When my neighbors asked what my secret was for having a lush yard and garden. I explained that what they saw was the result of my gardening by attrition. If it can't take care of itself, it doesn't get replanted and might even get pulled out. The robust survivors became the permanent residents.
That's one of the secrets to human survival is to always acquire things that can pretty much survive on its own, be it herbal, medicine plants, flowers or animal. Just try to have something that keeps on giving 💯
Here’s a tip: paint your garden tool handles to lengthen their time outdoors. Choose a bright paint like red or prange so you can find them in a sea of green. If anything burns me , it’s green garden tools.
Re: tool pile! Mineral oil plus sand in a tub makes for sharp and rust free tools. They are also very satisfying to pull back out again.. bit Excalibur-esk, (except extremely easy to pull out.) I learned that from an 80+ year old fellow lazy gardener who struggled to remember ever sharpening any of the tools in at least the last 30 years, yet they all had a good edge.
Rust free? Yes. Sharp? Certainly not if the edge is exposed. Grinding those nice sharp edges against a thousand tiny rocks will dull them very quickly.
Anne I’m not sure if you will read this, but I just want to say the biggest heartfelt THANKYOU… I’ve been really struggling today with my mood & mental health, I’ve been snapping uncontrollably at my hubby and son, and I felt like none of my usual tools were working. I got so frustrated trying to listen to a guided meditation whilst mixing horse feeds (which usually helps) that I swore profusely, and came to UA-cam to find something to listen to. Your video popped up and your SOH and keeping it real has just brightened my day no end. Thank you so much for the walk around, the awesome insights and suggestions, the humour and for just being you. Still laughing at the chilli story… your poor long suffering hubby Adam following you around is like my hubby Adam… totally awesome xxx
Hey Anne, I live At 6000 ft in the mountains and only have a short growing season from 1 June to maybe the end of August I have a lot of GRASS CLIPPINGS -Is it OK to put GRASS CLIPPINGS directly right around and on the paths where your fruits and vegetables are being Grown ? And how deep is too deep of a layer ? At the end of my growing season, I also add all of the mulched leaves and GRASS CLIPPINGS to entire garden after growing season is frozen out, over and done? thanks appreciate your knowledge
Your cadence and intellect has somehow wrestled my ADHD into submission- literally watched this whole thing, never would have thought it possible for me 🤯🤯🤯
Me too. I was about to give up on my garden when I found her videos. My kids said it's because she has adhd too. After they pointed that out I realized that it's pretty likely that's the case and why I like watching her. She talks waaaay faster and more animated than any other youtuber I know of 😂
Not canning is such an important tip for lazy gardeners/homesteaders. Dealing with abundance is the most labor-intensive part of gardening. Potatoes, onions, and garlic are so much easier to store when growing extra. The only thing I can are tomatoes because they are so valuable.
I love her energy and her character towards he r animals 😊 makes me smile just watching her talk mess to her donkey and pig which actually listen to her , really shows how much they trust her.
( For our garden tools ) we cover the wood handles with marine grade heavy walled - adhesive lined - heat shrink tubing. Last forever - great grip - no splinters.
I have so many garden tools scattered about my 5 acres, in the weather, that when I finally brought them all 'home", I didn't have storage space. All the wood handles are very weathered, so maybe (cost?) my favorites will get treated to new covers?
@@joelnowland2196 I picked up some 1" red and black at a garage sale, about 3 feet in length, but never considered them as tool handle covers. Thanks. Considering they shrink 2 or 3 -> 1, I was considering 1 1/2" or 2", but maybe I can buy 3 feet at a local electrical supply shop and give it a try before buying the 100 foot roll.
Amaranth is actually super delicious if you sautee it just like regular spinach. South Asians grow up eating that as a staple spinach. It's an easy way to get spinach in the hot summer. There's a reason all the animals love it! I have short video about it on my channel ;)
Um… where has she been my whole life?! What a beautiful person she is! The love she clearly has for her animals, and the knowledge she has for them; just speaks volumes on what a beautiful soul she has. I would love to have a girl like her that just gets after things, like her. Her family is extremely lucky to have her! May God bless her and her family…
In the 6 years that we lived in our Dublin apartment, I totally changed the health, welfare and vitality of my garden soil with nothing but woodchips. It became the vehicle for us creating relationships with our neighbours because we all started talking garden, sharing ideas and enjoying the visiting birds. And best of all, I had no idea what I was doing!! I had put it down for aesthetic reasons and to prevent excessive water loss through evaporation (yes, even in Ireland) and in return, I received the most unbelievable soil (it was utter rubbish before) with a garden that ended up being almost as lush in winter as in summer (still can't believe that) AND it totally took care of my overwhelming bindweed, blackberry and horsetail weed problems that had choked out literally everything before. It's Ireland, so the most effective treatment for garden issues is for you to drown your frustrations in Guinness (I'm not really exaggerating), and I was told that I'd have to get a professional in to spray it and then maybe that may control it for a bit while killing everything else.. From my first year living there and spending absolute hours pulling off bindweed from my flowerstems with tweezers and nail scissors like a horticultural surgery, to the token snip and clip of an errant weedling like the genteel woman that my mam wished I could have been, I can only and forever attribute it to wood chips. I am still in awe at the power of nature's lego.
Awesome info!! Agreed, letting your perennials go to seed is so important to keep the garden improving, feeding pollinators and save yourself from purchasing new replacements. Plus it's so fun to realize that the daughters and sons of the plants you originally planted are still thriving! We've had cucumbers, squashes, asparagus, sunflowers, wildflowers, grains, etc growing for more than 10 years without buying anything!
Hi new Gardener here!🙂 Any advice for me, for beginners? I just started yesterday with making my first bed🎉I planted carrots and peppers so far and I'm going to finish today making another bed for all my other seeds🙂 and good tips for me?
@@Godslittleprinces Tip... Don't let the soil dry out until the seeds sprout. & Keep an eye on them after they sprout to make sure they are getting enough water.
I rented a house for 4 years. The yard was riddled with many “weeds”. I let the grass go to seed every year. My neighbors sometimes complained about the tall grass to the landlord. I explained what I was doing and told them that when I left they would have a much greener yard. When I left the landlord thanked me for “improving the property”. All with no cost to me or the landlord. Side benefit, I only had to mow twice a year. 😂
I rented a house for 4 years. The yard was riddled with many “weeds”. I let the grass go to seed every year. My neighbors sometimes complained about the tall grass to the landlord. I explained what I was doing and told them that when I left they would have a much greener yard. When I left the landlord thanked me for “improving the property”. All with no cost to me or the landlord. Side benefit, I only had to mow twice a year. 😂
🎉 Thank God I finally found another person who wants to garden naturally like me. You my lovely lady or as rare as a southern eclipse during Northern lights and definitely a breath of fresh air to my old tired grumpy eyeballs.
OMG! I had the same explosive experience with my Kombucha! Luckily no one was in the room when the chain reaction (2 growlers and 2 secondary primary ferments) went off. I was pulling shards of glass from all over the room for years. Not to mention the watermelon I had added off the ceiling and walls of our forty foot family room. It looked like a grizzly murder scene. I can't believe I've found a gardener almost as lazy as me. Every year the family wonders at the marvel that we call the jungle. You rock!
Just found this channel and I can't believe I've been missing out on this!!!! Also the fact that you had the exact hand motions for your donkey's sounds at 16:10 is incredible hahaha like you literally didn't miss a beat on that one
I’ve never laughed so hard during a UA-cam video. Your personality is unapologetically unfiltered and amazing. So helpful and informative. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to you speak about your garden. ❤
When you got to the hops in your garden it reminded me of my mother telling me about my cob pipe-smoking grandmother who used hops as a starter for her bread. She also gardened by the phases of the moon and had a tremendous garden. P.S. The success of your garden is the fact that you are feeding the biology in the soil through your practices. "It's All About The Biology".
I love your approach to failure. It seems so freeing! And definitely seems to allow you to be more creative and experiment more. Biggest thing I am learning from discovering your videos right now
thank you, first time watching. i am a senior. i started gardening from about seven. my garden is my best friend. i live in zone 5 and it get very cold but i do very good. i am alone don't need all the food i grow. but i can't help myself.i learn a lot today, keep up the good job.
G’day from Australia, just stumbled on your videos. Love your personality and enthusiasm. Your gardening style is awesome and makes sense work smarter not harder. New subscriber
I’m so happy I found you!!! Might be moving to TN soon myself. And harvesting the dead leaves from the plant around the wild blueberries so the micro nutrients can aid in the transplanting is sooo incredibly smart!!!!! Also as an person with adhd your way of gardening is so appealing lol
14:28 so true! People are always asking "what is the easiest thing to grow" but you shpulf really focus on learning h0e to grow things you ENJOY eating... because no matter how many things you successfully grow- it's not going to be satisfying if it's a good you dislike!
Awesome garden tour. Tips from obvious time in the trenches. Plus stories along the way that were personal & inspiring. This is the first video I've watched & it gained my subscription.
A large sized dead toaster oven spray painted, and placed on a concrete block is great for storing all your hand tools right in the garden, nice and dry
So glad you didn't waste time watering or weeding, but went on vacay. You are even more zany and fun, idk how that's possible. I have to remember to steal the leaves and soil around any specimens I steal from natural settings; Anne told me to do it! LOL. Thanks for another fun video. I can't believe you chomped down on that hot pepper.....
I have heard its better to give a good soak once a week than every day it will just not soak down and then evaporate in the heat. Whenever I water it usually rains the next day and in drought when it doesnt rain fir ages I water but the water doesn't make anything grow just keeps it alive then the rain comes and overnight everything doubles. Rain seems to have some magical quality which water just doesn't have!!
@@Padraigpnegative ions, no chlorine and none of the other residual chemicals in tapwater! My garden started doing so so much better when I stopped using a hose and only water from my rain barrels. 🌸
I always recommend looking at native plants for a lot of your greens the flavours they have plus the benefits they provide your local ecosystem are amazing
OMG... you are the most delightful and entertaining girl I have seen in decades. I am a Canadian who is twice your age, but I swear, if I was in my early 20s and knew then what I know today, you are the exact type of girl I would want to be with forever. We have so many of the same interests that you and I would probably have been very happy together. Especially since humor also plays a big part in my life, even when working hard. I have watched several of your videos this morning and you really did crack me up more than once. You are just awesome! With all due respect to Adam! 👊
Beginning gardeners in more arid environments, you will need to set up drip irrigation to achieve Ann’s amazing lazy garden! Rain helps Ann achieve the laziness!
You’re totally right- at the very beginning, but as you build up your soil, you’ll need it less and less, last year we had a 90 day drought paired with one heck of a heatwave and still needed zero water
@@AnneofAllTrades honestly, as someone who lives in a part of california with 7 inches of rain/year, i can tell you that a 90 day drought in a place that gets 50 inches of rain/year is not the same. your plants/trees can search out moisture and find it. mine really can't. the crazy rain we recently got left the ground moist for days. i would say more than a week after the tropical storm, parts of the ground still have moisture. rain is a luxury that can make gardening sheer joy.
@@orangemoonglows2692 I won’t disagree there, but will add that the more you can build up your soil, the less water you’ll need, no matter where you live.
So glad to happen upon this video and your channel! I am always telling people who ask about my garden (some success some not) that my approach tends to be Darwinistic but now I know it’s a combination of Darwinistic & lazy gardener! For example, I actually bought a dwarf cherry tree (I like to start with cuttings or forage a lot but clearance sales are also nice) then never got around to planting. Year 3 and it was starting to bear fruit. I felt guilty it’s still in the nursery pot so moved to actually plant it (I mean, it’s doing its thing despite me, the least I can do now is give it a better foundation) and found it rooted itself well below the nursery pot and into the garden bed. It found the good soil left over from my watermelon patch I set it on and made itself happy. Needless to say, this fall I have to move it but I will do so carefully b/c that little bugger has earned it’s place. 😂
Anne you are an absolute delight!! I found it totally wild when you said you just get your blueberries for free, from the forest! But i am from the bottom of temperate Australia, where nothing is native!! Very jealous of how many beautiful plants thrive where you are, enjoy being a better lazy gardener
We do have some wonderful native plants that get overlooked!! I think many of us just aren’t aware of what we have and don’t know how to use it thanks to the way colonisation happened in our country
@@EmL-kg5gnI'm in NZ and we genuinely have no native fruits or veggies. Because humans arrived here so late compared to the rest of the world very few things are fit for consumption, edible stuff was brought in first by Maoris 700 years ago then Europeans 400 years ago. There were a few native plants and berries Maoris ate but they were usually poisonous if prepared incorrectly.
@@defenestrator3900 Oh that’s so interesting!! It always amazes me that people were able to figure out how to correctly prepare potentially poisonous foods
Just had to hear the donkey one more time this morning. I have to confess I laid in bed still laughing about it the night before. That said...love the lazy gardener concept to the point that my target crops are edible flowers and weeds along with herbs. Please point me to anything on your channel that talks about this - thank you in advance. Am I the laziest gardener here? just sayin....
You are simply adorable, smart, entertaining, and I'm so jealous that you moved from northwestern Washington to Tennessee... I'm in Tacoma and yearning for a better place ❤ Keep up the great work!
Wow.... My brain is busting... Thanks for feeding me what I need to know and wetting my thirst for more simple ways to accomplish life around me... I'm older and have physical limitations, so being encouraged to do things in imitation of what is there already is huge... I'm humbled and so grateful... And more hopeful
Thank you for such an entertaining tour of your garden, absolutely gorgeous. I'm working toward doing the same. We in spring now, here in South Africa, my 2nd season on this property, and last years grafted fruit trees are all blooming and planted out. We ate from our garden all year even through winter, and helped four families with food throughout the year. This year is going to be epic as I've concentrated on soil health and making compost. Your insight has helped so much, thank you again for sharing your knowledge❤
Love it! I moved to NE Alabama 3 years ago. Yes, growing here's different for sure. I love being able to grow watermelons. My biggest problem is when the Japanese beetles come. They decimate the leaves on the fruit trees, berries, and green beans. Your farm is so much further along. Wish you and David the Good could get together for a video.
@@KHomesteaddo you guys have orb weaver spiders there? And tarantulas. I hate spiders but I let them live rent free on the garden. Any time I see a tarantula in the field I scoop them up and place them in the garden.
Since you are new to Tennessee I thought I would share a little good news for you if you like thornless raspberries and blackberries to get the best results grow them in a tree greenhouse or in a underground greenhouse that you can roll the cover up and then recover by the touch of a switch for a crank put you a small wooden heater in your greenhouse to provide heat if needed will also help provide a better and longer harvesting
I planted 2 muncher burpless cucumbers 🥒 and was OVERLOADED with cucumbers all season! I pickled a bunch of national pickling cucumbers as well. Point being if you keep picking your cucumbers they'll keep going all summer long. You can't let a single cucumber fully ripen though.
Cucumbers and okra and some other plants will grow year around as long as you keep it from freezing and you provide nutrients and water light and heat you can grow and harvest year-around
Why not have a small tool shed at the garden? For the skeeters at night, you could make a little pond for dragonflies. I have a lot of dragonflies and few skeeters. I'm doing Mexican Gherkins next year, I cannot wait. Awesome garden!
@@dunedainmom there are a bunch of videos on YT for dragonfly ponds. I'm using a small koi pond shell, not a liner. And I buy my plants from a local nursery. The dragonflies show up on their own. I have lakes and stream in my area so I normally have a few around anyway. I'm not sure why but I find a lot of adults in my blackberries and raspberries.
👌 totally with you on keeping the tools out! I don't have much spare time, so I like to keep mine out. My husband hates it but I'm like I am running a farm/business, UA-cam channel, & working full time!?! I need to take some shortcuts now & then! 😂
I finally convinced my husband that just leaving a garden fork out by the compost - where we actually need to use it - was more efficient than having to trek back up to the shed to retrieve it. We'll replace it in 5 years but the compost will get turned.
You are too much fun I can’t deal with it! The jump scare when the vine touched the back of your head. The donkey. The way you rip up your plants to show us things. Watermelons are my FIRST favourite food. Teehehe Subscribed!
I live in Tennessee as well.. I’m on just my 3rd year gardening with triple what I started with my first year..I am so glad I came across your channel.. you taught me a few things I had no clue about that is naturally growing in my garden. Love it!
Thoroughly enjoyed this. Interrupted by donkey : Adam and the pepper/cream blame game : soil nerd time (i'm the same but with only a tiny terraced house garden in a Nortern English city) : Kevin Bacon vs the chickens for leftovers... loved it all... stunned by the sheer vivacity and enthusiasm❤
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When my neighbors asked what my secret was for having a lush yard and garden. I explained that what they saw was the result of my gardening by attrition. If it can't take care of itself, it doesn't get replanted and might even get pulled out. The robust survivors became the permanent residents.
That's one of the secrets to human survival is to always acquire things that can pretty much survive on its own, be it herbal, medicine plants, flowers or animal. Just try to have something that keeps on giving 💯
Genius
Good to know i understand makes a lot of sense
I will never understand people who plant things that need constant attention. You wont get babied, your are a fucking plant, act like it.
Geat idea!!! Thank you for sharing!!!
Here’s a tip: paint your garden tool handles to lengthen their time outdoors. Choose a bright paint like red or prange so you can find them in a sea of green. If anything burns me , it’s green garden tools.
Good random tip 👍
Thank you, that's a great idea
Re: tool pile! Mineral oil plus sand in a tub makes for sharp and rust free tools. They are also very satisfying to pull back out again.. bit Excalibur-esk, (except extremely easy to pull out.)
I learned that from an 80+ year old fellow lazy gardener who struggled to remember ever sharpening any of the tools in at least the last 30 years, yet they all had a good edge.
Do you rub the mineral oil on after the tool is taken out of the sand? Or do you mix oil into the sand?
Rust free? Yes. Sharp? Certainly not if the edge is exposed. Grinding those nice sharp edges against a thousand tiny rocks will dull them very quickly.
I think he says with. :)@@denisefaust6408
@@TheSkillotron Depends on the sand. Here in FL that method works well as long as the container of sand has excellent drainage.
I'm guessing you vent the tool pail to prevent rain water buildup or do you keep it under shed roof?
This is one of the best agriculture videos I’ve ever seen. So informative
16:04 You’re the conductor for the Donkey Symphony! I loved this moment. You didn’t get upset. You just showed your great sense of humour.
My favorite reaction ever!!!
I'm a Gardner by profession, and I love your garden. Nature is the best Gardner and you are letting nature work for you..❤
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Anne I’m not sure if you will read this, but I just want to say the biggest heartfelt THANKYOU… I’ve been really struggling today with my mood & mental health, I’ve been snapping uncontrollably at my hubby and son, and I felt like none of my usual tools were working. I got so frustrated trying to listen to a guided meditation whilst mixing horse feeds (which usually helps) that I swore profusely, and came to UA-cam to find something to listen to.
Your video popped up and your SOH and keeping it real has just brightened my day no end. Thank you so much for the walk around, the awesome insights and suggestions, the humour and for just being you. Still laughing at the chilli story… your poor long suffering hubby Adam following you around is like my hubby Adam… totally awesome xxx
Ive been there. Being a busy mom is so hard but your making huge contributions that matter!
Hey Anne, I live At 6000 ft in the mountains and only have a short growing season from 1 June to maybe the end of August
I have a lot of GRASS CLIPPINGS -Is it OK to put GRASS CLIPPINGS directly right around and on the paths where your fruits and vegetables are being Grown ? And how deep is too deep of a layer ?
At the end of my growing season, I also add all of the mulched leaves and GRASS CLIPPINGS to entire garden after growing season is frozen out, over and done?
thanks
appreciate your knowledge
Gardening can heal mental healths naturally
Your cadence and intellect has somehow wrestled my ADHD into submission- literally watched this whole thing, never would have thought it possible for me 🤯🤯🤯
Perhaps our similar minds were like magnets in that way ;)
Oh my gosh, this was my thought as well. She's brilliant.
Me too. I was about to give up on my garden when I found her videos. My kids said it's because she has adhd too. After they pointed that out I realized that it's pretty likely that's the case and why I like watching her. She talks waaaay faster and more animated than any other youtuber I know of 😂
Not canning is such an important tip for lazy gardeners/homesteaders. Dealing with abundance is the most labor-intensive part of gardening. Potatoes, onions, and garlic are so much easier to store when growing extra. The only thing I can are tomatoes because they are so valuable.
I just throw them in the freezer. They go mushy but if you're canning them then that'll happen anyway. Frozen tomatoes work great for sauces, etc.
I will take them lol
You can also sun dry your tomatoes and vacuum seal them in smaller portions. Plus they will taste amazing!
I stop to say FREEZE WHOLE tomatoes in gallon size freezer bags or vacuum seal.
I love Sun dried also.
I don't can anything anymore.
Enjoyed very much!@@
I love her energy and her character towards he r animals 😊 makes me smile just watching her talk mess to her donkey and pig which actually listen to her , really shows how much they trust her.
( For our garden tools ) we cover the wood handles with marine grade heavy walled - adhesive lined - heat shrink tubing. Last forever - great grip - no splinters.
Smart!! Love that
I have so many garden tools scattered about my 5 acres, in the weather, that when I finally brought them all 'home", I didn't have storage space. All the wood handles are very weathered, so maybe (cost?) my favorites will get treated to new covers?
What size tubing, and source?
@@ThisOldMan-ya472 I use Wirefy 1-1/4" & 1-1/2". They are large rolls but you'll be surprised how many uses you'll find for the stuff.
@@joelnowland2196 I picked up some 1" red and black at a garage sale, about 3 feet in length, but never considered them as tool handle covers. Thanks. Considering they shrink 2 or 3 -> 1, I was considering 1 1/2" or 2", but maybe I can buy 3 feet at a local electrical supply shop and give it a try before buying the 100 foot roll.
When you pulled the dirt up and showed the mushroom matting I was honestly impressed and subscribed.
#WoodChipMulchTheWorld
Amaranth is actually super delicious if you sautee it just like regular spinach. South Asians grow up eating that as a staple spinach. It's an easy way to get spinach in the hot summer. There's a reason all the animals love it! I have short video about it on my channel ;)
I like nettles: rubber gloves negate 100m years of evolved stinging defences!
Ok your videos have really interesting themes and the thumbnails look good! Gained a new follower 👍🌿
Lots of protein!
Um… where has she been my whole life?!
What a beautiful person she is! The love she clearly has for her animals, and the knowledge she has for them; just speaks volumes on what a beautiful soul she has. I would love to have a girl like her that just gets after things, like her. Her family is extremely lucky to have her!
May God bless her and her family…
In the 6 years that we lived in our Dublin apartment, I totally changed the health, welfare and vitality of my garden soil with nothing but woodchips. It became the vehicle for us creating relationships with our neighbours because we all started talking garden, sharing ideas and enjoying the visiting birds. And best of all, I had no idea what I was doing!! I had put it down for aesthetic reasons and to prevent excessive water loss through evaporation (yes, even in Ireland) and in return, I received the most unbelievable soil (it was utter rubbish before) with a garden that ended up being almost as lush in winter as in summer (still can't believe that) AND it totally took care of my overwhelming bindweed, blackberry and horsetail weed problems that had choked out literally everything before. It's Ireland, so the most effective treatment for garden issues is for you to drown your frustrations in Guinness (I'm not really exaggerating), and I was told that I'd have to get a professional in to spray it and then maybe that may control it for a bit while killing everything else.. From my first year living there and spending absolute hours pulling off bindweed from my flowerstems with tweezers and nail scissors like a horticultural surgery, to the token snip and clip of an errant weedling like the genteel woman that my mam wished I could have been, I can only and forever attribute it to wood chips. I am still in awe at the power of nature's lego.
Awesome info!!
Agreed, letting your perennials go to seed is so important to keep the garden improving, feeding pollinators and save yourself from purchasing new replacements. Plus it's so fun to realize that the daughters and sons of the plants you originally planted are still thriving!
We've had cucumbers, squashes, asparagus, sunflowers, wildflowers, grains, etc growing for more than 10 years without buying anything!
Interesting
Hi new Gardener here!🙂 Any advice for me, for beginners? I just started yesterday with making my first bed🎉I planted carrots and peppers so far and I'm going to finish today making another bed for all my other seeds🙂 and good tips for me?
@@Godslittleprinces
Tip... Don't let the soil dry out until the seeds sprout.
& Keep an eye on them after they sprout to make sure they are getting enough water.
I rented a house for 4 years. The yard was riddled with many “weeds”. I let the grass go to seed every year. My neighbors sometimes complained about the tall grass to the landlord. I explained what I was doing and told them that when I left they would have a much greener yard. When I left the landlord thanked me for “improving the property”. All with no cost to me or the landlord. Side benefit, I only had to mow twice a year. 😂
I rented a house for 4 years. The yard was riddled with many “weeds”. I let the grass go to seed every year. My neighbors sometimes complained about the tall grass to the landlord. I explained what I was doing and told them that when I left they would have a much greener yard. When I left the landlord thanked me for “improving the property”. All with no cost to me or the landlord. Side benefit, I only had to mow twice a year. 😂
That stationary light instead of a head lamp is shear brilliance.
Agreed. I still feel like I've got a bug in my eye from last night picking hornworms off my tomatoes!
Oh my gosh, finally, someone who is gardening my style! Just in a better climate 😂
The occasional interruption by the donkey 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sheer utter neglect and my yard poops tons of food.
That's how mine works too. As soon as I add effort... My plants fail.
Same with one exception... the damn squash beetles can kiss my ENTIRE ASS!!😏
I managed to kill comfrey ....
OMG i love that you keep the tools out!
I know, I hit subscribe after that. My kind of gardening!
@@LisaGray1000same!!
suggestion, build you a nice little tool cover in the garden to protect the tools.
🎉 Thank God I finally found another person who wants to garden naturally like me. You my lovely lady or as rare as a southern eclipse during Northern lights and definitely a breath of fresh air to my old tired grumpy eyeballs.
I love your chicken dance, spot on!
😁
OMG! I had the same explosive experience with my Kombucha! Luckily no one was in the room when the chain reaction (2 growlers and 2 secondary primary ferments) went off. I was pulling shards of glass from all over the room for years. Not to mention the watermelon I had added off the ceiling and walls of our forty foot family room. It looked like a grizzly murder scene. I can't believe I've found a gardener almost as lazy as me. Every year the family wonders at the marvel that we call the jungle.
You rock!
"grizzly murder scene" roflmbo. Blessings everyone
Just found this channel and I can't believe I've been missing out on this!!!! Also the fact that you had the exact hand motions for your donkey's sounds at 16:10 is incredible hahaha like you literally didn't miss a beat on that one
That was my favorite part 😂
@@adamofnotradesmine too! Lol
🙏 The video is beautiful and so filled with authentic spirit and wonderful information you are living the dream lady❤
I’ve never laughed so hard during a UA-cam video. Your personality is unapologetically unfiltered and amazing. So helpful and informative. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to you speak about your garden. ❤
You, your story and garden are an absolute delight ! So pleased to have stumbled upon you.
When you got to the hops in your garden it reminded me of my mother telling me about my cob pipe-smoking grandmother who used hops as a starter for her bread. She also gardened by the phases of the moon and had a tremendous garden.
P.S. The success of your garden is the fact that you are feeding the biology in the soil through your practices. "It's All About The Biology".
My Irish ancestors absolutely LOVE YOU !!! Hoops!
I love your approach to failure. It seems so freeing! And definitely seems to allow you to be more creative and experiment more. Biggest thing I am learning from discovering your videos right now
thank you, first time watching. i am a senior. i started gardening from about seven. my garden is my best friend. i live in zone 5 and it get very cold but i do very good. i am alone don't need all the food i grow. but i can't help myself.i learn a lot today, keep up the good job.
“My garden is my best friend…”
Can relate. ☺️
G’day from Australia, just stumbled on your videos. Love your personality and enthusiasm. Your gardening style is awesome and makes sense work smarter not harder. New subscriber
Thank you! Glad you’re here!
This is my style of gardening, i dig it. Much appreciated.
You prob mean I (no) dig it 😂❤
@@tiffcat1100 🤣🤣 Keep that soil armored up! 💯
I’m so happy I found you!!! Might be moving to TN soon myself. And harvesting the dead leaves from the plant around the wild blueberries so the micro nutrients can aid in the transplanting is sooo incredibly smart!!!!! Also as an person with adhd your way of gardening is so appealing lol
The donkey has great comedic timing.
I’m also Anne, and a fellow lazy gardener, from pennsylvania. And a new fan of your channel. So much fun and great information. I learned a lot
14:28 so true! People are always asking "what is the easiest thing to grow" but you shpulf really focus on learning h0e to grow things you ENJOY eating... because no matter how many things you successfully grow- it's not going to be satisfying if it's a good you dislike!
Hear hear!
Awesome garden tour. Tips from obvious time in the trenches. Plus stories along the way that were personal & inspiring. This is the first video I've watched & it gained my subscription.
Ditto ❤
That Donkey has THE BEST comedic timing!!! I laughed soooo good
I adore you Anne, in the most platonic way possible : ) Good morning, from Australia ❤
A large sized dead toaster oven spray painted, and placed on a concrete block is great for storing all your hand tools right in the garden, nice and dry
So glad you didn't waste time watering or weeding, but went on vacay. You are even more zany and fun, idk how that's possible. I have to remember to steal the leaves and soil around any specimens I steal from natural settings; Anne told me to do it! LOL. Thanks for another fun video. I can't believe you chomped down on that hot pepper.....
Agree with you. Wood chips have been my best friend for the last 5 years. Not the bane of our existence.
I get 11 inches of rain per year and 80-90+F but using similar gardening principles as Anne, I water once a week. My neighbors water every other day.
Thanks for sharing!
I have heard its better to give a good soak once a week than every day it will just not soak down and then evaporate in the heat. Whenever I water it usually rains the next day and in drought when it doesnt rain fir ages I water but the water doesn't make anything grow just keeps it alive then the rain comes and overnight everything doubles. Rain seems to have some magical quality which water just doesn't have!!
@@Padraigpnegative ions, no chlorine and none of the other residual chemicals in tapwater! My garden started doing so so much better when I stopped using a hose and only water from my rain barrels. 🌸
"....its important to keep someone like him humble..." 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I always recommend looking at native plants for a lot of your greens the flavours they have plus the benefits they provide your local ecosystem are amazing
OMG... you are the most delightful and entertaining girl I have seen in decades. I am a Canadian who is twice your age, but I swear, if I was in my early 20s and knew then what I know today, you are the exact type of girl I would want to be with forever. We have so many of the same interests that you and I would probably have been very happy together. Especially since humor also plays a big part in my life, even when working hard. I have watched several of your videos this morning and you really did crack me up more than once. You are just awesome! With all due respect to Adam! 👊
The Timing on that donkey scream... immaculate! Great Tipps!
Oh my goodness! Kevin bacon had my laughing out loud. I love punny animal names
Beginning gardeners in more arid environments, you will need to set up drip irrigation to achieve Ann’s amazing lazy garden! Rain helps Ann achieve the laziness!
You’re totally right- at the very beginning, but as you build up your soil, you’ll need it less and less, last year we had a 90 day drought paired with one heck of a heatwave and still needed zero water
@@AnneofAllTrades honestly, as someone who lives in a part of california with 7 inches of rain/year, i can tell you that a 90 day drought in a place that gets 50 inches of rain/year is not the same. your plants/trees can search out moisture and find it. mine really can't. the crazy rain we recently got left the ground moist for days. i would say more than a week after the tropical storm, parts of the ground still have moisture. rain is a luxury that can make gardening sheer joy.
@@orangemoonglows2692 I won’t disagree there, but will add that the more you can build up your soil, the less water you’ll need, no matter where you live.
@@orangemoonglows2692mulch will be crucial combined with drip irrigation.
Thank you Never heard of male asparagus . God bless you !Maranatha !
So glad to happen upon this video and your channel! I am always telling people who ask about my garden (some success some not) that my approach tends to be Darwinistic but now I know it’s a combination of Darwinistic & lazy gardener! For example, I actually bought a dwarf cherry tree (I like to start with cuttings or forage a lot but clearance sales are also nice) then never got around to planting. Year 3 and it was starting to bear fruit. I felt guilty it’s still in the nursery pot so moved to actually plant it (I mean, it’s doing its thing despite me, the least I can do now is give it a better foundation) and found it rooted itself well below the nursery pot and into the garden bed. It found the good soil left over from my watermelon patch I set it on and made itself happy. Needless to say, this fall I have to move it but I will do so carefully b/c that little bugger has earned it’s place. 😂
Just cut the pot off & leave it there. Mound up a little dirt to pot height. It's leaves will mulch ur watermelon patch
Adam is really good on the video end !
Thanks! 🙏
Anne you are an absolute delight!!
I found it totally wild when you said you just get your blueberries for free, from the forest! But i am from the bottom of temperate Australia, where nothing is native!!
Very jealous of how many beautiful plants thrive where you are, enjoy being a better lazy gardener
We do have some wonderful native plants that get overlooked!! I think many of us just aren’t aware of what we have and don’t know how to use it thanks to the way colonisation happened in our country
@@EmL-kg5gnI'm in NZ and we genuinely have no native fruits or veggies. Because humans arrived here so late compared to the rest of the world very few things are fit for consumption, edible stuff was brought in first by Maoris 700 years ago then Europeans 400 years ago. There were a few native plants and berries Maoris ate but they were usually poisonous if prepared incorrectly.
@@defenestrator3900 Oh that’s so interesting!! It always amazes me that people were able to figure out how to correctly prepare potentially poisonous foods
Aw...I love your fawn and white runner duck. I have one too. Her name is Goosebump. 😊
Hilarious...you always make my day...everything everywhere all at once - why not?
Just had to hear the donkey one more time this morning. I have to confess I laid in bed still laughing about it the night before. That said...love the lazy gardener concept to the point that my target crops are edible flowers and weeds along with herbs. Please point me to anything on your channel that talks about this - thank you in advance. Am I the laziest gardener here? just sayin....
When my family would go shopping for watermelon, decades ago, I was the Thumper. Never thumped a bad melon.
New fan. The donkey 😂😂😂😂. Garden is stunning. Sending support, love, and kindness from Lexington, Michigan, USA
You are simply adorable, smart, entertaining, and I'm so jealous that you moved from northwestern Washington to Tennessee... I'm in Tacoma and yearning for a better place ❤ Keep up the great work!
You are hilarious and & your channel is a breath of fresh air for some who over complicates everything. Thank you!
Wow.... My brain is busting... Thanks for feeding me what I need to know and wetting my thirst for more simple ways to accomplish life around me... I'm older and have physical limitations, so being encouraged to do things in imitation of what is there already is huge... I'm humbled and so grateful... And more hopeful
Thank you for such an entertaining tour of your garden, absolutely gorgeous. I'm working toward doing the same. We in spring now, here in South Africa, my 2nd season on this property, and last years grafted fruit trees are all blooming and planted out. We ate from our garden all year even through winter, and helped four families with food throughout the year. This year is going to be epic as I've concentrated on soil health and making compost. Your insight has helped so much, thank you again for sharing your knowledge❤
Adam great camera work and editing
I love your whole personality on camera. Much more interesting when looking for some quality lazy tips!
Love it!
I moved to NE Alabama 3 years ago. Yes, growing here's different for sure. I love being able to grow watermelons.
My biggest problem is when the Japanese beetles come. They decimate the leaves on the fruit trees, berries, and green beans.
Your farm is so much further along.
Wish you and David the Good could get together for a video.
We’re just coming up on 4 years here in 4 months… you’ll catch up quicker than you think 😘
Try milky spore for your jap beetles. it helps.
@@KHomesteaddo you guys have orb weaver spiders there? And tarantulas. I hate spiders but I let them live rent free on the garden. Any time I see a tarantula in the field I scoop them up and place them in the garden.
We're new to Tennessee and you've already provided so much good info!! Thank you for a wonderful video!
You are so welcome!
Since you are new to Tennessee I thought I would share a little good news for you if you like thornless raspberries and blackberries to get the best results grow them in a tree greenhouse or in a underground greenhouse that you can roll the cover up and then recover by the touch of a switch for a crank put you a small wooden heater in your greenhouse to provide heat if needed will also help provide a better and longer harvesting
Cool concept for your garden - you go girl. Stay safe.
You have the coolest life....I am so happy for you!
I planted 2 muncher burpless cucumbers 🥒 and was OVERLOADED with cucumbers all season! I pickled a bunch of national pickling cucumbers as well. Point being if you keep picking your cucumbers they'll keep going all summer long. You can't let a single cucumber fully ripen though.
Love your donkey commentary 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Cucumbers and okra and some other plants will grow year around as long as you keep it from freezing and you provide nutrients and water light and heat you can grow and harvest year-around
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“And over here on my…” “left…” 😂😂
I sometimes have to do the same. 😅😊
I've seen a lot of garden tours and yours was pretty awesome, thank you.
Wow, thank you!
10:59 he remembered the drought lol also love your enthusiasm and energy 👏 and the happy little ducks quacking in the background 😄😊
Why not have a small tool shed at the garden? For the skeeters at night, you could make a little pond for dragonflies. I have a lot of dragonflies and few skeeters.
I'm doing Mexican Gherkins next year, I cannot wait.
Awesome garden!
Wow. Can I have more details on your anti-skeeter pond? How big is ot? How did you get dragonflies?
@@dunedainmom there are a bunch of videos on YT for dragonfly ponds.
I'm using a small koi pond shell, not a liner. And I buy my plants from a local nursery. The dragonflies show up on their own.
I have lakes and stream in my area so I normally have a few around anyway.
I'm not sure why but I find a lot of adults in my blackberries and raspberries.
I love all your animals! What a wonderful farm. Wish I were there. Your donkey was very vocal in the garden tour video. So funny. Hahaha! 🦆🐈🐎🐐🐖🐓🐕🐇
Your energy is amazing and awesome,really enjoy your channel. Thank you for the videos.
Thank you so much!
i am absolutely in my element watching this. f**k yes to making things actually doable!😂🌱🌾
👌 totally with you on keeping the tools out! I don't have much spare time, so I like to keep mine out. My husband hates it but I'm like I am running a farm/business, UA-cam channel, & working full time!?! I need to take some shortcuts now & then! 😂
So true!
I finally convinced my husband that just leaving a garden fork out by the compost - where we actually need to use it - was more efficient than having to trek back up to the shed to retrieve it. We'll replace it in 5 years but the compost will get turned.
Girl I just want to wish you happiness ❤
Fantastic Video as always!!!!! Thank you Anna! -BreeAnne (The Good Place Farm)
Oh yes. All the plants can communicate thru the mycellium. LOVE IT!❤❤❤
So informative, inspirational and entertaining! Thank you ❤
So glad I found you! You are one of the coolest people on UA-cam! 🤩
You are awesome Anne. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Hugs from Hungary
This is a great video, thanks for sharing! Inspirational.
So much chaos and I love it!!! Instantly subscribed for the donkey 🤣🤣👍🏼 so many great tips! I’m in 7b so this is all so helpful. Thanks!
My biggest thing to overcome is identifying weeds from something i want growing. Great video, very helpful
Hallo Anne und danke für das schöne Video und tschüss aus Düsseldorf Germany 🥳🥳👍👍🌶️🌶️🇩🇪🇩🇪🇺🇸🇺🇸🤵🏻
You are too much fun I can’t deal with it! The jump scare when the vine touched the back of your head. The donkey. The way you rip up your plants to show us things. Watermelons are my FIRST favourite food. Teehehe Subscribed!
Great to see you Anne!
New Subscriber Here. Thoroughly Enjoyed This Video!
Thank you for your story. Enjoyed watching your garden tour
I love the idea of strawberries as a weed barrier
I live in Tennessee as well.. I’m on just my 3rd year gardening with triple what I started with my first year..I am so glad I came across your channel.. you taught me a few things I had no clue about that is naturally growing in my garden. Love it!
So happy to find this channel. Helping my daughter and grandkids start their food garden. Great tips and you have a stunning garden❤
So glad you’re here!
Thoroughly enjoyed this. Interrupted by donkey : Adam and the pepper/cream blame game : soil nerd time (i'm the same but with only a tiny terraced house garden in a Nortern English city) : Kevin Bacon vs the chickens for leftovers... loved it all... stunned by the sheer vivacity and enthusiasm❤
Rhubarb custard pie is my favourite pie my mom makes from Grandma's recipe ❤
I bet it’s similar to my grandma’s! So yummy
@@AnneofAllTradesthe sweet tart combo can't be beat!! I have to start growing my own rhubarb this year knowing it takes a couple years to establish!
Anne, you are such a wealth of knowledge! Thank you for sharing that wealth with all of us! God bless you! Appreciate you so much 💜❤❌⭕
It is my sincerest pleasure to get the opportunity to do so!
@@AnneofAllTrades ❤