is very safe.
Wow. Everything is wow.
I want to bring my wife to TN and take a class with you
Come on! We’d love to have you
Thank you!!!!! I love every tip and experienced multiple “Ohhhhhhh!” moments. May God richly bless your work. I truly appreciate your perspective and values. I look forward to learning more from you.
So glad it was helpful!!
I love your tips and soil info , and , especially the goats ❤
If you have a room to store compost, you have room to store mulch. Every fall I get a truckload of mulch delivered for free from a local arborist. I let it sit all winter and by the time the spring comes it is beautiful black gold. I plant almost exclusively in mulch and hardly use any dirt at all. My plants love it
A friend brought me a dump trailer full of wood chips earlier this summer and he dumped it for me in the back of my property out of the way. It’s been sitting out there for a couple of months and the pile has diminished in size significantly. I haven’t “stirred” or “turned” it, but I had high hopes that it would break down for me over time. Is there anything special you do with your mulch pile to speed it along? I’d love for this to be beautifully composted mulch by spring.
I’ll raise you a few semi trucks of mulch 🤪
Ypu are living the good life...which is British comedy from way back k when.
So love your enthusiasm, humor and knowledge! Cardboard lover!!!
7:37 I love that you said from your husbands shopping habit! 😂. It’s definitely not ourselves that we have to blame! ❤
Thanks for the tip about using a collander to sift out the seeds! I don't know why that hasn't occurred to me! I haven't been able to figure out how to get the stems out of my dried thyme leaves either, and I think that will work for that too!
Glad it was helpful!
Hi kiwi fr9m Newzealand but living in Australia🎉 just found your channel..love it!!! So much awesome info!!
You could try some Feijoas ( they dont mind frosts and or cold w8hters/snow) great fruit and alot of fruit!!! Trees make awesome food hedges ( awesome wind breaks or an area for shade or keep small many options) grow as trees in pots or ground.. im subtropics so no frost here but alot of critters 😂
Thanks for the no nonsense practical advice!
Lazy gardening? You’ve achieved more in a half hour video than I have all year! 😃