I too love novelty in the garden so I requested a bunch of seed catalogues from across Canada to dream of my 2024 garden. I love fragrant flowers and last year I planted night-blooming stocks (mathiola) and lots of honey-scented wallflowers sprung up. It’s heaven to drink in the smells and watch dozens of hummingbird moths at dusk. Have fun and enjoy growing whatever you like eating, preserving, smelling or looking at.
I used to kill the bugs at one restaurant that had a huge garden they grew to use at the restaurant. Always plant flowers every year, for my Kathy, small children passing by, for the pollinators and the birds, I even have morning glories going 20' up a utility pole. I enjoy planting "odd" things like luffas, bird house gourds, this year doing the yard long beans, just for something different. Another thing I hope that continues are your fantastic videos. Happy New Year! Stay Well!!!
Yay 🎉 To the rise of the kitchen garden! I live in a townhouse so my courtyard is my kitchen garden. In 2020 I expanded it from raised beds down the side of the house by converting the perfect grass at the front into a 25 square metre in-ground garden. 🌱 A great channel for kitchen gardening is 'Becoming a Farm Girl' a suburbanite training for when she becomes a farmer also 'Huw Richards' has just created a new kitchen garden and is sharing how to get the maximum out of it. His goal is to get everyone producing their own food for everyday consumption 🍽️
You have really hit on a great list of what will continue. I have 4 of the steel ribbed beds. I love seeing what I can make from what is pickable. Yesterday I used 5 greens for a chimichuri sauce: parsley, cilantro, arugula, basil and oregano. Why? Just because they were all available and delicious together in a fresh sauce. I am in Texas and winter has been very mild so I created pvc frames for frost cloth I just clip on when the nights are too cold. I would add one more trend to your list and that is the convenient garden. I walk very few steps out the back door to reach the garden beds. This makes it more rewarding and more likely that I will collect something to eat for the next meal. Love your channel.
Loofah! That's the new plant I'm growing (right now in my basement under grow lights). I had planted it from seed in my garden last summer. Unfortunately it takes nearly 200 days to mature, so in September I dug it up and potted it. It's blooming and there's mini loofah on the plant. A whole 4 x 4 bed of garlic, and a retraining of my raspberries is on my 2024 garden to do list.
@@GardeningInCanada I used a wall of water to get my luffas started in WI 2 years ago, had a great crop. Last year direct sowed in mid May, 3 luffas went to worm food.
I just can't *WAIT* to start my seedlings in a couple of months. So many plans, so little time, really!! Trying to expand everything here this year, by a little bit. Don't want to bite off more than I can chew, LOL! Best wishes and a HAPPY NEW YEAR to you! ❤
Happy New Year Ashley! This year I'm growing more flowers, and the same amount of vegetables to preserve. We get lots of food from Mexico and it rots as soon as I get it home, it's awful. I've finished the build-out I did last year, turning my 60x60 garden into 140x60 mixture of raised beds and in-ground, and I made a lovely flower garden too. So I have medicinal herbs, culinary herbs, and all the rest of the vegetables. I'm following my new year's tradition of sowing some Basil on Monday. Why? I don't know, just always started the year with new Basil babies. Have a very happy New Years!
Planning..more Asian greens..different types of lettuce.., beans..and blue tomatoes..and Huge Sicilian tomatoes..and all kinds of flowers along the fence..and different types of potatoes...and lots of herbs for cooking
Grass lawns are pretty good at cleaning air pollution. They also filter water runoff and cool the earth. I used to be anti lawn but appreciate them way more than gavel lanscaping over plastic weed cloth or the increasing and horrible trend of rich idiots putting astroturf in their front yards.
Please settle something for me. New information on the internet about some green on my potatoes . Now it is said the green is caused because the potatoes are too old, not because of the sun exposure. .i don’t give a da……. I eat my food,
Permaculture is human history. Its got new names now, sure, but its away to function with the land so as to grow soil instead of deplete it. You have a deeply indulgant colonial mindset when it comes to gardening eh? Cause yer deff showing it in that last part. Im not going to look for your complaint vid. Id like my morning to be good.
QUESTION: On the 'raised metal beds', are they made from galvanized metal to prevent rust? If so, knowing a galvanized nail in your mouth will leach poison into your mouth, is there a risk for vegetables transferring that to us through roots, etc?
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year GIC crew. Love all my
Fellow plant nerds and look forward to an awesome 2024. ❤ thanks for all the love and support.
Yes, florally is a word. 🙂🙂
HAHAHA
For youtube people doing cooking from the garden I recommend Pro Home Cooks and Farmer's Table.
Yes! That’s exactly who I was thinking of!
Happy New Year!!! All the best for 2024.
Cut flower garden that’s the trend I’m really trying to go for in 2024 😊
Thanks!
No problem!
I too love novelty in the garden so I requested a bunch of seed catalogues from across Canada to dream of my 2024 garden. I love fragrant flowers and last year I planted night-blooming stocks (mathiola) and lots of honey-scented wallflowers sprung up. It’s heaven to drink in the smells and watch dozens of hummingbird moths at dusk. Have fun and enjoy growing whatever you like eating, preserving, smelling or looking at.
I *love* being able to grow food that i cant get at a regular old grocery store. Its fun, keeps me curious.
Yes! I totally agree
I used to kill the bugs at one restaurant that had a huge garden they grew to use at the restaurant.
Always plant flowers every year, for my Kathy, small children passing by, for the pollinators and the birds, I even have morning glories going 20' up a utility pole.
I enjoy planting "odd" things like luffas, bird house gourds, this year doing the yard long beans, just for something different.
Another thing I hope that continues are your fantastic videos.
Happy New Year!
Stay Well!!!
Yay 🎉 To the rise of the kitchen garden!
I live in a townhouse so my courtyard is my kitchen garden. In 2020 I expanded it from raised beds down the side of the house by converting the perfect grass at the front into a 25 square metre in-ground garden.
🌱 A great channel for kitchen gardening is 'Becoming a Farm Girl' a suburbanite training for when she becomes a farmer also 'Huw Richards' has just created a new kitchen garden and is sharing how to get the maximum out of it. His goal is to get everyone producing their own food for everyday consumption 🍽️
You have really hit on a great list of what will continue. I have 4 of the steel ribbed beds. I love seeing what I can make from what is pickable. Yesterday I used 5 greens for a chimichuri sauce: parsley, cilantro, arugula, basil and oregano. Why? Just because they were all available and delicious together in a fresh sauce. I am in Texas and winter has been very mild so I created pvc frames for frost cloth I just clip on when the nights are too cold.
I would add one more trend to your list and that is the convenient garden. I walk very few steps out the back door to reach the garden beds. This makes it more rewarding and more likely that I will collect something to eat for the next meal. Love your channel.
I am enjoying the new cool squash and eggplant.. nevermind my current pokemon like obsession with tomato and pepper varieties.
Hahah yes always the peppers
Loofah! That's the new plant I'm growing (right now in my basement under grow lights). I had planted it from seed in my garden last summer. Unfortunately it takes nearly 200 days to mature, so in September I dug it up and potted it. It's blooming and there's mini loofah on the plant. A whole 4 x 4 bed of garlic, and a retraining of my raspberries is on my 2024 garden to do list.
Oh man… 200 days there has to be a shorter variety I’m determined to find it.
@@GardeningInCanada I used a wall of water to get my luffas started in WI 2 years ago, had a great crop. Last year direct sowed in mid May, 3 luffas went to worm food.
I just can't *WAIT* to start my seedlings in a couple of months. So many plans, so little time, really!! Trying to expand everything here this year, by a little bit. Don't want to bite off more than I can chew, LOL! Best wishes and a HAPPY NEW YEAR to you! ❤
Wonderful! Happy new year!
instead of counting the days to holidays... i'm counting the days to when i can plant too!!
All great trends in my opinion, many I have adopted myself! Happy New Year! 🙂
Thanks for providing so much informative videos in 2023. Happy Ney Year Ashley!🥳🎈🎉
Same to you!
Four foot high steel beds are the future! MUCH kinder to your back. Also containers on benches. Also kinder to your back.
Yoga once or twice a week and chi gong are also kind to your back ;)
Love my metal raised beds. Mine are 2 feet tall and less bending over to plant!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours and to everyone here. Gardening season can't come fast enough for me LOL
Same to you! And yes I agree!
Happy New Year Ashley! This year I'm growing more flowers, and the same amount of vegetables to preserve. We get lots of food from Mexico and it rots as soon as I get it home, it's awful. I've finished the build-out I did last year, turning my 60x60 garden into 140x60 mixture of raised beds and in-ground, and I made a lovely flower garden too. So I have medicinal herbs, culinary herbs, and all the rest of the vegetables. I'm following my new year's tradition of sowing some Basil on Monday. Why? I don't know, just always started the year with new Basil babies. Have a very happy New Years!
Hahah awe I love that!
A good trend is growing indoors during winter. Or if you live in an apartment building.
Great video Ashley.. Hope you have had / have a great holliday :D
would love to know some steel bed recos! also i wish there are more steel garden containers for patio gardens - terracotta is so heavy!
Our biggest problem, besides rot, with the wood beds, is wasps and Yellowjackets. Yea, I’m over wood.
I’m nervous to bring cut flowers indoors sometimes, for fear of delivering pests into my fragile houseplant ecosystem but I love making bouquets 💐
Girl, I am all for compost and no till gardening 😥😢😭
Dont forget about electroculture.
Planning..more Asian greens..different types of lettuce.., beans..and blue tomatoes..and Huge Sicilian tomatoes..and all kinds of flowers along the fence..and different types of potatoes...and lots of herbs for cooking
Oh yes!!! Asian greens are so under estimated
Oh. I was subscribed to you. Coolbeans.
Also chef-to-gardener Gaz Oakley in U.K.!
Ooo wonderful
Nice thing about steel container is that you paint them any color or design.
You can just as easily do that with wood as well.
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Grass lawns are pretty good at cleaning air pollution. They also filter water runoff and cool the earth.
I used to be anti lawn but appreciate them way more than gavel lanscaping over plastic weed cloth or the increasing and horrible trend of rich idiots putting astroturf in their front yards.
Yes, I just grind my teeth when people want to install astro turf to save water.
The steel beds are ugly to me… 😅 great for you if you like them but not for me.
I think you mean Pro home cooks!
Yes that’s exactly who I’m thinking of!
Pro home cooks?
Yes!!! That is him
I'm pretty sure that electro-culture will once again become a thing of the past.
It's been around like from the 1930's. It comes and goes.
Please settle something for me. New information on the internet about some green on my potatoes . Now it is said the green is caused because the potatoes are too old, not because of the sun exposure. .i don’t give a da……. I eat my food,
It’s sun.
Permaculture is human history. Its got new names now, sure, but its away to function with the land so as to grow soil instead of deplete it.
You have a deeply indulgant colonial mindset when it comes to gardening eh? Cause yer deff showing it in that last part. Im not going to look for your complaint vid. Id like my morning to be good.
You are taking garden much to seriously. It’s supposed to be fun.
QUESTION: On the 'raised metal beds', are they made from galvanized metal to prevent rust? If so, knowing a galvanized nail in your mouth will leach poison into your mouth, is there a risk for vegetables transferring that to us through roots, etc?
The quality raised beds have a painted coating. They do not chip or peel.